The author of this book has attempted to reduce this chaos to order and to co-ordinate the views of the different schools, which he has fearlessly examined and criticised. Though he has given us nothing new he is to be congratulated in his presentation of a very difficult subject and in making it not only easily understandable but also interesting and stimulating. Adhering to McDougall's exposi...

The text is clear and amplified by numerous illustrations but the bibliography, although considerable, lacks many important recent references. The English is excellent although terms such as dysoric retinopathy (page 87) might elude the most knowledgeable reader. This book obviously suffers from certain disadvantages when an ophthalmologist enters such a complex and changing field. There is thu...

Though one can easily build a diffusion in natural scale with a given speed measure m from standard Brownian motion and its local time, the problem is to show that this gives every diffusion in natural scale; Freedman shows that the speed measure determines the generator which determines the diffusion, thus disposing of this point. However, it is quite a lengthy business. From this analysis of ...

We are pleased to announce that his place is being taken by Dr Julian Kiverstein, a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Edinburgh University, funded as part of the collaborative research project, Consciousness in Interaction (CONTACT). Julian is a philosopher with wide interests in areas related to this journal. Last year he contributed to the JCS symposium on ‘Machine consciousness, emodiment and...

http://journals.cambridge.org/bjh This leading international journal publishes scholarly papers and review articles on all aspects of the history of science. History of science is interpreted widely to include medicine, technology and social studies of science. BJHS papers make important and lively contributions to scholarship and the journal has been an essential library resource for more than...

Edited by Thomas C. Todd and Cheryl L. Storm. © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Published 2014 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This resource succinctly describes and critiques the most common assessment instruments used in systemic supervision to evaluate supervisees’ competencies. The first section focuses on measures of individual counseling skills that have been used in creative ways to assess syste...