The Virtuous Psychiatrist: Patient Autonomy
An excerpt from The Virtuous Psychiatrist.
The Mammography Furor:
Why Both Opponents and Proponents of Screening Are Wrong
Robert M. Veatch looks at the mammography debate and why both sides are wrong.
Eastern and Western Approaches
to the Treatment of Cholera
An excerpt from Cholera: The Biography
More Than Genes: An Excerpt
An excerpt from More Than Genes by Dan Agin.
How Common Are Psychiatric Disorders?
An excerpt from Demystifying Psychiatry: A Resource For Patients and Families.
Hysteria: A Circus
An excerpt from Hysteria: The Biography.
On The Disrupted Sequence of Health-Care Reform
Elvin Lim looks at the health-care reform bill that passed in the House.
Inhalation Treatment for Asthma:
Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company
An excerpt from Asthma: The Biography.
The Discovery of Insulin
An excerpt from Diabetes: The Biography.
How We Look At Health Care
A post about health care from author Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.
How Ferrets Identified a Virus
An excerpt from Viruses, Plagues, and History, showing how pigs, dogs, and ferrets helped identify influenza as a virus.
Coming To Understand Obsession
An excerpt from The Thought That Counts by James Douglas Kant with Martin Franklin, PH.D., and Linda Wasmer Andrews.
Did Director Steven Soderbergh Get The Chemistry Right…Again?
A chemical look at The Informant!.
Bioterrorism Beginnings:
The Rajneesh Cult, Oregon, 1985
An excerpt from Bracing For Armageddon?
At last, progress in developing an AIDS vaccine
HIV/AIDS expert Alan Whiteside on the recent HIV vaccine trails in Thailand.
Nauseating or Nauseous
Phil Sefton, ELS, weighs in on the difference between “nauseating” and “nauseous”.