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Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 46.4 (2003) 611-616



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Volume 46 Index


Articles

Science and Medicine

Rethinking Adaptation:The Niche-Construction Perspective         80
Rachel L. Day, Kevin N. Laland, and John Odling-Smee

Evolution by Phenotype: A Biomedical Perspective        159
Kenneth M. Weiss and Anne V.Buchanan

Genes, Germs, and Schizophrenia: An Evolutionary Perspective        317
Levi G. Ledgerwood, PaulW. Ewald, and Gregory M. Cochran

The Evolution of Medical Imaging: From Geiger Counters to MRI— A Personal Saga        349
John R. Mallard

Getting the Numbers Right: Statistical Mischief and Racial Profiling in Heart Failure Research        473
Jonathan Kahn

Ethics and Philosophy

Autonomy Reconfigured: Incorporating the Role of the Unconscious         96
Richard W. Homan

Sick Autonomy        484
Alfred I. Tauber

Individual Good and Common Good:A CommunitarianApproach to Bioethics        496
Daniel Callahan [End Page 611]

Repeat ParticipationAmong Normal Healthy ResearchVolunteers: Professional Guinea Pigs in ClinicalTrials?        508
Carl L.Tishler and Suzanne Bartholomae

History and Biography

Charles Dickens and the Movement for Sanitary Reform        183
Socrates Litsios

Animals, Disease, and Man: Making Connections        200
Anne Hardy

Rethinking the Boundaries ofKawasaki Disease:Toward a Revised Case Definition        216
Howard I. Kushner, John F.Bastian, Christena H.Turner, and Jane C. Burns

The Biological Basis of Human History        371
William H. McNeill

The Development of the Intramural Research Program at the National Institutes of Health after World War II        383
Buhm Soon Park

Dean Milton C. Winternitz atYale        403
Howard Spiro and Priscilla Waters Norton

The Maligning of a Country Doctor        521
Gordon Bendersky

Prophet in His Own Country: Carlos Chagas and the Nobel Prize        532
Rachel Lewinsohn

The Rise ofPeptic Ulcer, 1900-1950        550
Gerald N. Grob

Medical Education and Practice

Scholars, Investigators, and Entrepreneurs:The Metamorphosis of American Medicine        234
Alvan R. Feinstein

Physicians and the Pharmaceutical Industry: A Dysfunctional Relationship        254
Morris A. Fisher

Where Have All the Giants Gone? Reconciling Medical Education and theTraditions ofPatient Care with Limitations on ResidentWork Hours        273
Jerome Lowenstein

Revisiting the Navajo Way: Lessons for Contemporary Healing        413
Gregory W. Schneider and Mark J. DeHaven

Health Care in the Borderland        567
David Treeson [End Page 612]

Culture and Society

Science Matters, Culture Matters        109
Anne Fausto-Sterling

We-Intentionality:An Essential Element in Understanding Human Culture?        283
Henry Plotkin

New Perspectives on Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health        428
Johan P. Mackenbach and Philippa Howden-Chapman

State-Sponsored Research on Creatine Supplements and Blood Doping in Elite Soviet Sport        445
Michael I. Kalinski

College Physical Education:An UnrecognizedAgent of Change in Combating Inactivity-Related Diseases        579
Phillip B. Sparling

Mold: Tsara'at, Leviticus, and the History of a Confusion        588
Richard M. Heller, ToniW. Heller, and Jack M. Sasson

Essay Reviews

The Class of Culture and the Culture of Class:Thoughts on Sahlins' Culture in Practice        125
E. Paul Durrenberger

Reflections on the Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate        131
Mary B. Mahowald

Understanding Consciousness: Implications andConsequences        297
MarkW.Mahowald

The Politics of Health Care Policy:The United States in Comparative Perspective        592
Cecilia Benoit

Book Reviews

The Monk in the Garden        142
by Robin M. Henig / reviewed by Robert Olby

Laughter: A Scientific Investigation        145
by Robert R. Provine / reviewed by Rod A. Martin

From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design        148
by Sean B. Carroll, Jennifer K. Grenier, and Scott D.Weatherbee / reviewed by Manfred D. Laubichler [End Page 613]

Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States        153
by Margaret Humphreys / reviewed by Clive Shiff

Embryos inWax: Models from the Ziegler Studio        156
by Nick Hopwood / reviewed by Scott F. Gilbert and Jonathan Bard

The Story ofTaxol: Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-Cancer Drug        305
by Jordan Goodman andVivien Walsh / reviewed by E. M. Tansey

Machines in Our Hearts:The Cardiac Pacemaker, the Implantable Defibrillator, and American Health Care        307
by Kirk Jeffrey / reviewed by John A. Kastor

From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice        310
by Jodi Halpern / reviewed byLainie Friedman Ross

Death, Dissection and the Destitute. 2d ed. with New Afterword        312
byRuth Richardson / reviewed bySharon Thomsen

No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home...

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