Contested Paternity: Constructing Families in Modern France Rachel G. Fuchs
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Abstract
A century ago, they lived through times of great change in medicine and in society.A study of their lives would be instructive for this alone as changes loom large once again.This thoroughly researched and well written book, the last by the late Charles Roland, has even more value because the title's epithet could as easily be applied to the author, who was both a noted physician and a fine citizen, as it is to Malloch père.From a log cabin in northern Manitoba, via the University of Toronto and the Manitoba Medical College, to general practice in southern Ontario, Roland actually lived the growth of Canada in the 20th century, just as the Mallochs experienced its sometimes painful early development.Roland left Ontario in 1964 to become an editor with the Journal of the American Medical Association and later Chair of the Department of Biomedical Communications at the Mayo Clinic.Whether or not it was his fondness for Osler studies that led Roland to McMaster University in 1977, as the first Hannah Professor in the History of Medicine, we cannot say, but the situation was fortunate because it brought him to the home ground of the Mallochs and the Oslers.Roland's academic career was as noted for its scholarship as he was known for generous collaboration and gentle mentorship, features he shared with the subjects of his book.It is poignant for the reviewers to look upon photographs of Archibald Malloch Sr. in kind old age and see reminders of his sadly missed biographer.Archibald Malloch (1844Malloch ( -1919) ) grew up in Brockville, Ontario and attended university in Kingston before going to Glasgow in Scotland to complete his medical education (1867).Canada watched anxiously as large armies demobilized south of its border while its leaders, most of whom were known personally to the Mallochs, set about the task of building a new country.Documentary gaps in Malloch's story are expertly filled by the author with a comprehensive picture of life at that time just as the description
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.040 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".