gorik ooms recently made a strong case for considering the centrality of normative premises to analyzing and understanding the underappreciated importance of the nexus of politics, power and process in global health. this critical commentary raises serious questions for the practice and study of global health and global health governance. first and foremost, this commentary underlines the impor...

Public healthcare organisations in Sweden have been described as strongly hierarchical and coherent organisations [1]. To bring about control, generalized care models have been developed to handle hospital clinics and primary care sites [2]. This paper examines the preparedness to change in hospital settings. The purpose of the present study was to reveal barriers to the introduction of person-...

Gorik Ooms recently made a strong case for considering the centrality of normative premises to analyzing and understanding the underappreciated importance of the nexus of politics, power and process in global health. This critical commentary raises serious questions for the practice and study of global health and global health governance. First and foremost, this commentary underlines the impor...

This book, dedicated to the memory of Dr. Walter B. Cannon, is an excellent review of the problems of chemical transmission in the nervous system. The first section deals with chemical transmission at autonomic neuroeffector junctions. It omits some important topics, such as supersensitivity of denervated structures, because they have been treated by the author in another recent book. Emphasis ...

This is an elementary account of nervous anatomy and physiology and their relation to psychology. The author is a physicist and his somewhat external view of neuroscience is stimulating if sometimes over simple. He describes current theories of controversial subjects such as memory fairly and without too much dogmatism. Biologists will already be familiar with most of what he has to say but may...

Individuals are not merely passive vessels of whatever beliefs and opinions they have been exposed to; rather, they are attracted to belief systems that resonate with their own psychological needs and interests, including epistemic, existential, and relational needs to attain certainty, security, and social belongingness. Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski, and Sulloway (2003) demonstrated that needs to ...

This is an elementary account of nervous anatomy and physiology and their relation to psychology. The author is a physicist and his somewhat external view of neuroscience is stimulating if sometimes over simple. He describes current theories of controversial subjects such as memory fairly and without too much dogmatism. Biologists will already be familiar with most of what he has to say but may...

This book, dedicated to the memory of Dr. Walter B. Cannon, is an excellent review of the problems of chemical transmission in the nervous system. The first section deals with chemical transmission at autonomic neuroeffector junctions. It omits some important topics, such as supersensitivity of denervated structures, because they have been treated by the author in another recent book. Emphasis ...

basis for exploring the macroevolutionary history of Earth and the origin of species. Finally, all these elements are nicely synthesized in a particularly readable chapter on human evolution and both our uniqueness from and our similarity to other species. A brief recap ofsome major areas of active research precedes two appendices, one of which adopts the "frequently asked questions" model to p...