Volume 52 Index

1 Articles Culture and Society Death, Mourning, and Medical Progress 103 Daniel Callahan The Threat That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Human Extinction 116 Richard J. Epstein and Y. Zhao Henry James’s The Ambassadors:The Promise to Lonely Adolescents that There Will Be a Future 414 Barbara Young An Old Doctor Grows Older 604 Howard Spiro Ethics and Philosophy Personal Morality and Professional Obligations: Rights of Conscience and Informed Consent 30 Thomas May and Mark P. Aulisio Creating Reflective Spaces: Interactions Between Philosophers and Biomedical Scientists 39 Inmaculada de Melo-Martin Revisiting the Beginning of Bioethics:The Contribution of Fritz Jahr (1927) 377 José Roberto Goldim The Avoidance of Human Suffering 381 Julia E. Connelly Variational Causal Claims in Epidemiology 540 Federica Russo Volume 52 Index Vol. 52 index:Index_Final_1–5 10/4/09 4:41 PM Page 1 2 Volume 52 Index Perspectives in Biology and Medicine History and Biography Who Is Dürer’s Syphilitic Man? 48 Colin Eisler Edward Bancroft’s “Torporific Eels” 61 Stanley Finger Poetry and the Brain: Cajal’s Conjectures on the Psychology of Writers 80 Lazaros C.Triarhou and Ana B.Vivas Homage to Robert Hooke (1635–1703): New Insights from the Recently Discovered Hooke Folio 392 Howard Gest “More Fatal than Powder and Shot”: Dysentery in the U.S.Army During the Mexican War, 1846–48 400 Vincent J. Cirillo The Painless Brain: Lobotomy, Psychiatry, and the Treatment of Chronic Pain and Terminal Illness 555 Mical Raz 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 566 Melvin Santer Creativity in Biological Research 579 Werner Maas Medical Education and Practice Medical Education and the Tyranny of Competency 90 Michael A. Brooks In Sickness and in Health Care: A Student’s Thoughts Before Beginning His Medical Training 424 Brian S. Finkelman I Was a Mole in an IRB 435 Allen B.Weisse Compassionate Solidarity: Suffering, Poetry, and Medicine 585 Jack Coulehan Science and Medicine Darwinism and the Cultural Evolution of Sports 1 Andreas De Block and Siegfried Dewitte Kawasaki Disease in India: Increasing Awareness or Increased Incidence? 17 Howard I. Kushner, Rupert P. Macnee, and Jane C. Burns The Insulin Immunoassay After 50 Years: A Reassessment 343 Stanley Blumenthal Vol. 52 index:Index_Final_1–5 10/4/09 4:41 PM Page 2 Volume 52 Index autumn 2009 • volume 52, number 4 3 A New Curriculum to Link the Basic Science of Aging with Geriatric Practice 355 David Hamerman Genetic Counseling for Thalassemia in the Islamic Republic of Iran 364 Bernard S. Strauss Exemplary and Surrogate Models:Two Modes of Representation in Biology 485 Jessica A. Bolker Why Is Modern Medicine Stuck in a Rut? 500 Indraneel Mittra The Placebo Effect: Illness and Interpersonal Healing 518 Franklin G. Miller, Luana Colloca, and Ted J. Kaptchuk Essay Reviews The Stem-Cell Century: A New Epoch and Fresh Challenges 126 Jennifer B. McCormick and Christopher Thomas Scott Down with Natural Selection? 134 Massimo Pigliucci Science Without Laws 141 Silvan S. Schweber Welcome Home, Descartes! Rethinking the Anthropology of the Body 153 Stefan Ecks Evolution in the Post-Genome Era 332 Austin L. Hughes Horizons on the World 442 Julian C. Hughes Dissecting Vision in Early Science and Medicine 448 Robert Michael Brain and Kelly Joan Whitmer Losing Dignity 454 Daniel Brudney Reviving the Living 612 Michael T. Ghiselin Digital Image Processing for Medical Applications 617 David R. Okada and Ron Blankstein Is the Perfect the Enemy of the Good? 624 Arthur Caplan Evolutionary Biology, Circa 2009 628 Robert L. Perlman Vol. 52 index:Index_Final_1–5 10/4/09 4:41 PM Page 3 4 Volume 52 Index Perspectives in Biology and Medicine Book Reviews Inhuman Research: Medical Experiments in German Concentration Camps 159 by Alfred Pasternak / reviewed by Benno Müller-Hill From Embryology to Evo-Devo: A History of Developmental Evolution 458 edited by Manfred D. Laubichler and Jane Maienschein / reviewed by Ronald A. Jenner Making Visible Embryos 463 by Tatjana Buklijas and Nick Hopwood / reviewed by Jonathan Bard Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research 464 by Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy Wagner / reviewed...