John Barry Dawson 1932-2013

MICHAEL JOHN BARRY, MD: a conversation with the editor on shared decision making.

M ichael Barry (Figure) was born on July 23, 1953, in Hartford, Connecticut, and grew up there. He graduated from Trinity College in 1975 and from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in 1979. From there, he went to Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York, where he did his residency training in internal medicine. From 1983 through 1985 he was a research fellow in general int...

REBECCA BARRY and ANDREW JOHN MERRISON Language - in - Use : a Clarkian Perspective

briefly (Austin’s Speech Act Theory, which claims that language use can be equated with performing actions linguistically; and Grice’s Cooperative Principle and concomitant conversational maxims (cf. Reading 1.2), which espouse the view that language use involves rational inferential processes). Other concepts that are presupposed include the following. An Adjacency Pair (cf. Reading 1.1) is a ...

John Komlos und Patricia K . Smith und Barry Bogin : Obesity and the Rate

Barry Duncan

1. What exactly is an evidenced-based practice? It usually means an approach that has established itself better than placebo or treatment as usual in two clinical trials. Such demonstrations are nothing to write home about; intervention of nearly any kind has demonstrated its superiority over placebo for 50 years! This research tells us nothing that we already do not know: Treatment works. So, ...

Ontology Barry Smith

Ontology as a branch of philosophy is the science of what is, of the kinds and structures of objects, properties, events, processes and relations in every area of reality. 'Ontology' is often used by philosophers as a synonym of 'metaphysics' (a label meaning literally: 'what comes after the Physics'), a term used by early students of Aristotle to refer to what Aristotle himself called 'first p...