Interest is currently focused on healing systems lying outside the territory of conventional scientific medicine, but the boundary of orthodoxy is not always clear and shifting attitudes are reflected in changing preferences for labelling unorthodox medicine as "alternative", "fringe", or "complementary". Unorthodox therapies, being defined purely by exclusion from orthodoxy, show great diversi...

The arrival of pandemic diseases (of which COVID-19 is the latest, but not likely to be last) could understood, along with impending ecological disaster and global warming, major existential threats envisioned by, facing, our contemporary culture. This article focuses on use made theme in theology ideology Westboro Baptist Church – a Calvinist Primitive church founded Topeka, Kansas 1950s by Fr...

Despite renewed efforts to combat climate change, it remains uncertain how economies will achieve emission reduction by 2050. Among different decarbonisation strategies, knowledge about the potential role and contributions of social movements curbing carbon emissions has been limited. This study aims shed light on diverse staying within global budget, as well specific outcomes strategies employ...

Rita Floyd’s The Morality of Security: A Theory Just Securitization is an important and insightful book that delineates a theory just securitization (modified from the jus ad bellum in bello criteria war theory) involving three sets principles governing initiation securitization, conduct desecuritization. This much- needed addition to security studies literature. Here, I apply (JST) threat pose...

BACKGROUND European Union strategies and programmes identify research and innovation as a critical dimension for future economic and social development. While European research policy emphasizes support for industry, the health field includes not-for-profit civil society organisations (CSOs) providing social innovation. Yet, the perspectives of CSOs towards health research in Europe are not wel...

Two hundred years ago, Thomas Jefferson asserted that no law "ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority." Since then, freedom of conscience has continued to be heralded as a fundamental principle of American society. Indeed, many current policy debates-most notably in the medical and military contexts-are predicate...

The activity of hacking constitutes one of the more contested and misunderstood aspects of network culture. Initially the word denoted a kind of obsessive commitment to creative and innovative computer programming, especially the re-engineering of systems that pushed the relatively new technology of the computer in interesting directions which were oftentimes not anticipated or recognized by th...

Wallace Ruddell Aykroyd (1899–1979) had an English father, whose business was in Ireland, and an Irish mother. He attended high school in England as a boarder and then joined the Royal Air Force. After the end of World War I he returned to Ireland for medical studies at Trinity College, Dublin (1,2). In 1924 he graduated as Bachelor of Medicine and also received the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for ...

The aim of the article is to analyze events concerning formation and activity Ukrainian diaspora organizations in Canada, their further consolidation around one leadership – Canadian Committee, established Winnipeg on November 7, 1940. Almost twenty years have passed since defeat First Liberation Struggle. At that time, people lived difficult tragic conditions as a result occupation lands by So...