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User:Theprivateer83

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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

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Politics

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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

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Realpolitik

Machiavelli

Critical thinking versus rhetoric in persuasion

Mass Media and the control of information

Political campaigns

Morality

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Basic theories of moral thinking

Moral reasoning

Moral dilemmas

Argumentation

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Critical thinking

Logical Arguments

Rhetoric

Fallacies

Philosophy of

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Philosophy of science

Sociology

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Semiotics

Baudrillard and Hyperreality

Medical sociology

Economics

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Supply and demand

Gains of trade

Taxation systems

Macroeconomics

Medicine

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Public Health

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Epidemiology and outbreak investigation

Proving causality in medicine

Social class as an epidemiological factor

Vaccination

Health policy

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Economic Analysis

Health Rationing

Morality, politics and health law

Ethics

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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

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Evidenced based medicine

Medical Sociology - Medicine's interactions with society

Controversy

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Anti-vaccination movements and scares

Alternative and complimentary medicine

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How complimentary methods rise and fall

History of major quackery

Psychology of the use of alternative and complimentary medicine