Author Michele Battle-Fisher

The world is run by systems that overlap conflict and adapt to social needs over time. In dealing with the uncertainty and risk of the human condition, people seek to “control” that uncertainty (though...

This is the inaugural article for my new open-science journal venture, Orgcomplexity. It was published as "Uncertainty, health and the teetering social contract." I am excited to be the Founding editor....

Humor me for a moment. There is a pi (π) that some may be less aware of - the theoretical formalism of pi calculus in process algebra. Thank Robin Milner, a part of the brain trust with Joachim Parrow, David...

The health care delivery system has many stakeholders, with many screaming for attention bringing into question the accuracy of the “wisdom of the crowd” (see Lee et al. 2011). What was interesting about...

The public sphere, where we “feel the Bern” or “make America great again,” is born of the private of its citizens.

…I began to realize that although medical labels had the same shiny surface as my childhood labels, with a luster capable of illuminating the darkness of disease, they also had the same sticky underside....

According to Anthony Giddens (1979), human agency must include an acting subject that deals with action linearly. In this duality of structure, on the most basic level people make up society but are inherently...