Bring Back Bentham: "Open Courts," "Terror Trials," and Public Sphere(s)

Back to Bentham? Explorations of Experienced Utility

Two core meanings of “utility” are distinguished. “Decision utility” is the weight of an outcome in a decision. “Experienced utility” is hedonic quality, as in Bentham’s usage. Experienced utility can be reported in real time (instant utility), or in retrospective evaluations of past episodes (remembered utility). Psychological research has documented systematic errors in retrospective evaluati...

Bring back home economics education.

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Bring back the registered mental health nurse.

Most of the readers panel members commenting on whether pre-registration branches should be scrapped appear to be under the misapprehension that physical health has priority over mental health (reflections November 1).

WHO reform: bring back GOARN and Task Force ‘Scorpio’

W HO's Director-General recently put the so-called failure of WHO to respond rapidly and adequately to the Ebola epidemic squarely on the shoulders of the member states, who year after year have restricted WHO's budget options and never contributed to the emergency fund that was called for after the H1N1 influenza scare in 2009. WHO has GOARN, a Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, which...

Bring Back Bradley: Shakespearean criticism and the problem of graphocentrism