User:Theprivateer83
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