Governance, globalism and satellites

Globalism, Biopolitics, and Therapeutic Citizenship

Meteorology as Infrastructural Globalism

This chapter explores the history of a global governance institution, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), from its nineteenth-century origins through the beginnings of a planetary meteorological observing network, the WMO’s World Weather Watch (WWW), in the 1960s. This history illustrates a profoundly important transition from voluntarist internationalism, based on shared interests, to...

Good medical ethics, justice and provincial globalism

To cite: Ruger JP. J Med Ethics 2015;41:103–106. ABSTRACT The summer 2014 Ebola virus outbreak in Western Africa illustrates global health’s striking inequalities. Globalisation has also increased pandemics, and disparate health system conditions mean that where one falls ill or is injured in the world can mean the difference between quality care, substandard care or no care at all, between ful...

Good medical ethics, justice and provincial globalism.

The summer 2014 Ebola virus outbreak in Western Africa illustrates global health's striking inequalities. Globalisation has also increased pandemics, and disparate health system conditions mean that where one falls ill or is injured in the world can mean the difference between quality care, substandard care or no care at all, between full recovery, permanent ill effects and death. Yet attention...

Globalism versus Nationalism in Medical Physics

Nowadays we medical physicists are bombarded with guidelines and task reports, and we may see similar ones from different organizations in the United States of America or worldwide. Many extraordinary and diligent medical physicists have devoted their time and knowledge in creating these documents. Yet some of us might be wondering: should we optimize the use of our resources by establishing a ...