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 edit
Politics edit
Ideas 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 edit
Realpolitik
Machiavelli
Critical thinking versus rhetoric in persuasion
Mass Media and the control of information
Political campaigns
Morality edit
Basic theories of moral thinking
Moral reasoning
Moral dilemmas
Argumentation edit
Critical thinking
Logical Arguments
Rhetoric
Fallacies
Philosophy of edit
Philosophy of science
Sociology edit
Semiotics
Baudrillard and Hyperreality
Medical sociology
Economics edit
Supply and demand
Gains of trade
Taxation systems
Macroeconomics
Medicine edit
Public Health edit
Epidemiology and outbreak investigation
Proving causality in medicine
Social class as an epidemiological factor
Vaccination
Health policy edit
Economic Analysis
Health Rationing
Morality, politics and health law
Ethics edit
Eugenics, 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 edit
Evidenced based medicine
Medical Sociology - Medicine's interactions with society
Controversy edit
Anti-vaccination movements and scares
Alternative and complimentary medicine edit
How complimentary methods rise and fall
History of major quackery
Psychology of the use of alternative and complimentary medicine