Saving Liberal Peacebuilding From Itself

Saving PTSD from itself in DSM-V.

Papers in this special issue of the Journal of Anxiety Disorders concern critical issues and core assumptions that underlie the diagnostic construct of posttraumatic stress disorder. Rather than addressing specific points raised in these papers, we consider the issues and their implications for redefining PTSD and associated disorders in the DSM-V. Specific proposals are advanced to tighten def...

Saving lives, saving from death, saving from dying: reflections on 'over-valuing' identifiable victims.

Saving varicella from suicide

JCB • VOLUME 168 • NUMBER 3 • 2005 348 Saving varicella from suicide aricella zoster virus (VZV) causes both varicella (chickenpox) and zoster (shingles). VZV spreads throughout the body, but it does so slowly, and virus only emerges extracellularly in the skin where it can spread to other hosts. That behavior is now explained by Zhenglun Zhu (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA), Jason Chen, An...

Fundamentalism from the Perspective of Liberal Tolerance

Saving myelin from microglia

The blood clotting protein fibrinogen can inadvertently promote multiple sclerosis (MS) when it leaks from the blood into the brain. According to Adams et al. (page 571), it does so by activating microglia and sending these cells into phagocytic overdrive. Interrupting this interaction may yield a treatment for MS that doesn’t interfere with blood clotting. The neurological dysfunction seen in ...