Anomaly detection can infer the presence of errors without observing target services, but detecting variations in observable parts system on which services reside. This is a promising technique complex software-intensive systems, because either instrumenting services' internals exceedingly time-consuming, or encapsulation makes them not accessible. Unfortunately, such systems anomaly often inef...

REVIEW ESSAY Michel Foucault, History of Madness, translated by Jonathan Murphy and Jean Khalfa (London/New York: Routledge, 2006) ISBN: 0415277019. Alain Beaulieu, Laurentian University Réal Fillion, University of Sudbury Introduction Since its presentation on May 20, 1961, Foucault’s principal doctoral thesis has never ceased both to fascinate and to fuel controversy.1 Blanchot, Barthes, ...

Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry, London and New York, Routledge: JOHN HASLAM, Illustrations ofmadness, with an Introduction by Roy Porter, 8vo, pp. lxiv, xi, 81, illus., £17.00. THOMAS TROTTER, An essay medical, philosophical, and chemical on drunkenness and its effect on the human body, with an Introduction by Roy Porter, 1988, 8vo, pp. xliii, ix, 203, £19.95. WILLIAM PARGETER,...

If you ask most medical school deans if they have a course, program, or center doing bioethics, they will enthusiastically assure you that they do. And their enthusiasm for bioethics grows exponentially in proportion to their interest in showing that they are doing something about managing research ethics issues at their institutions. The same can be said about the entire biomedical research es...

My professional life over five decades meandered from a high school ambition to be a psychiatrist and understand the "mind" to biochemical studies of neurotransmitters and drugs. Hopefully, the tale of my quirky impatient curiosity about "too many" different areas will be useful for young scientists embarking on their own careers.

it is often a problem to distinguish between actual psychiatric illness and behaviour which is unfamiliar, but conventional in the person's own society. This includes customs such as seeing visions, hearing voices and belief in magic. Not knowing the cultural context of what seems to be bizarre behaviour could cause misunderstanding, and the setting up of Inand OutGroups. An Out-Group would con...