New (or not so new?) lessons from maternal autopsy in Mozambique

Maternal Death, Autopsy Studies, and Lessons from Pathology

Perspectives P athology is quality control—it confirms, refutes, or elaborates on clinical diagnoses. Globally, the most important fatal condition for which there is a lack of autopsy evaluation is maternal death. One reason for this lack may be that everyone supposedly knows why mothers die in pregnancy and childbirth. In resource-poor or developing countries, where the World Health Organizati...

The Toyota way ... or not?--new lessons for health care.

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New Insights from a Not-So-Neglected Field: Hemispatial Neglect

Hemispatial neglect remains one of the most remarkable syndromes investigated by behavioural neurologists. It occurs only after relatively focal (or at least asymmetric) brain damage, most commonly stroke, but is occasionally observed in asymmetric atrophy syndromes such as corticobasal syndrome or Posterior Cortical Atrophy due to Alzheimer’s Disease pathology. It is also sometimes associated ...

Workshop Report: The New and the Not So New

Not so new: overblown claims for 'new' approaches to emotion

Motivation • During the past decade, some philosophers and psychologists have argued that the conceptual resources of classical cognitive science cannot adequately account for certain important features of emotion. They have further argued that these features can be captured by nonclassical forms of cognitive science. This may be termed the non-classical thesis of emotion (NCE). • Many statemen...