XLVII. Zoological notices

Notices NOTICES

This Journal, founded by the Medical Society for the Study of the Venereal Diseases, publishes original work on the investigation and treatment of genitourinary and allied disorders, and review articles, correspondence, and abstracts. ADVICE TO AuTHoRs Paper for publication, which will be accepted on the understanding that they have not been and will not be published elsewhere and are subject t...

SHORT LITERATURE NOTICES Short literature notices

What does it mean to be a ‘‘just’’ and ‘‘caring’’ society when we have only limited resources to meet virtually unlimited health care needs? In Just Caring. Health Care Rationing and Democratic Deliberation Leonard Fleck identifies health care rationing as the moral problem of contemporary health care. At present, millions of Americans go without health insurance, thousands of whom die prematur...

Planck intermediate results . XLVII

We investigate constraints on cosmic reionization extracted from the Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) data. We combine the Planck CMB anisotropy data in temperature with the low-multipole polarization data to fit ΛCDM models with various parameterizations of the reionization history. We obtain a Thomson optical depth τ = 0.058±0.012 for the commonly adopted instantaneous reionization mo...

Bars Notices

Critical Notices

This is an ambitious book, in two ways. First, it advocates a drastic transformation of contemporary epistemology’s scope and method. Second, it exemplifies a new way of doing epistemology, plumbing the depths of epistemic psychology by subtly characterizing the nature of, and interrelations among, a host of intellectual traits. Part I critiques standard ‘‘analytic’’ epistemology and expounds t...