Move Beyond the Text

Foucault's Move beyond the Theoretical

Can We Move Beyond the Secular State?

The article argues for re-consideration of the secularization so often in the West regarded as an essential condition for a democratic state. Its inbuilt incoherence and problematic consequences suggest that the term secular should be abandoned. Deep-seated reasons for objecting to such a proposal follow, discussing an affront to personal integrity, confronting intellectual apartheid and analys...

Will Precision Medicine Move Us beyond Race?

n engl j med 374;21 nejm.org May 26, 2016 The use of an independent data and safety monitoring committee whose role is to review clinical trial data and make recommendations regarding changes to the trial’s conduct may also provide important quality control. That a trial being conducted to support potential regulatory approval warrants independent oversight is not a new concept, nor is it inten...

CKD classification: time to move beyond KDOQI.

The number of patients with ESRD is increasing worldwide. Despite recent advances in our understanding of the uremic state and improvements in the science and technology of renal replacement therapy, the morbidity and mortality of these patients is unacceptably high: More than 20% per year. Moreover, the health care cost of treating ESRD exceeds $17 billion annually in the United States alone.1...

Retrieval Beyond the Text Document

With the expansion of the Internet, searching for information goes beyond the boundary of physical libraries. Millions of documents of various media types, such as text, image, video, audio, graphics, and animation, are available around the world and linked by the Internet. Unfortunately, the state of the art of search engines for media types other than text lags far behind their text counterpa...