Physics: Morals and madness

Madness and morals. Ideas on insanity in the nineteenth century

Morals and Medicine

pared to normal synovial cells. This little book reviews these and other measurements in plasma, urine, synovial fluid, tissue extracts and synovial cell culture. The chapter on hormones is notable for its statement that prednisolone is the only drug which can halt the erosive progress of rheumatoid arthritis. This is certainly not the orthodox view of most rheumatologists, and its emphasis cas...

Law, Language and Morals

Madness

here are clouds in the painting, of course. Almost any one of us would have included those clouds, thick with electricity and rainwater. And there is the wheat field, smudged out like an empty palm, orange beneath the storm-stricken sun. Surely, many of us would have insisted on the wheat as well. Through the middle of the wheat, a rutted road slices to the horizon and disappears beneath the cl...

Meat, morals, and masculinity.

Much research has demonstrated that people perceive consumers of "good," low-fat foods as more moral, intelligent, and attractive, and perceive consumers of "bad," high-fat foods as less intelligent, less moral, and less attractive. Little research has contrasted perceptions of omnivores and vegetarians, particularly with respect to morality and gender characteristics. In two between-subject st...