Edmond C. Loomis 1921-1988

Brian Edmond McConnell

of 48, of Dr. Brian McConnell, one of Bristol's best known and respected practitioner5, I He will be sadly missed by his very wide circle of friends and acquaintances, not oflb in the medical profession but in the broader social world beyond it. A personal friendship which was to last for over twenty years began during the v^f in a disused Cornish sea-side boarding house where, as fellow office...

Éditorial: Edmond Bianco (1932-2005)

Underpinnings of Medical Ethics Edmond

emeritus professor of medicine and former head of medical genetics at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; a retired research biochemist in the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, National Institute on Aging; and a psychiatrist in private practice who is also an assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. Their background is therefore medical rather than philosophical, and th...

Response to loomis et al

air pollution as a predictor of mortality in a prospective study of US adults. Response to Loomis et al. I would like to address comments of Loomis et al. about inferences drawn from studies using group-level exposure variables , the use of the tobacco analogy, the application of Hill's criteria for causality (1), and the use of the Hertz-Picciotto criteria for evaluating studies (2). Whether t...

Reply to Hutchison and Loomis

the perceived distance to a target is influenced by the effort required to walk to its location. Hutchison and Loomis (H&L) reported an experiment that failed to find a significant influence of effort on indices of apparent distance. There were numerous important differences between the design and methods of H&L’s study and those of Proffitt et al. Moreover, there are important theoretical reas...