Friday, May 01, 2020

Goodbye ... and thank you.

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I will no longer be blogging at Ratio Juris owing to relentless problems at my end with viewing the blog and a sense that there are far ...

Happy May Day! (International Workers’ Day)

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The following, albeit lightly edited, is from the Bread and Roses Centennial Committee’s (1912-2012) Facebook post several years ago acc...
Sunday, April 26, 2020

Quarantine, Discretionary Time and Self-Realization: appalling unequal conditions and thus a dearth of opportunities for freedom

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  “My Quarantine: The Calm of Collaging,” by Luc Sante   “The Covid-19 quarantine, which has in many other ways decimated my conc...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

The Socialist Humanism and Psychoanalytic Critical Theory of Erich Fromm: Toward a Fresh Assessment

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Erich Fromm (March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democ...
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

On President Trump’s dangerous decision to freeze funding of the World Health Organization (WHO)

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Richard Horton , the editor-in-chief of the Lancet medical journal , described Trump ’ s decision as “ a crime against humanity ,” tw...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Alternative and Complementary Medicine: a select bibliography (this post is not related to the coronavirus pandemic)

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Alternative and Complementary Medicine bibliography Apologia   This compilation is largely confined to books, in English. Its ori...
Monday, April 13, 2020

The three principal conditions of good (physical and mental) health

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The following is based on one section from Lawrence O. Gostin’s Global Health Law (Harvard University Press, 2014: 414-419). I have edit...