Patient Benefits of Audiology, Pharmacy Collaboration

Evaluating pharmacy students’ wiki-based collaboration

Final-year Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) students at The University of Sydney are required to submit a series of group-generated Problem-based Learning (PBL) cases. When submitted as word-processed, or paper-based documents, the cases are characterised by a fragmented approach, and academics often report that a patient-focus is lacking. Following a successful pilot in 2007, wiki format was introd...

Audiology

AVIATION MEDICINE IN ITS PREVENTIVE ASPECTS. An Historical Survey. By John F. Fulton. New York, Oxford University Press, 1948. 174 pp., illus. $3.00. It seems proper that a physiologist should have wvritten a book about aviation medicine, dealing as it does with I. Altitude Sickness and Acclimatization: The History of Oxygen; II. Decompression Sickness: The Genesis of the Tissue Bubble; III. Pr...

patient counseling in pharmacy

Hearing assistance technology and patient counseling in audiology

Hearing assistance technology and patient counseling in audiology" (2009).

The Epistemic Costs and Benefits of Collaboration

In “How to Collaborate,” Paul Thagard tries to explain why there is so much collaboration in science, and so little collaboration in philosophy, by giving an epistemic cost-benefit analysis. In this paper, I argue that an adequate explanation requires a more fully developed epistemic value theory than Thagard utilizes. In addition, I offer an alternative to Thagard’s explanation of the lack of ...