The hitchhiker's guide to global health blogging.

abstract：:Scholars have shown that organ transplantation may transform ideas about one's body, with recipients feeling that they are receiving not just a body part but also a part of the donor's identity. This article focuses on a different way in which organ transplantation shapes recipient identity: the idea of becoming whole...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Rodriguez SB,Campo-Engelstein L

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laura Ferguson's The Visible Skeleton Series constitutes an artistic self-representation of scoliosis. Ferguson employs high-tech medical imaging and innovative graphical techniques to suggest a novel view of her skeletal "deformity." This section presents introductions to the series by a historian of medicine and by ...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Dreger AD,Ferguson L,Aspinall C,Polly DW Jr,Beckwith JB

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metaphysics is an essential part of philosophy of medicine, providing the background for further methodological work. Current accounts of the ontology of particular diseases may be classified as realist or anti-realist. Because strong arguments can be marshaled by both of these positions, an approach to medical ontolo...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Simon JR

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both leading scientific journals and the popular press now regularly report the convincing evidence of massive environmental degradation and decline. Yet despite the seriousness of the problems, despite their anthropogenic nature, and despite their profound implications for present and future population health, such t...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Levine BR

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Milton Winternitz led Yale Medical School as its Dean from 1920 to 1935. An innovative, even maverick leader, he not only kept the school from going under, but turned it into a first-class research institution. Dedicated to the new scientific medicine established in Germany, he was equally fervent about "social medici...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Spiro H,Norton PW

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An intersex condition is one in which an individual is born with atypical male or female external genitalia, gonads, hormones, or chromosomes. Older terms, such as pseudohermaphroditism and hermaphroditism, are controversial, leading the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society (LWPES) and the European Society for P...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Reis E,McCarthy MW

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody-dependent enhancement is a general in vitro property of enveloped viruses. In certain circumstances, antibody-dependent enhancement is a bona fide pathophysiologic mechanism in vivo. There are several examples of virus disease of humans and animals in which incomplete or partial immunity can lead to enhanced ...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Burke DS

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diverse and non-coherent sets of epistemological principles currently inform research in the general area of functional genomics. Here, from the personal point of view of a scientist with over half a century of immersion in hypothesis driven scientific discovery, I compare and deconstruct the ideological bases of prom...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Davidson EH

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Popular fiction responds to, and may exacerbate, public anxieties in ways that more highbrow literary texts may not. Robin Cook's 1977 novel Coma exemplifies the ways in which medical thrillers participate in the public discourse about health care. Written shortly after the medical establishment promoted "irreversible...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Belling C

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How we discovered that sea birds on the Great Barrier Reef are riddled with influenza viruses, and how one of these led to a new drug now being used in the battle against the flu. ...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Laver WG

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C. Wright Mills said that when done well, sociology illuminates the intersection of biography and history. This essay examines how the author's vocational choices and career path were shaped by historical circumstance, leading him to a degree in sociology and to participation in the odd and interesting interdiscipline...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： De Vries R

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The idea of being "haunted" appears often in accounts of the experience of health-care professionals and trainees who suffer from unresolved sorrow or regret about past clinical events, in particular the deaths of patients. The trope of haunting draws a direct line between past professional trauma and the dread of fut...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Belling C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concerns about nature are playing increasingly prominent roles in a variety of social debates, including medical biotechnology, environmental protection, and agricultural biotechnology. These concerns are often simply rejected as incoherent: critics argue that there is no good account for how natural states of affairs...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Kaebnick GE

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the necessity of normalizing surgery on intersexed individuals is a topic of ongoing debate in the 21st century, the origins of surgery as a therapeutic practice for ambiguous or unusual genitalia lie in the 19th century. The first report of corrective surgery published in the United States appeared in the Ameri...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Matta C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schneiderman, Jecker, and Jonsen (2017) correctly take issue with a recent multi-society statement that attempts to replace most uses of the term futility with "inappropriate treatment." However, they mistakenly categorize any treatment of permanent unconsciousness as futile. Futility can be readily defined as an inte...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Brody H

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over recent years there has been a gratifying decrease in the incidence of recorded deaths from coronary artery disease in the Western world. The common view is that coronary artery disease is a recent phenomenon, that we have been subject to an epidemic in the mid-20th century that is now tailing off, and that with a...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： John LC

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The organism, like the molecule, the cell, and the species, is one of the fundamental levels in our hierarchical classification of life and its components. The units ranked at these levels, being concrete, particular things, are individuals in the broadest philosophical sense. But in a much narrower and more familiar ...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Ghiselin MT

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical leadership and leadership education have recently emerged as subjects of an expanding though as yet uncritical literature. Considerable attention is being given to the development of courses and electives, together with some proposals for generalizing these offerings to all medical students and doctors. This a...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Parker M

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this essay we link the rationale for the medical humanities with radical hermeneutics, a move that infuses the medical humanities with incredulity and suspicion. This orientation is particularly important at this historical moment, when the evidence-based and competency blanket is threatening to overpower all aspec...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Wear D,Aultman JM

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When we figure medical practice as warfare, an individual clinician may be either a dutiful combatant or a conscientious objector. The rhetorical structure of this choice means that clinicians may exercise their consciences by loyally joining or disloyally exiting the medical ranks' battle against disease. But there a...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Nussbaum AM

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the 1970s, something deeply consequential happened in the cultural, economic, and social relationships between science and technology. Paul Forman has proposed that the abrupt reversal of the culturally ascribed primacy in the science-technology relationship circa 1980 be taken as a demarcation of postmodernity...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Schweber SS

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The health aspects and benefits of conception control as a justification for U.S. government support of family planning are reviewed. The Family Planning Services Act of 1970 set a goal of serving 5 million indigent women by 1975. It is predicted that the program will far surpass that goal. 340 million dollars were...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Hellman LM

更新日期：1973-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The general population is experiencing lifelong exposure to old and new hazardous substances. By using data collected from a subject's own teeth, accuracy in determining the effects of exposure is assured since extrapolation is excluded. The establishment of a common tooth bank can provide means to integrate data from...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Sharon IM

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marino Ortolani (1904-1983), a pediatrician from Ferrara, in northeastern Italy, was an outstanding pioneer in the early diagnosis and treatment of hip dysplasia. In 1935, while examining hip abduction-adduction in a six-month-old baby, Ortolani noted that a clearly audible and palpable "click" was sufficient to revea...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Stecco C,Porzionato A,Macchi V,Fantoni I,Ortolani L,De Caro R

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of chronic illness on patients has been discussed extensively, but little attention has been paid to the reverse situation: the need for patients who have been chronically ill since childhood to adjust to health and normality in adulthood. Drawing upon the narratives of two adults with childhood onset disea...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Orfali K,Anderson-Shaw L

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper constructs a brief history of the biochemical term agonist by exploring the multiple meanings of the root agôn in ancient Greek literature and describing how agonist first appeared in the scientific literature of the 20th century in the context of neurophysiologists' debates about the existence and properti...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Russo R

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the practice of medicine continually changes in response to new biomedical understanding, novel technologies, and evolving cultural contexts, the ethical foundations of the clinical relationship between patient and physician paradoxically remain constant. There are fundamental characteristics with respect to ...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Fuks A,Brawer J,Boudreau JD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is 200 years old and remains relevant to 21st-century scientific experimentation. Molecular biologists today have become especially bold in their attempts to cure diseases while remaining mindful of the real dangers of their research. Scientists presumably share an abiding concern about pro...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Nowlin C

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We argue that medical decisions on behalf of children should be made with the welfare of the child as the primary interest, that parents should generally be allowed to determine which options optimize the interests of their child, and that those decisions should be formally challenged only when the parental decision p...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Diekema DS,Wilfond BS

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shopping for genetic information has become popular, but consumers may not understand what exactly they are buying. The retail DNA industry is forcing laypersons, academics, and medical and legal professionals alike to face the crossroads of genetics, law, and society. How will we decipher the meanings of the tests, d...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Wagner JK

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00