I should warn readers that some of Trivers’ description of interactions with women do not comport with contemporary ideas about political correctness. On the other hand, he rails against Jamaican treatment of homosexuals and has been an outspoken proponent of gay rights on the island. Robert Trivers is a complex individual who, as the book reveals, has lived a much more turbulent life than most...

Professor Goodhart has written a thoughtful and interesting paper on the conduct of monetary policy at the Bank of England. He uses a unique database, containing the inflation and output forecasts of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), to examine the Committee’s behaviour over the past five years and to test a number of intriguing hypotheses. The descriptive nature of the paper provides a usef...

Until 1997, the subject of bioterrorism was not discussed within the medical community and deliberately ignored in national planning efforts. Biological weapons were regarded as "morally repulsive." This complacency stemmed from a 1972 Biological Weapons Convention where all countries agreed to cease offensive biological weapons research. In the 1990s, however, the Soviet Union was discovered t...

Several lines of evidence indicate that animals in the wild may be limited in their maximal rates of energy intake by their intrinsic physiology rather than food availability. Understanding the limits to sustained energy intake is important because this defines an envelope within which animals must trade-off competing activities. In the first part of this review, we consider the initial ideas t...

care, the panacea of the 1960s and '70s, have recently begun to attract scholarly attention. Levine documents many of the more egregious failures the revolving-door syndrome; the rise of a profit-making "trade in lunacy" centring around nursing homes, board and care facilities, and welfare hotels and analyses quite well the role of the state and federal bureaucracy in promoting and covering up ...

This Classic article is a reprint of the original work by John Hilton, On Rest and Pain: Lecture XIV. An accompanying biographical sketch on John Hilton, MD, is available at DOI 10.1007/s11999-009-0927-2 . The Classic Article is reprinted with courtesy from Hilton J. On The Influence of Mechanical and Physiological Rest in the Treatment of Accidents and Surgical Diseases, and the Diagnostic Val...

The news is so full of lives cut short that one might worry that we have become inured to the experience. But cold reality asserts itself when a premature death strikes within our own community, and the full tragedy and the wasted opportunity are exposed. We then pause to mark the singularity of human existence and the personal nature of science itself. John Newport, distinguished professor of ...

Economists have directed attention to the role of corporate governance in determining the performance of business enterprises well before the issue was thrust into prominence by the troubles of Enron, WorldCom, and others. Much of this literature examines the consequences of different mechanisms for corporate control. An important part of this literature stresses the role of banks in corporate ...

E-mail address: jan 1574-7891/$ – see fron doi:10.1016/j.molonc.2 Lessons learnt from Hurricane Ike last autumn are now guiding John Mendelsohn in his management of the largest US cancer institute in the current financial down turn. ‘‘We face critical financial pressures due to decreasing federal research support, cutbacks in Medicaid and Medicare, reduced philanthropic gifts, and increases in ...