The concept of heritage is constantly on the cultural and politic agenda of contemporary society. The reflections in this chapter move away from legal and legislative references toward the meaning the capital has assumed within the disciplines that study territory, landscape, and architecture. Describing the many ways in which the term is used reveals the gradual expansion of the concept of her...

Doctors know government and politics like lawyers know medicine—enough to really make a mess of things. Thus, physicians loath to recommend major surgery (especially of debatable benefit) for their patients, eagerly advocate for radical “reform” of our health care system, even though the body politic also bears lifelong scars after disfiguring interventions. Why do doctors, so distrustful of th...

Part I.—Economic Factors and Crime. Crime is a great source of waste. Millions worth of property is destroyed by criminal activity every year, in every country of any importance. Lakhs of rupees are spent on detection of crime and on bringing to book the offenders. Thousands of men are sent to prisons when their crimes are detected, and they have to be fed and housed at State cost. It is true t...

Biennial Conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health – The Body Politic: States in the History of Medicine and Health, an extremely important European meeting in the field of history of medicine, whose main organizer was the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health, took place in the amphitheatre of “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and P...

Objective. Immigration and the economy were the most salient issues in British politics at the 2010 general election, yet the relationship between them remains unclear. This article questions whether perception of the economic situation influenced hostility to immigration to Britain during the 2010 general election campaign. Method. This article employs a logistic regression model using the 201...

M. F. J. MARTENS, F. J. N. NIJHUIS*, M. P. J. VAN BOXTEL AND J. A. KNOTTNERUS Group practice, `Geneeskunde voor het Volk', Keinkesstraat 3a, 3600 Genk, Belgium Department of Health, Organization, Politics and Economics, University of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, University of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands Department of Primary Medical...