Promethean prescription

Regenerative medicine: the promises and perils of a Promethean task

© 2010 The Author Journal compilation © 2010 Foundation for Cellular and Molecular Medicine/Blackwell Publishing Ltd doi:10.1111/j.1582-4934.2010.01167.x Apparently, ancient Greeks somehow learned that human liver could regenerate after damage. This information was connected in their intuition with their most powerful ability, that to produce fire. What is less often remembered is that in Hesio...

Planetary science. Can NASA's Promethean vision bring back heavenly data?

Casagrande. He and other inspectors looked for evidence such as signs that large trucks had been present at a biological site. But it was like chasing phantoms: Apart from a handful of foreign catalogs depicting mobile platforms, they found nothing to indicate that the movable beasts existed, the veteran inspector says. Even if there were mobile labs, Gläser doubts that they could produce subst...

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Measuring Prescription Adherence for Pharmaceutical Prescription Refills

Book Review John Dewey’s Quest for Unity: The Journey of a Promethean Mystic

Richard Gale’s slender monograph is a sometimes insightful, sometimes enervating and always personal reckoning with John Dewey’s philosophy. Gale’s basic thesis is that Dewey is a unificationist malgré lui, that despite being committed to empiricism and pluralism his pragmatism remains profoundly metaphysical in a non-naturalistic sense. This claim is hardly new or surprising. Thinkers as diver...