An evolutionary medicine and life history perspective on aging and disease: Trade-offs, hyperfunction, and mismatch [PDF]
arXivThe rise in chronic diseases over the last century presents a significant health and economic burden globally. Here we apply evolutionary medicine and life history theory to better understand their development. We highlight an imbalanced metabolic axis of growth and proliferation (anabolic) versus maintenance and dormancy (catabolic), focusing on major
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Giovanni de la Fontana, engineer and magician [PDF]
arXiv, 2013 Giovanni de la Fontana was a man of the Italian Renaissance of the early fifteenth-century. Besides becoming a doctor of medicine, he was an engineer who used his skills to mimic the magicians, creating a sort of "artificial magic".
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Health Care and Popular Medicine in Nineteenth Century England: Essays in the Social History of Medicine [PDF]
, 1978 M. Jeanne Peterson +3 more
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A matter of priority: equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines
Swiss Medical Weekly, 2021 Felicitas Holzer +3 more
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Stephen Garton, Medicine and madness: a social history of insanity in New South Wales 1880–1940, The Modem History Series, Kensington, New South Wales University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. viii, 212, illus., A$29.95, A$19.95, (paperback). [PDF]
, 1989 Trevor Turner
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Reading graphic medicine at the National Library of Medicine
Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2018 The Exhibition Program, part of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine, spotlights the collection of the library by creating exhibitions and educational resources that explore the social and cultural history of medicine. Our
Patricia Tuohy, Judith Eannarino
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The Social Contagion Hypothesis: Comment on "Social Contagion Theory: Examining Dynamic Social Networks and Human Behavior" [PDF]
Statistics in Medicine, 2013, 2012 I reflect on the statistical methods of the Christakis-Fowler studies on network-based contagion of traits by checking the sensitivity of these kinds of results to various alternate specifications and generative mechanisms. Despite the honest efforts of all involved, I remain pessimistic about establishing whether binary health outcomes or product ...
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Surgeons, smallpox, and the poor: a history of medicine and social conditions in Nova Scotia, 1749-1799 [PDF]
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The power of dynamic social networks to predict individuals' mental health [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Precision medicine has received attention both in and outside the clinic. We focus on the latter, by exploiting the relationship between individuals' social interactions and their mental health to develop a predictive model of one's likelihood to be depressed or anxious from rich dynamic social network data.
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Rima D. Apple, Mothers and medicine. A social history of infant feeding, 1890–1950, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. xv, 261, illus., $39.50, $16.25 (paperback). [PDF]
, 1990 Valerie Fildes
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