THE BONSOR AFFAIR: A POST-SCRIPT

Artifacts and Attachment: A Post-Script Philosophy of Mediation

What should one think of things? This question is a pressing one, now that Technology Studies has discovered artifacts as the objects of inquiry par excellence. Societies are not only held together by social relations and institutions, as sociologists and anthropologists claim, but by things as well. Technology should be analysed not only in terms of the social processes in which it is construc...

Pseudoparaphimosis: a hairy affair.

Med J Malaysia Vol 66 No 3 August 201

A global affair.

The Journal of Medical Ethics has always had a global outlook. International in its authorship, readership and editorship, the journal recognises the value of exploring how ethical issues in healthcare and scientific research manifest themselves in different geographical settings, of examining ethical issues that cross national boundaries and of ensuring that the analysis and promotion of ethic...

The Alder Hey affair.

A complex affair

Tight junctions (TJs) are protein complexes comprised of claudins, which anchor them in the membrane and numerous cytosolic scaffolding proteins including MAGI, MUPP1, cingulin and members of the Zonula Occludens (ZO) family. Originally, their main function was thought to be as a paracellular barrier. More recently, however, additional roles in signal transduction, differentiation and prolifera...