Reply to Rubenstein and Rubenstein: Time to move on from ideological debates on rewilding.

A way forward in protecting health services in conflict: moving beyond the humanitarian paradigm

Leonard S. Rubenstein* Leonard S. Rubenstein, JD, is Senior Scholar and Director of the Program on Human Rights, Health and Conflict at the Center for Human Rights and Public Health of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also Chair of the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition. Before joining Johns Hopkins, Mr. Rubenstein served as President of Physicians for Human Rig...

A fortunate life in academic medicine.

4288 The Journal of Clinical Investigation http://www.jci.org Volume 122 Number 11 November 2012 1. Robbins DC, Tager HS, Rubenstein AH. Biologic and clinical importance of proinsulin. N Engl J Med. 1984;310(18):1165–1175. 2. Steiner DF, Rubenstein AH. Recent studies on the biosynthesis, secretion and metabolism of proinsulin and C-peptide. In: Musacchia XJ, Breitenbach RP, eds. Proceedings of ...

Pleistocene rewilding, frankenstein ecosystems, and an alternative conservation agenda.

ecological processes lost in the Americas in the late Pleis-tocene, a little over 10,000 years ago, by rewilding, that is, by translocating a suite of large African and Asian vertebrates to the American continent. There is a strong evidence that the megafauna in the Americas at that time was driven to extinction by humans (Martin & Klein 1984), which caused the loss of many ecological interacti...

Review of Joy (ed.) _Continental Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion_ and Kearney, _Anatheism_

An American Plague: Pro-Market Believers in Health Policy; Comment on “On Health Policy and Management (HPAM): Mind the Theory-Policypractice Gap”

Although American health policy debates address similar problems to other developed nations, it has factual and ideological specificities. I agree with Chinitz and Rodwin on the dominance of micro-economics thinking. However, I am not certain that learning from management theory or modifying medical education will be powerful enough to change the system. The vested interests of the stakeholders...