From the Editor: Medical Social Science and Clinical Decision Science

From medical records to clinical science.

Medical records contain an abundance of information, very little of which is extracted and put to clinical use. Increasing the flow of information from medical records to clinical practice requires methods of analysis that are appropriate for large nonintervention studies. The purpose of this article is to explain in nontechnical language what these methods are, how they differ from conventiona...

ترجمه و نقد کتاب the justification of science and the rationality of religious belife

چکیده ندارد.

The Social Implications of Medical Science

In 1924 under the auspices of the Heretics, a society at Cam-bridge, were published two small booklets. One, Daedalus or Science and the Future, by J. B. S. Haldane, pictured, perhaps too optimistically, and certainly too vividly, the vast beneficent potentialities of science and the blessed world it might create. The other, Icarus, or the Future of Science, by Bertrand Russell, pointed out the...

Social science. Computational social science.

The science in social science.

A recent poll showed that most people think of science as technology and engineering--life-saving drugs, computers, space exploration, and so on. This was, in fact, the promise of the founders of modern science in the 17th century. It is less commonly understood that social and behavioral sciences have also produced technologies and engineering that dominate our everyday lives. These include po...