Debating PMP research

Debating Phenomenological Research Methods

Phenomenological researchers generally agree that our central concern is to return to embodied, experiential meanings aiming for a fresh, complex, rich description of a phenomenon as it is concretely lived. Yet debates abound when it comes to deciding how best to carry out this phenomenological research in practice. Confusion about how to conduct appropriate phenomenological research makes our ...

Debating the scope of a health research and development convention.

Perspectives Despite recent advances in global health, appropriate tools to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases are often in short supply in the developing world. As a result, poverty-related and neglected diseases cause an average annual loss of 13.7 million lives and 377 million years of healthy and productive life. 1 Over the past decade, the World Health Organization (WHO) has hosted a ser...

Book Review: Debating Cancer: The Paradox in Cancer Research

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. pISSN 1011-8934 eISSN 1598-6357 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2016.31.4.648 • J Korean Med ...

Debating the use of racial and ethnic categories in research.

Debating DAP12

Mice that lack the adaptor protein DAP12 defy deadly bacterial infections, according to Turnbull and colleagues on page 363. DAP12-deficient mice developed a muted inflammatory response, allowing the immune system to clear the bacteria without triggering septic shock. DAP12 is a transmembrane adaptor protein that is associated with an array of DAP12-deficient mice (dotted line) are resistant to...