TY - JOUR T1 - Fundamental Flaws JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 283 LP - 283 DO - 10.3399/bjgp16X685309 VL - 66 IS - 647 AU - Roger Jones Y1 - 2016/06/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/66/647/283.abstract N2 - Today, in the early summer of 2016, it is impossible to mistake the symbolism of the image on the front cover of this issue of the BJGP. Yet only a couple of years ago this photograph could have been a holiday snap of an interesting-looking family, with the inviting blue Aegean and the welcoming coastline of the cradle of civilisation in the background. It’s only 20-odd years since Francis Fukuyama, in The End of History,1 asserted the inevitability of the rise and eventual ‘universalisation’ of liberal democracy — ‘the endpoint of man’s ideological evolution’ — and look where we are now. Not that long ago global health was another option on the medical school curriculum, but today’s close connections between peoples, politics, and planetary changes means that geopolitics and global unrest are woven into our … ER -