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The necessity of social medicine in medical education.

open access: yesAcademic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 2015
Research and clinical experience reliably and repeatedly demonstrate that the determinants of health are most accurately conceptualized as biosocial phenomena, in which health and disease emerge through the interaction between biology and the social ...
M. Westerhaus   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Living in the midst of miasmas: The social issue of Chile between 1880 and 1920

open access: yesMedwave, 2020
Introduction The social issue in Chile stems from an accumulation of social problems resulting from the migratory movements of the countryside-city and mining areas.
Marcos Parada-Ulloa   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Intron‐oriented HTLV‐1 integration in an adult T‐cell leukemia/lymphoma cell line sustains expression of intact ift81 mRNA

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
In the adult T‐cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) cell line ED, the human T‐cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV‐1) provirus was integrated into the intron of the ift81 gene in the antisense orientation. Despite this integration, both the intact ift81 and the viral oncogene hbz were simultaneously expressed, likely due to the functional insufficiency of viral ...
Mayuko Yagi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

New Directions in Philosophy of Medicine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The purpose of this chapter is to describe what we see as several important new directions for philosophy of medicine. This recent work (i) takes existing discussions in important and promising new directions, (ii) identifies areas that have not received
Bluhm, Robyn   +4 more
core  

Gender Bias in Nobel Prizes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Strikingly few Nobel laureates within medicine, natural and social sciences are women. Although it is obvious that there are fewer women researchers within these fields, does this gender ratio still fully account for the low number of female Nobel ...
Jauffred, Liselotte   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Chamfort, doctor of morals : the maxim and the medical aphorism in late eighteenth-century France [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The increasing prestige of medicine as a science, accompanied by the social rise of the doctor, in eighteenth-century France is well documented. What I would like to argue here, however, is that there exists a correspondence between the establishment of ...
McCallam, D.
core   +1 more source

Juan César García: social medicine as project and endeavor.

open access: yesCiência & Saúde Coletiva, 2015
This paper analyses some aspects of the trajectory of the Argentinian physician and sociologist Juan César García (1932-1984) in the field of Latin American Social Medicine.
E. Nunes
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The terminology of social emergency medicine: Measuring social determinants of health, social risk, and social need

open access: yesJournal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2020
Emergency medicine has increasingly focused on addressing social determinants of health (SDoH) in emergency medicine. However, efforts to standardize and evaluate measurement tools and compare results across studies have been limited by the plethora of ...
M. Samuels-Kalow   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

At the edge of individual cognitive-behavioural policies: how to walk the public health path to effectively improve population health?

open access: yesSalud Pública de México, 2013
Most countries worldwide have recognised the significance of contextual social determinants of health (SDH) on population health. This essay challenges current public health views focused on individual risk-factors and motivates an  evidenceinformed ...
Baltica Cabieses
doaj   +1 more source

Cyclic nucleotide signaling as a drug target in retinitis pigmentosa

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Disruptions in cGMP and cAMP signaling can contribute to retinal dysfunction and photoreceptor loss in retinitis pigmentosa. This perspective examines the mechanisms and evaluates emerging evidence on targeting these pathways as a potential therapeutic strategy to slow or prevent retinal degeneration.
Katri Vainionpää   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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