This week's Economist has an article entitled Health 2.0 which takes the debate on this list a step forward. Last week incidently, the front cover, the editorial, and a long article, were on google.
Health seems to me to be about the most important area to consider legitimate, historic, social and other types of knowledge. The National Illness Service has made huge investments in information and communication technology, Health Direct, still makes investment in a library service, there is international collaboration through WHO, the whole of the sMt M part of SMT, NLM, grateful med and vast terrains beside.....
Yet it is not long ago that we were campaigning against Glasgow surgeons cutting up queer brains to stop them str8ng them, and getting Dewey to move homosexuality from 6 to 3.
There are now contested categories of "alternative" medicine, and certainly here, what is supposed to be health informatics becomes in every project medical bioinformatics, so all the usual social processes are at play.
How lis professionals approach all of this and how teachers and researchers design knowledge organisation matters seems to me to kneed some organisation editorial responses to the e-cono-mist.
And it is only Monday morning.
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