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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

Erratum

Index

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