In complex healthcare organizations it is impossible to provide policies or guidelines to direct all clinical and administrative behavior or to help staff make tough decisions. As organization and management consultant and author Patrick Lencioni noted in a July 2002 Harvard Business Review article, “Core values are the deeply ingrained principles that guide all of a company’s actions; they ser...

In this article we argue that a tendency to treat populism as ubiquitous, mechanistic characteristic of contemporary penality has impeded systematic theoretical discussion how populist ideologies find contingent expression within national penal systems. Drawing upon an agonistic perspective seek show the intersection between and punishment must be understood structured process is shaped by stru...

This study focuses on issues concerning treatment in penal institutions determined by mandatory commitment and the problems relating to the release of adults with mental health disorders who have been committed. The analysis was based on the provisions of Act10216, which determines the end of hospitalization in psychiatric institutions. It then looks at the situation of Maria dos Anjos, a relea...

“There is, in fact, hardly an argument that can be advanced for the stern suppression of crime by penal methods that does not apply equally to the suppression of disease. . . . “ Medical service in the penal and correctional institutions throughout the United States has been reported at various times to be below the level of medical care for the general population. In 1939 McCartney2 noted that...

This paper explores the factors that have recently increased support for candidates and causes of the populist right across the developed democracies, especially among a core group of working-class men. In the context of debates about whether the key causal factors are economic or cultural, we contend that an effective analysis must rest on understanding how economic and cultural developments i...

This brief commentary discusses a recent paper by Speed and Mannion that explores “The Rise of post truth populism in liberal democracies: challenges for health policy.” It considers their assertion that through meaningful democratic engagement in health policy, some of the risks brought about by an exclusionary populist politics can be mediated. With an overview of what participation means in ...

This study investigates the latest research on the profile of the Brazilian prison population, its demography and current laws and regulations. It aims in the direction of ensuring the human right to health. Brazilian prison system is a complex universe in which state and federal criminal contexts keep more than 607,000 people in custody. This population is composed of 75% of young and black pe...

In 1982, California enacted a package of tough Medicaid cost-containment measures. This article examines its effects on program expenditures through 1984 by enrollment group and service category. Total expenditures fell by 19 percent (or $656.5 million) after inflation. Expenditures per enrollee declined for almost every group, with enrollees on cash assistance taking the greatest reductions. A...

Organized by three distinguished members of the JBS Editorial Board – Marc Bickle, PhD, of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (Germany); Hakim Djaballah, PhD, of Institut Pasteur Korea (South Korea); and Lorenz Martin Mayr, PhD, of AstraZeneca (UK) – this special issue demonstrates how RNAi is enjoying a revival of popularity and is increasingly being applied to dis...

In order to explain the success of populist politicians use of social media, we need to subtract the social from relationality and separate social relationships from network theory applications. A pure theory of relationality is suggested by Werner Heisenberg’s breakthrough in quantum mechanics. It is argued that sociology, to its detriment, has failed to incorporate a theory of communication, ...