Social Nutrition and Prohibiting Famine

Famine: a perspective for the nutrition community.

Famine is a nasty turn of events that intrudes on the world's consciousness from time to time. Pictures of starving people and acutely malnourished children, rampant disease, a rising death toll, and massive suffering in some far-off land move many among us to contribute to famine relief, shocked by the paradox of famine in a world "awash in grain". Those who think about it appreciate that fami...

Famine, disease and the social order in early modern society

said to be "popular" (they wrote learned Latin texts) and both ofwhom lived in the fourteenth century. Seemingly more relevant figures from the previous century, some with French associations, like Arnald of Villanova, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, Gilbertus Anglicus, and Roger Bacon, are either given less space or omitted. Hunt footnotes books, dissertations, and articles by the hundred, but again h...

Understanding and Preventing Famine and Famine Mortality

Prohibiting lawyer-client sex.

Psychotherapists' and physicians' sexual contact with their patients has been long held as unethical conduct. However, lawyers' sexual contact with clients has been largely ignored in the professional literature. This article uniquely anatomizes the similarities in the vulnerabilities and power imbalances that exist between psychotherapists' and lawyers' relationships with patients/clients. The...

The pros and cons of prohibiting drugs

In September 2012, a group known as Australia 21 called for a rethink on the prohibition against illegal drugs. If the response from Australian Federal, State, and Territory Governments is any guide, the call fell on deaf ears. In recent years, even scholarly debate about the merits of prohibition appears to have subsided. This paper acknowledges that social and financial costs of the prohibiti...