Articles
Science and Medicine
Medicinal Mushrooms and Cancer Therapy: Translating a Traditional Practice into Western Medicine 159
Richard Sullivan, John E. Smith, and Neil J. Rowan
Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Maladaptation of the Vigilant Genotype ina Hyper-Clean World? 171
T. V. Rajan
Placebo, Meaning, and Health 178
Bruce Barrett, Daniel Muller, David Rakel, David Rabago, Lucille Marchand,and Jo Scheder
The Evolutionary Psychology of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder:The Role of Cognitive Metarepresentation 317
Martin Brüne
Putting the Systems Back into Systems Biology 475
Athel Cornish-Bowden
Complex Adaptive System Models and the Genetic Analysis of PlasmaHDL-Cholesterol Concentration 490
Thomas J. Rea, Christine M. Brown, and Charles F. Sing
Science, Medicine, and Intercessory Prayer 504
Richard P. Sloan and Rajasekhar Ramakrishnan
Ethics and Philosophy
Research in the Ranks: Vulnerable Subjects, Coercible Collaboration, and the Hepatitis E Vaccine Trial in Nepal 35
Jason Andrews
The Prescriber as Moralist: Values in the Antidepressant Debate 199
Neil Scheurich
Cosmetic Psychopharmacology and the President's Council on Bioethics 515
Michael A. Cerullo
History and Biography
"Winged Sponges": Houseflies as Carriers of Typhoid Fever in 19th- and Early 20th-Century Military Camps 52
Vincent J. Cirillo
The Seeds and the Worms: Ludwik Fleck and the Early History of Germ Theories 64
Stig Brorson
Dietary Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus in the Pre-Insulin Era (1914–1922) 77
Eric C. Westman, William S. Yancy Jr., and Margaret Humphreys
Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle and the Case of Congenital Syphilis 209
Arthur M. Silverstein and Christine Ruggere
A Clinical Alternative to the Public Health Approach to Mental Illness:A Forgotten Social Experiment 220
John C. Burnham
Strong Inference: Rationale or Inspiration? 238
Rowland H. Davis
Medical Electricity and Madness in the 18th Century: The Legaciesof Benjamin Franklin and Jan Ingenhousz 330
Sherry Ann Beaudreau and Stanley Finger
Heart Attack, Heart Rate, and Gel Electrodes: The Invention ofAmbulatory Cardiology 346
Donald A. Rowley and Seymour Glagov
Environment, Population, and Biology: A Short History of ModernEpidemiology 357
Alessandra Parodi, David Neasham, and Paolo Vineis
Aristotle's Study of the Animal World: The Case of the Kobios and Phucis 369
Jason A. Tipton
Building Blocks That Make a Doctor, 1920–1938 524
Barbara Young
Medical Education and Practice
Medicine and Place: An Inquiry 84
Julie M. Aultman and Delese Wear
Redefining Disease? The Nosologic Implications of Molecular Genetic Knowledge 99
Fiona Alice Miller, Megan E. Begbie, Mita Giacomini, Catherine Ahern, and Erin A. Harvey
Gynecologists and Estrogen: An Affair of the Heart 115
Adriane Fugh-Berman and Anthony R. Scialli
Investigating the Barons: Narrative and Nomenclature in Munchausen Syndrome 250
Jill A. Fisher
Beyond the Physician Charter: Reflections on Medical Professionalism 263
Herbert M. Swick, Charles S. Bryan, and Lawrence D. Longo
Aequanimitas Redux: William Osler on Detached Concern versusHumanistic Empathy 384
Charles S. Bryan
Doctoring as Leadership: The Power to Heal 393
Edvin Schei
The Gift: When a Patient Chooses to Die 537
David Goldblatt
"Post-Residency Disease" and the Medical Self: Identity, Work, and Health Care Among Doctors Who Become Patients 542
Robert Klitzman
Torture in Abu Ghraib 553
Allen S. Keller
Culture and Society
Medicine in the Age of Ulysses: James Joyce's Portrait of Life, Medicine, and Disease on a Dublin Day a Century Ago 276
Fergus Shanahan and Eamonn M. M. Quigley
Contested Boundaries: Psychiatry, Disease, and Diagnosis 407
Charles E. Rosenberg
What's in a Name? Death Before Birth 425
Annemarie Jutel
The Rise and Demise of a Collection of Human Fetuses at Mount Holyoke College 435
Lynn M. Morgan
The Evolution of a Social Construction: The Case of Male Homosexuality 570
Pieter R. Adriaens and Andreas De Block
Why Psychiatric Conditions Are Special: An Evolutionary and Cross-Cultural Perspective 586
Horacio Fabrega, Jr.
Regarding Zygotes as Persons: Implications for Public Policy 602
L. Lewis Wall and Douglas Brown
The Politics of Pathology: How Obesity Became an Epidemic Disease 611
J. Eric Oliver
Essay Reviews
Working Minds 131
Barbara Maria Stafford
Mark Twain's Medicine Show 137
Wes Davis
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