Concepts – not just yardsticks, but also heuristics: rebutting Hacker and Bennett

Concepts – Not just yardsticks, but also heuristics: rebutting Hacker and Bennett

In their response to our article (Keestra and Cowley, 2009), Hacker and Bennett charge us with failing to understand the project of their book Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (PFN; Bennett and Hacker, 2003) and do this by discussing foundationalism, linguistic conservatism and the passivity of perception. In this rebuttal we explore disagreements that explain the alleged errors. First...

Heart failure: not just the heart but also the lungs.

Full disclosure: not just of conflict, but also of data.

THE events of the past 2 yr since the initial controversial publication by Mangano et al. regarding the effect of aprotinin on renal failure and mortality have been of great interest to the anesthesiology community. In this issue of ANESTHESIOLOGY, Dietrich et al. test the hypothesis that any potential nephrotoxic effect of aprotinin (Bayer Healthcare Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is dose dep...

Die—but not just yet

eterochromatin’s repressive hold on DNA transcription can only be relinquished when activators enter the nucleus. Or so the theory goes. But now Vanessa Witte, Andreas Baur (University of Erlangen, Germany), and colleagues find that a heterochromatin component can be pulled from the nucleus by both the HIV protein Nef and activated integrins. “This is a really new concept—that chromatin-associa...

"Munchausen by proxy syndrome": not just pathological parenting but also problematic doctoring? Another view.

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 3 February 2003 178 3 133-133 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2002 www.mja.com.au For Debate MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN about the motivation of perpetrators in Munchausen by proxy syndrome (MBPS), but little, as far as I know, about the motivation of doctors who “collude” with parents in these behaviours. In general, I have no quibble with the analy...