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    edited by William J. Marshall, MA, PhD, MSc, MB, BS, FRCP, FRCPath, FRCPEdin, FRSC, FSB, ... Show More FLS, Consultant Clinical Biochemist and Clinical Director of Pathology, the London Clinic, Emeritus Reader in Clinical Biochemistry, King's College London, London, UK, Marta Lapsley, MB, BCh, BAO, MD, FRCPath, Consultant Chemical Pathologist, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Clinical Endocrinology and Nutrition, University of Surrey, Surrey, UK, Andrew P. Day, MA, MSc, MB, BS, FRCPath, Consultant Chemical Pathologist, Weston Area Health Trust and University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust ; Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Chemical Pathology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, Ruth M. Ayling, BSc, MB, MSc, PhD, FRCP, FRCPath, Consultant Chemical Pathologist, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, UK.
    Summary: The bulk of this book concentrates on clinical aspects of the subject, giving detailed coverage of all conditions where clinical biochemistry is used in diagnosis and management. Clinical biochemistry now uses an increasing number of techniques involving the 'new biology', which are also covered.
    Digital Access ScienceDirect 2014
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    Charles E. Lindblom.
    Summary: How do ordinary citizens, government officials, opinion leaders, or social scientists attempt to solve social problems? This book analyzes our attempt to understand society so that we can reshape it. In so doing, the author largely bypasses both epistemology and contemporary highly abstract theory on knowledge and society in order to achieve a far more concrete analysis of discourse and inquiry in social problem solving. There is a tragic discrepancy, argues the author, between our abilities to solve problems and the difficulty of the problems to be solved. We must make do with inadequate information and inconclusive analyses, for the task is less one of learning the truth than of proceeding in inquiry and decisions when the truth cannot be known. He discusses the many obstacles that prevent us from solving social problems, focusing in particular on learned incompetence. According to the author, parents teach children not to think certain thoughts, and schools often engage more in indoctrination than education. Political rhetoric and commercial sales promotion feed a steady diet of misrepresentation. Social science does help. But because it is dependent on popular thought, it shares the impairments of thought found in both political figures and ordinary citizens. It also develops its own distinctive impairments. Although social science can be improved in ways that the author outlines in his book, social inquiry calls for such significant contributions from lay thought that it renders many conventional ideals of scientific problem solving inappropriate. The author contends that the route to better social problem solving is not through either scientific or popular consensus or agreement, however much they are valued in the world of science and social science, but through a competition of ideas. The index of a society's competence he states, is in its discord over ends, values, or purposes. Nielsen 9780300047943 20160527
    Print c1990
  • Article
    Oehme J.
    Monatsschr Kinderheilkd (1902). 1978 Mar;126(3):156.
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