some time. The compilation of a book of this type requires that the author have considerable experience in teaching and close contact with current literature. Since Rugh has been active in research and teaching of experimental embryology for some years, it was anticipated that he would produce a text that would be satisfactory to both student and instructor. The author opens with an historical ...

The news is so full of lives cut short that one might worry that we have become inured to the experience. But cold reality asserts itself when a premature death strikes within our own community, and the full tragedy and the wasted opportunity are exposed. We then pause to mark the singularity of human existence and the personal nature of science itself. John Newport, distinguished professor of ...

Treatment of patients with IgA nephropathy (IgAN) remains a matter of debate. Why, given that IgAN is the most prevalent glomerulonephritis in several countries, does it cause end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in 15–20% of patients within 10 years of the apparent onset of disease, and account for 10% of incident ESRD patients? At a first look, this results from the heterogeneity of patients referr...

Jürg Tschopp Photo courtesy of Université de Lausanne. On March 22, the field of Immunology lost one of the great Biochemists of his generation a few months from his 60th birthday. Dr. Jürg Tschopp grew up in Basel in his beloved Switzerland. As a youth, he proved to be a gifted athlete. He was nationally recognized in the decathlon and, naturally, growing up a mere stones-throw from the Alps w...

The controversy that results seems to stem not from different definitions of "consciousness," as some of the participants suggest, but rather from a lack of agreement upon the meaning of "explain." Transcripts of a hypnoanalytic treatment session and of Beck's movie, "Unconscious Motivation," are used by Lewis R. Wolberg to illustrate "Hypnotic Phenomena." Marcel Monnier summarizes the changes ...

In this paper, I want to characterize Wittgenstein’s epistemology, namely his contextualism, presented in his notes published under the title On Certainty. This characterization will be made in terms of a comparison with four control points in order to put into light the peculiarities of Wittgenstein’s epistemological position. The markers I will use for that purpose will give an indication of ...