This commentary on the recent think piece by Mannion and Exworthy reviews their core arguments, highlighting their suggestion that recent forces for personalization have emerged which may counterbalance the strong standardization wave which has been evident in many healthcare settings and systems over the last two decades. These forces for personalization can take very different forms. The comm...

This Commentary forms a response to Nikogosian’s and Kickbusch’s forward-looking perspective about the legal strength of international health instruments. Building on their arguments, in this commentary we consider what we can learn from the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) for the adoption of new legal international health instruments.

this commentary reflects upon the article along three broad lines. it reflects on the theoretical choices and omissions, particularly highlighting why it is important to adapt the multiple streams framework (msf) when applying it in a socio-political context like vietnam’s. the commentary also reflects upon the analytical threads tackled by ha et al; for instance, it highlights the opportunitie...

This commentary aims to focus, among the “multiple roles of ata generated in ethnopharmacological field studies” (Heinrich t al., 2009, p. 1), on the systematic collection of clinical data. ven if this issue may somewhat resemble what has long been aid (Martin, 1996), recent experiences with clinical assessment f the effectiveness of medicinal plants may shed some new light. his commentary is a...

ibn abi sadiq neishaboori  was the iranian philosopher and medical scientist in the fifth century ah. in addition to writing a number of books in traditional medicine, he wrote commentary explanations on important books of famous greek and roman physicians, hippocrates and galen. because of this, he was called hippocrates the second.ibn abi sadiqwas the student of avicennaand the teacher of jor...

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