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Brave New World (brave + new_world)
Selected AbstractsVaccines, Viagra, and Vioxx: medicines, markets, and money,when life-saving meets life-style,DRUG DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH, Issue 2 2005David J. Triggle Abstract In this Commentary, life-style drugs will be termed as "those drugs for which there is a definable and real, but limited, therapeutic need, but a need that has been significantly stimulated by the cycle of pharmaceutical company advertising and pressure and public demand." The key to the continuing expansion of the life-style drug market is a progressive narrowing of the definition of "normal" coupled with campaigns launched by the pharmaceutical industry that persuade both patients and clinicians that a major and treatable disease does exist and that drug treatment, rather than acceptance of hair loss or occasional lack of sexual interest, and so on, is both necessary and appropriate. The expansion of the market for prescription drugs in this manner is now an integral part of the business model of the pharmaceutical industry. For society, the expanding role of these drugs, particularly those directed at "desires rather than diseases," raises ethical issues of our increasing obsession with a medically directed quest for perfection, and financial issues of the cost of this quest on the health care system and its priorities. For the pharmaceutical industry, there are questions of whether its role is life-saving or life-styling for a Huxleyan "Brave New World." Drug Dev Res 64:90,98, 2005. © 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] Reform in haste and repent at leisure: lolanthe, the Lord High Executioner and Brave New WorldLEGAL STUDIES, Issue 1-2 2004Robert Stevens First page of article [source] Brave New World,The new Supreme Court and judicial appointmentsLEGAL STUDIES, Issue 1-2 2004Sir Thomas Legg KCB QC First page of article [source] The ERA: A Brave New World of Accountability for Australian University Accounting SchoolsAUSTRALIAN ACCOUNTING REVIEW, Issue 1 2010Paul De Lange This study examines the potential impact of Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) on Australian university accounting schools through a series of in-depth interviews with Heads of Schools. Using an institutional theory framework we find that the pending introduction of the ERA has brought about changes in school structures, processes and systems. A creeping isomorphism is apparent as evidenced by a sector-wide movement towards targeting publications in highly ranked North American journals. While participants were generally positive about the overall aims of the ERA many felt that it would marginalise non-mainstream research. Furthermore, they were of the opinion that the ERA would lead to a reduction in the standing of accounting schools within Australian universities relative to other disciplines. [source] The HPV test in cervical screening: a brave new world?CYTOPATHOLOGY, Issue 1 2005M. S. Desai First page of article [source] Prevention of depressive disorders: a brave new worldDEPRESSION AND ANXIETY, Issue 12 2009Charles F. Reynolds III M.D. First page of article [source] Out of touch and out of time: lawyers, their leaders and collective mobility within the legal professionLEGAL STUDIES, Issue 3 2004Andrew M Francis The legal profession has experienced enormous upheaval over the last 30 years and this paper suggests that legal professional associations have failed to come to grips with this ,brave new world'. This paper argues that the Law Society's current difficulties in performing its traditional roles are not simply examples of passing contemporary problems. Rather they represent the declining ability of the Law Society to serve as the fulcrum of the profession's collective advancement. Professional control may exist but on an individual and contingent basis alongside a reduced role for the Law Society. [source] | ||||||||||