This article argues against the term and concept of ‘hate speech’ in favour using ‘discriminatory speech’. ‘Hate is a misnomer; we should name harmful speech question by what it fact does: discriminates. The for this conceptual replacement claim identifying number functions has been meant to serve arguing that extant concepts hate have not served function well. Roughly, they do well because fiv...

Abstract A relatively nascent discipline, the field of hate studies has been explored and theorised from a multiplicity disciplinary contexts. However, is ill-defined, relationship between crime other related concepts unexplored. Here, we consider range phenomena which might fall within or without studies, initiating discussion boundaries field. We signal both continuities discontinuities among...

This is the story of how a conventional middle-class American household?a surgeon, his wife and three normal children?had first to recognise, then to cope with and, finally, to exclude, an abnormal family member. Tony was a beautiful child, the eldest, and apart from long hours of screaming for no apparent reason, he seemed a normal baby. His intellectual and motor development was average, but ...

Surgeons share their challenges and dilemmas in making ethical decisions in these twelve personal stories. The three commentary articles draw out the lessons the stories address. The commentators come from diverse backgrounds including sociology, bioethics, nursing, and surgery.

This paper introduces the class of reflected number systems. Members of this class have the adjacency property, i.e. representations for consecutive numbers differ in only one digit and the magnitude of this difference is one. It shows that every number system based on a positional weighting scheme has a reflected analogue. It presents procedures to convert a number system to its reflected anal...

What was your best career move? Becoming a doctor. I miss not seeing patients in my current role, but improving patient care is the motivation behind all of my work. Bevan or Lansley?Who has been the best and the worst health secretary in your lifetime? I got to know William Waldegrave at the time of Margaret Thatcher’s reforms, which I supported, and he was thoughtful, sincere, and intelligent...

This study examines the processing of metaphoric reference by bilingual speakers. English dominant, Spanish dominant, and balanced bilinguals read passages in English biasing either a figurative (e.g., describing a weak and soft fighter that always lost and everyone hated) or a literal (e.g., describing a donut and bakery shop that made delicious pastries) meaning of a critical metaphoric refer...