Rhonda J. Moore Editor 2009 Two thousand years ago St. Paul called his painful affliction ‘‘the thorn in the flesh’’ and a ‘‘messenger from Satan’’ which only God could remove. St. Augustine echoed this sentiment stating, ‘‘the greatest evil is physical pain.’’ The concept of pain as punishment for one’s sins lasted for centuries and evolved into a ‘‘warning’’ […]
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Carlo Combi Yuval Shahar Ameen Abu-Hanna (Eds.) 2009 The European Society for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME) was established in 1986 following a very successful workshop held in Pavia, Italy, the year before. The principal aims of AIME are to foster fundamental and applied research in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to medical care and medical research, […]
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Jerry Stonemetz • Keith Ruskin Editors 2009 The seeds of this project were sown at a chance meeting between one of the editors (JS) and Marion Ball, PhD, at The Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Ball, who is arguably the matriarch of medical informatics, convinced us that we should take on the challenge of describing the components of the […]
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Mary O’Brien 2009 “Know the ideal beautiful normal. Diagnose what is present; what is diseased, destroyed, displaced or distorted; and what is in excess. Then, guided by the normal in your mind’s eye, use what you have to make what you want- and when possible go for even better than what would have been.”
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Jean-Marie Lachapelle • Howard I. Maibach 2009 A Practical Guide Official Publication of the ICDRG This second edition has been expanded taking into account the progress made in the field of contact dermatitis during the last 5 years. The realm of dermato-allergology is constantly on the move; this implies a better knowledge of the mechanisms involved, improvements of […]
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Joseph D. Tucker · Dudley L. Poston Editors 2009 Catalyzing Policy Change In recent years Chinese and American scientists have seen the sphere of research collaboration expand further than ever before. Just as economic and political links have multiplied between the United States and China in keeping with our global influence, valuable new scholarly connections are being forged between […]
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Nicholas Graves • Kate Halton William Jarvis 2009
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Bruce Hannon • Matthias Ruth 2009
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Seth C. Kalichman 2009 Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, and Human Tragedy My strange journey into HIV/AIDS denialism started with a seemingly random event. As the editor of the behavioral science research journal AIDS and Behavior I sent an email to everyone who had ever been asked to provide peer reviews for papers submitted to the journal requesting that they […]
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Edited by I. W. Fong Kenneth Alibek 2009 Since the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001 and subsequent cases of anthrax in Florida and New York City, attention has been focused on the threat of biological warfare and bioterrorism. Biological warfare agents are defined as “living organisms, whatever their nature, or infected material derived […]
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