I am a Person

“I am a person but I am not a person”: experiences of women living with obstetric fistula in the central region of Malawi

BACKGROUND The consequences of living with obstetric fistula are multifaceted and very devastating for women, especially those living in poor resource settings. Due to uncontrollable leakages of urine and/or feces, the condition leaves women with peeling of skin on their private parts, and the wetness and smell subject them to stigmatization, ridicule, shame and social isolation. We sought to g...

I Am Not a Scientist, I Am a Number

We suspect many of our readers will be familiar with the cult TV show The Prisoner, in which actor Patrick McGoohan had his identity taken away by unknown assailants for unknown reasons, and his pleas of ‘‘I am not a number, I am a person’’ (http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v = 29JewlGsYxs&feature = related) were greeted with variants of ‘‘whatever you say, number six.’’ We would suggest that, as ...

Am I Right or Am I Right?

Though the value of a right should be not lower than zero, negative voting premiums often appear in recent empirical evidence. The present paper highlights some possible measurement errors and contemporary proposes a new measure, the vote segment, which incorporates all dividend privileges. Results from Italian non-voting shares listed in the 1999-2008 period show that the more accurate measure...

I Am a Puzzle

Why I am a Platonist

This is essentially Davies’ fi rst fl avor of Platonism, but in his article he isn’t content with my phrase “there is” a body of objects etc., but feels he must characterize this belief as existence in a realm outside or beyond spacetime. I think using these prepositions already implies certain philosophical, specifi cally ontological, assumptions. Hersh is more tolerant, merely adding the qual...