Autonomy Isn’t Everything: Some Cautionary Notes on McCoy v. Louisiana

Some cautionary notes on fisheries evolutionary impact assessments.

We commend Andersen and Brander (1) for seeking to link fisheries-induced trait change to its broader ecological and commercial consequences. However, we offer some cautionary notes, particularly where such professed evolutionary impact assessments are used to ascribe the relative urgency of managing fisheries-induced trait change versus other aspects of harvest. Impact analyses that focus on f...

Notes on Some Remedies. V. Sulphonamides

Medical humanities: a vision and some cautionary notes.

Stephen Pattison outlines his vision for medical humanities and then offers cautionary notes on what might go wrong with the movement. These notes are based on what he holds has already gone wrong with medical ethics, dramatically described as the "death course of a discipline". I have a great deal of sympathy both with his anxieties about the future development of medical humanities and with h...

Cautionary Notes on Asian Economic Integration

Introduction Economic integration and cooperation in Asia has traditionally been more market-driven and institution-lite. The Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) in 1997/98 and the Great Recession in 2008 changed that. As the number of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in Asia increases, intraregional trade has intensified and it continues to grow. In the financial side, the cross-border holding of financial...

Some cautionary notes on the petite "Holy Grail" of molecular diagnostics.