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2008

Wujastyk, Dominik

The attempts by the British and Indian governments to regulate medical practice in India generated an outpouring of numerous, long and scattered documents. In order to be able to grasp the outlines of these processes of attempted control, I offer here a framework for understanding this landslide...

2023-01-01

LaFitte, Denise, Brettle, Alison

In our 2016 book, Being Evidence Based in Library and Information Practice, we outlined a revised model for evidence-based library and information practice (EBLIP) across different types of libraries. This model focused on flexible aspects that could guide library and information professionals...

2010

Al Cook, Kim Adams

2024-07-01

Miller-Young, J., Jamieson, M.V., and Beck, S.

This chapter explores the impact of teamwork on the motivation and belonging of first-year engineering students during online course delivery due to COVID-19, using a Canadian engineering case study. The course was redesigned to enhance student engagement through asynchronous lectures and...

2000-01-01

Wilson, Robert A.

Introduction: Individualism is a view about how mental states are taxonomized, classified, or typed and, it has been claimed (by, e.g., Stich, 1983; Fodor, 1980), that individualism constrains the cognitive sciences. Individualists draw a contrast between the psychological states of individuals...

2012

Wujastyk, Dominik

Introduction: It can come as a surprise to discover that buried in one of the earliest medical treatises in Sanskrit is a short tract on the yogic path to liberation. This tract-a mere thirty-nine verses-occurs in the Chapter on the Embodied Person (Satirasthana) in the Compendium of Caraka...

2003

Wujastyk, Dominik

Introduction: Indian medicine, as a systematic and scholarly tradition, begins historically with the appearance of the great medical encyclopedias of Caraka, Su ́sruta and Bhela about two thousand years ago.1 These are the oldest Indian medical texts we have, and also the most influential. Just...

2011

Ogbogu, Ubaka

This paper examines the historical role of law and politics in the adoption of smallpox vaccination in Britain, focusing primarily on the early Victorian period, when legislation was passed to enforce compulsory infantile vaccination. The primary thesis of the study is that law, and the processes...

1999-01-01

Richard T. Price

2014

Schmitter, Amy M.

Introduction: My topic here is Descartes’ Third Meditation – but not the causal principles and proofs that have probably been the target of more philosophical irk than anything else in Descartes. Rather, I am concerned with the language in which they are couched, where Descartes speaks of an...