Ethical challenges with the left ventricular assist device as a destination therapy [0.03%]
左心室辅助装置作为终末治疗带来的伦理挑战
Aaron G Rizzieri,Joseph L Verheijde,Mohamed Y Rady et al.
Aaron G Rizzieri et al.
The left ventricular assist device was originally designed to be surgically implanted as a bridge to transplantation for patients with chronic end-stage heart failure. On the basis of the REMATCH trial, the US Food and Drug Administration a...
Internationalisation of information services for publishers' open access policies: the DINI multilingual integration layer [0.03%]
面向出版商开放取用政策的资讯服务国际化:DINI 多语种整合层
Frank Scholze
Frank Scholze
It is essential for the strategy of open access self-archiving that scientific authors are given comprehensive information on publisher copyright policies. DINI, the German Initiative for Networked Information, has developed a German (and p...
The anatomy of sorrow: a spiritual, phenomenological, and neurological perspective [0.03%]
悲伤的解剖学:精神、现象学及神经学视角
Ronald Pies
Ronald Pies
There is considerable controversy, both within and outside the field of psychiatry, regarding the boundaries of normal sadness and clinical depression. Furthermore, while there are frequent calls for a "pluralistic", comprehensive approach ...
Andrew Knight
Andrew Knight
The advanced sensory, psychological and social abilities of chimpanzees confer upon them a profound ability to suffer when born into unnatural captive environments, or captured from the wild--as many older research chimpanzees once were--an...
Effectiveness of antidepressants: an evidence myth constructed from a thousand randomized trials? [0.03%]
抗抑郁药的有效性:来自千篇临床试验的证据神话?
John P A Ioannidis
John P A Ioannidis
Antidepressants, in particular newer agents, are among the most widely prescribed medications worldwide with annual sales of billions of dollars. The introduction of these agents in the market has passed through seemingly strict regulatory ...
Foucault's "fearless speech" and the transformation and mentoring of medical students [0.03%]
福柯的「无所畏惧之言」与医学生的转化和指导教育
Thomas J Papadimos,Stuart J Murray
Thomas J Papadimos
In his six 1983 lectures published under the title, Fearless Speech (2001), Michel Foucault developed the theme of free speech and its relation to frankness, truth-telling, criticism, and duty. Derived from the ancient Greek word parrhesia,...
Walking a mile in their patients' shoes: empathy and othering in medical students' education [0.03%]
换位思考:医学教育中的共情与边缘化体验
Johanna Shapiro
Johanna Shapiro
One of the major tasks of medical educators is to help maintain and increase trainee empathy for patients. Yet research suggests that during the course of medical training, empathy in medical students and residents decreases. Various exerci...
Lewis Wolpert
Lewis Wolpert
Sadness and low levels of depression are adaptive since they lead the individual to try and make up a loss. By contrast, severe or clinical depression is not adaptive, but can be thought of as sadness having become malignant.
Decade of the mind [0.03%]
心灵的年代
Manfred Spitzer
Manfred Spitzer
In the Fall of 2007, ten neuroscientists published a proposal for an interdisciplinary research initiative, the Decade of the Mind, that would focus on four "broad but intertwined areas": mental health, research on high-level cognitive func...
A Darwinian perspective: right premises, questionable conclusion. A commentary on Niall Shanks and Rebecca Pyles' "evolution and medicine: the long reach of "Dr. Darwin"" [0.03%]
达尔文主义观 point of view:正确的前提,值得怀疑的结论——对Niall Shanks和Rebecca Pyles所著“进化与医学: Dr. Darwin深远影响”的评论
Paolo Vineis,Ronald Melnick
Paolo Vineis
As Dobzhansky wrote, nothing in biology makes sense outside the context of the evolutionary theory, and this truth has not been sufficiently explored yet by medicine. We comment on Shanks and Pyles' recently published paper, Evolution and m...