The Trouble with Chill Pills

The Trouble with Chill Pills AndreaToneThe Age of Anxiety2008Basic Books320 pp., $26.95 hardcover

In the early 1960s Hoffman La-Roche, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, introduced Librium (chlordiazepoxide) and Valium (diazepam) for the treatment of anxiety. Members of a new class of drugs named benzodiazepines, they were immediate bestsellers. In The Age of Anxiety Andrea Tone (2008), a Professor of the Social History of Medicine at McGill, describes the people, the companies, and the cultur...

Trouble with Overconfidence 1 Running head: TROUBLE WITH OVERCONFIDENCE The Trouble with Overconfidence

This paper presents a reconciliation of the three distinct ways in which the research literature has defined overconfidence: (1) overestimation of one’s actual performance, (2) overplacement of one’s performance relative to others, and (3) excessive precision in one’s beliefs. Experimental evidence shows that reversals of the first two (apparent underconfidence), when they occur, tend to be on ...

The trouble with translation

The Trouble with Cases

The recent hearings on Judge Sonia Sotomayor's and Solicitor General Elena Kagan's nominations to the Supreme Court vividly exemplify the enthusiastic concurrence between the senators and the nominee that judges make neither law nor policy. Judges decide particular cases between particu­ lar litigants, the questioners and the responders agree, and in doing so they apply laws and policies made b...

The Trouble with Inclusion

Attempts are being made to include members of excluded groups in societal institutions. Inclusion has been proposed as the solution to the injustice caused by exclusion. Yet, inclusion does not always achieve justice and might sometimes perpetuate injustice. This Article provides a framework for understanding inclusion that may fail to achieve social justice and uses this framework to assess th...