Belly Casts and Placenta Pills: Refiguring Postmaternal Entrepreneurialism

Refiguring the Corpus at Catalhöyük

the traversing of categories from figures to plastered features to wall paintings. In this way I hope to build up more of a life-world for the Neolithic community, taking into account the inherent visuality and materiality of a figured corpus. It is not enough to say that these figurines are representations or visual proxies, they are things in themselves with their own spheres of interaction. ...

Entrepreneurialism and private higher education in Europe

Prune belly and schizencephaly.

A 45-year-old man without relevant family history presented with prune belly syndrome (PBS). He had a 34year history of right simple partial motor seizures with and without secondary generalization, with a good response to carbamazepine monotherapy; there was no cognitive or social impairment. MRI showed global brain atrophy, ventricular asymmetry, left hemisphere schizencephaly, and bihemisphe...

Medical commerce, physician entrepreneurialism, and conflicts of interest.

Is medical commerce a recent phenomenon? Does it distort the patient– physician relationship? Are investor-owned firms the main source of medical commercialism?1 I contend that medicine has generally been commerce in the United States, that medical commerce is a problem when it creates or worsens physicians’ conflicts of interest, and that these conflicts thrive in nonprofit organizations as we...

Religion and Technology: Refiguring Place, Space, Identity and Community

This paper reviews the literature on the religion–technology nexus, drawing up a research agenda and offering preliminary empirical insights. First, I stress the need to explore the new politics of space as a consequence of technological development, emphasizing questions about the role of religion in effecting a form of religious (neo)imperialism, and uneven access to techno-religious spaces. ...