Goodbye to all that

David Hodgson Goodbye To Qualia And All That ? Review

Max Bennett is a distinguished Australian neuroscientist, Peter Hacker an Oxford philosopher and leading authority on Wittgenstein. A book resulting from their collaboration, Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, has received high praise. According to the Blackwell website, G.H. von Wright asserts that it ‘will certainly, for a long time to come, be the most important contribution to the m...

Goodbye to all that. The end of moderate protectionism in human subjects research.

Federal policies on human subjects research have undergone a progressive transformation. In the early decades of the twentieth century, federal policies largely relied on the discretion of investigators to decide when and how to conduct research. This approach gradually gave way to policies that augmented investigator discretion with externally imposed protections. We may now be entering an era...

Goodbye to ABCD resuscitation?

Goodbye to CFG

Sadly, I am writing this Editorial to let you know of our decision to close Comparative and Functional Genomics as of this issue. Unfortunately, despite much hard work by the entire Editorial Board and the team at Wiley, CFG has not achieved what we had hoped and we feel that no amount of effort will be enough to rectify this. This will be the final issue of the journal. However, its archive wi...

How to say goodbye

Introduction Whereas many studies have been devoted to ICU admission, there are very few data on ICU discharge policies and protocols. In qualitative studies, pts and families have reported noticeable changes in the quality of care and interest in pts, as well as feelings of abandonment. Information given to pts and relatives at the time of ICU discharge may influence long-term outcomes and psy...