On Folk Devils, Moral Panics and New Wave Public Health

Moral Panics and Video Games

Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars

Copyright holds a fascination for members of the free and open source community. The copyleft nature of the GPL can exist only because copyright laws exist.1 This review considers William Patry's book “Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars”, and examines its argument that copyright laws are not fit for purpose.

Failing Boys and Moral Panics: Perspectives on the Underachievement Debate

The paper re-examines the underachievement debate from the perspective of the ‘discourse of derision’ that surrounds much writing in this area. It considers the contradictions and inconsistencies which underpin much of the discourse – from a reinterpretation of examination scores, to the conflation of the concepts of ‘under’ and ‘low’ achievement and finally to the lack of consensus on a means ...

Folk medicine meets metabolomics and public health

Revisiting Folk Moral Realism

Moral realists believe that there are objective moral truths. According to one of the most prominent arguments in favour of this view, ordinary people experience morality as realist-seeming, and we have therefore prima facie reason to believe that realism is true. Some proponents of this argument have claimed that the hypothesis that ordinary people experience morality as realist-seeming is sup...

Symposium on ethics and public health Epidemiology and moral philosophy

To an increasing extent ethical controversies affect and sometimes obstruct public health work and epidemiological research. In order to improve communication between the concernedparties a modelfor identification and analysis of ethical conflicts in individual-based research has been worked out in co-operation between epidemiologists and moral philosophers. The model has two dimensions. One di...