Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 1997 - Abstracts

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 1997
TitleSubjectAuthors
Alzheimer's disease.HealthGilman, Sid
Anesthesia and the surgical experience.HealthPapper, E.M.
Benign magical thinking. (advantage of using magical thinking over scientific and medical knowledge in the therapeutic management of diseases)HealthBlacher, Richard B.
Botulinum toxin: the story of its development for the treatment of human disease.HealthJohnson, Eric A., Schantz, Edward J.
Changing streptococci and prospects for the global eradication of rheumatic fever.HealthStollerman, Gene H.
Cortisone therapy: a challenge to academic medicine in 1949-1952.HealthHetenyi, G., Jr., Karsh, J.
Death is not the enemy.HealthGustafson, James M., Landau, Richard L.
Deconstructing disease: an anatomy of illness in the age of molecular biology.HealthPlotz, Paul H.
Do theoretical bridges exist between perceptual experience and neurophysiology?HealthUttal, William R.
Emerging pathogens: threat and opportunity.HealthForrest, David M., Gushulak, Brian
Equal rights for parasites. (call for protection of parasites against extinction)HealthWindsor, Donald A.
Errors in getting and interpreting evidence. (The Santayana Syndrome, part 1)(medicine)HealthFeinstein, Alvan R.
Ethical conflicts in regulating the start of life.HealthSantalahti, Paivi, Hemminki, Elina, Louhiala, Pekka
Extreme pleomorphism and the bacterial life cycle: a forgotten controversy.HealthWainwright, Milton
Fractal variability versus pathologic periodicity: complexity loss and stereotypy in disease.HealthGoldberger, Ary L.
Gerontological observations supporting Einstein and Mao.HealthHirsch, Henry H.
Hans Scholl and the 'Weisse Rose': an aspect of medical resistance during the third reich.HealthPierach, Claus A.
Humbug breast cancer follies: odds ratios for the relative risk of truth; unsolicited reportage from a board certified non-epidemiologist.HealthLandau, William M.
Individual interests, societal interests, and reproductive technologies.HealthBaird, Patricia
Insulin, the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and blood pressure.HealthTait, James F., Tait, Sylvia A.S.
Is "life" based on clockwork biology or quantum uncertainty?HealthHallett, M.B.
It has been said. (quotations)HealthBrown, D.W.
Life science: the semantic confrontation.(Opinions of Our Readers)HealthDix, Douglas
Long-term control of blood pressure and sodium balance: is the baseline nocturnal?HealthMichell, Alastair
Looking ahead: some genetic issues of the future.HealthNeel, James V.
Melatonin: pathway from obscure molecule to international fame. (hormone)HealthTurek, Fred W.
Microbial secondary metabolites play important roles in medicine: prospects for discovery of new drugs.HealthBentley, Ronald
On the causation of edema: a lymphologic perspective.HealthWitte, Marlys H., Witte, Charles F.
On the dialectic between molecular biology and integrative physiology: toward a new medical scienceHealthGoldstein, David S.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: being, critical thresholds, and evolutionary thought.HealthMcDermott, Peter L.
Prince Hamlet and Professor Koch. (Dr. Robert Koch)HealthFry, William F.
Problems in reasoning and learning about error. (The Santayana Syndrome, part 2) (medical errors)HealthFeinstein, Alvan R.
Proof. (proof in medical science)HealthHerman, Joseph
Rattle-sword. (William Shakespeare reworded to apply to medicine)HealthFoster, James H.
Rene J. Dubos and Fred L. Soper: their contrasting views on vector and disease eradication.HealthLitsios, Socrates
Rheumatoid arthritis - heresies and speculations.HealthFox, David A.
Secondary metabolites play primary roles in human affairs. (beneficial and harmful secondary metabolites affecting body functions and needs)HealthBentley, Ronald
Serendipity in scientific discovery: a closer look.HealthGest, Howard
The discovery of serotonin.HealthRapport, Maurice M.
The lactobacillus anomaly: total iron abstinence.HealthWeinberg, Eugene D.
The Olmec heart effigy: earliest image of the human heart.HealthBendersky, Gordon
The physics of laparoscopic surgery: a dissertation on the contributions of famous physicists to laparoscopic surgery.HealthGordon, Leo A.
The recurring popularity of alternative medicine.HealthYankauer, Alfred
The rest is silence. (living in a retirement home)Health 
The role of clinical investigation in medicine: historical perspective from the Rockefeller University.HealthHirsch, Jules
The travail of the university.HealthMac Lane, Saunders
The upcoming seventh millennium: just one year away.HealthKlotz, Irving M.
The wonders of Darwin's world.HealthWitkin, Evelyn M.
The worm and the tumor: reflections on Fibiger's Nobel prize.HealthCampbell, William C.
Thyroxine's evolutionary roots.HealthJohnson, Leland G.
Toward an understanding of intuition and its importance in scientific endeavor.HealthIsenman, Lois D.
Unlicensed on the information highway.HealthFelts, John H.
Walther Lob, Stanley L. Miller and prebiotic "building blocks" in the silent electrical discharge.HealthYockey, Hubert P.
Who cares: a reflection on healing communities.HealthMcEntyre, Marilyn Chandler
Why I changed my mind about water fluoridation.HealthColquhoun, John
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