Is general practice being consigned to history?

General practice consultations: is there any point in being positive?

A group of 200 patients who presented in general practice with symptoms but no abnormal physical signs and in whom no definite diagnosis was made were randomly selected for one of four consultations: a consultation conducted in a "positive manner," with and without treatment, and a consultation conducted in a "non-positive manner," called a negative consultation, with and without treatment. Two...

Waterborne infectious diseases--could they be consigned to history?

The development of water resources, particularly in Africa, has changed the face of the continent, opening up land for agriculture, providing electric power, encouraging settlements adjacent to water bodies, and bringing prosperity to poor people. Unfortunately, the created or altered water bodies provide ideal conditions for the transmission of waterborne diseases and a favorable habitat for i...

Sexual health in general practice: history and the partner history.

On Being Relevant to the Future of IS Practice

In this essay, we argue that being relevant to practice must imply a concern with influencing future IS practices. Discussions of IS research relevance, however, are rarely explicit about how research is meant to shape the future. Drawing on Feenberg’s (2002) critical theory of technology and his concepts of primary-secondary instrumentalization and potentialities, we consider how IS research a...

General Assessment: Is Innovation being Leashed?

The slightly modified title (Un/Leashing) reflects the prevailing paradigm underlined at several occasions during the Leipzig 2010 Forum. Transport innovations can have both the public and private sectors as promoters of innovative practices, but on occasions, more common on the public side, they can act as impediments to innovation, willingly (through regulations) or unwillingly (through unint...