The current academic debate calls for critical discussion

Discussion Piece: A Critical Take on the Obesity Debate

This paper critically engages with dominant obesity discourses, making particular reference to the perceived epidemic of ’excess’ weight among men in England. It expands upon arguments written for the Men’s Health Forum during the run up to their recent conference on ‘tackling male weight problems’. The science legitimating the war against fat is questioned as well as arguments offered by those...

Biobank research: time for discussion and debate.

The establishment of biobanks is gaining prominence globally. The open and evolving nature of biobanks has profound ethical, legal and social implications for individual and group autonomy, informed consent, privacy, confidentiality, secondary use of samples and data over time, return of results, data sharing, benefit sharing with communities, and premature or unplanned closure. Complexities al...

The debate about death: an imperishable discussion?

In this concise review we discuss some of the complex edges of the concept of death that arose after the notorious advances in science and medicine over the last 50 years, in which the classical cardio-pulmonary criteria have led to the neurological criteria of death. New complicated questions like the definition of death and the operational criteria for diagnosing it have arisen and we think t...

UN calls for international debate on road safety crisis.

Teaching Critical Chain Project Management: The Academic Debate and Illustrative Examples

In recent decades, the project scheduling practices known as Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) have been successful in industrial applications, yet remain a subject of disagreement among scholars and sporadically taught in business schools. The purpose of this paper is to assess what aspects of CCPM are appropriate in operations courses, whether dedicated project management classes or br...