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Almost back from the summer holiday, I make an easy start by informing about two recent publications of mine, coming out of my involvement in projects at the Gothenburg Centre for Person Centred Care (GPCC). The two articles, one of which appeared at the beginning of summer, and the other in the middle of it, complement each other in analysing and problematising various ethical and political aspects of ideas about so-called person centred care and its related concept of shared decision making in medical and health counselling and decision making. The aspects analysed have implications for policy, economics, research and public health and the articles jointly deepen, problematise and contribute to a sounder theoretical basis of efforts to implement and ensure the quality of person centred care and shared decision making intiatives in health care.
Wednesday, 3 August 2011
Friday, 24 June 2011
July 2010 - June 2011: One Year of Philosophical Comment Statistics
So, this is some trivia before I go on my summer holiday, but if you follow this blog, perhaps also of some interest. Although the blog started late December 2009, the statistics function wasn't activated until May 2010, and the following didn't start to reach measurable levels until June-July that year. Thus, the statistics here presented cover almost a 12 month period starting from that.
1. Number of readers/hits
Over 18.000 in total
Over 1500/month on average
Over 346/week on average
Over 49/day on average
However, the deviation from the mean with regard to especially the weekly and daily averages is pretty drastic. In particular, the means are weighted down by the rather low following the first few months, so the daily hit average nowadays normally varies between 50 and 80. To work out the general picture, here's the trend for the entire period, with figures for hits/month:
2. Most popular posts
Here, it may be interesting to see an overview for the whole period, as well as for the last month. Obviously (and perhaps not surprisingly) the post on Wikileaks continues to be the hit piece by far. On second place, I'm quite happy to see that my take on some bad signs of current bioethics research has been a popular item. A rather late coming hit scoring pretty close to that is some recent comments on the ID card folly of Finland. Behind these three, it's a tight race between several posts on rather different topics. Some of these have been starting to move up the list some time after they were posted – something I interpret as a sign of having been early on a topic of forthcoming interest to a larger crowd, such as in vitro meat or uterus transplantation.
3. Country of readers
This is quite an interesting one for me personally. When I started, rather naturally, my readers were mostly Swedes, but pretty soon the US readership started catching on, while the UK has been a strong runner up to those two in the last 6 months or so. Otherwise, I have been pleased to find that Philosophical Comment attract readers from all over the globe. To provide some perspective, here are images displaying the proportions for the whole period as well as for the most recent month:
So, since I'll soon be off the computer for some time (one of my tricks for achieving some real rest during the short time of a Swedish summer), I guess the only remaining thing to say is thank you. To all of you who read, link, comment, repost, and so on.
See you in six weeks or so!
1. Number of readers/hits
Over 18.000 in total
Over 1500/month on average
Over 346/week on average
Over 49/day on average
However, the deviation from the mean with regard to especially the weekly and daily averages is pretty drastic. In particular, the means are weighted down by the rather low following the first few months, so the daily hit average nowadays normally varies between 50 and 80. To work out the general picture, here's the trend for the entire period, with figures for hits/month:
2. Most popular posts
Here, it may be interesting to see an overview for the whole period, as well as for the last month. Obviously (and perhaps not surprisingly) the post on Wikileaks continues to be the hit piece by far. On second place, I'm quite happy to see that my take on some bad signs of current bioethics research has been a popular item. A rather late coming hit scoring pretty close to that is some recent comments on the ID card folly of Finland. Behind these three, it's a tight race between several posts on rather different topics. Some of these have been starting to move up the list some time after they were posted – something I interpret as a sign of having been early on a topic of forthcoming interest to a larger crowd, such as in vitro meat or uterus transplantation.
One year
Most recent month
3. Country of readers
This is quite an interesting one for me personally. When I started, rather naturally, my readers were mostly Swedes, but pretty soon the US readership started catching on, while the UK has been a strong runner up to those two in the last 6 months or so. Otherwise, I have been pleased to find that Philosophical Comment attract readers from all over the globe. To provide some perspective, here are images displaying the proportions for the whole period as well as for the most recent month:
One year
Most recent month
So, since I'll soon be off the computer for some time (one of my tricks for achieving some real rest during the short time of a Swedish summer), I guess the only remaining thing to say is thank you. To all of you who read, link, comment, repost, and so on.
See you in six weeks or so!
Monday, 20 June 2011
More on the Ethics of Uterus Transplantation
Here are two posts that continues to ad takes on the recent news of advanced plans to conduct uterus transplantation at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in my town.
one at the Oxford Practical Ethics blog by Charles Foster that generated a bit of a discussion (with myself as one of several participants), and
another, very fresh, at the Journal of Medical Ethics blog by Iain Brassington.
In short, Foster takes the discussion to a meta-level, while Brassington wriggles it back to the floor of the clinic.
Enjoy!
one at the Oxford Practical Ethics blog by Charles Foster that generated a bit of a discussion (with myself as one of several participants), and
another, very fresh, at the Journal of Medical Ethics blog by Iain Brassington.
In short, Foster takes the discussion to a meta-level, while Brassington wriggles it back to the floor of the clinic.
Enjoy!
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