“This angle that we talked about”: learning how to weld in interaction

What if we Talked Politics a Little?

Political enunciation remains an enigma as long as it is considered from the standpoint of information transfer. It remains as unintelligible as religious talk. The paper explores the specificty of this regime and especially the strange link it has with the canonical definition of enunciation in linguistics and semiotics. The ‘political circle’ is reconstituted and thus also the reasons why a ‘...

We Need to Talk About Corruption in Health Systems

The health sector consistently appears prominently in surveys of perceived corruption, with considerable evidence that this has serious adverse consequences for patients. Yet this issue is far from prominent in the international health policy discourse. We identify five reasons why the health policy community has been reluctant to talk about it. These are the problem of defining corruption, the...

Words to the reader about how to use this textbook

[This is how we do it].

The purpose of this article is to explore students' experiences of variations in practice and how this impacts on their learning. This is particularly pertinent in terms of reconfiguration of services instigated by the Department of Health's (DH) Making it better agenda (DH 2007), meaning that many qualified staff are moving hospitals and also experiencing changes in practice. Students are thus...

Intermittent claudication: how should we react to this symptom?

Management (AFFIRM) trial, which may shed indirect light on the merit of use of amiodarone on the grounds of its superior efficacy. On the other hand, a longer duration of follow-up would allow sufficient time for development of amiodarone organ toxicity with its attendant significant costs. The major adverse effects of sotalol and propafenone are predominantly seen early in the treatment cours...