Smear tests were not on trial but should have been

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...

Have Stroke Neurologists Entered the Arena of Stroke-Related Cognitive Dysfunctions? Not Yet, but They Should!

See related article, p 1539 In this issue of Stroke, Zamboni et al reported the results of a study that explored whether early cognitive impairment was associated with the volume of white matter hyperintensities and with white matter damage on diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in patients with transient ischemic attack (TIA) or minor stroke. Cognitive evaluation was performed with t...

Commentary: Divergent Thinking Tests Have Problems, But This Is Not the Solution

It is certainly true, as Silvia et al. (2008) write, that “after half a century of research, the evidence for global creative ability ought to be better” (p. 68). The authors believe—incorrectly, I think— that the reason that divergent thinking tests have not done a better job can be found in the various scoring systems that have been used when assessing divergent thinking ability. I have prese...