Medical care: elitism or social commitment?

Medical Care—More or Less?

Edward Long Fox, B.A., D.M., F.R.C.P. was born in 1832 in Brislington. His father was a doctor, and both his uncle Henry Hawes Fox, and grandfather, Edward Long Fox, had been physicians to the Bristol Royal 'nfirmary. His grandfather founded an asylum in Brislington and was interested in mesmerism, but also achieved fame by having 22 children! With this background you will not be entirely surpr...

The codpiece: social fashion or medical need?

The male dress style of the higher classes of European society was revolutionised in the early years of the Renaissance. The codpiece was introduced into the male tunic. The codpiece had proportions that were at times grotesque, and so extreme that the question of the purpose of its use arises. Art gallery guides speculate that the codpiece represented a statement of the virility of the individ...

Transcendental Elitism

Social Consequences of Commitment

This paper begins with a detailed computational introduction to a classic ACE model: an evolutionary prisoner’s dilemma. The paper presents a simple but fully coded object oriented implementation of this model. (We use the Python programming language, which is shown to be a natural ally for ACE research). Using these tools, we demonstrate that player type evolution is affected by cardinal payof...

Social Minded Commitment Management

Over the past 30 years Artificial Intelligence has fragmented from one broad subject into a cluster of narrow but deep individual disciplines. During this time we have also seen the development of increasingly complex software systems for application domains such as robot control, mobile computing, and expert system interfaces. Many of these designs use elements from the branches of AI, but pay...