The results can be tragic. Patients with addictions are unlikely to wait the hours or days it takes health insurers to approve the medications they need. Insurers are changing their practices, but not without some outside pressure.

Pluralism’s renaissance, thanks to William Connolly, Chantal Mouffe and others, has established its position as the distinctive voice of late modern democracy. It thus calls for an explicit theory of tragedy to address the antagonisms and enmities it reflects and fosters. Treating Machiavelli, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Weber and Camus as members of a minor (tragic) tradition of thought, I articulate...

Therapeutic benefits of acupuncture for chronic pain patients have been clearly identified in recent clinical trials. Underlying mechanisms of acupuncture action mediated by endogenous opioids have been well demonstrated. The existence of pain inhibitory systems in the central nervous system has also been clarified and acupuncture seems to be a potent stimulus for activating the analgesic syste...

Background Patients are attracted to acupuncture partly by its reputation for having low risks. The safety of acupuncture should be established by positive evidence. Methods Two prospective surveys were conducted among different groups of professionals in the UK, including doctors, physiotherapists and practitioners primarily trained in acupuncture. Participants monitored adverse events over a ...

Abstract What does making progress in global justice mean? are the barriers to progress? This article introduces notion of tragic progress, against assertions by International Relations realists that tragedy and mutually exclusive concepts, as a complement notions ‘pragmatic progress’ ‘bounded offered IR constructivists philosophical pragmatists. Tragic refers disruptive often painful process s...

Maria, a tragic romance of adventure and exploits, narrates the participation Satyagrahi volunteers in Goa’s struggle for freedom from Portuguese rule. The novel ends tragically central character, Maria country after independence. seven Indian characters represent regions India: Goa, West Bengal, Punjab, Madras, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar Maharashtra. Before Independence, all them were patriots fight...