Behavioural Medicine: What Kind of Medicine? What Kind of Behaviour?

64: Evidence for What Kind of Medicine

What kind of hepatitis?

Finding one major hepatotropic virus may not be enough to identify the aetiology of liver disease when risk factors are present, particularly in patients with past or present infection with other viral agents, or chronic liver disease. The pathogenic process in these cases is often complex. In the five cases we report, acute hepatitis (initiated by halothane, cytomegalovirus or Epstein-Barr vir...

What Kind of Transparency?∗

How transparent should a central bank be about (i) its objectives and (ii) its information on how monetary policy maps into economic outcomes? We consider a version of the Barro-Gordon framework in which monetary policy signals an inflation-biased Bank’s private information on both dimensions. We find that a commitment to transparency about how policy affects outcomes is desirable while transpa...

What price and what kind of journals?

An important characteristic of being a professional is keeping up to date with one's professional practice requirements – its knowledge, skills and application. This was usually done voluntarily, and regulatory authorities have only recently imposed mandatory continuing professional development (CPD) requirements. The industry spawned by CPD has provided programmes that range from the ridiculou...

What Kind of Citizen? What Kind of Democracy? Citizenship Education and the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence

The Scottish Curriculum for Excellence lists ‘responsible citizenship’ as one of the four capacities which it envisages that all children and young people should develop. By understanding citizenship as a capacity and by seeing it as a concern that should permeate the whole curriculum, the Scottish approach to education for citizenship is distinctly different from approaches developed in many o...