The need to reform our assessment of evidence from clinical trials: a commentary [0.03%]
对临床试验证据评估方法改革的需求:评述
Sean M Bagshaw,Rinaldo Bellomo
Sean M Bagshaw
The ideology of evidence-based medicine (EBM) has dramatically altered the way we think, conceptualize, philosophize and practice medicine. One of its major pillars is the appraisal and classification of evidence. Although important and ben...
Human embryonic stem cell research, justice, and the problem of unequal biological access [0.03%]
人类胚胎干细胞研究、正义与不平等的生物接触问题
Mark S Moller
Mark S Moller
In 2003, Ruth Faden and eighteen other colleagues argued that a "problem of unequal biological access" is likely to arise in access to therapies resulting from human embryonic stem cell research. They showed that unless deliberate steps are...
"Enhanced" interrogation of detainees: do psychologists and psychiatrists participate? [0.03%]
审讯中的强化:心理学家和精神病学家参与其中吗?
Abraham L Halpern,John H Halpern,Sean B Doherty
Abraham L Halpern
After revelations of participation by psychiatrists and psychologists in interrogation of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay and Central Intelligence Agency secret detention centers, the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psycholog...
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...