The relationship between biology and politics is manifold, ranging from politics within biology and implications of politics for biological research to intrinsic political dimensions of biological insights. Politics within biology plays out in the everyday practice of academic and applied science and has recently reached a new dimension in the context of priority and patent disputes, whereas po...

Palliative care is delivered by a number of professional groups and informal providers across a range of settings. This arrangement works well in that it maximizes avenues for providing care, but may also bring about complicated ‘politics’ due to struggles over control and decision-making power. Thirty-one interviews conducted with formal and informal palliative care providers in a rural region...

This article seeks to analyze urban politics through the lens of the social constructionist approach to scale. This approach views scale not as a set of pre-given, natural, and immutable levels upon which social life occurs. Rather, it regards scale as a fluid context for and product of power relations in society. The article argues that urban politics is frequently characterized by political s...

My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated. Much of what I will have to say will be common knowledge among scientists, but I believe that it will recast the subject from a novel point of ...

This article is drawn from a doctoral thesis called ‘Governing Public Bodies: Reconsidering the Relationship Between Statecraft and Healthcare in England, 1650–1730’, which considers two things: how certain categories of person, certain subjectivities, have been assembled through government in the name of health; and how the health of the individual has been understood to relate to that of the ...

Sustainable development is a complex concept, which concerns a wide range of social, scientific, economical and environmental issues. The necessity of Education to sustainable development is now admitted by a majority of politic personalities. However, evolution in daily life is still slow. This paper describes a personal initiative of a few teachers of Bordeaux academy: pupils from primary sch...

This paper presents the review work of Cloud Computing techniques in small and medium business organizations. The detail work of Trends and issues, Cloud computing: Challenges and future directions, Cloud Computing: Today and Tomorrow, Where are we at with Cloud Computing? A Descriptive Literature Review. Where are we at with Cloud Computing?, The Utility of Cloud Computing as a New Pricing – A...

The release of dangerous contaminants to the atmosphere due to human activities is an extensively discussed issue (Oelkers & Cole 2008). The economic development often underestimated the consequences of a massive release of substances into the environment. Politic tried to introduce some regulation but in the case of CO2 emissions, the introduction of the “Carbon Tax” and the other attempts wer...

We present a review of the etymology of zoological taxonomic names with emphasis on the most unusual examples. The names were divided into several categories, starting from the most common - given after morphological features - through inspiration from mythology, legends, and classic literature but also from fictional and nonfictional pop-culture characters (e.g., music, movies or cartoons), sc...