The currently prevailing paradigms of evaluation in medical/health informatics are reviewed. Some problems with application of the objectivist approach to the evaluation of real-rather than simulated-(health) information systems are identified. The rigorous application of the objectivist approach, which was developed for laboratory experiments, is difficult to adapt to the evaluation of informa...

Can a family physician practise good medicine without following clinical practice guidelines? Obviously, you have the right to come back with, “What do you mean by good medicine?” Let’s define it for our present purposes as that promoted by the 4 principles of family medicine: a family physician is a skilled clinician, family medicine is a community-based discipline, a family physician is a res...

1 melanogaster 2 Magda L. Atilano, Marcus Glittenberg, Annabel Monteiro, Richard Copley^, Petros 3 Ligoxygakis 4 5 Laboratory of Cell Biology, Development and Genetics, Department of Biochemistry, 6 University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK 7 ^Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, Laboratoire de Biologie du 8 Développement de Villefranche-sur-mer (LBDV), 181 chemin du...

Largely because of an attempt at conciseness, but also be cause of the compactness of KeyKOS and the mutual re liance of the abstractions from which it is developed, certain words and phrases appear, of necessity, earlier in this publi cation than the principle discussions explaining them. The information in this publication is ordered with the intent that a reader will need to assume as lit...

miskawayh regards intellect as the essence and non-material substance of human soul and mentions “virtue” as the sovereignty of intellect over the faculties of the soul (nafs) and its actions, the resul of which is the freedom of intellect in dealing with theoretical contemplations and the outcome of these contemplations is “wisdom”, that is the “happiness” of the soul. therefore, happiness rel...

The initial aim of this essay is to sketch out the historical passage from the ideal of salvation to the ideal of cure in the West, indicating the effects of the process of medicalization of society attained through biopolitics. In second place, it is intended to describe the different ramifications of biopolitics in the origins of psychoanalysis discourse.