What is Antibiotic Resistance and why is it a problem? General Background. About bacteria & antibiotics; About antibiotic resistance; Multi-drug resistance; Antibiotic resistance: a societal problem ; What can be done about antibiotic resistance? When and how to take antibiotics; Antibacterial agents; Bioterrorism & stockpiling antibiotics; The Cost of Resistance
Republicanism is one possible ideology of governing a society or state as a republic. The key point is that the people hold popular sovereignty, rather than the people being subjects of a king. Many countries are republics, but only those which adhere to the ideology of republicanism are covered here.
For his part, Christopher Lloyd puts forward four general concepts of causation used in history: the metaphysical idealist concept, which asserts that the phenomena of the universe are products of or emanations from an omnipotent being or such final cause; the empiricist (or Humean) regularity concept, which is based on the idea of causation being a matter of constant conjunctions of events; the functional/teleological/consequential concept, which is goal-directed, so that goals are ...