Afterword to an Unpublished Forum

An Afterword in Four Binarisms

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...

Afterword

An amnesty for unpublished trials.

This month over 100 medical journals around the world are inviting readers to send information on unpublished trials. This amnesty should have important benefits for patients. Why? Reports of properly conducted randomised controlled trials are the foundation of eVective health care, but many are not submitted for publication. 2 This reduces the power of systematic reviews to detect moderate but...