Afterword: Compl(ic)it

Afterword

For two topics treated in this monograph, there are important recent articles or reports that could not be included in the body of the monograph, primarily because of their recency. The editors take this opportunity to mention some of them here, with apologies for selection bias. The problem posed by the incomplete and possibly inaccurate assessment of the radiation exposure of liquidators is t...

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Francisco J. Varela was a student and collaborator of Humberto R. Maturana. Their pioneering collaboration on Autopoiesis and Cognition reestablished “processes of living” as the principle topic of biological explorations. This topic had dropped out of the discourse of biology after the work of Jacob von Uexküll. Autopoiesis brought a new framework to biology. I say framework because it was not...

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An Afterword in Four Binarisms

Afterword: High success approach.

Emergency physicians care for a high volume of critically ill and injured patients, generally with no prior knowledge of patients’ histories and, usually, with little or no warning of patients’ arrival. Despite the careful, knowledgeable, compassionate practice of most emergency physicians, bad outcomes will occur. There is no way to completely avoid being named in a malpractice suit because a ...