The NHS Direct helpline is dead. Long live NHS 111!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11120853. A shame – NHSD provided a reason to think about Freidson’s “lay referral system” again, this time in connection with ICTs (Freidson …
The NHS Direct helpline is dead. Long live NHS 111!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11120853. A shame – NHSD provided a reason to think about Freidson’s “lay referral system” again, this time in connection with ICTs (Freidson …
The opinions of Professor Field are not the same as evidence from the field
Healthy living is commonly seen as a rational choice on the part of individuals. Indeed, Prof Fields’ outlook (click his name for …
Kommentar zur Ausschreibung der Universitätsprofessur W2 (Ethnologie) in Hamburg
Liebe Lesende, mit diesem Eintrag möchte ich meiner Verwunderung über die aktuelle Ausschreibung einer W2-Professur am Hamburger Institut für Ethnologie Ausdruck verliehen …
Culture and Thermal Comfort
Our built environments have both physical and social aspects to it. An occupant’s perception of the physical will affect his or her …
Culture and Thermal Comfort
Our built environments have both physical and social aspects to it. An occupant’s perception of the physical will affect his or her …
Culture and Thermal Comfort
Our built environments have both physical and social aspects to it. An occupant’s perception of the physical will affect his or her …
Culture and Thermal Comfort
Our built environments have both physical and social aspects to it. An occupant’s perception of the physical will affect his or her …
How Culture’s Influence of Our Worldview Potentially Impacts Building System Commissioning
Not only does culture provide us with written and unwritten rules, or norms, for interacting with the world around us and shaping …
How Culture’s Influence of Our Worldview Potentially Impacts Building System Commissioning
Not only does culture provide us with written and unwritten rules, or norms, for interacting with the world around us and shaping …
How Culture’s Influence of Our Worldview Potentially Impacts Building System Commissioning
Not only does culture provide us with written and unwritten rules, or norms, for interacting with the world around us and shaping …
How Culture’s Influence of Our Worldview Potentially Impacts Building System Commissioning
Not only does culture provide us with written and unwritten rules, or norms, for interacting with the world around us and shaping …
Michel Foucault: Kritik der Gouvernementalität & Gouvernementalität als Chance
“Wie ist es möglich, daß man nicht derartig, im Namen dieser Prinzipien da, zu solchen Zwecken und mit solchen Verfahren regiert wird …
Azar Gat, “War in Human Civilization” (Oxford UP, 2006)
Historians don’t generally like the idea of “human nature.” We tend to believe that people are intrinsically malleable, that they have no …
Embedded Anthropology: My Talk from the RSA Design Society Event
On Monday I spoke at an RSA event on Embedding Design organised by Emily Campbell as part of the . As I said …
P. Bingham and J. Souza, “Death From a Distance and the Birth of a Humane Universe” (BookSurge, 2009)
Long ago, historians more or less gave up on “theories of history.” They determined that human nature was too unpredictable, cultures too …
Book Review: Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter
Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter: Reflections on Research in and of Corporations - Edited by Melissa Cefkin It is now safe to …
Gregory Cochran, “The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution” (Basic, 2009)
First, the conventional wisdom. Because Homo sapiens are a young species and haven’t had time to genetically differentiate, we modern humans are …