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Monthly Archive October, 2009

Political Science

By Jeffry Fawcett, October 27, 2009 in the Editorials blog

The alleged swine flu threat has revealed the politics of science. I don’t mean the kind of ham-fisted politics at work in the climate change debate. I’m talking about the routine, otherwise invisible way in which power within the scientific community is exercised and how that translates to the more overt exercise of power in medicine and public health, the kind of politics we examine in our book Too Much Medicine, Not Enough Health. [Read more…]

Sense and Health

By Jeffry Fawcett, October 20, 2009 in the Editorials blog

Placebo Science

By Jeffry Fawcett, October 13, 2009 in the Editorials blog

Health Care Practitioners

By Jeffry Fawcett, October 5, 2009 in the Editorials blog