Liberalism and ethnicity in South African politics, 1921–1948

Radical Political Theology: Religion and Politics After Liberalism

Psychiatric drug promotion and the politics of neo-liberalism.

The pharmaceutical industry has popularized the idea that many problems are caused by imbalances in brain chemicals. This message helps to further the aims of neo-liberal economic and social policies by breeding feelings of inadequacy and anxiety. These feelings in turn drive increasing consumption, encourage people to accept more pressured working conditions and inhibit social and political re...

Negotiating science and liberalism: medicine in nineteenth-century South Australia.

In this paper I document the ways in which the medical profession in nineteenthcentury South Australia negotiated its claims for medicine to be a science.1 It is widely accepted that medicine in the nineteenth century linked itself to science and used the cachet of science to improve its social and professional standing.2 The literature on this topic moves from the scientistic and technological...

Systematic review: antihypertensive drug therapy in patients of African and South Asian ethnicity

Despite the large differences in the epidemiology of hypertension across Europe, treatment strategies are similar for national populations of white European descent. However, hypertensive patients of African or South Asian ethnicity may require ethnic-specific approaches, as these population subgroups tend to have higher blood pressure at an earlier age that is more difficult to control, a high...

The Effect of South African Geopolitical Position in the Development of Cinema in South Africa

This paper will discuss about the role of the geopolitical location of South Africa in the development of movie and the cinema industry in this country. Despite of bringing ci-nema to South Africa by white Europeans, but the development of this phenomenon is mostly due to the geopolitical position of this country. It is interesting to know that ci-nema reached Africa in much the same time as it...