In the light of increasing public mistrust, there is an urgent need to clarify the moral status of the medical profession and of the relationship of the clinician to his/her patients. In addressing this question, I first establish the coherence, within moral philosophy generally, of the concept of supererogation (the doing of more than one’s duty). I adopt the notion of an act of “unqualified” ...

this paper is devoted to the spectral theory (more precisely, tothe variational theory of the spectrum) of guided waves in anelastic half cylinder.  we use variational methods to investigateseveral aspects of propagating waves, including localization (seefigure 1), existence criteria and the formulas to find them. weapproach the problem using two complementary methods: thevariational methods fo...

this paper is devoted to the spectral theory (more precisely, tothe variational theory of the spectrum) of guided waves in anelastic half cylinder.  we use variational methods to investigateseveral aspects of propagating waves, including localization (seefigure 1), existence criteria and the formulas to find them. weapproach the problem using two complementary methods: thevariational methods fo...