Abstract It has recently been argued that hope is polysemous in it sometimes refers to hoping and other times being hopeful. That these two distinct senses reflected the observation a person can for an outcome without hopeful will occur. Below, I offer new argument this distinction. My strategy show accepting distinction yields rich account of ways which be lost, map onto hope: A lose either by...

In this issue of Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Sokka et al (see page 1666), by analysing the data from the Quantitative Standard Monitoring of Rheumatoid Arthritis (QUEST-RA) cohort, with over 6000 patients from 25 countries, warn us of possible disparities in the health of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. This international team of researchers found a clear association between gross dom...