Interdisciplinary Perspectives/Part I: Economic Perspectives (Editorial Introduction)

Guest Editorial: Intimate Partner Violence as a Global Problem – International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Editorial: Wishful thinking

As a supplement to our lead editorial, the editors of the new journal, Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations, provide a partial list of specific analyses and topic areas they would like to see submitted to the journal.

Sustaining Health for Wealth: Perspectives for the Post-2015 Agenda; Comment on “Improving the World’s Health Through the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Perspectives From Rwanda”

The sustainable development goals (SDGs) offer a unique opportunity for policy-makers to build on the millennium development goals (MDGs) by adopting more sustainable approaches to addressing global development challenges. The delivery of health services is of particular concern. Most African countries are unlikely to achieve the health MDGs, however, significant progress has been made particul...

Understanding health systems, health economies and globalization: the need for social science perspectives

The complex relationship between globalization and health calls for research from many disciplinary and methodological perspectives. This editorial gives an overview of the content trajectory of the interdisciplinary journal 'Globalization and Health' over the first six years of production, 2005 to 2010. The findings show that bio-medical and population health perspectives have been dominant bu...

Perspectives on the emergence of scientific disciplines

GERALD LEMAINE, ROY MACLEOD, MICHAEL MULKAY and PETER WEINGART (editors), Perspectives on the emergence of scientific disciplines, The Hague and Paris, Mouton, (West Berlin, W. de Gruyter), 1976, 8vo, pp. xi, 281, DM.50.00. The disciplines represented in the twelve essays which comprise this book include agricultural chemistry, thermodynamics, physical chemistry, biophysics, x-ray protein cryst...