Sociological studies of diffusion: is history relevant?

Causal Inference in Sociological Studies

Sociological Studies and Philosophical Studies: Twenty Years of Controversy

Pickering (1992, p. 1) speaks of the field now commonly called sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) as "a new approach to thinking about science" that differentiated itself from contemporary philosophy and sociology of science in two ways: first, in that "scientific knowledge itself had to be understood as a social product"; and second, in that "SSK was determinedly empirical and naturalisti...

Absinthe--is its history relevant for current public health?

This paper briefly addresses the history of the social experience with absinthe in France during the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. We draw on some important parallels of this history with that of smoking to demonstrate that public health threats in the form of (ill-)health related behaviour recur in different disguises, while the social causes if these threats are left to endure. ...

Is the antibiotic era joint the history?

For the last few years, antibiotic resistance has become one of the major concerns within medical society. On one hand, pathogens have mostly acquired resistance against the major conventional antibiotics used in the treatment of microbial infections. These included even first-line antibiotics, which are critical in the treatment of severe infections. This catastrophic situation has occurred du...

DYNARANK—AN OVERVIEW HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS Why History Is Relevant

Because a decision-support system for applying a multi-objective strategy such as shape, respond, and prepare now necessarily implies methods that have generally not been used by DoD decisionmakers (for a variety of good reasons related to complexity and the fuzziness of many analyses reflecting subjective judgments explicitly), it is useful to provide some background on DynaRank’s development ...