Conscience: Are We Talking Jello or Concrete?

Health System Resilience: What Are We Talking About? A Scoping Review Mapping Characteristics and Keywords

Background Health systems are based on 6 functions that need to work together at all times to effectively deliver safe and quality health services. These functions are vulnerable to shocks and changes; if a health system is unable to withstand the pressure from a shock, it may cease to function or collapse. The concept of resilience has been introduced with the goal of strengthening healt...

Whose Art Are We Talking About?

Jeannette Pols and Tamar Sharon kindly reviewed my case study of the art of living with technology as an engagement with technomoral change. I am indebted to them for their careful reading and critical suggestions to further elaborate the project. In my response I focus on the question whose art we are talking about, while further elucidating the reflexivity addressed in my essay. I conclude wi...

"Sudden death"--what are we talking about?

Sentiment Analysis - What are we talking about?

Automatic affect detection and classification from text is a complex task in Natural Language Processing , whose tackling requires not only the use of established methods in the field, but also the use of knowledge extracted from theories in Psychology, Cognitive Science, Social Psychology or Neuropsy-chology. For the past decade, there has been a large amount of research done in the field. Nev...

Special issue on spirituality in palliative and supportive care: who are we talking to when we are talking to ourselves?

In 13 years of publishing Palliative and Supportive Care, we have tried to be true to our mission of focusing the scientific and editorial content of the journal on psychiatric, psychosocial, existential and spiritual domains of palliative, and supportive care. I believe we’ve been true to this mission, and somewhat successful in providing an academic publishing home for clinicians and research...