Raphael Falk
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595410 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raphael Falk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raphael |
| FAMILY NAME | Falk |
| SIGNATURE | FALK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Overuse and Systems of Care
BACKGROUND: Current health care reform efforts are focused on reorganizing health care systems to reduce waste in the US health care system. OBJECTIVE: To compare rates of overuse in different health care systems and examine whether certain systems of care or insurers have lower rates of overuse of health care services. DATA SOURCES: Articles published in MEDLINE between 1978, the year of publication of the first framework to measure quality, and…
The Relationship Between Geographic Variations and Overuse of Healthcare Services
OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between overuse of healthcare services and geographic variations in medical care. DESIGN: Systematic Review. DATA SOURCES: Articles published in Medline between 1978, the year of publication of the first framework to measure quality, and January 1, 2009. STUDY SELECTION: Four investigators screened 114,830 titles and 2 investigators screened all selected abstracts and articles for possible inclusion and extr…
What is a gene?—Revisited
Mendel's Impact
Argument I wish to propose that the history of genetics reflects the history of the concept of reductionism in the life sciences. Reductionism is the thesis that explanation of laws or phenomena in one realm by those of another realm are always likely to be successful as explanations. By 1900 reduction of biology to the laws of chemistry and physics was not self evident: Although bottom-up preformationist explanations were largely inadequate for …
The Environment in Pediatric Practice
Long live the genome! so should the gene
The Rise and Fall of Dominance
Zionism and the Biology of the Jews
The ArgumentWhereas eugenics aspired to redeem the human species by forcing it to face the realities of its biological nature, Zionism aspired to redeem the Jewish people by forcing it to face the realities of its biological existence. The Zionists claimed that Jews maintained their ancient distinct "racial" identity, and that their regrouping as a nation in their homeland would have profound eugenic consequences, primarily halting the degenerati…
Darwin's Theory of Evolution as a Science
The effect of Darwin's theory of evolution may best be epitomized by the title that Th. Dobzhansky, a leading figure of modern research in evolution, gave to one of his public talks (1973): Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. But it is not only in biology that Darwin's theory of evolution has had such a crucial impact. Its effects are no less significant on disciplines as far apart as geology and astrophysics on the o…
What is a gene
What is a gene
Zionism and the Biology of the Jews
The ArgumentWhereas eugenics aspired to redeem the human species by forcing it to face the realities of its biological nature, Zionism aspired to redeem the Jewish people by forcing it to face the realities of its biological existence. The Zionists claimed that Jews maintained their ancient distinct "racial" identity, and that their regrouping as a nation in their homeland would have profound eugenic consequences, primarily halting the degenerati…
The Environment in Pediatric Practice
What is a gene?—Revisited
Long live the genome! so should the gene
What is a gene
Darwin's Theory of Evolution as a Science
The effect of Darwin's theory of evolution may best be epitomized by the title that Th. Dobzhansky, a leading figure of modern research in evolution, gave to one of his public talks (1973): Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. But it is not only in biology that Darwin's theory of evolution has had such a crucial impact. Its effects are no less significant on disciplines as far apart as geology and astrophysics on the o…
Zionism and the Biology of the Jews
The ArgumentWhereas eugenics aspired to redeem the human species by forcing it to face the realities of its biological nature, Zionism aspired to redeem the Jewish people by forcing it to face the realities of its biological existence. The Zionists claimed that Jews maintained their ancient distinct "racial" identity, and that their regrouping as a nation in their homeland would have profound eugenic consequences, primarily halting the degenerati…
The Rise and Fall of Dominance
Long live the genome! so should the gene
Mendel's Impact
Argument I wish to propose that the history of genetics reflects the history of the concept of reductionism in the life sciences. Reductionism is the thesis that explanation of laws or phenomena in one realm by those of another realm are always likely to be successful as explanations. By 1900 reduction of biology to the laws of chemistry and physics was not self evident: Although bottom-up preformationist explanations were largely inadequate for …
The Environment in Pediatric Practice
What is a gene?—Revisited
The Relationship Between Geographic Variations and Overuse of Healthcare Services
OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between overuse of healthcare services and geographic variations in medical care. DESIGN: Systematic Review. DATA SOURCES: Articles published in Medline between 1978, the year of publication of the first framework to measure quality, and January 1, 2009. STUDY SELECTION: Four investigators screened 114,830 titles and 2 investigators screened all selected abstracts and articles for possible inclusion and extr…
Overuse and Systems of Care
BACKGROUND: Current health care reform efforts are focused on reorganizing health care systems to reduce waste in the US health care system. OBJECTIVE: To compare rates of overuse in different health care systems and examine whether certain systems of care or insurers have lower rates of overuse of health care services. DATA SOURCES: Articles published in MEDLINE between 1978, the year of publication of the first framework to measure quality, and…
Biology (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Genetics (4 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (4 works) · Evolution and Science Education (3 works) · Family medicine (3 works) · Gene (3 works) · Medicine (3 works)