Across the Busy Years: Recollections and Reflections

Recollections and reflections.

medicine and science. In December 1985 the centre held a weekend workshop which was called Persons and Values. This volume is a result of that workshop. Many of the philosophical issues which surround the concepts of person and personality bear directly on matters of medical interest. Much of the debate about abortion, for example, is over the issue of 'When is a fetus a person?' Of more intere...

Some recollections and reflections on mutation rates.

I take this opportunity to record some of my own In general, the growth rate of a bacterial strain may be recollections of the work on mutation in the 1940s and within very wide limits independent of the concentration early 1950s that was so influential in the development of a given growth factor; but since at zero concentration of quantitative biology. In 1943, Luria and Delbrück the growth ra...

The Vipeholm Dental Caries Study: recollections and reflections 50 years later.

Evidence based health promotion: recollections, reflections, and reconsiderations.

I mproving the evidence base of health promotion is high on the agenda of the international health promotion community and it is becoming increasingly apparent that evidence is needed by practitioners for effective health promotion interventions. It is generally accepted that with quality findings from intervention studies, practitioners can make better decisions to achieve effectiveness in the...

The Early Years of ISR: Recollections of the Editors