October 10, 1997: Volume 41, Number 3

For the Record

An article by Yoshimitsu Khan, assistant professor of modern languages and literatures, "Tips for Doing Business in Japan," appears in the 1997 issue of Global Business Languages published by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Purdue University. His recent project "Inoue Kowashi and the Dual Images of the Emperor of Japan" has been accepted for publication by Pacific Affairs Journal published by the University of British Columbia. His essay traces the course of establishing and legitimizing Imperial rule in Meiji and pre-war Japan.

William Finlay, associate professor of theatre and director of the Yulman Theatre, choreographed "Guys and Dolls" at the Park Playhouse in Albany this past summer. He also served as combat choreographer for Shakespeare's "As You Like It" at The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Hudson, N.Y. As the artistic director of Proctor's Too, the professional theatre series run in collaboration with the College, he was recently honored by Metroland magazine when the series was given a major award as "Best Experimental Theatre" in the upstate Capitol region.

Robert Baker, professor of philosophy, has published "Crisis, Ethics and the American Medical Association: 1847 and 1997" with Arthur Caplan, Linda Emanuel, and Stephen Latham, in the July 8, 1997 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association. He also made three recent conference presentations: "Doctor Chase's Patent Truss and the Origins of American Medical Ethics" (with Dana Katz '97), at the annual meeting of the American Association of Historians of Medicine; "History of the Goals of Medicine" at The Goals of Medicine: Priorities for the Future Conference in Naples, Italy; and "Revolutionizing the Researcher-Patient Relationship: A Historical Analysis," at the annual conference of the European Society for Philosophy, Medicine and Healthcare in Padova, Italy. Also, he was commissioned to co-edit, with Prof. Laurence McCullough of Baylor College of Medicine, a 925-page multi-authored volume, "A History of Medical Ethics," for Cambridge University Press. The volume will be the first history of medical ethics published in English in the 20th century. Anticipated publication date is 2002.

John M. Spinelli, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, has published a paper "Self-Stabilizing Sliding Window ARQ Protocols" in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. The paper discusses ways to improve the reliability of communication protocols such as those used on the Internet.

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