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Good afternoon. I am delighted to be here to present this short paper and especially so in St. Vincent's Hospital, which has its own significant resonance for me being a hospital where my father worked at one stage in his life (the old one in St. Stephen's Green) and later where he died. I cannot claim responsibility for the title of my paper; it comes from the graffiti on the wall of the building where I work and I will return to it anon.…