Tempting Fate or Inviting Happiness?

Tempting fate: control of communicable disease in England.

Recent changes in the NHS have left many defects in the systems for the control of communicable diseases and infection and their surveillance and the management of outbreaks. Clear, explicit legislation is needed, placing the responsibilities on health authorities. New teams led by consultants need to be set up to investigate and manage outbreaks of communicable diseases of all types.

Tempting Fate and Commitment in the Developing Forebrain

cells which integrated into the striatum were labeled for both M6 and [ 3 H]thymidine. The three populations of Department of Physical Therapy Temple University cells grafted by Campbell et al. integrated into a wide variety of host locations, including the striatum, septum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19140 diencephalon, and, to a lesser extent, cortex. There were distinct patterns of integrati...

Online Learning in the Business Environment - Tempting or a Temptress?

Does Growth Cause Happiness, or Does Happiness Cause Growth?

The two quotes above suggest alternate ideas about the sources of happiness. The first (written around AD 180) is nn Aristotelian notion. Happiness is a way of living, not a state. The second quote (written some 1500 years later) suggests ideas about the sources of happiness perhaps more akin to the way that we tend to view [hem today. Happiness is about conviviality, warmth. food (and perhaps ...

Inviting pain

The role of pain in the practice of self-injury is not straightforward. Existing accounts suggest that self-injury does not cause 'physical' pain, however self-injury is also said to alleviate 'emotional' pain by inflicting 'physical' pain. This paper explores these tensions using sociological theories regarding the socio-cultural and subjective nature of pain. Analysis derives from in-depth, l...