Evolution, Revolution, Devolution and Volution of Singapore's Healthcare System

Devolution of power, revolution in public health?

Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi1, Katherine E. Smith2, David Stuckler3, Martin McKee4 Public Health, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G2 3QB, UK Global Public Health Unit, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9LD, UK Political Economy and Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UQ...

Precision Medicine: A New Revolution in Healthcare System

Every human being is different based on genetics, lifestyle, and environmental factors. Novel medical technologies have become more precise owing to molecular information, including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, etc. The “omics” technologies have opened up new horizons for healthcare systems, enabling them to prevent and/or diagnose diseases more precisel...

Running head: EVOLUTION AND DEVOLUTION IN FOLKBIOLOGY Measuring the Evolution and Devolution of Folkbiological Knowledge

Running Title: Evolution and Devolution of Knowledge Evolution and Devolution of Knowledge: A Tale of Two Biologies

Anthropological inquiry indicates that all human cultures classify animals and plants in similar ways. This pre-theoretical knowledge also provided common ground for competing scientific investigations. Paradoxically, despite rapid advances in biological science, our citizenry’s practical knowledge of nature is diminishing. Convenient choice of American and European students as psychology’s pre...

Has the Digital Revolution Led to Cultural Devolution?

The major question we might ask at a conference on the Digital Migration is: has the digital revolution improved the quality of our cultural output? But my guess is we won’t touch this question. We are such techno-utopians that the very idea that the cornucopia of digital choice is not advancing the culture is slanderous. But I believe we are in a cultural crisis and part of it is the fault of ...