Morals, medicine and geography

Morals and Medicine

pared to normal synovial cells. This little book reviews these and other measurements in plasma, urine, synovial fluid, tissue extracts and synovial cell culture. The chapter on hormones is notable for its statement that prednisolone is the only drug which can halt the erosive progress of rheumatoid arthritis. This is certainly not the orthodox view of most rheumatologists, and its emphasis cas...

Vivisection, morals, medicine: commentary from a vivisecting professor of pharmacology.

ing from this experience particular propositions which then become the subject of the discourse. A single instance (the tree in the quad, or the visual experience of a red patch) has sometimes sufficed to create such a proposition. This is a blameless, indeed common activity. The problem comes with 're-entry' to the experiential world. The proposition may be combined with others to yield furthe...

Vivisection, morals, medicine: commentary from an antivivisectionist philosopher.

Dr Frey appears to support the following nine propositions on which I shall comment in turn. Although not all are explicitly formulated, it seems clear that he means to advocate them all. 1) Vivisection involving pain is in a large number of cases justified and desirable because of the benefits it confers on humans-and perhaps other animals. 2) The same is true of experiments on animals not inv...

Law, Language and Morals

Geography and geographic information systems in family medicine research.

Understanding spatial relationships between determinants and outcomes of health care is important as the concept of population-based health care gains acceptance. A wide range of tools for understanding these spatial relationships is available to the family medicine researcher through the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The power of GIS lies in its ability to display the spatial di...