Confronting the Medical Leviathan: Reading a Report from the Front Lines [0.03%]
直面医疗巨兽——从第一线看一份调查报告
Arthur W Frank
Arthur W Frank
This essay discusses how two physicians in Britain's National Health Service describe and analyze the conditions of their work: how algorithms and protocols structure the care they can provide and create the dilemmas they and their patients...
Neal Curtis
Neal Curtis
This article explores three different comics by creators with brain tumors: Rick, written and drawn by Gordon Shaw; Going Remote, written by Adam Bessie and drawn by Peter Glanting; and Parenthesis, written and drawn by Élodie Durand. It e...
Larry R Churchill
Larry R Churchill
This essay is an exploration of the transformative possibilities open to us through aging. Transformative openings are described using psychologist Abraham Maslow's notion of "peak-experiences," which are both normal and common for humans. ...
Benjamin W Frush,Kristin M Collier
Benjamin W Frush
While the proliferation of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives among medical schools and residency training programs has provided important benefits of demographic and experiential diversity among medical trainees, there has ...
Laura Sumrall,Maureen A O&#x;Malley
Laura Sumrall
The concepts currently operating in much medical microbiome research bear a curious resemblance to an ancient tradition of Western medicine. This tradition, humoral medicine, is concerned with the four humors: yellow and black bile, phlegm,...
Donald S Burke,Amy Schleunes
Donald S Burke
Surprisingly, the 1977 "Russian flu" H1N1 pandemic influenza virus was genetically indistinguishable from strains that had circulated decades earlier but had gone extinct in 1957. This essay puts forward the most plausible chronology to exp...
Robert Baker
Robert Baker
The Hippocratic oath is such an enduring icon of medical morality that physicians in Nazi Germany invoked it to protest Euthanasie, the systematized killing of weak or sick children, people with incurable diseases, hospitalized criminals (a...
Eric Racine
Eric Racine
Ethics theory is highly valued to the point that some commentators have claimed that it has taken on a life of its own, with too much focus on the justification of moral judgment and not enough on the needs of users of such theory. Building...
Biology as a Construct: Universals, Historicity, and the Postmodern Critique [0.03%]
生物学的建构：普世价值、历史性和后现代批评
Hippokratis Kiaris
Hippokratis Kiaris
The integration of postmodern thinking in the sciences, especially in biology, has been subject to harsh criticism. Contrary to Enlightenment ideals of objectivity and neutrality in the scientific method, the postmodern stance holds that tr...
Drug Development Failure: How GLP-1 Development Was Abandoned in 1990 [0.03%]
GLP-1的研发失败：1990年GLP-1研究被放弃的原因
Jeffrey S Flier
Jeffrey S Flier
Many factors determine whether and when a class of therapeutic agents will be successfully developed and brought to market, and historians of science, entrepreneurs, drug developers, and clinicians should be interested in accounts of both s...