Background The worldwide debate over the use of artificial nutrition and hydration remains
controversial although the scientific and medical facts are unequivocal. Artificial nutrition and …

Drawing predominately on a once-a-day Google News Alert for newspaper coverage of the
“bird flu,” this study examines global discourses on this topic in terms of alarming and …

Governments sometimes characterize torture as an indispensable interrogation tool for
gathering strategic intelligence. In this article, we review the relevant social scientific …

Hunger strike is a regularly reported problem in prison. Although clinical situations are rarely
severe, hospitalisation is often considered. In consequence, it is not only physicians working …

It is noteworthy that the monumental two-volume study of military medical ethics published
by the US Army in 2003 paid little attention to military physicians working in detention …

Title: Rivers of the Anthropocene/edited by Jason M. Kelly, Philip Scarpino, Helen Berry,
James Syvitski, and Michel Meybeck. Description: Oakland, California: University of …

The global war on terror has brought renewed attention to the question of whether
physicians in the US military are physicians first, soldiers first, or physician–soldiers. George …

This paper explores the relationship between food, geography and national culture. Food is
sustenance and ceremony; it is also malleable, transformable and indelibly linked with …

The principle that physicians should always act in the best interests of the present patient is
widely endorsed. At the same time, and often within the same document, it is recognised that …

Medicine is often thought of as a science of the body, but it is also a science of data. In some
contexts, it can even be asserted that data drive health. This article focuses on a key piece of …