calls "the politics of knowledge dissemination", the tension between the desire to enfranchise the masses medically and the need to keep potentially dangerous knowledge in competent hands. These chapters hardly exhaust the subject, of course. Porter's compendious introduction acknowledges as much, but also rightly suggests that the value of this work is not simply that it explores several new p...

This presentation aims at providing a better understanding of the role, origin and evolution of participation in contemporary art with a specific focus on technology and participation. It will also provide an overview of participative art models developed in the last decade and the trend they created.

BACKGROUND Tobacco smoking is the single most preventable cause of death in the United States today. Oncologists are in a unique position to affect the health and economic burdens of smoking by encouraging cessation among their patients who smoke. METHODS The authors describe and review the effectiveness of current smoking cessation interventions as well as strategies that can be used to enco...

© 2004 Blackwell Publishing Ltd INTRODUCTION Many patients present to neurology outpatient clinics without serious pathology – the classic example is the patient with chronic headache who believes he has a brain tumour. After a history and examination the neurologist is confi dent of the diagnosis of chronic tension-type headache, but is left not knowing whether to send the patient for a brain ...

After its clamorous reception by the media and the praise heaped upon it from many different quarters, the História de Portugal edited by Rui Ramos (and particularly the chapters for which he himself was responsible) met with a chorus of criticisms made by some of his peers in statements that were gathered together and published by a daily newspaper.3 The most negative reactions related, above ...

1Department of Endodontology, Maurice and Gabriela Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel 2Centre for Research in Oral Health, Department of Biomedical, Surgical, and Dental Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano and IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Milan, Italy 3Department of Endodontics, Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, The Hebrew University of...