Good bye, thank you, ethics and other things…

Good Bye, Thank You, Ethics and Other Things…

Note from the Editor: Good Bye and Thank You

As a University of London undergraduate beginning a module on pathology, I remember Professor Frank Fairweather opening his lecture by pointing to a large boil on his forehead as an example of acute inflammation. He then proceeded to describe the gross pathological characteristics of acute inflammation: weal, brief blood vessel constriction, followed by blood vessel dilation and associated redn...

Kissing Descartes good bye.

of the approaches used by complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and indeed by all therapeutic models that offer a complex package of care – physical therapies, surgery, general practice and family medicine, psychotherapy, psychosomatic treatments, mind-body medicine – cannot be modeled along the lines laid out by the mechanistic paradigm. Not only cannot they be modeled along those line...

Thank you.

A scientific journal exists only because of the good will and assistance of its reviewers. We can only publish less than a fifth of the papers we receive and, in making our decisions, we depend on the expertise of many people. This year a total of 315 reviewers have helped us to decide about the papers that we should publish. Their names are listed below and we would like to take this opportuni...

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