Good points Fran...

I would harken to the consideration that when it comes to inequities of
access to or protection from health care services (being mindful of the
fact that brother Fran has on occasion suggested that access to modern
healthcare may not be in the best interest of the individual) it is
analysis that leads us to conclude that people are being deprived of or
perhaps being exploited by health care interventionism. However, the
same analysis may dispose one group of people to correct social
inequities while it may be used by another group to exploit those same
inequities in some fashion. It may be inconsiderate to ignore
disparities in health status in inner cities and rural areas from a
social engineering standpoint - but no less inconsiderate to use the
same data to develop a system of inadequate services to vulnerable
populations while exploiting the revenue potentials that may be
available...

so it is not the analytic mind but the manner in which the analysis is
to be used that ought, perhaps, to be our concern in evaluating the
appropriateness of research methods...

Thank you for adding an aesthetically pleasing literary reference to
the dialogue...

as to the issue of originality of thought... as bill the cat might
suggest:

http://alcyone.cc.uch.gr/~kosmas/pics/bill.gif

bear
--- Francis Biley <sys812000@...> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am not capable of original thought like Bear, so have to depend on
> throwing
> in a quote from somebody else, in this case from Thomas Mann's Magic
> Mountain:
>
> "Analysis as an instrument of enlightenment and civilization is good,
> in so far
> as it shatters absurd convictions, acts as a solvent upon natural
> prejudices,
> and undermines authority; good, in other words, in that it sets free,
> refines,
> humanises, makes slaves ripe for freedom. But it is bad, very bad, in
> so far as
> it stands in the way of action, cannot shape the vital forces, maims
> life at
> its roots. Analysis can be a very unappetizing affair, as much so as
> death,
> with which it may belong - allied to the grave and its unsavory
> anatomy"
>
> page 222, vintage classics ed, 1999, trans Lowe-Porter; first pub
> 1924.
>
> Fran (B)