This article tracks the traffic of placebos, nocebos and the effects or meaning-responses that they solicit in order to contribute to wide-ranging critiques of the curative imaginary.Moving through three Supercharger Plenums realms of biomedicine (the clinic, the lab and the market), the article explores key contradictions at play within biomedicin
Abstract Background Several health determinants are related to local conditions and prerequisites at community level.For this reason, strengthening community action has been one of five strategies implemented in health promotion since the end of the 1980s.Such action includes setting priorities, making decisions, planning strategies, and implementi
The Atlantic bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus, is a commercially important species that has been severely over-exploited in the recent past.Although the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean stock is now showing signs of recovery, its current status remains very uncertain and as a consequence their recovery is dependent upon severe management informed by
The sexual abuse crisis that has rocked the Catholic Church in recent decades has resulted in one major unintended casualty: creating a skeptical distance in the relationship between adult leaders and youth.This article provides a short history of the abuse scandal in the US and discusses the reforms and repercussions of the Electric Kettles Dallas
Crop-to-wild gene flow is a mechanism process widely documented, both in plants and animals.This can have positive or negative impacts on the evolution of admixed populations in natural environments, yet the phenomenon is still misunderstood in long-lived woody species, contrary to short-lived crops.Wild olive Olea europaea L.occurs in the same eco