By Frank Manuel (auth.), Edna Ullmann-Margalit (eds.)
This is the second one quantity of court cases of the Israel Colloquium for the heritage, Philosophy and Sociology of technological know-how. on the time that this preface is being written, the fourth annual sequence of lectures in the framework of the Israel Colloquium is already in the back of us and the 5th is underway. The Israel Colloquium therefore has no longer just a destiny to seem ahead to but in addition a previous that is a resource ,of delight and delight if you happen to participate in this enterprise. The Israel Colloquium has, i think, struck roots within the Israeli clinical and highbrow existence, whereas drawing at the ever-increasing readiness of the overseas medical and highbrow neighborhood for non-stop help. As within the first quantity, the following too the papers provided, taken jointly, test a threefold illustration of technology and of the medical task: the old, the social, and the systematic. a unique point of interest during this quantity is the remedy of a few case reports illuminating historic, social, and philosophical elements of medication. one other heart of gravity here's the Eddington Centennial Symposium which was once a first-rate occasion within the Collo quium job of the 1982-83 sequence. it is a becoming position for me to file with sorrow the premature demise in the summertime of 1984 of Solly G. Cohen, certainly one of Israel's best scientists, who's one of the individuals to this volume.
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