Medico-Chi: Whence and Whither?

Not Poles Apart : " Whither Reform ? " and " Whence Reform ?

The paper "Whence Reform?" by the Polish economists Marek Dabrowski, Stanislaw Gomulka, and Jacek Rostowski (DGR) is a welcome and revealing commentary on what is called the "Stiglitz Perspective." Our main response is gratitude at DGR's agreement with the main theses of "Whither Reform?" such as the critiques of voucher privatization and of the attempts to quickly install institutional reforms...

TLA+: Whence, Wherefore, and Whither

Health care law and policy: whence and whither?

Lifetimes of Heavy-flavour Hadrons – Whence and Whither?

A theoretical treatment for the weak decays of heavy-flavour hadrons has been developed that is genuinely based on QCD. Its methodology as it applies to total lifetimes and the underlying theoretical issues are sketched. Predictions are compared with present data. One discrepancy emerges: the beauty baryon lifetime appears to be significantly shorter than expected. The ramifications of those fi...

Medicine: quo vadis

Lord Horder, in his address to the West London Medico-chirurgical Society in 1949, posed the question “Whither medicine?” and replied “Why, whither else but straight ahead, forging still more weapons with which to conquer disease, taking still more toll of science in the interest of humanity, adding more and more culture to more and more learning, improving both the art and the crafts. Medicine...