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International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(5):1117-1118; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl201
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2006; all rights reserved.

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Entelechy, citation indexes, and the association of ideas

SHAH EBRAHIM

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Do you know what ‘entelechy’ means? It was in the title of a manuscript IJE received and it got me wondering what it meant and why the authors had used such an obscure word in their title. Indeed, one of our chosen reviewers (an eminent figure in gerontology) refused to read the manuscript as he did not understand the title. My more curious response was to look it up in the online Oxford Dictionary where all was revealed. Aristotle was the first to use the term as ‘the realization or complete expression of some function’, derived from the Greek meaning ‘to have perfection’. Catalano and Bruckner justify their use of entelechy as the most parsimonious means of communicating the idea of the effect of early-life adversities leading to failure of individuals or populations to achieve their expected lifespan.1 Using cohort life table data from Sweden, Denmark, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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