Patients' consent should have been sought

Should There Have Been a Polis in Aristotle’s Poetics?

[Reimbursement of generics in Croatia: should more have been done?].

BACKGROUND while numerous ordinances on drug pricing and reimbursement have been enacted, trying to suppress the drug expenditure in Croatia, it seemed there were inconsistencies in pricing procedures of some of the drugs. OBJECTIVES to show whether or not the pricing system given has had the desired result, we review pricing and reimbursement systems of generics in some of the EU countries a...

‘Oh, but you should have’: Estlund on Normative Consent

Democratic Authority is a tour de force. Among its considerable virtues, David Estlund’s book manages to introduce genuinely new and plainly important ideas on well-worn topics right at the heart of modern political philosophy. Indeed, it does so not once, but several times. In this discussion, I shall concentrate on just one of those ideas, the idea of ‘normative consent’. Estlund offers his i...

Small cell lung cancer in Norway. Should more patients have been offered surgical therapy?

OBJECTIVE The final outcome of patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is poor with an overall 5-year survival rate of less than 10%. Therefore, the question of surgery in patients with a technically-operable solitary tumor has been raised. The purpose of this study was to identify the proportion of patients with operable SCLC and to assess the prognosis of different treatment strategies. F...

We Have Always Been . . . Cyborgs

philosophy of mathematics suited well the ‘‘general emphasisin later nineteenth-century mathematics on revisiting foundationalquestions’’ (p. 61). Pure geometry as it emerged from Frege, Paschand Hilbert, provided a diagram-free, purely sentential notion ofproof, which has lasted unto our own day.In the second, and greater, part of the book, Greaves traces outthe interre...