This is a very strange story that’s been picked up by the Daily Telegraph: a German Aids charity has been attacked for launching an advertising campaign – and a pretty sexually explicit one at that – in which people who spread HIV are presented as Hitler. I’m not sure whether the target is people who […]
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You may have heard last week about the Microsoft advert running in Poland that had been… um… how can I put it?… ethnically re-envisioned (and badly, too: even I could Photoshop an image more convincingly, and I’m like a blind monkey with scissors). And Ford got into trouble a few years ago for doing something similar. […]
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet…
By David Hunter One thing I’ve been pondering lately is what we might use to refer to a gathering of bioethicists? […]
Knowing You, Knowing Us
It’s all very well to vanish off to a conference and put faces to names… but that can’t help with the important questions, like What does the internet think of you?. Fortunately, this little app can tell you. Type in your name, and it’ll do the Google version of a genetic fingerprint. In the interests […]
Salon Culture… in Manchester
I can’t remember how I found it, but I feel I ought to pimp the Manchester Salon, a debating forum in this here rainy part of the country. There seems to be a few events in coming months that are related to the concerns of this blog and journal, starting with one on assisted suicide […]
This just in from Tübingen…
“I’m surprised,” said the German philosopher whose name I’ve forgotten but next to whom I was walking towards the ice-cream parlour, “how little argument there is here.” I have to admit it – had he chosen his parallel sessions unluckily, he could easily have been left with the notion that the ESPMH is an argument-free zone: […]
Are you a Lazy academic? Try Dropbox
By David Hunter Over on the Philosophy and Bioethics Blog I run a series called Academic Ease, posts aimed at making the life of academics easier/lazier. I thought today I might share one of those hints over here. One of the curses of a modern academic is trying to ensure that the files on your […]
Quick Update from Germany…
I’m currently at the ESPMH conference in Tübingen – and having found a cybercafe, I’ll try to make the odd post about what’s happening if I get the chance. In the meantime, have some of this: I went to see Hegel’s house in Stuttgart on Monday. It was closed. Then open. Then somewhere in between. […]
Internalising Incentives
I’ve recently been reading some work on health incentives – the kind of incentive that may be used to encourage people to pursue ostensibly desirable courses of action in return for some kind of reward (frequently monetary). Some schemes are aimed at promoting a vague healthy lifestyle, as when people are rewarded for losing weight […]
Healthcare costs: NHS vs US.
At risk of flogging a dead horse, there’s still quite a lot being said about the NHS as a comparator for American healthcare. With that in mind, there’s an interesting little piece on Liberal Conspiracy at the moment comparing the UK and US systems in terms of cost per head. Do these numbers, and what’s […]