Millikan's struggle with theory

Marx's Theory of Crisis as a Theory of Class Struggle

Following a survey of Marx and Engels’ major writings on crisis from the early 1840s to the 1860s (Section II) we set out a systematic exposition and interpretation of their theory of capitalist accumulation and its crises (Sections III VIII). Our principal objective is to show, first, how their theoretical work grew out of, and was integral to, their political struggles; second, how they came ...

Hospitals Struggle With ACA Challenges

The Revolution Gathers Steam Just as the application of steam power to manufacturing in Great Britain in the mid-1700s ignited the industrial revolution, the 2010 passage of the ACA has prompted an emerging upheaval in health care. Traditional hospital operations across a broad range of activities have been upended and are being refashioned. Hospitals are merging at a pace previously unseen, bu...

From Race to Class Struggle: Re-Problematizing Critical Race Theory

Eradicating cancer cells: struggle with a chameleon

Eradication of cancer stem cells to abrogate tumor growth is a new treatment modality. However, like normal cells cancer cells show plasticity. Differentiated tumor stem cells can acquire stem cell properties when they gain access to the stem cell niche. This indicates that eradicating of stem cells (emptying of the niche) alone will not lead to eradication of the tumor. Treatment should be dir...

The unwelcome intruder. Freud's struggle with cancer

To a medical or pharmaceutical historian this book is a mine of useful information, well presented and carefully considered. Freudabilia continues to accumulate, and the slide towards the coffee-table end of the canon is now apparent. This short, well-illustrated book consists of fourteen chapters, varying in length from four to nearly forty pages, detailing the great man's prolonged encounter ...