Hello fellow denizens of wiki!
Major Adds
- Social contract - since been completely revised (!), although for the better
- Emma Pask - what a voice!
- Scoop (term) - needed some explanation and clarification. I hope to find more articles that use the word scoop in the journalistic context to link to my new page
My interests and (hopefully) future contributions:
Philosophy
editPolitics
editIdeas for the justification of the state - Divine Right - Mandate of Heaven - Social contract - Artificial concept
Purpose of the state
Political Philsophy
Libertarianism, Nozick and Rand
Progressions from representive democracy - direct democracy
Practicalities
editRealpolitik
Machiavelli
Critical thinking versus rhetoric in persuasion
Mass Media and the control of information
Political campaigns
Morality
editBasic theories of moral thinking
Moral reasoning
Moral dilemmas
Argumentation
editCritical thinking
Logical Arguments
Rhetoric
Fallacies
Philosophy of
editPhilosophy of science
Sociology
editSemiotics
Baudrillard and Hyperreality
Medical sociology
Economics
editSupply and demand
Gains of trade
Taxation systems
Macroeconomics
Medicine
editPublic Health
editEpidemiology and outbreak investigation
Proving causality in medicine
Social class as an epidemiological factor
Vaccination
Health policy
editEconomic Analysis
Health Rationing
Morality, politics and health law
Ethics
editEugenics, designer babies, and the prevention of genetic disease
The definition of Life
The value of Life
Paternalism in consultation versus paternalism in policy versus other positions - What's best for our patients?
Medicine as business
Litigation trends in medicine
Praxis
editEvidenced based medicine
Medical Sociology - Medicine's interactions with society
Controversy
editAnti-vaccination movements and scares
Alternative and complimentary medicine
editHow complimentary methods rise and fall
History of major quackery
Psychology of the use of alternative and complimentary medicine