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Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 47.4 (2004) 627-632



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Volume 47 Index

Articles

Science and Medicine

Paleo-Oncology: The Role of Ancient Remains in the Study of Cancer          1
Edward C. Halperin

A "Small-World" Network Hypothesis for Memory and Dreams          176
Panagiotis A. Tsonis and Anastasios A. Tsonis

Meaning-Making in the Immune System          317
Yair Neuman

The Placebo Response: Its Putative Role as a Functional Salutogenic Mechanism of the Central Nervous System          328
Richard Kradin

The Sculpturing of Fibroblast-Like Cells in Morphogenesis          339
Fanny Doljanski

Ethics and Philosophy

Ethical Pluralism Without Complementarity          181
William J. FitzPatrick

Does Biomedicine Entail the Successful Reduction of Pathology to Biology?          357
Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio

Moving Beyond Bioethics: History and the Search for Medical Humanism          372
Gary S. Belkin

Conceptualizing "Religion": How Language Shapes and Constrains Knowledge in the Study of Religion and Health          386
Daniel E. Hall, Harold G. Koenig, and Keith G. Meador [End Page 627]

History and Biography

Mutual Aid and Animal Dispersion: An Historical Analysis of
Alternatives to Darwin          15
Mark E. Borrello

Reminiscences from My Medical School and Residency Days 32
Alfred Gellhorn

From Butyribacterium to E. coli: An Essay on Unity in Biochemistry          47
Herbert C. Friedmann

Naming Streets for Physicians: "L'affaire Carrel"          67
Marc E. Weksler

Hitler's Penicillin 189
Milton Wainwright

Therapy with Saffron and the Goddess at Thera          199
Susan C. Ferrence and Gordon Bendersky

Vignettes from Psychiatric Training, 1945-1951          227
Barbara Young

Skepticism, Statistical Methods, and the Cigarette: A Historical Analysis of a Methodological Debate          244
Mark Parascandola

Medical Education and Practice

Establishing the Mental Health Baseline          262
Sherman Frankel

Culture and Society

"He Knows That Machine Is His Mortality": Old and New Social and Cultural Patterns in the Clinical Trial of the AbioCor Artificial Heart          74
Renée C. Fox and Judith P. Swazey

Profitable Gifts: A History of the Merck Mectizan® Donation Program and Its Implications for International Health 100
Kimberly Collins

Medicine Through the Artist's Eyes: Before, During, and After the Holocaust          110
Y. Michael Barilan

The Meaning of Natural Childbirth          266
Chris Cosans

"What's My DNA Worth, Anyway?" A Response to the Commercialization of Individuals' DNA Information          273
John C. Bear

Bodies and Borders: A New Cultural History of Medicine          402
Gert H. Brieger [End Page 628]

Superficial? Not Us—We Men Are Born Molecular Geneticists!          422
Thiruchandurai V. Rajan

Genetics: The Not-So-New New Thing          430
Dena S. Davis

Poem

Dual Personality with a Cilia Twist          441
Leon Morgenstern

Essay Reviews

Bioinformatics          135
L. Ridgway Scott

A Traffic of Dead Bodies          290
Richard M. Ratzan

Rosy and Jim: The Mystery of the Double Helix          443
Bernard S. Strauss

How Real Is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?          608
David T. Courtwright

The Male Pill: A Biography of a Technology in the Making          617
Geoffrey M. H. Waites

Book Reviews

The Health of Nations: Infectious Disease, Environmental Change, and Their Effects on National Security and Development          140
by Andrew T. Price-Smith

Plagues and Politics: Infectious Disease and International Policy
edited by Andrew T. Price-Smith / reviewed by Sara M. Glasgow and Dennis Pirages

Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines          145
by Evelyn Fox Keller / reviewed by John C. Avise

Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein's Brain          148
by Carolyn Abraham / reviewed by Peter M. Jucovy

Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution          151
by Francis Fukuyama / reviewed by Michael Kazin

Descriptions and Prescriptions: Values, Mental Disorders, and the DSMs          152
edited by John Z. Sadler / reviewed by Dean Frederick MacKinnon

I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History          157
by Stephen Jay Gould / reviewed by Michael Ruse

Linked: The New Science of Networks          300
by Albert-László Barabási / reviewed by Richard Menke [End Page 629]

Chaos of Disciplines          303
by Andrew Abbott / reviewed by Ali B. Çambel

Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Biology, Immunology and Therapy          305
edited by Emilio A. Emini / reviewed by Richard Novak

The Misunderstood Gene          308
by Michele Morange / reviewed by Robert Roberts

Openness, Secrecy, and Authorship: Technical Arts and the...

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