User:Theprivateer83

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:

Politics
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
Realpolitik

Machiavelli

Critical thinking versus rhetoric in persuasion

Mass Media and the control of information

Political campaigns

Morality
Basic theories of moral thinking

Moral reasoning

Moral dilemmas

Argumentation
Critical thinking

Logical Arguments

Rhetoric

Fallacies

Philosophy of
Philosophy of science

Sociology
Semiotics

Baudrillard and Hyperreality

Medical sociology

Economics
Supply and demand

Gains of trade

Taxation systems

Macroeconomics

Public Health
Epidemiology and outbreak investigation

Proving causality in medicine

Social class as an epidemiological factor

Vaccination

Health policy
Economic Analysis

Health Rationing

Morality, politics and health law

Ethics
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
Evidenced based medicine

Medical Sociology - Medicine's interactions with society

Controversy
Anti-vaccination movements and scares

Alternative and complimentary medicine
How complimentary methods rise and fall

History of major quackery

Psychology of the use of alternative and complimentary medicine