In recent years, more attention and money has been directed toward Alzheimer's care, but neither Mead's article nor the public-health discourse addresses the need to assess the quality of care in nursing homes in general.
However, the philosophical discourse addresses very different meanings of the term, which should be distinguished to avoid misunderstandings, but also to sharpen the key meanings of the term in psychological contexts.
Quite the opposite: it is a demanding philosophical discourse addressing a series of complex ethical and biomedical issues.
In 1734 Berkeley published The Analyst; or, a Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician, which Florian Cajori, a historian of mathematics, called "the most spectacular event of the century in the history of British mathematics".
In particular, the Anglican bishop George Berkeley published a famous pamphlet, The Analyst; or, A Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician (1734), pointing out that calculus at least, as presented by Newton and Leibniz possessed serious logical flaws.
Berkeley, concerned over the deterministic and atheistic implications of philosophical mechanism, set out to reveal contradictions in the calculus in his influential book The Analyst; or, A Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician.
True, the underlying infinitesimals were ridiculous as the Anglican bishop George Berkeley remarked in his The Analyst; or, A Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician (1734): They are neither finite quantities…nor yet nothing.
He took a seat in the Irish House of Lords in 1737 and, while in Dublin, published A Discourse Addressed to Magistrates and Men in Authority (1738), condemning the Blasters, whose Hell-Fire Club, now in ruins, still can be seen near Dublin.
Physicians should be aware that the biomedical discourse addressing the strategic aims of cancer treatment obscures a broader discourse that also comprises psychosocial aspects.
Biotechnology expert discourse rarely addresses these wider issues.
If the discourse is addressed to a nonspecialized audience, its appeal will be to common sense and common principles, common values, and common loci, or "places".
