Confidentiality, electronic health records, and the clinician.

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：: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：: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：: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：:How will developments in genetic knowledge affect the classification of disease? Leaders in genetics have suggested that knowledge of the role of genes in disease can determine nosology. Diseases might be defined by genotype, thus avoiding the limitations of more empirical approaches to categorization. Other commentat...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Miller FA,Begbie ME,Giacomini M,Ahern C,Harvey EA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rise of big data and artificial intelligence (AI) in health care has engendered considerable excitement, claiming to improve approaches to diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. Amidst the enthusiasm, the philosophical assumptions that underlie the big data and AI movement in medicine are rarely examined. This essay...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Chin-Yee B,Upshur R

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:The concept of placebo has evolved over time. Generally believed to be the basis of the premodern pharmacopoeia, the placebo has been adopted in practice as a harmless but unscientific approach towards alleviating symptoms. Currently, many medical scientists view placebos pejoratively as confounding elements in the an...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Kradin RL

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of broken bones has long adhered to principles of tight juxtaposition of fracture ends and of strict rest. Splinting and casting with plaster of Paris helped considerably. Attempts at internal splinting with pegs, bolts, or stabilizing contraptions usually failed. Foreign materials were either not biocom...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Pierach CA

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:Social media use in modern medicine is fraught with ethical dilemmas and risks of unprofessional behavior. This essay surveys the existing literature on the possibilities and pitfalls of social media use by health-care professionals and concludes that non-engagement with social media is not an option. A mindful approa...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Frischtak H,Sinha P

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over time, contemporary writing becomes part of the historical record. In medicine, it is an important learning tool, particularly for understanding the experience and context of disease and illness. Although a century has elapsed since the fictional events on a single day described in James Joyce's Ulysses, the work ...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Shanahan F,Quigley EM

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：:Autobiographical narratives of illness and disability are influential in popular and medical discourses of illness and disability, in part because these narratives represent illness and disability within a sociocultural context, intersecting with other categories of difference. Clinicians can benefit patients through ...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Garden R

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent death of a normal healthy volunteer, as well as the increased use of normal volunteers as research subjects, has heightened the attention given to the participation of normal volunteers in clinical research. An overlooked sub-population of normal healthy volunteers are repeat, veteran volunteers. This essay...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Tishler CL,Bartholomae S

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emerging field of synthetic biology is a novel biological discipline at the interface between traditional biology, chemistry, and engineering sciences. Synthetic biology aims at the rational design of complex synthetic biological devices and systems with desired properties by combining compatible, modular biologic...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Hörner M,Reischmann N,Weber W

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As health care has become of great importance to both individual citizens and to society, it has become more important to understand medicine's relationship to the society it serves in order to have a basis for meaningful dialogue. During the past decade, individuals in the medical, legal, social sciences, and health ...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Cruess RL,Cruess SR

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the 19th century, we have come to think of disease in terms of specific entities--entities defined and legitimated in terms of characteristic somatic mechanisms. Since the last third of that century, we have expanded would-be disease categories to include an ever-broader variety of emotional pain, idiosyncrasy, ...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Rosenberg CE

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reexamines the recent case of the conjoined twins from Malta. Survival was said to be possible only through separation, which would actually leave only one twin alive. The parents refused to allow the killing of one to save the other, but the court ruled that this would amount to the neglect of innocent lif...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Barilan YM

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：: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：:Of all the principles set out by Flexner in 1910, the most fundamental, that of academic and scientific excellence, is more relevant to medical education in the United Kingdom today than ever before. To realize this, undergraduate medical education (UGME) at Oxford has evolved to incorporate the tutorial method of tea...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Fleming KA

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:The linguistic metaphor in biology adheres to a representational theory that seeks similarities between pre-given domains. The point of departure of this paper is the generative and nonrepresentational conception of metaphor. This paper argues that by adopting the nonrepresentational conception of metaphor, meaning-ma...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Neuman Y

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a growing national awareness that the extraordinary extension of life expectancy in our society poses an impending crisis for our health-care system. This is due in large part to the scarcity of primary-care providers, especially geriatricians. To address these concerns, the Obama administration has considere...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Hamerman D

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kelly, Kelly, and Russo (2014) recently proposed to integrate biological, behavioral, and social mechanisms into "mixed mechanisms" situated in the individual's "lifeworld" when considering illness causation. This article suggests considering terminological discrepancies, replacing the pathogenetic with an etiological...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Dammann O

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:The clinical trial of the AbioCor artificial heart, initiated in July 2001 and still in process, has taken place within a matrix of social and cultural patterns that are both "old" and new. The old patterns--those that have accompanied previous clinical trials of other vital artificial organs and transplantation in th...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Fox RC,Swazey JP

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines five letters from the correspondence of American zoologist Edwin Grant Conklin that highlight his theories of genetic and social inheritance, in order to suggest that Conklin's eugenic beliefs--like those of many American authorities during this time--were complex and sometimes contradictory. The...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Reumann M,Fausto-Sterling A

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the beginning of the 21st century, the living conditions of undocumented migrant workers in Belgium have deteriorated drastically. In Brussels, after various social actions, undocumented people began squatting and occupying public buildings to make their struggle visible to society. Desperate, some seized the po...

journal_title：Perspectives in biology and medicine

authors： Vanobberghen R,Louckx F,Depoorter AM,Devroey D,Vandevoorde J

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00