User:Theprivateer83

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Hello fellow denizens of wiki!

I'm a medical student from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

I shall leave my name out of this page for now.

My watches and major contributions so far:

Social contract

My minor contributions:

Annette Hanshaw

My interests and (possible) future contributions:

Contents 1 Philosophy 1.1 Politics 1.1.1 Practicalities 1.2 Morality 1.3 Argumentation 1.4 Philosophy of 2 Sociology 3 Economics 4 Medicine 4.1 Public Health 4.1.1 Health policy 4.2 Ethics 4.3 Praxis 4.4 Controversy 4.4.1 Alternative and complimentary medicine

[edit] Philosophy

[edit] Politics

Ideas for the justification of the state - Devine Right - Mandate of Heaven - Social contract - Artificial concept

Purpose of the state

Political Philsophy

Libertarianism, Nozick and Rand

Progressions from representive democracy - direct democracy

[edit] Practicalities

Realpolitik

Machiavelli

Critical thinking versus rhetoric in persuasion

Mass Media and the control of information

Political campaigns

[edit] Morality

Basic theories of moral thinking

Moral reasoning

Moral dilemmas

[edit] Argumentation

Critical thinking

Logical Arguments

Rhetoric

Fallacies

[edit] Philosophy of

Philosophy of science

[edit] Sociology

Semiotics

Baudrillard and Hyperreality

Medical sociology

[edit] Economics

Supply and demand

Gains of trade

Taxation systems

Macroeconomics

[edit] Medicine

[edit] Public Health

Epidemiology and outbreak investigation

Proving causality in medicine

Social class as an epidemiological factor

Vaccination

[edit] Health policy

Economic Analysis

Health Rationing

Morality, politics and health law

[edit] 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

[edit] Praxis

Evidenced based medicine

Medical Sociology - Medicine's interactions with society

[edit] Controversy

Anti-vaccination movements and scares

[edit] Alternative and complimentary medicine

How complimentary methods rise and fall

History of major quackery

Psychology of the use of alternative and complimentary medicine