Judging Fanon

The social psychiatry of Frantz Fanon.

Frantz Fanon, a black psychiatrist, was both concerned with human liberation and committed to a cult of violence. His own life exemplified the lack of gratification in practicing a psychiatry focused on the individual in a social milieu where the glaring ills were not intrapsychic fantasies but real problems of poverty, racism, and colonialism. Fanon’s experience in denouncing a bourgeois psych...

Judging the evidence.

Judging academic pathology chairpersons.

In their article, “Chairpersons of Pathology in the United States: Benchmarks for Academic Publications and Professional Credentials,” Wick and Stoler1 focus on issues that are both provocative and controversial. Prompted by their concern for the falling rate of recruitment of US medical school graduates into pathology residency training programs, Wick and Stoler conducted an objective study to...

Judging orthodontic treatment complexity

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to investigate possible relations between anticipated overall treatment complexity (AOTC) of an orthodontic case and malocclusion characteristics. METHODS Two groups of orthodontists (groups A and B) were asked to define perceived treatment complexity (PTC) of orthodontic cases based on 16 characteristics of malocclusion by means of a questionnaire. ...

Judging Good and Evil

Overview The use of " anti-virus " techniques in many modern worms recalls two stories: the " war " between virus writers and the possibility of a beneficial virus. This article examines both in light of recent events in the virus world. In early 2004, the release of Netsky began a rash of articles discussing " vigilante " coders trying to stop the spread of other worms. The war between Netsky'...