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Pandora's Box (pandora + box)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Medical Sciences	50%

Selected Abstracts

Silent Atrial Fibrillation,Another Pandora's Box

PACING AND CLINICAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY, Issue 2 2000
IRINA SAVELIEVA
First page of article [source]

Pandora's Box contains no easy solution

ANAESTHESIA, Issue 5 2003
M. G. Booth
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Consent for observational studies in critical care: time to open Pandora's Box

ANAESTHESIA, Issue 1 2003
Michael C. Reade
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Full House or Pandora's Box?

CHILD DEVELOPMENT, Issue 4 2000
The Treatment of Variability in Post-Piagetian Research
This commentary focuses on the conceptual implications of analyses of individual differences in francophone post-Piagetian research. These analyses are viewed as preoccupied by the ,American question' of measurement and method, instead of attempting a theoretical account of the issues raised by intraindividual and interindividual variability in development. [source]

Are spatial regression methods a panacea or a Pandora's box?

ECOGRAPHY, Issue 6 2007
A reply to Beale et al. (2007)
First page of article [source]

The Return of the Slum: Does Language Matter?

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH, Issue 4 2007
ALAN GILBERT
Abstract The ,cities without slums' initiative has resuscitated an old and dangerous term from the habitat vocabulary. Use of the word ,slum' will recreate many of the myths about poor people that years of careful research have discredited. The UN has employed the word in order to publicize the seriousness of urban problems and to improve its ability to attract funding with which to tackle the issue. But in using such an emotive word the UN risks opening a Pandora's box. The campaign implies that cities can actually rid themselves of slums, an idea that is wholly unachievable. The word is also dangerous because it confuses the physical problem of poor quality housing with the characteristics of the people living there. The UN knows that earlier research has rehabilitated most ,slum dwellers' but ignores the danger of conjuring up all of the old images. In the process, the campaign also offers an oblique invitation to governments to look for instant solutions to insoluble problems. Demagogic governments have always shown a willingness to demolish slums despite the fact that experience has shown that policy to be ineffective. I fear that the new campaign will encourage more to employ this foolish policy. Words need to be employed carefully. Résumé L'initiative ,Villes sans taudis' a ressuscité un terme ancien et dangereux du vocabulaire de l'habitat. Utiliser le mot ,taudis' va recréer toute une mythologie sur les pauvres que des années de recherches consciencieuses avaient réfutée. L'ONU a fait ce choix pour souligner la gravité des problèmes urbains et renforcer sa capacitéà attirer des fonds avec lesquels résoudre la question. Cependant, ce mot étant connotéémotionnellement, l'ONU risque d'ouvrir une boîte de Pandore. La campagne implique que les villes peuvent réellement se débarrasser des taudis, ce qui est totalement irréalisable. Le mot est dangereux aussi parce qu'il mélange le problème matériel de la piètre qualité des logements et les caractéristiques des populations qui y vivent. L'ONU sait que des études antérieures ont réhabilité la plupart des ,habitants de taudis', mais elle ignore le risque liéà l'évocation des vieilles images. Parallèlement, la compagne invite indirectement les gouvernements à trouver des solutions immédiates à des problèmes insolubles. Les gouvernements démagogues se sont toujours montrés disposés à démolir les taudis même si l'expérience a prouvé l'inefficacité de cette politique. Je crains que cette nouvelle campagne n'en encourage d'autres à appliquer cette stratégie insensée. Il faut employer les mots avec circonspection. [source]