Three Seasons. A Cantata

Zero, Connected, Empty: An Essay after a Cantata

A Drug for All Seasons

Fluoroquinolones have become one of the mainstays of antibacterial therapy, regarded as a major antimicrobial class, with efficacy against a wide range of important pathogens. And among the fluoroquinolones, levofloxacin continues to stand out as one, if not the, most important fluoroquinolone. While the history of these agents first started in 1962 with the development of nalidixic acid, it wa...

A bioethics for all seasons

The last four decades have seen the emergence and flourishing of the field of bioethics and its incorporation into wide-ranging aspects of society, from the clinic or laboratory through to public policy and the media. Yet considerable debate still exists over what bioethics is and how it should be done. In this paper I consider the question of what makes good bioethics. Drawing on historical an...

A hospital for all seasons.

"A man for all seasons" -Sir Thomas More, so described by Robert Whittington in 1520. "More is a man of an angel's wit and singular learning. And as time requireth a man of marvellous mirth and pastimes and sometimes of a sad gravity. A man for all seasons". Since David Bolt's play, these words have become somewhat hackneyed and over-plagiarized and I do offer a scant apology in their use again...

The Woods Hole Cantata. Essays on Science and Society

Legal scholar John Robertson argues that parents, physicians, and nurses who fail to give ordinary life-saving treatment to neonates are liable for several crimes, including murder; Dennis Horan advocates vigorous enforcement of existing laws, which for many reasons, usually are not brought to bear on these cases. Angela Holder asserts that parents and doctors remain within the law when refusin...