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A Digital Role-Playing Game for the History of Medicine [PDF]
, 2013 Edward Jenner's 1798 smallpox vaccine was a breakthrough against an epidemic disease, and its subsequent role as a public health measure demonstrates the interplay of disease, patient, healers, and social institutions in medical history. Our project, Pox
Laura Zucconi, Lisa Rosner, Lisa Rosner
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Parent‐to‐Child Information Disclosure in Pediatric Oncology
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Despite professional consensus regarding the importance of open communication with pediatric cancer patients about their disease, actual practice patterns of disclosure are understudied. Extant literature suggests a significant proportion of children are not told about their diagnosis/prognosis, which is purported to negatively ...
Rachel A. Kentor +12 more
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Community concepts in plant ecology: from Humboldtian plant geography to the superorganism and beyond [PDF]
Web Ecology, 2013 The paper seeks to provide an introduction to, and review of, the history of concepts of the plant community. Eighteenth-century naturalists recognised that vegetation was distributed geographically and that different species of plants and animals were ...
M. Nicolson
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Neuroblastoma (NB) with central nervous system (CNS) metastases is rare at diagnosis, but occurs more often during relapse/progression. Patients with CNS metastases face a dismal prognosis, with no standardized curative treatment available.
Vicente Santa‐Maria Lopez +13 more
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Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, 2017 This article reflects on the history of medicine as an academic discipline. It analyzes in particular the debates that took place in France between the second half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century.
Corinne Doria
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Clinical Genetics in Britain: Origins and development [PDF]
, 2010 Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 23 September 2008. Introduction by Professor Sir John Bell, Uiversity of Oxford.First published by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2010.©The Trustee of the ...
Harper, PS, Reynolds, LA, Tansey, EM
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Medical history: as it was; as it will be
Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2020 Born shortly after World War I in 1919 and living through multiple wars, conflicts, and cultural changes in his ninety-six years, Erich Meyerhoff remained a student of history throughout his long life.
Stephen J. Greenberg
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History of Cervical Cancer and the Role of the Human Papillomavirus, 1960-2000 [PDF]
, 2009 Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 13 May 2008. Introduction by Professor Anne M Johnson, Division of Population Health and Institute for Global Health, UCL.
Reynolds, LA, Tansey, EM
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Developmental Disorders in Children Recently Diagnosed With Cancer
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Neurocognitive deficits in adult survivors of childhood cancer are well established, but less is known about developmental disorders (DD) arising shortly after cancer diagnosis. Using 2016–2019 linked Ohio cancer registry and Medicaid data, we compared DD among 324 children with cancer and 606,913 cancer‐free controls.
Jamie Shoag +5 more
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DeepCare: A Deep Dynamic Memory Model for Predictive Medicine
, 2016 Personalized predictive medicine necessitates the modeling of patient illness and care processes, which inherently have long-term temporal dependencies.
A Graves +13 more
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