期刊: PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, 2023; 66 (2)
Much has been written about the deplorable state of American health care, but rarely with the wealth of historical and political information packed in......
期刊: PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, 2023; 66 (4)
This study examines the origin and religious roots of taegyo, Korean traditional prenatal education, and raises concerns about potential negative impa......
期刊: PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, 2023; 66 (4)
William Osler (1849-1919) is often considered the most influential physician in the emergence of science-based medicine. However, his approach to clin......
期刊: PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, 2023; 66 (4)
This essay explores what it means to age happily, beginning with concepts of aging and happiness and proceeding to factors that promote or undermine h......
期刊: PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, 2023; 66 (1)
This article provides an in-depth ethical analysis of living donor uterus transplantation, incorporating clinical, psychological, and qualitative stud......
期刊: PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, 2023; 66 (2)
Daniel Callahan died on July 16, 2019, just short of his 89th birth-day. In the years since, we have seen the overturning of abortion rights, a concer......
期刊: PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, 2023; 66 (1)
Long before COVID-19 made social distancing familiar, people with cystic fibrosis (CF) already practiced such behaviors. CF is held up as a classic ex......
期刊: PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, 2023; 66 (3)
Suicide is a worldwide public health issue, and suicide ideation and behavior among adolescents, females in particular, have been increasing. Focusing......
期刊: PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, 2023; 66 (2)
Good science fiction can be a successful vehicle for portraying jus- tice. Science fiction can stimulate moral imagination in much the same way as the......
期刊: PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, 2023; 66 (1)
Expectations about future events underlie practically every decision we make, including those in medical research. This paper reviews five studies und......
期刊: PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, 2023; 66 (3)
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, visual artists created a canon of work examining the illness experience of people living with AIDS. Largely forgotten ......
期刊: PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, 2023; 66 (1)
This article examines the complexity of narratives of space and time which support the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, and the consequences for patie......
期刊: PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, 2023; 66 (3)
Biomedical and philosophical traditions postulate the experience of pain either as quantifiable or as sociocultural phenomena. This critical assessmen......