Book Review - When Race, Religion, and Sport Collide

Rebel with a cause: when morals, politics, and religion collide.

Review of the book "Race and History"

In 1952, the UNESCO International Organization published a series on explaining and clarifying the role of culture in society and suggested the writing of a book on the issue of race throughout history to Claude Lévi-Strauss, a prominent French anthropologist. The result of his efforts is the publication of a book called "Race and History". Race and History is one of the books that was translat...

When worlds collide--elite sport, doping, and scientific research.

OKAY, A BIT DRAMATIC, but all of a sudden the Journal of Applied Physiology has been dragged into the world of performance enhancement in professional cycling. Although published in 2005, Ed Coyle’s paper (1) on the physiology of a famous cyclist is back in the spotlight given that cyclist’s recent public admission of many years of doping, possibly during the time of Ed’s study. Were the data i...

When religion and obsessive-compulsive disorder collide: treating scrupulosity in Ultra-Orthodox Jews.

Evidence-based practice suggests that clinicians should integrate the best available research with clinical judgment and patient values. Treatment of religious patients with scrupulosity provides a paradigmatic example of such integration. The purpose of this study is to describe potential adaptations to make exposure and response prevention, the first-line treatment for obsessive-compulsive di...

When incentives and professionalism collide.

As Jin Ma and colleagues observe, an unfettered market approach in China has reduced access to care, increased patients' financial burden, and reduced emphasis on prevention and may have caused declines in quality and outcomes. A major driving force was that perverse incentives altered physicians' behavior toward self-interest at the expense of patients, even where professional ethics dictated ...