Society Notices

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This Journal, founded by the Medical Society for the Study of the Venereal Diseases, publishes original work on the investigation and treatment of genitourinary and allied disorders, and review articles, correspondence, and abstracts. ADVICE TO AuTHoRs Paper for publication, which will be accepted on the understanding that they have not been and will not be published elsewhere and are subject t...

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Suppose that p, u, v, and w are integers, with p > 1. If u + v + w = 0, then uvw = 0. Professor Andrew Wiles of Princeton University deduced this form of Fermat’s Last Theorem at the conclusion of a series of three lectures during the June, 1993 workshop on Iwasawa theory, autmorphic forms, and p-adic representations at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, UK. Wile...

SHORT LITERATURE NOTICES Short literature notices

What does it mean to be a ‘‘just’’ and ‘‘caring’’ society when we have only limited resources to meet virtually unlimited health care needs? In Just Caring. Health Care Rationing and Democratic Deliberation Leonard Fleck identifies health care rationing as the moral problem of contemporary health care. At present, millions of Americans go without health insurance, thousands of whom die prematur...

Bars Notices

Critical Notices

This is an ambitious book, in two ways. First, it advocates a drastic transformation of contemporary epistemology’s scope and method. Second, it exemplifies a new way of doing epistemology, plumbing the depths of epistemic psychology by subtly characterizing the nature of, and interrelations among, a host of intellectual traits. Part I critiques standard ‘‘analytic’’ epistemology and expounds t...