Месяц: Сентябрь 2015

The Rise of Sexual Freedom

Others say, it is true freedom to have community with allwomen, and to have liberty to satisfy their lusts and greedyappetites: but this is the freedom of wanton unreasonablebeasts, and tends to destruction. Gerrard Winstanley, The Law of Freedom (1652), 17. God has given these natural affections and lusts to be gratifiedwith reason, to make […]

Adherence to Medication Regimens

The likelihood of adverse drug reactions increases as the number of medications increases. Taking more drugs also means that keeping track of each becomes more difficult. Imagine having to keep track of six different medications, each of which has a different schedule, as presented in Table 4.2. Medication adherence (taking medications cor­rectly) becomes less likely […]

SUBJECTIVITY, SUBJUGATED KNOWLEDGE AND. FOUCAULT

Foucault understands subjugated knowledges as holding the potential for resistance. Ransom (1993) argues that this point is crucial in understanding the relationship between feminism and Foucault. She maintains that it is this shared conception of oppression held by a subjugated group that creates friction in the relationship between Foucault and feminism. Ramazanoglu (1993) notes that, […]

Television regulation in the UK and USA

Underpinning many of the regulatory practices in television are the conceptual boundaries that classify and define what is appropriate to the public and the private spheres. Indeed, television has contributed enormously to the changing boundaries and relations between the public and the private through its central role in the formation of public debate in a […]

Is there hope?

If even chimpanzees — with genes almost identical to humans’ — have more aggressive males than females, is there hope for humans changing our­selves before we kill ourselves? Yes Our hope lies in the instinct to adapt Within all of as, males and females, is the potential for killer-protector and the potential for nurturer-connector 71 […]