After the Standard Dirty Hands Thesis: Towards a Dynamic Account of Dirty Hands in Politics

The Lawyer's Dirty Hands

Dirty hands: bacteria of faecal origin on commuters' hands.

Although many studies have investigated bacteria on the hands of health-care workers and caregivers, few have looked at microbiological contamination on the hands of the general adult public. This study investigated faecal bacteria on the hands of commuters in five UK cities. Of the 404 people sampled 28% were found to have bacteria of faecal origin on their hands. A breakdown by city showed th...

Getting Students’ Hands Dirty with Clean-Slate Networking

Conventional networking courses treat today’s protocols and mechanisms as fixed artifacts, rather than as part of a continually evolving system. To prepare students to think critically about Internet architecture, we created a graduate networking course that combines “clean slate” networking research with hands-on experience in analyzing, building, and extending real networks. Our goal was to p...

The Problem of Dirty Hands: Can Public Guilt Produce Public Awareness?

What implications does a dirty-handed politician‟s assertion that dirty hands are necessary for certain political achievements have on our understanding of the relationship between political actors and the political community? The problem of dirty hands, as described in Michael Walzer‟s “Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands,” occurs when a political actor finds that he must transgress o...

Dirty hands: photodynamic killing of human pathogens like EHEC, MRSA and Candida within seconds.

Hand hygiene is one of the most important interventions for reducing transmission of nosocomial life-threatening microorganisms, like methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) or Candida albicans. All three pathogens have become a leading cause of infections in hospitals. Especially EHEC is causing severe diarrhoea and, in a small percentage o...