In her paper Reconstructing Nursing: Evidence, Artistry and the Curriculum, Marks-Maran (1999) attempted to outline a new postmodern paradigm for nursing. Whilst I fully support this timely discussion of new insights into nursing theory and practice, Marks-Maran unfortunately presents a very idiosyncratic version of postmodernism which is both simplistic and, at times; inaccurate. My main conce...

ions”(Ibid). In his work in various kinds of abstract geometries, concerned with the properties of abstract structures involving lines and planes, curves and point-sets, Menger fell squarely in the development of what Jeremy Gray has described as the “modernist transformation” of mathematics over the period 1890-1930. This evolution marked the emergence in that discipline, as in painting and li...

Food security studies, while giving ever more attention to issues of perception and local knowledge in food outcomes, have yet to engage in a systematic discussion of the role played by society in food outcomes. While contemporary studies of food outcomes address issues of the social, especially as social structures relate to access to and production of food, this literature lacks an accompanyi...