Cheers to Dr. Arnold Starr

Tribute to Vladimir Arnold

Vladimir Arnold, an eminent mathematician of our time, passed away on June 3, 2010, nine days before his seventy-third birthday. This article, along with one in the next issue of the Notices, touches on his outstanding personality and his great contribution to mathematics. A word about spelling: we use “Arnold”, as opposed to “Arnol’d”; the latter is closer to theRussian pronunciation, but Vlad...

Two Cheers for Psychiatry

Critics within psychiatry suggest that too many people are being classified as 'ill' and in need of treatment. Are psychiatrists casting their nets too wide and is society too psychiatry conscious?

Two Cheers for Gentrification

Blood, sweat and cheers

Blood, sweat and cheers. By Ian Fraser. (pp 150. £.14.95. Inland f£17.50; Abroad $29.00 USA). London: British Medical Journal, The Memoir Club, 1989. The Memoir Club has already published in this series recollections of various distinguished medical personalities Sir Christopher Booth, Sir Douglas Black, Dr Moran Campbell, Sir James Howie and Lord Taylor. It is happy and appropriate as far as U...

Three Cheers for Double Effect

The doctrine of double effect, together with other moral principles that appeal to the intentions of moral agents, has come under attack from many directions in recent years, as have a variety of rationales that have been given in favor of it. In this paper, our aim is to develop, defend, and provide a new theoretical rationale for a secular version of the doctrine. Following Quinn (1989), we d...