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  • Volume 55 Index

Articles

Culture and Society

In Search of Lost Opportunities: Marcel Proyce and James Joust Discuss Doctors, Diseases, Life and Death (a Hypothetical Conversation between Marcel Proust and James Joyce) 155 Fergus Shanahan and Eamonn M. M. Quigley
Chinese Medical Ward: An American's Observations 299 Ryan A. Leonard

Ethics and Philosophy

Interpreting Evidence: hy Values Can Matter as Much as Science 59 Inmaculada de Melo-Martín and Kristen Intemann
Ethics of the Heart: Ethical and Policy Challenges in the Treatment of Advanced Heart Failure 71 Anjali V. Fields and James N. Kirkpatrick
Patients and Borders, Money and Mission: Responding to Medically Needy Persons from Other Countries Who Lack Financial Resources 186 Lauris Christopher Kaldjian
Pregnancy as a Harm? 201 Rory E. Kraft, Jr.
The History of Bioethics: Implications for Current Debates in Health Research 329 R. E. McWhirter
Forgive Me: Medical Error and the Poetics of Forgiveness 339 Daniel Becker, Natalie May, and Margaret Plews-Ogan [End Page 1]
The Immunologic Self 350 S.A. Hoffman
The Body, Its Emotions, the Self, and Consciousness 362 Graham W. Boyd

History and Biography

Philosophy's Loss, Neurology's Gain: The Endeavor of John Hughlings-Jackson 81 C. U. M. Smith
Vaccination-Induced Syphilis and the Hübner Malpractice Litigation 92 Thomas G. Benedek
Homage to Henry Beecher (1904-1976) 218 Franklin G. Miller
Apollo, Sudden Death, and Homer's Odyssey: A Warning from the Past that We May Be Unable to Eradicate Coronary Artery Disease 230 Lindsay C. H. John
Earl Sutherland (1915-1974) and the Discovery of Cyclic AMP 236 Stanley A. Blumenthal
The Lady and the Eel: How Aphra Behn Introduced Europeans to the "Numb Eel" in 1686 378 Stanley Finger

Medical Education and Practice

The Foundation of Physicianship 114 Abraham Fuks, James Brawer, and J. Donald Boudreau
Teaching Within the Operating Theater 127 Graeme S. Carlile
Group-Based and Personalized Care in an Age of Genomic and Evidence-Based Medicine: A Reappraisal 137 Koffi N. Maglo
Should Direct-to-Consumer Personalized Genomic Medicine Remain Unregulated? A Rebuttal of the Defenses 250 Sean A. Valles
Reconsidering Detached Concern: The Case of Intensive-Care Nurses 266 Wendy Cadge and Clare Hammonds
Clinical Expertise and the Limits of Explicit Knowledge 283 Daniel Luchins
Do No Harm: A Case in Point 291 Stewart Justman [End Page 2]
Medical Exceptionalism: Presidential Address to the American Osler Society, 42nd Annual Meeting, Chapel Hill, NC, April 24, 2012 402 Michael Bliss
Two Approaches to Improving Mental Health Care: Positivist/Quantitative versus Skill-Based 409 Daniel Luchins
Shadowing: Pediatric Heart Surgery in El Salvador 435 Caleb Gardner
The Death of Specificity in Psychiatry: Cheers or Tears? 443 Charles E. Dean
From Bedside to Blackboard: The Benefits of Teaching Molecular Biology Within a Medical Context 461 Ramakrishnan Sitaraman

Science and Medicine

Stem Cell-Based Therapies: Promise, Obstacles, Discordance, and the Agora 1 Kathleen K. Eggleson
Menstruation, Perimenopause, and Chaos Theory 26 Paula S. Derry and Gregory N. Derry
The Placebo Effect: How the Subconscious Fits In 43 J. L. Mommaerts and Dirk Devroey
High Lactose Tolerance in North Europeans: A Result of Migration, Not In Situ Milk Consumption 163 Timo Vuorisalo, Olli Arjamaa, Anti Vasemägi, Jussi-Pekka Taavitsainen, Auli Tourunen, and Irma Saloniemi
Empathy Beyond the Conceptual Level: Core Nonspecific Factors of Psychotherapy 175 Jean-Luc Mommaerts, Liesbet Goubert, and Dirk Devroey
Mommy, Kiss It and Make It Well: Saliva Reconsidered—Some Reflections on Alloantisepsis 183 Irwin M. Siegel
Defining the Complex Behavior of the Heart 319 Da-Li Tong, Dong-Xia Zhang, and Yue-Sheng Huang [End Page 3]

Special Issue: Synthetic Life: Scientific, Historical, and Ethical Perspectives

Edited by Ute Deichmann, Michel Morange, and Anthony S. Travis

Introduction to the Symposium on Synthetic Life 467 Alan N. Schechter
Editors' Introduction to Special Issue 470 Ute Deichmann, Michel Morange, and Anthony S. Travis

Symposium Articles

Synthetic Genomics and the Construction of a Synthetic Bacterial Cell 473 John I. Glass
Synthetic Biology: Programming Cells for Biomedical Applications 490 Maximilian Hörner, Nadine Reischmann, and Wilfried Weber
The Fusion of Biology, Computer Science, and Engineering: Towards Efficient and Successful Synthetic Biology 503 Gregory Linshiz, Alex Golberg, Tania Konry, and Nathan J. Hillson
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