In this Issue

Table of Contents

The Unsteady March

Jack Geiger
pp. 1-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0009
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Global AIDS: new challenges for health and human rights

Paul Farmer
pp. 10-16
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0007
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Articles

Science and Medicine

Evolutionary Neurobiology and Aesthetics

C. U. M. Smith
pp. 17-30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0017
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The Eye Does Not See What the Mind Does Not Know: the bacterium in the worm

Thiruchandurai V. Rajan
pp. 31-41
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0015
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Ethics and Philosophy

Medicine and the Call for a Moral Epistemology

Alfred I. Tauber
pp. 42-53
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0018
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History and Biography

Gonorrhea and the Beginnings of Clinical Research Ethics

Thomas G. Benedek
pp. 54-73
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0003
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Ambiguous Bodies and Deviant Sexualities: hermaphrodites, homosexuality, and surgery in the United States, 1850-1904

Christina Matta
pp. 74-83
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0012
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Medical Educations and Practice

Narrative Possibilities: using mindfulness in clinical practice

Julia E. Connelly
pp. 84-94
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0006
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Culture and Society

The Evolution of Euthanasia and Its Perceptions in Greek Culture and Civilization

Kyriaki Mystakidou, Efi Parpa, Eleni Tsilika, Emmanuela Katsouda, Lambros Vlahos
pp. 95-104
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0013
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Deformity in the "Boxing Boys"

Susan C. Ferrence, Gordon Bendersky
pp. 105-123
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0008
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Alternative Reality and Art: the creative world of Walter Inglis Anderson

Paul Rodenhauser
pp. 124-137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0016
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Essay Review

Can We Learn from Our Patients?

Michael J. Blend
pp. 138-142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0005
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Book Reviews

Microcompetition with Foreign DNA and the Origin of Chronic Disease (reivew)

Kim E. Barrett
pp. 143-146
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0001
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Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of the Enlightenment (review)

George Basalla
pp. 146-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0002
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The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain (review)

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
pp. 148-150
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0004
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Learning from HIV and AIDS (review)

David Pitrak
pp. 150-153
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0014
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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor (review)

Seth Holmes
pp. 153-156
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0011
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Phantom Limb (review)

Audrey K. Gordon
pp. 156-158
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0010
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Disparities and Discrimination in Health Care: An Introduction

Alix Weisfeld, Robert L. Perlman
pp. 1-S9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0032
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Organizers' Introduction

Mark Siegler, Richard Allen Epstein
pp. 10-S14
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0029
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The Institutes of Medicine Report: Too Quick to Diagnose Bias

Sally L. Satel, Jonathan Klick
pp. 15-S25
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0028
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Disparities and Discrimination in Health Care Coverage: A Critique of The Institute of Medicine Study

Richard Allen Epstein
pp. 26-S41
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0023
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Geographic Variation in Health Care and the Problem of Measuring Racial Disparities

Katherine Baicker, Amitabh Chandra, Jonathan Skinner
pp. 42-S53
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0020
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American Medicine and the Politics of Race

Maxwell Gregg Bloche
pp. 54-S67
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0021
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Three Tests for Measuring Unjustified Disparate Impacts in Organ Transplantation: The Problem of "Included Variable" Bias

Ian Ayres
pp. 68-S87
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0019
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Correlation and Causation: A Comment

Stephen M. Stigler
pp. 88-S94
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0031
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Measuring Disparate Impacts and Extending Disparate Impact Doctrine to Organ Transplantation

Robert Bornholz, James J. Heckman
pp. 95-S122
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0022
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"Step into My Zapatos, Doc": Understanding and Reducing Communication Disparities in the Multicultural Informed Consent Setting

Christian M. Simon, Eric Kodish
pp. 123-S138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0030
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Full Disclosure: Telling Patients When Not Being a Research Subject is a Good Choice

Jerry Menikoff
pp. 139-S149
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0025
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Changes in the Disparities in Chronic Diseases During the Course of the 20th Century

Robert William Fogel
pp. 150-S165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0024
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Breast Cancer and Race: A Rising Tide Does Not Lift All Boats Equally

Blase N. Polite, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade
pp. 166-S175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0027
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Black-White Differences in the Economic Value of Improving Health

Kevin M. Murphy, Robert H. Topel
pp. 176-S194
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2005.0026
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