What difference does religion make?

The question whether and when it is morally appropriate to withdraw life-support from patients diagnosed as being in the persistent vegetative state is one of the most controversial in bioethics. Recent work on the neuroscience of consciousness…

In his most powerful book since What's So Amazing About Grace? and The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey explores the intimate place where God and humans meet in Prayer. Polls reveal that 90 percent of people pray. Yet prayer, which should be the…

Integral futures (IF) has developed over several years to a point where it has emerged as a productive way of understanding futures studies (FS) itself and re-evaluating its role in the wider world. It is not merely a new `take' on FS but has…

The importance of human resources management (HRM) to the success or failure of health system performance has, until recently, been generally overlooked. In recent years it has been increasingly recognised that getting HR policy and management…

The outcomes of 82 patients in a rehabilitation-oriented case management program six months and two years after they were discharged from an inpatient setting to join the program were compared with those of 82 matched control patients who had been…

There is currently strong pressure for nursing to base its education and practice upon rigorous research. A strong research foundation is perceived as integral both to the formation of a distinct discipline, and also to the establishment of the…

As debates over the rob of affirmative action in legal education become more and more heated, the question of how to provide all law students an equal-opportunity learning environment is the subject of much speculation. Despite many years of…

Feminist standpoint theorists contend that the researchers positionality affects all aspects of the research processfrom the articulation of a research question to the analysis and presentation of the data. They argue that this influence becomes…

Background . Patients in the U.S. often turn to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and may use it concurrently with conventional medicine to treat illness and promote wellness. However, prior studies demonstrate that consumers often do not…

This essay opens up the question of what difference the history of science makes. What is the value of the history of science, beyond its role as an academic pursuit that we historians of science know and love? It introduces the set of essays that…