In the context of ever-worsening environmental degradation, scientists as well religious leaders increasingly recognise role moral and spiritual values drivers people’s behaviour, have drawn attention to religion in moderating transforming community attitudes towards nature. But Western Christian tradition has come under criticism for legitimising exploitative use earth’s resources, based on an...

The essays on obesity in this issue frequently refer to the recent American Medical Association (AMA) declaration of obesity as a disease. In response to these essays, I describe and explore the significance of 'risk-factor medicalization' and how negative unintended consequences with this approach to disease modeling are exemplified in many of the essays. I also relate the essays' content to t...

This paper traces the historical roots of the “mad scientist,” a concept that has powerfully shaped the public image of science up to today, by investigating the representations of chemists in nineteenth-century Western literature. I argue that the creation of this literary figure was the strongest of four critical literary responses to the emergence of modern science in general and of chemistr...

The amazing world of psychiatry today is more than medical specialty. It is a „broad church“ of disparate discources and different practicies (Lolas 2010). Psychiatry has several partial or fragmentary identities related to its biologic, psychodinamic, and social subspecialties with many psychiatric schools. Many of the psychiatric schools, not only do not accept, but critize the most basic ten...

This paper explores the potential of machine learning for recognizing and analysing linguistic markers hubris in CEO speech. research is based on three assumptions: associated with potentially destructive leader behaviours; utterances are a way distinguishing between leaders who likely to exhibit such identifying at‐a‐distance using techniques provides reliable, automated scalable method identi...