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Helping doctors become better doctors: Mary Lobjoit—an unsung heroine of medical ethics in the UK

Medical Ethics has many unsung heros and heroines. Here we celebrate one of these and on telling part of her story hope to place modern medical ethics and bioethics in the UK more centrally within its historical and human contex.

Mary E . Beckman and Jennifer

Enriching Historical Manuscripts: The Bovary Project

In this paper we describe the Bovary Project, a manuscripts digitization project of the famous French writer Gustave FLAUBERT first great work, which should end in 2006 by providing an online access to an hypertextual edition of ”Madame Bovary” drafts set. We first develop the global context of this project, the main objectives, and then focus particularly on the document analysis problem. Fina...

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Within the framework of equilibrium statistical mechanics the free energy of a phase gives a measure of its associated probabilistic weight. In order to determine phase boundaries one must then determine the conditions under which the free energy difference (FED) between two phases is zero. The underlying complexity usually rules out any analytical approaches to the problem, and one must theref...

The cancer patient’s wife

Mrs. Lee, it's your husband's nurse calling from the hospital. We need to know now whether you'll want us to resuscitate Mr. Lee, just in case. A friend of mine, Mary, received this call yesterday. Her husband Tom had been hospitalized a week earlier , after his platelet count dropped so low that daily outpatient blood transfusions became inadequate and other symptoms of his terminal cancer mad...