1. Preface

   • Thomas Kenner
   • Jochen Schaefer

   EditorialNotes Pages: 215 - 217

2. Discrepancies between scientific theory and practice in relation to physiological hypotheses

   • Mark I. M. Noble
   • Angela J. Drake-Holland

   OriginalPaper Pages: 219 - 231

3. Medicus technologicus

   • Ulrich Kliegis
   • Alexis C. M. Renirie
   • Jochen Schaefer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 233 - 238

4. Automatisation and responsibility

   • Peter Hucklenbroich

   ReviewPaper Pages: 239 - 242

5. The ‘borderzone zone’ controversy a study of theory structure in biomedicine

   • Reidar Krummradt Lie

   OriginalPaper Pages: 243 - 258

6. The risk concept in medicine — Statistical and epidemiological aspects: A case report for applied mathematics in cardiology

   • Thomas Kenner
   • Karl P. Pfeiffer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 259 - 268

7. A new paradigm for hypothesis testing in medicine, with examination of the Neyman Pearson condition

   • G. William Moore
   • Grover M. Hutchins
   • Robert E. Miller

   OriginalPaper Pages: 269 - 282

8. Risk, cost-effectiveness and profit: Problems in cardiovascular research and practice

   • Thomas Kenner
   • Christa Einspieler
   • Andrea Holzer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 283 - 297

9. What is minimal monitoring?

   • J. S. Gravenstein

   OriginalPaper Pages: 299 - 304

10. Some aspects of medical ethics from the perspective of bioengineering

    • H. Thoma

    OriginalPaper Pages: 305 - 317

11. Psychological risk factors in cardiovascular diseases

    • Josef Egger

    OriginalPaper Pages: 319 - 328

12. Deduction, inference and illation

    • Edmond A. Murphy
    • E. Manuel Rossell
    • Magdalena I. Rosell

    Special Articles Pages: 329 - 353

13. Clinical hermeneutics: Failure of an approach to clinical practice

    • Markus K. L. Schwarz

    Special Articles Pages: 355 - 359

14. Announcements

    Announcement Pages: 360 - 360