This PLoS Medicine Debate examines the different approaches that can be taken to tackle neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Some commentators, like Jerry Spiegel and colleagues from the University of British Columbia, feel there has been too much focus on the biomedical mechanisms and drug development for NTDs, at the expense of attention to the social determinants of disease. Burton Singer arg...

Some commentators believe that slotting allowances enhance social welfare by providing retailers with an efficient way to allocate scarce retail shelf space. The claim is that, by offering their shelf space to the highest bidders, retailers act as agents for consumers and ensure that only the most socially desirable products obtain distribution. I show that this claim does not hold in a model i...

As the explosion in health care costs has led to serious efforts at cost containment, concerns have been raised that some of the methods used to contain costs may cause more harm than good. In particular, many commentators have criticized the practice of giving physicians personal financial incentives to limit the provision of care to their patients. These critics have argued that, if physician...

This study investigated the metaphorical speech acts used by Australian commentators on Facebook during COVID-19. The sample contained 50 comments that were analyzed qualitatively. adopted Searle taxonomy of acts, namely, directive, assertive, expressive, commissive, and declarative. helped in identifying different functions acts. Moreover, Austin act forms, locutionary, illocutionary, perlocut...

The commentaries by Contesi, Hardcastle, Pismenny, and Gallegos pose pressing questions about the nature of boredom, frustration, anticipation. Although their concern specific claims that I make in Propelled, they are broad philosophical interest for, ultimately, pave way for a better understanding these three psychological states. In my responses to commentators, clarify certain made Propelled...

A primary goal of clinical practice is to respect patient autonomy. To promote this goal for patients who have lost the ability to make their own decisions, commentators recommend that surrogates make their treatment decisions based on the substituted judgment standard. This standard is commonly interpreted as directing surrogates to make the decision the patient would have made in the circumst...

Victorian commentators identified visitors’ books with mass tourism and disparaged their contents as banal absurd. However, a historicised approach shows that inscription conventions commentators’ expectations were influenced by the print mediation of earlier practices centred on blank books, notably poetry composed for British country house albums. This article demonstrates how album published...