WHOSE BIRTH, WHOSE BODY, WHOSE BABY IS IT?

Whose difficulty is it?

Whose future is it?

Good morning. It is a great honour to deliver this talk to a research community of which I have been a member when we were not sure that it was a domain of its own. It has since then developed in an impressive manner, and today it offers all the signs of a maturing scientific community in a technical field: a yearly conference with growing attendance, some structuring paradigms, progress in mod...

Mental Subnormality—Whose Baby?

Firstly, I should make it clear that the use of the word "Baby", in the title of this paper, refers to mental, not chronological, age. In other words, I am not restricting myself only to a consideration of mentally subnormal children. Nevertheless, it has some meta-phorical meaning in so far as we are discussing a problem whose unpopular aspects are frequently apt to be bounced on to someone el...

whose responsibility is it anyway ?

Whose risk is it anyway?

Powell et al 1 have proposed the importance of 90-day mortality after lung cancer surgery, and have generated a predictive score using predominantly objective information. There are obvious advantages over the frequently quoted Thoracoscore which contains more subjective assessments of patient performance, and is based on data from a wide range of thoracic procedures including those for benign ...