Design Science has, in the past few years, become a topic of increasing importance especially in the North American academic IS community. Some observers see a new hegemony in the process of forming. Others dispute that, but suggest that Design Science is merely the latest bandwagon rolling through the IS domain. The panel includes supporters of all these views. It will attempt to position Desi...

In this essay, hegemony in traditional Marxism is posited as a social ontology based on overcoming the alienation of masses. The aim to produce full realization through work proletariat one specific political subject, collective version bourgeois subject. emancipation marks self-realization subject history, that somehow imposes itself alienated forms capitalism. On other hand, poshegemony thoug...

Building on the analyses of cultural hegemony in works Nancy Fraser and Wendy Brown, I argue paper that historic bloc (order hegemony) post-Fordist capitalism is characterized by a particular dynamic between several ?axes? gives rise to ?paradox engagement/disengagement?. The ?progressive-expertocratic? axis creates subject-position ?engaged self?, figure embodying certain promise political age...

This paper initiates debate for geographers on the nature of care in relation to the self explored through the practices of aesthetic surgery. Central to debates on the meanings and relations of aesthetic surgery are a set of problematics related to the scales of care and responsibility. These are captured in the distinctions between caring for or caring about and between self-care or care of t...

Group Oral Health (GOH) is a specific phenomenon in time, separate from other "Alternative Odontology", and a theoretical reference for dental practice in healthcare services. This study is an attempt to understand how long "Alternative Odontology" will remain with the social context of struggling for oral health in Brazil, based on the positions of the founding agents and their precursors, bea...

The paper explores the insights offered by Marx’s analysis of the emergence of “world money” into the workings of the international gold standard period and the post-Bretton Woods floating dollar standard. In a curious inversion of the traditional formulations drawing on Lenin, imperial hegemony in today’s context would seem to be associated with net capital imports (rather than exports) by the...

National decisions on the drugs, treatments and medical devices that should be funded through public expenditure are a fundamental element of health policy. But despite a political emphasis upon evidence-based policy, the results of rigorous clinical trials and statistical modelling techniques rarely speak for themselves. So, does the pre-eminence traditionally accorded to quantitative data in ...

In a model of evolution driven by con ict between societies more powerful states have an advantage. When the in uence of outsiders is small we show that this results in a tendency to hegemony. In a simple example in which institutions di er in their exclusiveness we nd that these hegemonies will be ine ciently extractive in the sense of having ine ciently high taxes, high compensation for state...

Acetylation signaling pathways are involved in numerous cellular processes and are used as therapeutic targets in several disease contexts. However, acetylated proteins only represent a minor fraction of the full proteome, and the identification and quantification of acetylated sites remain a technological challenge. Currently, pan-acetyl antibodies are used to increase the abundance of acetyla...