Can the Humanities survive distance learning?

Can learning organizations survive in the newer NHS?

BACKGROUND This paper outlines the principal characteristics of a learning organisation and the organisational features that define it. It then compares these features with the organisational conditions that currently obtain, or are being created, within the British NHS. The contradictory development of recent British health policy, resulting in the NHS becoming both more marketised and more bu...

Can England's NHS survive?

n engl j med 369;1 nejm.org july 4, 2013 1 a crisis that can be resolved only by altering the fundamental principle on which it was founded — provision of funding from general taxation, with care being free at the point of use. Although the criticism was sparked by a February report on an inquiry into shortcomings at one hospital,1 the problems originated in 2010, when two profound forces were ...

Can humanities be taught?

Prologue Can Humanities Be Taught? This special issue of The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine is a happy occasion for its editors. The Program for Humanities in Medicine was established in 1983 to remind medical care personnel, nurses and physicians, students and faculty, of the unmeasurable aspects of medicine. A major aim, as yet unfulfilled, was to encourage faculty in the clinical disci...

Can the generalist survive the 21st century?

Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California 91125 Can Relational Contracts Survive Stochastic Interruptions?

This paper investigates the robustness of the “two-tiered labor market” experimental results of Brown, Falk and Fehr (2004) by subjecting relationships to stochastic interruptions. Using two different subject pools, we first replicate the basic pattern of high quality private contracting and low quality public contracting. We then study the impact of exogenous random ‘downturns’ in which firms ...