First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from the work of an economist familiar with a trinity of continents: "Starvation...
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Sheep, goats, lions, newshounds
There's good news and bad news for media studies. David Walker reports. Media studies has always been able to play an ace against critics. Whatever they might say about its intellectual quality and...
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The government's commission on human cloning
(Photograph) - The government's commission on human cloning has to set the benefits cloning would bring to infertile couples against the fact that for every healthy baby there would be hundreds of...
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Yes, it's OK to clone
Bioethicist John Harris has a question for those wrestling with the morality of human cloning - why not? Harriet Swain reports. Many people will be extremely happy there is only one John Harris....
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Seed plants an idea
Within a week of physicist Richard Seed publicising his plans to clone humans for infertile couples, President Bill Clinton, the US Congress and French President Jacques Chirac were calling for a ban...
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A colonial spectre amid the groves
The profusion of white academics in development studies who cannot speak the languages of the societies they research is nothing but institutionalised racism, argues Suranjit K. Saha. This is a plea...
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Parables and the pursuit of everyday meaning
Bestselling academic Umberto Eco tells Domenico Pacitti why he thinks contemporary philosophy lacks common sense, and what Kant would have made of a platypus. The Italian philosopher and novelist...
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Adam Gearey
Adam Gearey explains how postmodernism has enabled him to marry law and literature in his doctoral research at the University of Kent. When I came to London to begin my PhD at Birkbeck College, I...
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Fed up with the Feds
Why has the US public lost faith in government? If anyone should know it is political scientist and friend of premiers, Joseph Nye. He talks to Huw Richards. Bob Dole did not get to be president in...
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Justice with a differance
In the second of our series in which leading academics and their postgraduates describe how theoretical methods derived from French philosophy have transformed their subject, Costas Douzinas revels...
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Welcome to Research
This week The THES launches its Research monthly, a new part of the paper which will normally appear on the third Friday of each month. It will provide a new service to the higher education community...
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Re-establish centres of excellence
James L. Bowen says that to halt the damaging effects of NHS changes, one body is needed to bring together medical teaching, practice and research Recent correspondence, stimulated by the report of...
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The unspeakable spectre of 'Big C'
TERATOLOGIES: A CULTURAL STUDY OF CANCER. By Jackie Stacey. Routledge, 290pp Pounds 45.00 and Pounds 13.99. ISBN 0 415 14959 2 and 14960 6 Teratologies is a book that tells stories. But the stories...
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Recasting of the European cash pot
Tony Tysome charts the development of research funding in Europe The Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration holds the European Union's main cashpot for...
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Why medicine is stricken by success
THE GREATEST BENEFIT TO MANKIND:A MEDICAL HISTORY OF HUMANITY FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT. By Roy Porter. HarperCollins 831pp, Pounds 24.99.ISBN 0 00 2151731. By a happy coincidence this book...