Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 1992 - Abstracts

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 1992
TitleSubjectAuthors
A requiem for aniline dyes.HealthHeller, Richard E.
A search for the certitude of scientific facts with Giambattista Vico and Karl Popper: the importance of integrative physiology.HealthPinter, G.G., Pinter, Vera
A theory of the mind/brain dichotomy with special reference to the contribution of positron emission tomography.HealthTancredi, Laurence R., Volkow, Nora D.
Attempts to use computers as diagnostic aids in medical decision making: a thirt-year experience.HealthEngle, Ralph L., Jr.
Between language and science: the question of directed mutation in molecular genetics.HealthKeller, Evelyn Fox
Biology is beautiful.HealthFlannery, Maura C.
Boundaries of psychiatry.HealthMulder, Roger T.
Causality in medical science with particular reference to heart disease and atherosclerosis.HealthStehbens, William E.
Confusion in the determination of death: distinguishing philosophy from physiology.HealthBotkin, Jeffrey R., Post, Stephen G.
Corn, Columbus, and culture. (influence of culture on genetic transformations)HealthGalinat, Walton C.
Coronary artery disease: diet-associated viruses as initiators.HealthBal, Dileep G., Mozar, Harold N., Kohatsu, Neal D., Mozar, Alana J.
Co-winner of the 1991 Dwight J. Ingle Memorial Writing Award.Health 
Cultural literacy of medical students.HealthKing, Charles, Vance, Richard P., Prichard, Robert W., Camp, Gwendie
Curies, cure, and culture. (Marie and Irene Curie)HealthHellman, Samuel
Dr. Horace Wells and the conquest of surgical pain: a Promethean tale.HealthGunderman, Richard B.
Equity in physician compensation: the Marshfield experiment. (medical clinic at Wisconsin, USA)HealthSchiedermayer, David L., McCarty, Daniel J., Custer, G. Stanley, Lewis, Russell F., Magnin, George
Fashions in pathogenetic concepts during the present century: autointoxication, focal infection, psychosomatic disease, and autoimmunity.HealthBeeson, Paul B.
From Billings to Bigelow. (John Shaw Billings and John Bigelow)HealthMcNamara, Michael J.
Gaia: from fanciful notion to research program. (mother earth)HealthResnik, David B.
Human HIV vaccine trials: does antibody-dependent enhancement pose a genuine risk?HealthBurke, Donald S.
Introducing students to medicine by an expanded gross anatomy course. (Editorial) (Editorial)Health 
Literary portraits of the family physician.HealthMiksanek, Tony
Munchausen syndromes: hoaxes, parodies, and tall tales in science and medicine.HealthKlotz, Irving M.
Myasthenia, Elise Borden, and me.HealthPatten, Bernard
One hundred years of imaging: new benefits, new challenges.HealthChiles, Caroline, Putman, Charles E., Primack, Steven L.
On learning to see what is not there.HealthJackson, Philip W.
On psychiatry and souls: Walker Percy and the Ontological Lapsometer. (analysis of science of psychiatry)HealthElliott, Carl
On the dilatability of subjective time. (measurement of time perception)HealthAschoff, Jurgen
Penicillins and staphylococci: a historical interaction.HealthSteffee, Craig H.
Prenatal screening for neural tube defects: a choice for all.HealthMuecke, Lee N.
Professional profiteering? The ethics of physician entrepreneurship.HealthHyman, David A.
Psychiatric diagnosis and the market.HealthU'Ren, Richard
Regression in renal cell carcinoma as re-expression of cell death in kidney development.HealthPansera, Francesco
Responses of the health profesions to the demographic revolution: a multidisciplinary perspective.HealthHamerman, David, Fox, Andrea
Response to Van Rensselaer Potter, "Getting to the year 3000: can global bioethics overcome evolution's fatal flaw?"HealthGustafson, James M.
RU 486: how abortion politics have impacted on a potentially useful drug of broad medical application.HealthRegelson, William
Salt consumption in Ancient Polynesia.HealthNorton, Scott A.
Science for development.HealthWilliams, Brian, Williams, Gavin
Should intracerebroventricular nerve growth factor be used to treat Alzheimer's disease?HealthSaffran, Bruce Nathan
Survival of peas, peaches and prenatal pigs.HealthDziuk, Philip
The abuse of language and logic in epidemiology.HealthMcCormick, James S.
The concept of cellular tone: reflections on the endothelium, fibroblasts, and smooth muscle cells.HealthBoswell, Carl A., Joris, Isabelle, Majno, Guido
The discovery of the cardiac conduction system: the testimony of the authors.HealthEhrlich, Walter
The faiths of two doctors: Thomas Browne and William Osler.HealthMartens, Peter
The Human Genome Project: has blind reductionism gone too far?HealthTauber, Alfred I., Sarkar, Sahotra
The impact of philanthropy on medicine and health.HealthGlaser, Robert J.
The influence of romantic literature on the medical understanding of pain and suffering - the stimulus to the discovery of anesthesia.HealthPapper, Emanuel M.
The medicine of the lateral pass. (decline of medical responsibility for patient care)HealthWolf, Stewart
The neglected organ: bacterial flora has a crucial immunostimulatory role.HealthBocci, Velio
The perils of "x-ray vision": how radiographic images have historically influenced perception.HealthLerner, Barron H.
The poverty of epidemiology. (dearth of reliable health research)HealthSkrabanek, Petr
The Sinkovics Hybridoma - the discovery of the first "natural hybridoma."HealthWainwright, MIlton
Tumor suppressor genes, tissue pattern control, and tumorigenesis.HealthBuckley, Ian
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