epub |eng | 2019-07-14 | Author:Amy Gutmann

THE HUMAN RADIATION EXPERIMENTS In 1994 the Albuquerque Tribune’s Eileen Welsome won the Pulitzer Prize for documenting long-rumored injections of hospitalized patients with plutonium during and immediately after World War ...

epub |eng | | Author:Françoise Baylis

8 Scientists, Science Policy, and Politics I believe that science collectively, and scientists individually, have a responsibility to serve the common good, and that this responsibility includes contributing to public ...

epub |eng | 2019-07-22 | Author:Harriet A. Washington

Cleaning House To minimize the foodborne poisons that threaten your fetus or baby, eliminate as many as possible from your household. In order to reduce exposures to bisphenol A (BPA), ...

epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Katie Watson

2. Weeks 1–2 C/Weeks 3–4 LMP: Early Embryonic Processes Policy Example:Frozen embryos Advances in assisted reproductive technology (ART), such as in vitro fertilization (IVF), have increased scientific knowledge about early ...

epub |eng | 2018-09-19 | Author:Michael Dunn & Tony Hope

The case of the poppy-wearing conscientious objector A staff member, Anne, described what had happened: It was close to Remembrance Sunday—the day in November that commemorates the contribution of British ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-12 | Author:Nicole M. Piemonte

4 The Formation of Medical “Professionals” It’s easier to train technicians than it is to train healers. —Dennis H. Novack, Ronald M. Epstein, and Randall H. Paulsen, “Toward Creating Physician-Healers” ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-06 | Author:Chip Walter

16 | FIRST PRINCIPLES The day Larry Page posted his famous blog announcing Calico’s arrival, Art Levinson was well into ruminating on who might make up the company’s leadership. Hal ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-09 | Author:Jacob M. Appel

43 Beyond 23andMe A female hospital employee, Dahlia, has been the victim of a violent sexual assault inside a stairwell. She dies without regaining consciousness. Fortunately, special victims unit investigators ...

epub |eng | 2016-07-15 | Author:Lawrence Schlachter [Schlachter, Lawrence]

CHAPTER 12 Why Dr. Codman Got Fired There are very good reasons why we refer to the big picture as “health care” and not “disease reduction,” “pain alleviation,” or “organic ...

epub |eng | 2016-11-27 | Author:Adam Tanner [Tanner, Adam]

Google Gives It a Try The vision of an easily available, patient-controlled medical dossier remains stubbornly elusive, even for the world’s most successful tech companies. The ambitious goals that pioneers ...

epub |eng | | Author:Gina Kolata

Part II Amanda Baxley: The Next Generation 11 A Life Transformed On that late afternoon in February 2004, on that awful day that Buddy learned that he did indeed have ...

epub |eng | 2016-10-02 | Author:Inmaculada de Melo-Martin [de Melo-Martin, Inmaculada]

When You Are a Hammer, Everything Looks like a Nail A second reason to doubt proponents’ claims regarding our ability to control the natural lottery of sexual reproduction and natural ...

epub |eng | | Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

In 1908, when psychiatrists encountered children who were withdrawn, self-absorbed, emotionally uncommunicative, and often prone to repetitive behaviors, they classified the disease as a strange variant of schizophrenia. But the ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Klitzman, Robert L.

Whether it is part of my identity now depends on the crowd I’m in. When I’m in an Alpha group: I’m one of you. It’s part of me, a description ...

epub |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Anne Fadiman [Fadiman, Anne]

I held a long discussion with both parents through aid of an interpreter. CPS worker Jeanine Hilt was present. Parents understand that the antibiotics are fighting a severe infection and ...