Concluding comments

Complexity, accent and conviviality: Concluding comments

Concluding comments: OIE leadership, significant trends and future developments.

At the turn of the century, the Members of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) decided to include animal welfare in the OIE Strategic Plan for the period 2001 to 2005. This decision reflected the ever-increasing public, media, scientific and political interest in the subject over the previous 50 or so years. Global conferences on animal welfare, held in Paris (2004), Cairo (2008) and...

Some Concluding Comments on the Debates and the Responses

Theo Hermans It is surprising that the notion of equivalence should have loomed so large in the debate. In my paper the discussion of equivalence constitutes little more than a rearguard action. The suggestion was that the logic of working with a norms concept must inevitably lead to scepticism concerning the viability of equivalence. If translation is norm-governed as well as intentional, one-...

Concluding comments: maximizing good patient care and minimizing potential liability when considering complementary and alternative medicine.

Our goal for this supplemental issue of Pediatrics was to consider what practitioners, parents, patients, institutions, and policy-makers need to take into account to make good decisions about using complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) to treat children and to develop guidelines for appropriate use. We began by explaining underlying concepts and principles in ethical, legal, and clinica...

Concluding Synthesis

THE SEVENTEEN invited papers presented here provide a cross-section of the kinds of forests affected with canopy dieback in the central and south Pacific region. Although the papers were grouped by country, they show interesting betweencountry similarities in research approaches and in the causes considered most plausible at the present state of knowledge. It therefore seems appropriate to reca...