…specific cholesterol-lowering medication. From the Science News Letter, February 18th, 1961. This is a typical situation in contemporary affluent societies, faced by thousands of middle-aged and elderly persons every day….

…still-frozen blood samples to yield new knowledge about future risk. A second group of essays explores public debates around the use of sentinel devices in health policy contexts. Didier Torny…

…by French librarians and slated for destruction. Public library space is often limited, and new books replace the old ones. Prévieux’s work is the result of a lengthy task of…

…of risk and identify the distributed effects of risk-based activity as the new objects of regulatory control, it is arguable that they are only promoting the historical transformation towards a…

…Lewin invented a format that allowed the capture and observation of fleeting moments of democratic life. [1] Quoted in R. K. White and R. Lippitt, Autocracy and Democracy (New York:…

…it became the basis of a new focus on the resilience of human communities, including the infrastructure systems that enable them to function (Bruneau et al. 2003; Norris et al….

…(which has recently included new protocols related to the Euratom Directive), staff members at LHC have now to consider laws far stricter with regard to vegetation and animals. As Fabrice…

…the poorly understood dynamics of species extinction. In this space of imperfect knowledge and inexorable threat, the origins of extinction usher in a new kind of intellectual labor, a “horizoning…

…new pathogens before they emerge. In 2014, the Ebola-related deaths of thousands of West Africans (far outside the original central African “hot zone”) revealed that the “global” reach of this…

…macro-economic stability, but socio-economic prosperity as well. In response to this new governmental problem, systemic risk emerged as the key governmental concept that animated recent regulatory initiatives to prevent and…

…once bought them new do not want to keep them around. II. I am far from Guatemala, at a meeting on global health metrics and evaluation held in downtown Seattle,…

…news. News commentary surrounding Flint in fact dwells on how racial animus directed against residents of this “majority minority” city might have driven the neglect and disregard that ushered in…

…to remove a link to a news article detailing his previously unpaid debts. The court agreed that Google would be required to remove the link to the article from search…

…to maintain: codes and calibrating fluid; lancets to draw blood from fingertips (for which some people substituted pins or sewing needles); and lithium and other specialized imported batteries, for which…