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In today’s world, access to accurate health information is more important than ever. Many people face confusion when it comes to using antimicrobial medications — especially antibiotics — leading to misuse, resistance, or avoidable side effects. Whether you're a caregiver, patient...
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By NIRAN AL-AGBA In July 2009, the family of Massachusetts teenager Yarushka Rivera went to their local Walgreens to pick up Topomax, an anti-seizure drug that had been keeping her epilepsy in check for years. Rivera had insurance coverage through MassHealth...
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By HANS DUVEFELT, MD “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” – Willam Shakespeare I learned about the Dunning-Kruger effect at a medical conference recently. It certainly seems to apply in medicine. So often, a novice...
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You’ll find a range of relevant works this month in periodical publications near and dear to our subject. Among the usual suspects are History of the Human Sciences, History of Psychiatry, and Social History of Medicine. HHS includes interesting...
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Filed under: General, Journals, psychiatry, medicine, eugenics, human sciences, Brazilian colonial medicine, history of the self, DSM sexual appetite, theory of mind, German graphology, Argentinian social science, Ottoman Empire mental health, social history, LSD therapy
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The University of Michigan Press has recently published Greg Eghigian’s The Corrigible and the Incorrigible: Science, Medicine, and the Convict in Twentieth-Century Germany. As the publisher describes, The Corrigible and the Incorrigible explores...
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Editor’s note: This spring, Health Affairs held its first ever poetry contest. Three winning poems were published in the journal . We’re also featuring some of our other favorites on the Blog throughout the month of October. Operating Room Report (or...
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Margaret DeLacy over at the H-Scholar network has linked to a resource that could be of interest to our readership: a large collection of ProQuest info for dissertations from subject areas within the umbrella of the ‘medical humanities’ that...
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Ontario has become the first Canadian province to legislate a bill that renders such so-called therapies for children illegal, and prevents medical practitioners of adult treatments from billing the provincial health care system. The Toronto Star reports...
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AHP‘s very own contributor Jennifer Bazar has curated a fascinating online historical archive and exhibit on the Oak Ridge forensic mental health division of the Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care in Penetanguishene, Ontario. Find the exhibit...
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Filed under: General, drugs, Resources, asylum, psychiatry, madness, medicine, historiography, digital history, Historical Tourism, Research, institutions, digital exhibit, Ontario, criminal justice, Waypoint Centre, forensics
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The Journal of the History of the Neurosciences has published an article online by S. Huddleston and G. A. Russell (out of the Department of Humanities in Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine) on the 19th century case of painter...
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Filed under: General, Journals, asylum, psychiatry, madness, medicine, Sir Charles Bell, Bethlem, Sir Alexander Morison, anatomy, Broadmoor, facial features, alienism, physiognomy, Richard Dadd, facial expression
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The Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine‘s current series of seminars is on “Medicine & Modern Warfare.” Two talks may be of particular interest to the AHP community: April 27: … Continue reading Seminar Series @ Oxford...
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During the next two weeks, the patient continued to have dry cough and mild pleuritic chest pain but no systemic symptoms. He continued to work full time as a truck driver. The sedimentation rate increased to 68 mm. Repeat ANA was negative. A repeat chest roentgenogram revealed an enlarging effusion...
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Over the course of the summer months, the Weill-Cornell Medical Center Archives in New York have been uploading images from their collection into two new online databases: one for internal users and one that is open to the public. The public database...
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This is a special post co-authored by Jennifer Bazar, Elissa Rodkey, and Jacy Young and published simultaneously at both the Advances in the History of Psychology (AHP) and FieldNotes blogs. Yes, we do listen to your suggestions! Earlier this summer,...
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The Healing Stories of Rachel Naomi Remen I keep coming back to the stories of Rachel Naomi Remen, and this video of one of her lectures reminds me what I value in her work. While advocates of the new medicine have been revolutionizing the paradigm of...