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Toward stronger theory in critical public health: Insights from debates surrounding posthumanism
Published 2013-01-01
The “posthumanist turn” in critical theory comprises efforts to recognize and analyze the interdependence of human existence with non-human entities, including other animals, spaces, and technologies. Scholarship aligned ...
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Implementing One Health approaches to Emerging Infectious Disease: Reflections on the socio-political, ethical and legal dimensions
Published 2015-12-01
Background: ‘One Health’ represents a call for health researchers and practitioners at the human, animal and environmental interfaces to work together to mitigate the risks of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases ...
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Which public and why deliberate? – A scoping review of public deliberation in public health and health policy research.
Published 2015-03-01
Deliberative methods are of increasing interest to public health researchers and policymakers. We systematically searched the peer-reviewed literature to identify public health and health policy research involving deliberative ...
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What to think of canine obesity? Emerging challenges to our understanding of human-animal health relationships.
Published 2013-01-01
The coincident and increasing occurrence of weight-related health problems in humans and canines in Western societies poses a challenge to our understanding of human–animal health relationships. More specifically, the ...
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Understanding Corporate Responsibility: Culture and Complicity
Published 2011-01-01
Kipnis's fictional account of the televised treatment of Elaine Robbins clearly shows the surgeon's negligence (Kipnis 2011). The problems with Anodyne's support for the telesurgery breakfast are harder to discern, but ...
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Underdetermined Interests: Scientific ‘Goods’ and Animal Welfare.
Published 2009-01-01
It is well known that the culture within which actors such as scientists and clinicians operate is structured by the mechanisms through which institutional rewards are distributed (Garfield 1979). In the biosciences, ...
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Lost in Translation: Gaps in Reasoning for Primate Stroke.
Published 2009-01-01
Sughrue and colleagues' target article “Bioethical considerations in translational research: Primate stroke” (2009) are to be commended for seeking to address a large gap in current bioethical discourse. The ethics of ...
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Testing relationships: ethical arguments for screening with HbA1C
Published 2012-01-01
Since the 1990s, glycated haemoglobin (HbA1C) has been the gold standard for monitoring glycaemic control in people diagnosed as having either type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) or type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Discussions ...
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Sociocultural dimensions of tuberculosis: an overview of key concepts
Published 2015-10-01
Biomedical innovations are unlikely to provide effective and ethical tuberculosis (TB) control measures without complementary social science research. However, a strong interest in interdisciplinary work is often undermined ...
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Impure Politics and Pure Science: Efficacious Ebola Medications Are Only a Palliation and Not a Cure for Structural Disadvantage
Published 2015-04-09
Caplan and colleagues (2015) present a strong argument for using alternative trial designs for experimental treatments for Ebola virus disease (EVD). This argument is, of course, not new. There is a significant body of ...
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