In less than a decade, scientists at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) learned how to clone DNA, founded the company that created the field of biotechnology, identified the first cancer genes, and made the heretical discovery that a protein by itself can transmit an infectious disease. The discoveries of Herbert Boyer, Michael Bishop, Harold Varmus, and Stanley Prusiner show that real innovators require freedom and time to tackle hard problems in their own way.

Paths to Innovation (Perspectives in Medical Humanities)

Bourne, Henry

Science & Math

University of California Medical Humanities Press

At Work in the World: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History of Occupational and Environmental Health

History

Blanc MD, Paul D.

Historical Study & Educational Resources

What to Read on Love, not Sex: Freud, Fiction, and the Articulation of Truth in Modern Psychological Science

What to Read on Love, not Sex examines Sigmund Freud's career-long reliance on tragedy, myth, scripture, and art to articulate a psychology of love. The author, a neurologist and psychiatrist at Harvard, rethinks Freud's relevance for modern psychology.

Miyawaki, Edison

What to Read on Love, not Sex examines Sigmund Freud's career-long reliance on tragedy, myth, scripture, and art to articulate a psychology of love. The author, a neurologist and psychiatrist at Harvard, rethinks Freud's relevance for modern psychology.

Miyawaki M D, Edison

Patient Poets: Illness from Inside Out invites readers to consider what caregivers and medical professionals may learn from poetry by patients. It offers reflections on poetry as a particularly apt vehicle for articulating the often isolating experiences of pain, fatigue, changed life rhythms, altered self-understanding, embarrassment, resistance, and acceptance.

Patient Poets: Illness from Inside Out

Health, Fitness & Dieting

McEntyre, Marilyn Chandler

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Endocrine surgery - the subspecialty of general surgery involving diseases of the thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal glands as well as the endocrine pancreas - is a rapidly growing field of medicine that has a rich and fascinating history. As recently as the mid-19th Century, surgery for thyroid goiter was described as "horrid butchery" and believed by many to be too dangerous for any surgeon to attempt. Through the ingenuity and tireless efforts of surgeons in Europe and the U.S., thyroidectomy became a safe and even elegant operation, one that renowned Johns Hopkins surgeon William Halsted would describe in 1926 as representing "the supreme triumph of the surgeon's art." In this unique and captivating book, these and other seminal stories from the history of endocrine surgery are vividly retold by the current leaders in the field.

'The Supreme Triumph of the Surgeon's Art': A Narrative History of Endocrine Surgery

Zeiger, Martha A.

Shen, Wen T.

Felger, Erin A.

How is it that people in search of healing were at one time able to experience the therapeutic effects of "animal magnetism"?  The evidence suggests that those who went in for treatments we would now call placebos didn't feign their sensations but felt what they supposed others felt; they reacted as social beings. In one way or another, so do we today. But while the feeling of membership buoys us and may contribute to health, that is not all it can do, medically speaking. In this study a humanist looks at the placebo effect, taking into account both its history and its ambiguity and bringing out the more questionable potential of some health fashions, trends, and movements of our own time.

To Feel What Others Feel: Social Sources of the Placebo Effect

Justman, Stewart

The Firefly Project: Conversations about what it means to be alive, presents true dialogues about living and dying, hopes and dreams, grief and loss. These stories show human beings connecting through the old-fashioned art of letter-writing. Adults with life-threatening illnesses move beyond ideas of themselves as ill or disabled, and discover they have much to give back. Their correspondents - teenagers and medical students, none of whom have yet met their pen pals in person - discover empathy and find time to focus on others rather than exclusively their own thoughts and concerns, grappling with difficult questions about patients' experiences. The Firefly Project has become a repository of intergenerational dialogues full of rare and compassionate insights into the meaning of life, illness, and death.

The Firefly Project: Conversations about what it means to be alive

Perlis, Cynthia D.

Parenting & Relationships

This collection of essays challenges static and binary discourses regarding the Cuban healthcare system, bringing together papers that paint a nuanced and dynamic picture of the intricacies of Cuban health(care) as it is represented and experienced both on the island and around the world.

Health Travels: Cuban Health(care) On and Off the Island (Perspectives in Medical Humanities)

Burke, Nancy

Many of the bioethical and medical issues challenging society today have been anticipated and addressed in literature ranging from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Albert Camus's The Plague, to Margaret Edson's Wit. The ten works of fiction explored in this book stimulate lively dialogue on topics like bioterrorism, cloning, organ transplants, obesity and heart disease, sexually transmitted diseases, and civil and human rights. This interdisciplinary and multicultural approach introducing literature across the curricula helps students master medical and bioethical concepts brought about by advances in science and technology, bringing philosophy into the world of science.

Bioethics and Medical Issues in Literature

Literature & Fiction

Stripling, Mahala Yates

Contemporary

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Paths to Innovation (Perspectives in Medical Humanities)

At Work in the World: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History of Occupational and Environmental Health

What to Read on Love, not Sex: Freud, Fiction, and the Articulation of Truth in Modern Psychological Science

What to Read on Love, not Sex: Freud, Fiction, and the Articulation of Truth in Modern Psychological Science

Patient Poets: Illness from Inside Out

'The Supreme Triumph of the Surgeon's Art': A Narrative History of Endocrine Surgery

To Feel What Others Feel: Social Sources of the Placebo Effect

The Firefly Project: Conversations about what it means to be alive

Health Travels: Cuban Health(care) On and Off the Island (Perspectives in Medical Humanities)

Bioethics and Medical Issues in Literature