William H. Work

William H. Carmalt

An Introduction to the Work of William

The papers reprinted here from the published work of William W. Rozeboom were selected to introduce readers to his notion of “explanatory induction” (EI), a fundamental form of inference that he took to be a major facet of human intelligence, whether in the rudimentary forms it takes in the “common-sense” inferences we make every day without a second thought, or in the more advanced and selfcon...

Commentary AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WORK OF WILLIAM FARR 1

William Farr must be counted a founder, even the founder, of epidemiology in its modern form. Among the special contributions of men like Quetelet and Galton to biostatistics, of John Snow to the survey as an explanatory instrument, and of Pasteur and Koch to specifications of environmental agents and host immunity, Farr's contributions surely cover the broadest range of the activities of conte...

Celebrating the work of William T. Carpenter Jr.

William H. Welch and the Rise of Modern Medicine

The Handbook of Neurotological Diagnosis, edited by John W. House and Alec Fitzgerald O'Connor, is the result of a cooperative effort between clinicians and scientists from the United States and Europe with the proposed goal ". . . to provide the reader with broad knowledge of the recent developments in the rapidly advancing field of neurotology." The field of neurotology encompasses the study ...