Secular Pegs and God-Shaped Holes

Square Pegs and Round Holes

This article explores the relationship between the social construction of risk, uncertainty and evaluation in the field of development cooperation. It explores the assumption that risk and uncertainty are unusually high in development cooperation. Perceptions of risk and uncertainty are cultural constructs. Several authors have identified perceptions of uncertainty as one of the most important ...

Medical clergy: square pegs in holy holes?

Regulating Innovative Medicine: Fitting Square Pegs in round Holes

Increasingly, innovative medical products are creating a quandary for the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) because they often transcend the FDA’s traditional categorical approach to regulating medical products. In a recent attempt to simplify this process, the FDA has proposed a new rule for regulating "combination products." This iBrief discusses the FDA’s current approach and analyzes the...

Square pegs in round holes: information systems, hospitals and the significance of contextual awareness.

The considerable emphasis in the development and implementation of clinical information systems in hospitals internationally seems to have had a limited effect. In particular, the implementation of electronic patient record (EPR) systems has been slower and more difficult than anticipated and with little change in efficiency and security. This paper suggests why this might be the case. Well est...

Pegs and Alecs

A major problem in semantics is the question how identity statements can be informative. To answer this question we have to determine what the status is of the objects that language users talk about when they exchange information. It is argued that the assumption of discourse representation theory, that these objects are variables in some representation, leads to problems. To cope with these pr...