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Call for conference posters and journal papers

Call for posters for the Selling Sickness conference and papers for a theme issue of the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health.

 

The international conference: ‘Selling Sickness - Influence on influence’ will be held at the Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam on October 7-8, 2010.

For more information about the conference please visit:
www.gezondescepsis.nl/conference-2010.html

Call for posters

You are invited to submit a poster abstract relevant to one or both of the following:   
* Understanding the problems with information and/or education about pharmaceuticals and/or promotion of pharmaceuticals.
* Developing solutions for such problems to benefit the public.

Posters are welcome from academics and non-academics and do not have to present original research.

For more information please visit:
www.gezondescepsis.nl/conference-2010/call-for-posters.html


Call for papers

The International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health will soon have a wider scope.

Peter R Mansfield will be guest editor for a theme issue of that journal. The theme will be the same as for the posters above.

You are invited to submit a paper before the deadline: 28 February 2011. It is recommended, but not required, that you present your work as a poster at the conference so as to benefit from discussion other conference participants. Papers from people who are unable to attend the conference will also be welcome. Papers with multiple authors who have not worked together before will be especially welcome.

For submission instructions and author guidelines please visit:
www.ijoeh.com/index.php/ijoeh/about/submissions

 

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Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science...
The blind faith which some men have in medicines illustrates too often the greatest of all human capacities - the capacity for self deception...
Some one will say, Is this all your science has to tell us? Is this the outcome of decades of good clinical work, of patient study of the disease, of anxious trial in such good faith of so many drugs? Give us back the childlike trust of the fathers in antimony and in the lancet rather than this cold nihilism. Not at all! Let us accept the truth, however unpleasant it may be, and with the death rate staring us in the face, let us not be deceived with vain fancies...
we need a stern, iconoclastic spirit which leads, not to nihilism, but to an active skepticism - not the passive skepticism, born of despair, but the active skepticism born of a knowledge that recognizes its limitations and knows full well that only in this attitude of mind can true progress be made.
- William Osler 1909