Necessities in Clinical Photography

Necessities in clinical photography.

Sir, Clinical photography enhances medical records and is essential for the daily practice of surgeons. Important uses of photographs include patient counselling, audit, publications, education, medico-legal work and for planning treatment without repeatedly redressing the wound. The value of such photographs are realised when they are needed, no doubt we have all been painfully aware of this w...

From Constitutional Necessities to Causal Necessities∗

Humeans and non-Humeans commonly and reasonably agree that there may be necessary connections (“necessities”, for short) between entities that are identical—e.g., Hesperus and Phosphorus, water and H2O—or merely partly distinct—e.g., sets and their individual members, fusions and their individual parts, instances of determinates and determinables, members of certain natural kinds and certain of...

Clinical Digital Dental Photography

Over the past decade the availability of digital photography, digital imaging systems and computer driven digital presentation programs has revolutionised teaching and lecturing. Before the arrival of digital photography it was expensive to purchase dedicated 35mm dental photographic equipment and accessories and it would be more likely to be bought by the dentist who is an amateur photographer...

Argumentation Frameworks with Necessities

In this paper, we introduce argumentation frameworks with necessities (AFNs), an extension of Dung’s argumentation frameworks (AFs) taking into account a necessity relation as a kind of support relation between arguments (an argument is necessary for another). We redefine the acceptability semantics for these extended frameworks and we show how the necessity relation allows a direct and easy co...

A Short Introduction to Clinical Photography for the Plastic Surgeon