Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Volume 52, Number 4, Autumn 2009
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E-ISSN: 1529-8795 Print ISSN: 0031-5982
Table of Contents

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Articles
Science and Medicine
Exemplary and Surrogate Models: Two Modes of Representation in Biology
pp. 485-499
Why Is Modern Medicine Stuck in a Rut?
pp. 500-517
The Placebo Effect: Illness and Interpersonal Healing
pp. 518-539
Ethics and Philosophy
Variational Causal Claims in Epidemiology
pp. 540-554
History and Biography
The Painless Brain: Lobotomy, Psychiatry, and the Treatment of Chronic Pain and Terminal Illness
pp. 555-565
Richard Bradley: A Unified, Living Agent Theory of the Cause of Infectious Diseases of Plants, Animals, and Humans in the First Decades of the 18th Century
pp. 566-578
Creativity in Biological Research
pp. 579-584
Medical Education and Practice
Compassionate Solidarity: Suffering, Poetry, and Medicine
pp. 585-603
Culture and Society
An Old Doctor Grows Older
pp. 604-611
Essay Reviews
Reviving the Living
pp. 612-616
Digital Image Processing for Medical Applications
pp. 617-623
Is the Perfect the Enemy of the Good?
pp. 624-627
Evolutionary Biology, Circa 2009
pp. 628-634
Book Reviews
A Guinea Pig's History of Biology (review)
pp. 635-637
The Art and Politics of Science (review)
pp. 637-642
Birth Models that Work (review)
pp. 642-644
Erratum
Index
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