John Custance. London: Christopher Johnson. Pp. 207. 18/'. It is very difficult to review this unusual book. Mr. Custance (whose earlier book, "Wisdom, Madness and Folly," will be remembered)?is a self-confessed sufferer from manic depressive psychosis, and he has written the different chapters in different phases of his illness. It would be easy therefore to discard the book as being the moons...

This article approaches the medical arts at a time in which therapies are based on empirical knowledge, dictated by the fallacy of the authority ofunshakeable traditions. "Madness" and "eccentricities" perpetuated by Old School medical craftsmen are prevalent today in the strange practices of the new charlatanism, such as trunk cell technologies.

In fields as diverse as technology entrepreneurship and the arts, crowds of interested stakeholders are increasingly responsible for deciding which innovations to fund, a privilege that was previously reserved for a few experts, such as venture capitalists and grant‐making bodies. Little is known about the degree to which the crowd differs from experts in judging which ideas to fund, and, indee...

An Essay on the Nature and Cure of Insanity, zoith Observations on the Rules for the Detection of Pretenders to Madness. By George Nesse Hill, Medical Surgeon, &c. 1 vol. Svo. pp. 44t>. London, 1814. This publication should have been noticed earlier; but, as it is the intention of the Medico-Chirurgical Reviewers not to let any work of importance pass without delineating its contents to the pub...

Novice users engaged in task-oriented dialogues with an adviser to learn how to use an unfamiliar statistical package. The users', task was analyzed and a task structure was derived. The task structure was used to segment the dialogue into subdialogues associated with the subtasks of the overall task. The representation of the dialogue structure into a hierarchy of subdialogues, partly correspo...

I prefer commencing with the consideration of an effect. Keeping originality always in view – for he is false to himself who ventures to dispense with so obvious and so easily attainable a source of interest – I say to myself, in the first place, “Of the innumerable of effects, or impression, of which the heart, the intellect, or (more generally) the soul is susceptible, what one shall I, on th...