Beyond the Rhetoric

Universal Health Coverage: Beyond rhetoric

Partnership in health: beyond the rhetoric.

Beyond Rhetoric to Poetics in IT Invention

Two kinds of discourse typically define scientific productions: logical (epistemology of science) and rhetorical (sociology of science). We suggest that research projects can also be analyzed as poetical productions. While rhetorical strategies anticipate controversies and deploy techniques to defend projects and findings, poetical practices deepen the cultural and symbolic dimensions of techno...

Beyond the rhetoric: population genetics and benefit-sharing.

Information derived from the Human Genome Project (HGP) promises to inspire an array of future innovations with profound societal benefits. Population genetic research is now viewed as a necessary next step in the evolution of research based on the human genome. It is anticipated that projects will be developed in which the DNA from thousands of research subjects will be linked to medical recor...

Beyond rhetoric: what we need to know to eliminate disparities.

Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are well documented and can be discussed in 3 broad categories: health system factors, patient-level factors, and patient/provider interaction. Clinicians and others working in health care and related fields are knowledgeable about disparities in health, but the general US population is not. Racial/ethnic disparities are most striking in life expecta...