Doctors' Work: Eulogy for My Vocation

Doctors and Their Work

thoughtfulness and judgment; the author's experience is on almost every page, and as Mr. Carter has been in our ranks for more than half a century, and has, during that time, had excellent opportunities of forming opinions on these matters, we may consider his advice and conclusions well worth having. There is very little in the book that any of us would disagree with, for on any question about...

Implications of shift work for junior doctors.

Eulogy for the clinical research center.

The extramural General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) program has been funded for more than 50 years, first by the National Center for Research Resources, NIH, and more recently as part of the Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) program through the newly formed National Center for Advancing Translation Sciences (NCATS). The GCRCs represent the federally funded laboratories that employ ...

Description of My Previous Work

Today, advanced technological products often employ information and communication technology to enhance their functionality and quality. Therefore, nowadays software plays an important role in the control of many technical systems such as electrical and mechanical devices, technical processes in the chemical industry, or a modern automobile. In the future, software-intensive systems are in addi...

Themes in My Philosophical Work

This paper is an overview of my philosophical work. It follows closely the structure of the handout I used as the basis for a talk on this topic at the 2000 meeting of the Austro-Slovene Philosophical Association. The section-headings mention major themes, and various key concepts are indicated by boldface terms in the text. I invoked the notion of supervenience in my doctoral dissertation, Mic...