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George Reisch: The Paranoid Style in American History of Science
George Reisch: The Paranoid Style in American History of Science
ABSTRACT 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Thomas Kuhn’s seminal book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Reisch points out that it is no coincidence that the book was conceived, written, and published in America during the most stressful and anxiety-ridden years of the cold war. Reisch’s talk traces Kuhn’s influential book’s relationship […]
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Lainie Ross: Deceased Donor Kidney Allocation: Equity, Efficiency and Unintended Consequences
Lainie Ross: Deceased Donor Kidney Allocation: Equity, Efficiency and Unintended Consequences
ABSTRACT In her talk, Ross describes three ways that kidney donations are allocated to those in need of a kidney transplant, including the Equal Opportunity Supplemented by Fair Innings (EOFI) method. She will discuss the conceptions of efficiency and equity that are employed by each model, and evaluate whether EOFI could conform to the National […]