Secondhand philosophy

Secondhand social capital: Boundary spanning, secondhand closure, and individual performance

We move beyond the performance returns of individuals’ direct network connections to study the effects of “secondhand” social capital, i.e., from the networks of one’s contacts. We propose that certain colleagues may be more valuable to one’s job performance than others when their spillovers of novel information combine with spillovers of the cooperation needed to obtain that novelty. In a stud...

Philosophy of Philosophy of Religion

Lawsuits and secondhand smoke.

OBJECTIVE This paper describes secondhand smoke (SHS) litigation over the past quarter century where non-smoking litigants have prevailed and attempts to decipher trends in the law that may impact the course of future cases. METHODS Since the early 1980s, the author has sought and examined legal cases in which SHS exposure is an important factor. Law library searches using the official report...

Smoking and Secondhand Smoke

A complete Works Cited list begins on page 44. Mention of commercial products does not indicate endorsement. Faculty Mark S. Gold, MD, is the Donald Dizney Eminent Scholar, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Florida (UF) College of Medicine and member of the McKnight Brain Institute. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, he is a teach...

Secondhand Smoke and Heart Disease

Background: The availability of microarrays measuring thousands of genes simultaneously across hundreds of biological conditions represents an opportunity to understand both individual biological pathways and the integrated workings of the cell. However, translating this amount of data into biological insight remains a daunting task. An important initial step in the analysis of microarray data ...