This paper is a continuation of “Sanskrit Medical Scholasticism — Jajjaṭa’s Nirantarapadavyākhyā and Other Commentaries on the Carakasaṃhitā, Cikitsāsthāna 2.1 —” offers translation analysis Chapter 2, Quarter 2 (CaCi 2.2) along with four commentaries.

BUMC PROCEEDINGS 2000;13:379–380 Editor’s note: In the April 2000 issue, Dr. Franz Messerli published an article entitled “Antihypertensive therapy: beta-blockers and diuretics— why do physicians not always follow guidelines?” BUMC Proceedings published commentaries to this article by Dr. Marvin Moser of Yale University School of Medicine and Dr. Norman Kaplan of The University of Texas Southwe...

Three commentaries are presented on a case conference, "Truth at the last--a case of obstructed death," which appeared in the March 1982 issue. The case involved collusion between a physician and a family member to withhold the truth from a terminally ill patient. The commentaries discuss the possible psychological need of dying patients to resolve "unfinished business," and the physician's g...

In one of the commentaries to my target article (MacDonald, 2013) advocating the Production Distribution Comprehension (PDC) account, Ramscar and Baayen (2013) generously suggest that it’s an “intellectual pleasure” to contemplate the PDC claims, even if they don’t entirely agree with them. This characterization— both the genuine pleasure and the not entirely agreeing—equally applies to me in r...