MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'history'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 01:47:46 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5181912&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34958&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.counsellingresource.com%2F%7Er%2Fpsychology-philosophy%2F%7E3%2F1p92ZgXwJcw%2F Many people think that as a psychologist I have this incredible power -- that I can easily read their minds; that I can open someone's head and see what lies inside.Tags: Freud, history, in practice, therapy (Source: Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life) Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5181912 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:05:58 +0100 5181912 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5181802&cid=t_92358_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fmisdiagnosis-happens-all-the-time-tips-to-avoid-it%2F2011.09.01 Billionaire Teddy Forstmann has apparently been diagnosed with a serious form of brain cancer.  There’s a tragic twist to the story: according to Fox Business News, Forstmann believes that for more than a year, he had been misdiagnosed with meningitis. ABC News wonders: How could such a misfortune befall a billionaire —- a man able to afford the best doctors, best technology and the most sophisticated diagnostic tests? They’re missing the point.  Misdiagnosis happens with shocking regularity – as much as (more…) *This blog post was originally published at BestDoctors.com: See First Blog* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5181802 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:00:03 +0100 5181802 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5174739&cid=t_92358_122_f&fid=34736&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FChannelN-PodcastsPoweredByOdiogo%2F%7E3%2F4gWxLl2NVYc%2F Milgram’s Obedience to Authority Experiment Morality and responsibility for violence are explored in a re-enactment of Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram’s famous experiment on obedience to authority. Under the close supervision and direction of a professor, participants are told to administer increasingly dangerous electric shocks to a person in another room, under the pretense that it’s an experiment about learning and memory. They hear screams and protests from the “learner” pretending to be receiving shocks, but when the professor tells them to continue, most do, even after believing the “learner” may have died as a result. In Milgram’s first study, 65 percent went on to deliver the maximum 450 volt shock. Variations were conducted over th... Channel N blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5174739 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:30:35 +0100 5174739 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5174617&cid=t_92358_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fpatient-history-found-to-be-key-element-in-making-a-diagnosis%2F2011.08.28 Four out of five doctors agree that they don’t need scans to make the right diagnosis. It’s an old-fashioned concept frequently discussed among ACP members, but the history and physical combined with basic tests is way more important to diagnosis than ordering scans and advanced tests. A recent research letter in the Archives of Internal Medicine makes the case. In the letter, Israeli researchers described a prospective study of 442 consecutive patients admitted from the emergency department in 53 days. A senior resident examined all patients within 24 hours of admission (mean=14), including a history, physical, and review of ancillary test findings done at the emergency department, such as blood and urine tests, electrocardiography, and chest radiography. The resident also rev... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5174617 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:30:00 +0100 5174617 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5174619&cid=t_92358_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fmedical-news-stories-beware-of-insufficient-evidence%2F2011.08.28 After seeing the NBC Nightly News last night, a physician urged me to write about what he saw: a story about a “simple blood test that could save women’s lives.” Readers – and maybe especially TV viewers – beware whenever you hear a story about “a simple blood test.” And this is a good case in point. Brian Williams led into the story stating: “Two of three women who die suddenly of cardiac heart disease have no previous symptoms which is all the more reason women may want to ask their doctors about a blood test that can be a lifesaver.” Then NBC News chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman said: “It’s not a new test, it’s not an experimental test but nonetheless it’s a test not a lot of people know about and tha... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5174619 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:00:15 +0100 5174619 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5174667&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F08%2F28%2Fthe-curious-case-of-phineas-gage-and-others-like-him%2F If you’ve ever taken an introductory psychology class, then you probably know the story of Phineas Gage, the 25-year-old railroad worker whose personality dramatically changed after a rod pierced his skull. Gage lost portions of his frontal lobe and went from being a kind and mild-mannered man to rude and unrestrained. On September 21, 1848, The Boston Post reported on the incident. The article was called “Horrible Accident” and said: As Phineas P. Gage, a foreman on the railroad in Cavendish, was yesterday engaged in tamping for a blast, the powder exploded, carrying an instrument through his head an inch in length, which he was using at the time. The iron entered on the side of his face, shattering the upper jaw, and passing back of the left eye, and out at the top of the head.... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5174667 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 12:17:17 +0100 5174667 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5169573&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F08%2F27%2Fzimbardos-infamous-prison-experiment-where-the-key-players-are-now%2F It’s arguably one of the most controversial experiments. It all started in the basement of the psychology building at Stanford University on August 17, 1971 after psychologist Phil Zimbardo and colleagues took an ad out in the paper stating: “Male college students needed for psychological study of prison life. $15 per day for 1-2 weeks.” Over 70 people volunteered for the Stanford Prison Experiment. Twenty-four healthy, smart college-aged men were picked and randomly assigned either to be a guard or a prisoner. The aim of the study was to explore the psychology of prison life and how specific situations affect people’s behavior. But the experiment didn’t last very long — six days to be exact. Zimbardo was forced to pull the plug because of the disturbing behavior of the guard... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5169573 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:04:17 +0100 5169573 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5159221&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F08%2F23%2Ftaxi-to-the-darkside%2F * * * ] * * * (BBC Broadcast, 2011) From jigsawproductions: This documentary murder mystery examines the death of an Afghan taxi driver at Bagram Air Base from injuries inflicted by U.S. soldiers. In an unflinching look at the Bush administration’s policy on torture, the filmmaker behind Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room takes us from a village in Afghanistan to Guantanamo and straight to the White House. In English and Pashtu. Related Situationist posts: “The Situation of Bullying,” “Lessons Learned from the Abu Ghraib Horrors,”  “Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Tenet: ‘Guilty‘,” Divided Loyalties Symposium “Lessons Learned from the Abu Ghraib Horrors,”  “The Justice Department, Milgram, & Torture,” “The Bush Frame: Us vs. Them; Good vs. Evil;... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5159221 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 04:01:53 +0100 5159221 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5139936&cid=t_92358_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2FKqkEipeJQHc%2F I hate to keep bashing Silicon Valley, since I’ve come to think that it’s venture capitalists, not tied to one particular region, who are the ones not “getting” healthcare. That said, we got a bit more overblown hyperbole coming out of Northern California this morning from drchrono. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which likely is correct when it says it created the first EHR that it native to the iPad—and a free one at that—announced today that it has received an new round of $650,000 in seed funding  from the VC community. (Congratulations on that.) Drchrono today also introduced OnPatient, an iPad app that replaces the hated clipboard and paper form for taking patient history at the doctor’s office. Here are the details, from the drchrono press... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5139936 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:58:28 +0100 5139936 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5118711&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F08%2F10%2F3-facts-you-might-not-know-about-freud-and-his-biggest-addiction%2F You may know that Sigmund Freud, the famed founder of psychoanalysis, had a fascination with cocaine and abused it for many years. But you might not know these three facts that relate to Freud’s longstanding interest in cocaine. Howard Markel, M.D., Ph.D, professor of medical history at the University of Michigan, documents all this and more in his comprehensive, beautifully written book An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and the Miracle Drug Cocaine. 1. Freud was initially attracted to cocaine because he wanted to help a close friend. One of Freud’s dearest friends, Dr. Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, was heavily addicted to morphine, and Freud initially believed that cocaine could cure him. A brilliant man and talented doctor, Fleischl-Marxow had an accident while do... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5118711 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:18:48 +0100 5118711 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5118974&cid=t_92358_149_f&fid=35776&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpipeline.corante.com%2Farchives%2F2011%2F08%2F10%2Fthe_economics_of_the_drug_industry_big_cant_be_big_enough.php I wanted to extract and annotate a comment of Bernard Munos' from the most recent post discussing his thoughts on the industry. Like many of the ones in that thread, there's a lot inside it to think about: (Arthur) De Vany has shown that the movie industry has developed clever tools (e.g., adaptive contracts) to deal with (portfolio uncertainty). That may come to pharma too, and in fact he is working on creating such tools. In the meantime, one can build on the work of Frank Scherer at Harvard, and Dietmar Harhoff. (Andrew Lo at MIT is also working on this). Using simulations, they have shown that traditional portfolio management (as practiced in pharma) does achieve a degree of risk mitigation, but far too little to be effective. In other words, because of the extremely skewed probabilit... In the Pipeline blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5118974 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:45:04 +0100 5118974 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5107616&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F08%2F09%2Fthe-situation-of-antitrust-law%2F Maurice E. Stucke recently posted his thoughtful paper, “Reconsidering Antitrust’s Goals” on SSRN.  Here’s the abstract. * * * Antitrust policy today is an anomaly. On the one hand, antitrust is thriving internationally. On the other hand, antitrust’s influence has diminished domestically. Over the past thirty years, there have been fewer antitrust investigations and private actions. Today the Supreme Court complains about antitrust suits, and places greater faith in the antitrust function being subsumed in a regulatory framework. So what happened to the antitrust movement in the United States? Two import factors contributed to antitrust policy’s domestic decline. The first is salience, especially the salience of the U.S. antitrust goals. In the past thirty yea... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5107616 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 05:54:43 +0100 5107616 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5107876&cid=t_92358_149_f&fid=35776&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpipeline.corante.com%2Farchives%2F2011%2F08%2F08%2Fread_the_comments.php Just wanted to point out to anyone who's not reading the comments here that the ones to this post are of extremely high quality. If you want to hear the thoughts of a lot of intelligent, experienced people on what's wrong with the drug industry and what might be done to fix it, have a look. (Source: In the Pipeline) In the Pipeline blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5107876 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:42:09 +0100 5107876 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5096934&cid=t_92358_136_f&fid=39026&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcarolinemfr.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F08%2Fliving-double-life.html Some people who know me think I have a bad back, tennis elbow, shoulder problems, bad knees, am mildly accident prone, and have lots of doctor appointments. Other people who know me know that I have had cancer, bad back, tennis elbow, lymphedema shoulder/arm, bad knees, am mildly accident prone, and have a lot of doctor appointments...Am I leading a double life in that some people who know me don't know about the little bitty cancer issues? I really don't think so. I just think its none of their business. Do you know the entire medical history of everyone you know? I doubt it. Its none of your business either.So why do I find myself telling people about my cancer issues? I wonder about this. But it often comes to my job working at a cancer support center, it sometimes becomes pertinent and... Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5096934 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:32:00 +0100 5096934 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5096286&cid=t_92358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2011%2F08%2F02%2Fthe-medical-history-background-for-the-oslo-terrorist-action%2F One of the inspirational sources of Oslo terrorist Anders Behring Breivik’s peculiar manifesto ’2083: A European Declaration of Independence’ is the anonymous blogger Fjordman, who has been a leading intellectual in the international anti-Jihad movement for almost a decade. In a recent circular mail, Oslo historian of science Vidar Enebakk draws the attention of his Scandinavian colleagues to the fact that Fjordman has not only written about history, religion and politics in general, but also quite a lot about the history of science and medicine to ‘prove’ that modern science and medicine could only have emerged under the umbrella of European Christendom, and definitely not in Islamic cultures. I’ve now read a few of his many articles (originally pub... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5096286 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:00:56 +0100 5096286 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5097043&cid=t_92358_149_f&fid=35776&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpipeline.corante.com%2Farchives%2F2011%2F08%2F02%2Fmerck_moving_research_from_rahway.php I've heard from more than one person that Merck has decided to move most discovery research out of Rahway (in favor of the former Schering-Plough site in Kenilworth). Details are welcome in the comments from those with better information. That news does bring on end-of-an-era feelings, since they've been doing medicinal chemistry in Rahway for a long, long time. Kenilworth - well, I joined Schering-Plough when it was still in Bloomfield, and I remember the Kenilworth building site when it was a huge hole in the ground. We migrated into it (the building, not the hole) at the end of 1992, in a massive moving job that involved several convoys of 18-wheel trucks going down a partially-closed-off Garden State Parkway in the middle of the night. The move had to be done; Bloomfield was at the li... In the Pipeline blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5097043 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:42:43 +0100 5097043 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5086260&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F07%2F31%2Fsometimes-im-tempted-to-fight-my-new-passion%2F For the last month or so, I’ve been possessed with a passionate interest in the sense of smell. I follow the resolution to cultivate good smells — I’ve read lots of books, I’ve started disciplining myself to be more aware of the smells that I encounter in my day, I’ve been eliminating sources of bad smell in my home (a very worthwhile endeavor, by the way), and I’ve also become interested in perfume. I’ve never had much interest in perfume, but suddenly I am, because so much of the energy and writing around the subject of smell is related to perfume. I’m newly fascinated by perfume, but I’m also fascinated by my own process of becoming fascinated. As Virginia Woolf noted in her Diary: “I must remember to write about my clothes next time I have an impulse to write. M... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5086260 Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:39:58 +0100 5086260 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5078012&cid=t_92358_149_f&fid=35776&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpipeline.corante.com%2Farchives%2F2011%2F07%2F28%2Fthe_secret_history_of_pfizer.php Here's a fascinating account at Fortune of the departure of Jeff Kindler as Pfizer's CEO. The magazine says that they interviewed over 100 people to round up the details, but some of these meetings only feature four or five people in a room, so that narrows things down a bit. It's also a back-room history of Pfizer over the last ten or fifteen years, and there's a lot of high-level political stuff that wasn't widely known at the time: McKinnell kept boosting R&D budgets, maintaining Pfizer's "shots on goal" approach -- the more compounds you explored, in theory, the more drugs you'd generate. But drugs can take a full decade to be developed and approved, and nothing big would be ready for years. So McKinnell fell back on the refuge of the desperate pharma CEO: In July 2002 he announced t... In the Pipeline blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5078012 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:48:17 +0100 5078012 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5069480&cid=t_92358_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fthe-stories-in-medicine-that-need-to-be-told%2F2011.07.26 I can’t help but think that as time passes we’ll forget about how much medicine has changed with the introduction of the Internet.  We’re witnessing a transition that hasn’t been seen in generations.  We live with the end result but the memory of how we got here is fading quickly.  Like any kind of cultural shift, once we’ve arrived it’s hard to remember what it was like along the way. How did patients think before the information revolution?  And how did it go down when patients began to search?  How specifically did information clash with the old model of doctor and patient and how did we deal with it?  There are stories here that need to be told.  I think the real stories are in the small details of what went down between doctors and patients. But as early adopters, ... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5069480 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:00:15 +0100 5069480 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5062291&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F07%2F25%2Fbps-on-dsm%2F Some of you may be following the development of the forthcoming fifth revision to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the major book used for psychiatric diagnosis. There has been a lot of criticism due to the secrecy of the process this time around, but the British Psychological Society (BPS), the major mental health organization in the UK, is taking an even more interesting and refreshing angle: criticizing the entire current framework of diagnosis. The DSM takes a medical approach to diagnosis. In short, this means that a ‘patient’ is assumed to have an underlying ‘pathology’ that manifests as various ‘symptoms’ that are assessed to make a ‘diagnosis’ and then apply a ‘treatment’ to said diagnosis. ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5062291 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:44:58 +0100 5062291 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5062452&cid=t_92358_136_f&fid=39026&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcarolinemfr.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F07%2Fso-whats-your-medical-history.html Do you even know your medical history? Could you write it down and give it to your doctor? I know the doctors always ask if you have had or if there is any family history of about twenty different things at one point or another when you first start seeing them. But then do they ever ask again? No.But you should tell them about significant health issues periodically. It is recommended this is done every five years. I am impatient. I tell my doctors more often. Every time I have aches and joint pain, I tell them how my mother has rheumatoid. Every time we talk about my bones and osteopenia, I tell them about the osteoporosis my mother, aunts, and grandmother had. If there is no medical history of a diagnosis in your family, it doesn't mean you can't get it. But if there is a medical history ... Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5062452 Sun, 24 Jul 2011 11:37:00 +0100 5062452 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5057746&cid=t_92358_97_f&fid=35606&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theangriestpharmacist.com%2F2011%2F07%2F22%2Fthe-history-of-medicine%2F THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 2000 B.C. - "Here, eat this root." 1000 B.C. - "That root is heathen, say this prayer." 20 A.D. - "That prayer is good, but you have to pray in my name me to get through to Dad." 1850 A.D. - "That prayer is a superstitious chant, drink this potion." 1940 A.D. - "That potion is merely snake oil, swallow this pill." 1970 A.D. - "That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic four times a day." 1980 A.D. - "Bacteria aren't the problem. Viruses are enemy number 1! Get this vaccination, but you still better take our pills too!" 1990 A.D. - "Taking pills four times a day? That's ARCHAIC! Take this tablet once-a-day." 1999 A.D. - "That once-a-day tablet is cost prohibitive. Take this cheaper generic. It's the same thing." 1999 A.D. - "Their generic once-a-day tablet isn't ... The Angriest Pharmacist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5057746 Sat, 23 Jul 2011 05:46:34 +0100 5057746 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5050433&cid=t_92358_83_f&fid=34690&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Finsolence%2F%7E3%2F-cOrLnZKfcs%2Fmaybe_there_is_hope_after_all.php Since I was still recovering from TAM9 last night and crashed on the couch at around 9 PM, I didn't have time for one of my usual logorrheic posts. I did, however, have time to take note of an update on a story I started covering six years ago. One of the greatest things about having a long running blog (six and a half years) is that sometimes, after not having heard anything for a long time, I'll be surprised by new information on a story I commented on years ago and can update my readers. So it is with this rather bizarre story about two teenaged girls who formed the group Prussian Blue back in 2005 or so. Remember Prussian Blue? It was a singing duo consisting of the (then) 13-year-old blonde-haired, blue-eyed, all "Aryan" Mary-Kate and Ashley of the white supremacist set named Lynx an... Respectful Insolence blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5050433 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:00:00 +0100 5050433 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5050661&cid=t_92358_106_f&fid=36682&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSutureForALiving%2F%7E3%2Fu6bSHe-gJ4Y%2Fshout-outs_19.html Dr. Elaine Schattner, Medical Lessons, is the host for this week’s Grand Rounds. You can read this week’s virtual tour edition here (photo credit). Live, from New York, it’s med-​​blog Grand Rounds, volume 7, number 43! As I’m staying home for the summer, I’ve asked bloggers to share images of where they’re from, or where they go, so we could take a virtual tour together: We’ll start with a post from the Wash­ington, DC-​​based Pre­pared Patient Forum, where Jessie Gruman clar­ifies that Engagement Does Not Mean Com­pliance. As Jessie says, “I am com­pliant if I do what my doctor tells me to do. I am engaged, on the other hand, when I actively par­tic­ipate in the process of solving my health problems.”  ………. …………………………�... Suture for a Living blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5050661 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:44:37 +0100 5050661 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5036279&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F07%2F15%2Fsport-psychology-and-its-history%2F My boyfriend, an avid golfer, always says that golf is mainly a game of the brain. That is, your mental state has a lot to do with your success on the course. And, not surprisingly, it’s like that with other sports. Psychology can give players an edge. As Ludy Benjamin and David Baker write in From Séance to Science: A History of the Profession of Psychology in America, “Indeed, in so many instances when physical talents seem evenly matched, it is the mental factors that will make the difference in winning or losing.” That’s where sport psychology — also sometimes referred to as sports psychology — comes in. So how did sport psychology start and evolve? Early Experiments In America, sport psychology’s roots date back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries when se... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5036279 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:35:35 +0100 5036279 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5028387&cid=t_92358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2011%2F07%2F11%2Fhistory-of-science-blogs-and-twitter-accounts%2F Last year Michael D. Barton published a list of blogs and twitter accounts that “focus on or dabble in the history of science, science and technology studies, etc.” that he was aware of. He’s just posted a link to it on his FB wall, so this must be the latest updated version. Great work! But did he miss any? Seems like the list below doesn’t include much history of medical science (after all much of medicine is medical science), so hopefully someone with good link collecting instincts could make a similar list for HoMS. Advances in the History of Psychology (@AHPblog) Adventures of a Post-Doc Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project Alfred Russel Wallace News & Views (@ARWallace) AlunSalt AmericanScience: A Team Blog (@henrycowles, @danbouk) Anita Gu... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5028387 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:00:42 +0100 5028387 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5008634&cid=t_92358_149_f&fid=35776&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpipeline.corante.com%2Farchives%2F2011%2F07%2F07%2Fphenotypic_screening_for_the_win.php Here's another new article in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery that (for once) isn't titled something like "The Productivity Crisis in Drug Research: Hire Us And We'll Consult Your Problems Away". This one is a look back at where drugs have come from. Looking over drug approvals (259 of them) between 1999 and 2008, the authors find that phenotypic screens account for a surprising number of the winners. (For those not in the business, a phenotypic screen is one where you give compounds to some cell- or animal-based assay and look for effects. That's in contrast to the target-based approach, where you identify some sort of target as being likely important in a given disease state and set out to find a molecule to affect it. Phenotypic screens were the only kinds around in the old days (before,... In the Pipeline blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5008634 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:24:34 +0100 5008634 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5008310&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F07%2F05%2Fa-quick-shot-of-happiness-thanks-to-winston-churchill%2F One of the great joys of my life was writing my biography of Winston Churchill. What a pleasure it was to write that book! I had so many complicated things (both praise and blame) to say about Churchill, and the problems of biography, and human nature, and I felt that I managed to express them all — to my own satisfaction, anyway. When I feel a little blue, I often console myself by thinking of some of my favorite passages of Churchill’s writing. So many examples stand out in my mind. One, for instance, is the extraordinary eulogy to Neville Chamberlain. Another is a passage from Their Finest Hour, the second volume in Churchill’s six-volume history of World War II. Of a visit to a very poor London neighborhood that had been devastated by the Blitz, he wrote: Already litt... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5008310 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:12:27 +0100 5008310 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5008269&cid=t_92358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2011%2F07%2F05%2Fthe-role-of-medical-museums-in-contemporary-medical-education%2F We have just submitted an application for a major new gallery based on our anatomical and pathological specimen collections — and the in-house discussions are already becoming vigorous. How to find conceptually interesting ways to display cancer tumours, conjoined twins, and twisted torsos? What’s the balance between spectacular engagement and ethical concerns? How to make the historical collections of the macroanatomical past work together with the microanatomical and molecular collections of present biobanks? During the next couple of years we will embark on a more detailed planning process — we will engage medical experts, medical historians/sociologists, museum colleagues and the general public in a discussion about the best ways to build such a gallery and ho... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5008269 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:00:46 +0100 5008269 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4997629&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F07%2F04%2Findependence-day-celebrating-courage-to-challenge-the-situation-2%2F First Published on July 3, 2007: With the U.S. celebrating Independence Day — carnivals, fireworks, BBQs, parades and other customs that have, at best, only a tangential connection to our “independence,” — we thought it an opportune moment to return to its source in search of some situationism. No doubt, the Declaration of Independence is typically thought of as containing a dispositionist message (though few would express it in those terms) — all that language about individuals freely pursuing their own happiness. Great stuff, but arguably built on a dubious model of the human animal. That’s not the debate we want to provoke here. Instead, we are interested in simply highlighting some less familiar language in that same document that reveals something... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4997629 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 04:00:45 +0100 4997629 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4997587&cid=t_92358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2011%2F07%2F03%2Fwhat-shall-the-new-medical-galleries-in-londons-science-museum-look-like%2F I was in London last week to attend a workshop organised by Robert Bud and the medical curatorial staff at London’s Science Museum. They had invited some 20 people from a variety of academic backgrounds to discuss the future redevelopment of their medical galleries. The day before the workshop we prepared ourselves by a guided tour to the present medical galleries: Science and Art of Medicine from 1981, which the museum describes as “an object rich treasure trove that relates the history of Western Medicine according to a broadly chronological (‘Plato to Nato’), encyclopaedic approach”; a later addition to ‘Science and Art of Medicine’ called ‘Living Medical Traditions’, which examines four contemporary non-western medical traditions.... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4997587 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 09:00:33 +0100 4997587 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4992755&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F07%2F02%2Fhow-the-dsm-developed-what-you-might-not-know%2F The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is widely known as the bible of psychiatry and psychology. But not many people know how this powerful and influential book came to be. Here’s a brief look at the DSM’s evolution and where we are today. The Need for Classification The origins of the DSM date back to 1840 — when the government wanted to collect data on mental illness. The term “idiocy/insanity” appeared in that year’s census. Forty years later, the census expanded to feature these seven categories: “mania, melancholia, monomania, paresis, dementia, dipsomania and epilepsy.” But there was still a need to gather uniform stats across mental hospitals. In 1917, the Bureau of the Census embraced a publication called the Statistical Manual for ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4992755 Sat, 02 Jul 2011 10:43:12 +0100 4992755 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4992756&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F07%2F01%2Fis-anyone-normal-today%2F Take a minute and answer this question: Is anyone really normal today? I mean, even those who claim they are normal may, in fact, be the most neurotic among us, swimming with a nice pair of scuba fins down the river of Denial. Having my psychiatric file published online and in print for public viewing, I get to hear my share of dirty secrets—weird obsessions, family dysfunction, or disguised addiction—that are kept concealed from everyone but a self-professed neurotic and maybe a shrink. “Why are there so many disorders today?” Those seven words, or a variation of them, surface a few times a week. And my take on this query is so complex that, to avoid sounding like my grad school professors making an erudite case that fails to communicate anything to average folks like me, I often ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4992756 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:03:11 +0100 4992756 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4992743&cid=t_92358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2011%2F07%2F01%2Fhouse-wrapped-in-dolls-hair-artist-meta-comment-on-entire-museum%2F Just saw this on Danny’s blog. Artist meta-comment on entire museum:  The former London home of Sigmund and Anna Freud, now the Freud Museum, is enveloped in a cats cradle of rope made of dolls’ hair. Standing as it does on a prosperous suburban street of imposing redbrick villas, the bound house looks like a scene from a dream itself, a dream of home denied. Such dreams are typically untangled on a therapeutic descendant of the very couch that sits inside the museum; the fairytale Rapunzel tress-ropes also suggest the kind of psychological decoding of myth and culture that Freud indulged in. It’s interesting how an entire exhibition can transform and be experienced in a whole new way through one persons art-work derived from subjective associations. She hasn’t changed... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4992743 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:38:09 +0100 4992743 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4984339&cid=t_92358_83_f&fid=34690&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Finsolence%2F%7E3%2F-saZMUagu8U%2Fholocaust_denial_versus_free_speech.php It's grant crunch time, as the submission deadline for revised R01s is July 5. However, in a classic example of how electronic filing has actually made things more difficult, the grant has to be done and at the university grant office a week before the deadline if it is to be uploaded in time. So, my beloved Orac-philes, I'm afraid it's reruns one last time today, but, benevolent blogger that I am, I'll again post two on the same topic. As regular readers know, I've had a long history of combatting Holocaust denial online, but I also have a real problem when the price of combatting Holocaust denial is suppressing free speech. For those of you who recall Bishop Richard Williamson, who was recently busted for Holocaust denial in an interview, I just realized that his trial in Germany is due ... Respectful Insolence blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4984339 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:00:00 +0100 4984339 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4984340&cid=t_92358_83_f&fid=34690&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Finsolence%2F%7E3%2FcdClZjR1lGE%2Fbishop_richard_williamson_holocaust_deni_1.php It's grant crunch time, as the submission deadline for revised R01s is July 5. However, in a classic example of how electronic filing has actually made things more difficult, the grant has to be done and at the university grant office a week before the deadline if it is to be uploaded in time. So, my beloved Orac-philes, I'm afraid it's reruns one last time today, but, benevolent blogger that I am, I'll again post two on the same topic. As regular readers know, I've had a long history of combatting Holocaust denial online, but I also have a real problem when the price of combatting Holocaust denial is suppressing free speech. For those of you who recall Bishop Richard Williamson, who was recently busted for Holocaust denial in an interview, I just realized that his trial in Germany is due ... Respectful Insolence blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4984340 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 05:00:01 +0100 4984340 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4976025&cid=t_92358_118_f&fid=34702&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fmspblog%2F%7E3%2FmGEiOl2XXyc%2F For nearly 2,500 years physicians bled their patients in an attempt to rid them of disease. It wasn’t until early in the 20th century that transfusing donor blood into patients became a common therapeutic choice. Because the practice of blood transfusion is relatively recent, medical professionals continue to study its effects, both immediate and long term. Many of those studies are revealing surprising results. For those of us who grew up in the post World War II era, donated blood has always been advertised as a “gift of life.” In the emotional days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US, blood donation rose dramatically. Citizens wanted to help, and for many that help was offered through a visit to their local blood bank. The idea that transfused blood was at worst harmless, a... MSSPNexus Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4976025 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:36:31 +0100 4976025 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4976190&cid=t_92358_149_f&fid=35776&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpipeline.corante.com%2Farchives%2F2011%2F06%2F28%2Fdrug_rd_spending_now_down_but_look_at_the_history.php I hate to be such a shining beacon of happiness today, but this news can't very well be ignored, can it? For the first time ever, total drug R&D spending seems to have declined: The global drug industry cut its research spending for the first time ever in 2010, after decades of relentless increases, and the pace of decline looks set to quicken this year. Overall expenditure on discovering and developing new medicines amounted to an estimated $68 billion last year, down nearly 3 percent on the $70 billion spent in both 2008 and 2009, according to Thomson Reuters data released on Monday. The fall reflects a growing disillusionment with poor returns on pharmaceutical R&D. Disappointing research productivity is arguably the biggest single factor behind the declining valuations of the sector... In the Pipeline blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4976190 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:43:56 +0100 4976190 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4975944&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F06%2F27%2Fmarsha-linehan-acknowledges-her-own-struggle-with-borderline-personality-disorder%2F Dr. Marsha Linehan, long best known for her ground-breaking work with a new form of psychotherapy called dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), has let out her own personal secret — she has suffered from borderline personality disorder. In order to help reduce the prejudice surrounding this particular disorder — people labeled as borderline often are seen as attention-getting and always in crisis — Dr. Linehan told her story in public for the first time last week before an audience of friends, family and doctors at the Institute of Living, the Hartford clinic where she was first treated for extreme social withdrawal at age 17, according to The New York Times. At 17 in 1961, Linehan detailed how when she came to the clinic, she attacked herself habitually, cut her arms legs a... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4975944 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:12:20 +0100 4975944 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4960128&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F06%2F22%2Ftrampling-people-while-whistling-rights-normative-visions-judicial-realities-in-times-of-terror%2F Rio Pierce wrote this post for Law & Mind Blog: Marbury v. Madison, Miranda, and Brown v. Board of Education are hallmarks of a judicial canon that preaches a heroic vision of Constitutional Law arbitrated in our highest tribunal. These cases tell a story of the judicial process that reflects a flattering normative vision of the American government. These are the cases that may be most likely to be emphasized when a middle or high school student is first introduced to judicial review. Running concurrently alongside this set of cases is an antinomian canon, constituted of cases such as Dred Scott, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Bush v. Gore, that tells a story of the court as a political institution, embedded in the culture of its time. A particularly notable subset of these decisions occur d... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4960128 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:05:59 +0100 4960128 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4960242&cid=t_92358_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2FyRR9QNlUqb8%2F Last week, we wrote about research claiming antidepressants could make you more depressed. Italian professor of clinical psychology Giovannia Fava found antidepressants used over long periods of time can actually increase a patient’s chances of relapse more than if they were to take a placebo. Mixed messages on antidepressants and other psychopharmaceuticals seem to be increasingly prevalent. More people than ever are prescribed them—and have a vested interest in selling them. For a fascinating primer on how the psychiatric drug culture we know today came to be, check out this New York Review of Books piece by Marcia Angell. In it, Angell reviews three new books on the psychiatric industry (The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Mag... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4960242 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:43:57 +0100 4960242 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4952845&cid=t_92358_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fmedical-school-to-require-incoming-students-to-purchase-ipads%2F2011.06.20 In a little seen nugget published in an article of the Chronicle, the Ivy League medical school, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, will be requiring their incoming medical students to use the Inkling e-book app for key medical textbooks in their first year of medical school. They will be requiring their incoming first year class to purchase iPads as well. We have been the first to report how and why Inkling is a game changer in the arena of medical e-books when we reviewed Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology: Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology for the iPad allows you to highlight, write notes, view innovative multimedia modules, and easily search for content — taking what you can do on a paper based textbook to a higher level — and taking e-learning to a comple... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4952845 Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:00:38 +0100 4952845 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4952930&cid=t_92358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2011%2F06%2F18%2Fimpatient-discovery-vs-mature-understanding-revisiting-ragnar-granits-view-of-the-goal-of-scientific-work%2F Prompted by a recent guest blog post on the Scientific American site, I’ve just revisited an almost 40 year old essay titled “Discovery and understanding” by the Finland-Swedish neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize Winner Ragnar Granit. Growing out of a talk (see video here) that Granit gave at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in 1972, the essay was published in the Annual Review of Physiology later the same year. I remember dimly having read it when I was a PhD student a few years after it was published, but apparently I didn’t really appreciate it then — and didn’t understand the deeper significance of the message either. But now I think I’ve got it. And it’s quite interesting for discussions about the culture of sc... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4952930 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 20:22:49 +0100 4952930 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4934333&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F06%2F15%2F4-fascinating-facts-you-might-not-know-about-carl-jung%2F In case you missed it, June 6th, 2011 marked the 50th anniversary of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung’s passing. Jung, born July 26, 1875, is one of the most compelling figures in psychology. Many people are familiar with Jung for his famous friendship and eventual split from Sigmund Freud, who considered their relationship at first to be one of father and son. Jung strongly disagreed with Freud’s sole emphasis on sex and other parts of his theories, and their relationship soon deteriorated. However, the two pioneers did agree on one thing: an individual must analyze his mind’s inner workings, including his dreams and fantasies. Jung founded analytical psychology, which emphasizes the importance of exploring both conscious and unconscious processes. According to one of his theories, all ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4934333 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:12:12 +0100 4934333 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4911548&cid=t_92358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2011%2F06%2F08%2Fmalling-hansens-braille-writing-ball-on-display%2F A very special artefact from Medical Museion’s collections in on display in a new exhibition at the Copenhagen Post and Tele Museum, celebrating the centennial of the Danish Association for the Blind. The insect compund eye looking thing is actually a Braille version of the writing ball patented by Rasmus Malling-Hansen in 1870. Selling well in Europe (Remington was the favourite typewriting machine in the US), it received prizes at a number of international exhibitions, including the World Exhibitions in Vienna in 1873 and Paris in 1878. The most famous owner of a Malling-Hansen writing ball was in fact Friedrich Nietzsche, who got one in 1882, but apparently didn’t use it much. (More about the writing ball on the Malling-Hansen Society website.) Malling-Han... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4911548 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:00:40 +0100 4911548 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4911573&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F06%2F07%2Fhow-forensic-psychology-began-and-flourished%2F There are many subsets of psychology. No doubt one of the most fascinating is forensic psychology. Forensic psychology is basically the intersection of psychology and the legal system. It’s quite a broad field. Psychologists work in a variety of settings, including police departments, prisons, courts and juvenile detention centers. And they do everything from assessing whether an incarcerated individual is ready for parole to advising attorneys on jury selection to serving as experts on the stand to counseling cops and their spouses to creating treatment programs for offenders. Most are trained as clinical or counseling psychologists. So how did this interesting specialty emerge and expand? Here’s a brief look at the history of forensic psychology. The Birth of Forensic Psychology The... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4911573 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:09:18 +0100 4911573 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4902419&cid=t_92358_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fa-brief-history-of-vaccines-the-anti-vaccination-movement-and-modern-quackery%2F2011.06.06 A good case of smallpox may rid the system of more scrofulous, tubercular, syphilitic and other poisons than could otherwise be eliminated in a lifetime. Therefore, smallpox is certainly to be preferred to vaccination. The one means elimination of chronic disease, the other the making of it. Naturopaths do not believe in artificial immunization . . . —Harry Riley Spitler, Basic Naturopathy: a textbook (American Naturopathic Association, Inc., 1948). Quoted here. Here’s what a good case of smallpox will do for you: If you’re lucky enough to beat the reaper (20-60%; 80% or higher in infants) or blindness (up to 30%), those blisters will leave you scarred for life. Oh, and the next time a good smallpox epidemic comes around, your children born since the last one will catch it and cont... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4902419 Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:00:16 +0100 4902419 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4911495&cid=t_92358_88_f&fid=38129&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Flifeinthefastlane%2FWZHV%2F%7E3%2Fa-lYukcOMbU%2F I had the great fortune to pick up an original edition of "Diseases and Remedies - 1898" on a recent second hand book shopping spree in Dunedin, New Zealand. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane) Life in the Fast Lane blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4911495 Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:53:38 +0100 4911495 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4893578&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F06%2F02%2Fgroup-influence%2F From the instructional video series Psychology: The Human Experience: Influence explains individuality, group behavior, and deindividuation. Related Situationist posts: The Power of the Situation “Video on the Original Milgram Experiment,” Gender Conformity “Solomon Asch’s Classic Group-Influence Experiment,” “The Situational Effect of Groups,” Milgram-Inspired Movie “The Situation of Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiments,” “Milgram Replicated on French TV – ‘The Game of Death’,” “A Shocking Situation,” “Zimbardo on Milgram and Obedience – Part I,” “The Case for Obedience,” “Replicating Milgram’s Obedience Experiment – Yet Again,” “Jonestown (The Situation of Evil) Revisited,” “Milgram Remake,” “The Situation... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4893578 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 23:44:16 +0100 4893578 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4883656&cid=t_92358_106_f&fid=36682&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSutureForALiving%2F%7E3%2F0yKE3Zn5wW0%2Fwar-advances-in-medicine.html Medicine has much to be grateful for to war, but I wish we’d find a peaceful way to make these advances. Here are just a few In 1718, Jean Louis Petit, a French surgeon, invented a screw tourniquet to control bleeding. The screw tourniquet made thigh amputations possible and reduced the risks associated with amputations below the knee. Dominique-Jean Larrey (French Army, joined army in 1792) is credited with setting up the first field hospitals (though the golden hour wasn’t known, this provided quicker care) and “flying ambulances” to rapidly evacuate wounded soldiers from the battlefield to the hospital. The trench warfare of WWI produced extreme facial injuries.  Interdisciplinary teams (dentist, plastic surgeons, etc) set a standard for the care of complex maxillofacial ... Suture for a Living blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4883656 Mon, 30 May 2011 11:15:00 +0100 4883656 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4883659&cid=t_92358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2011%2F05%2F30%2Fmadness-and-museums-collecting-and-exhibiting-the-history-of-psychiatry%2F “While much has been written on the history of psychiatry, remarkably little has been written about psychiatric collections or curating”, says the back-cover of Exhibiting Madness in Museums: Remembering Psychiatry Through Collection and Display, edited by Catharine Coleborne and Dolly MacKinnon. A first sketch to a comparative history of collections of psychiatric objects, the volume, which will be published by Routledge in August, investigates collectors, collections, displays, and the reactions to exhibitions of the history of insanity. Unfortunately, it’s limited to museums in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the UK, but that’s a good start — we’re eagerly waiting for a sequel treating the many rich psychiatric museum collections in continen... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4883659 Mon, 30 May 2011 08:00:07 +0100 4883659 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4862745&cid=t_92358_129_f&fid=27216&url=http%3A%2F%2Flifewithadhd.com%2Fadhd-research%2Ffidgety-philip-a-brief-history-of-adhd.php Many people think ADHD is a recent ‘fad,’ a new diagnosis. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In 1845, Dr. Heinrich Hoffman, a physician who wrote books on medicine and psychiatry, wrote an illustrated book of children’s poetry about children and their characteristics. ‘The Story of Fidgety Philip’ was a portraite of an ADHD boy. ADHD was not ‘discovered’ by Hoffman, however, or for many years later. In 1902 Sir George F. Still described a group of impulsive children with significant behavioral problems which he ascribed to a genetic disorder and not poor parenting. He was describing ADHD over 100 years ago. He called it ‘Morbid Defect of Moral Control.’ In 1922 the name of what we now call ADHD was changed to ‘Post-Encepha... Life With ADHD blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4862745 Tue, 24 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4862745 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4847996&cid=t_92358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2011%2F05%2F20%2Fhelp-with-information-about-rollators%2F I am currently researching a piece on rollators. Based on artistic research investigating the aesthetics and materiality of these essential but perhaps under appreciated objects I am struggling with finding some further information. It is generally accepted that the first rollator appeared in the 1970s and was designed by Bernt Leander from Sweden. There is no record of a ‘first’ rollator and no history of the initial designs. Unable to find a person responsible for design and manufacture of rollators  I emailed the general Swedish inquiry contact at Invacare, the overall worldwide distributor but I have had no reply. I know that Dolomite was taken over by Invacare and their factory is in Anderstorp. A specific question I asked is regarding the range of colours available, particul... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4847996 Fri, 20 May 2011 19:08:16 +0100 4847996 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4828983&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F05%2F17%2Fa-psychologist-and-a-superhero%2F Psychology has spilled over into pop culture in many ways throughout the years. For instance, in 1911, one psychologist saved Coca-Cola by conducting rigorous studies into caffeine’s effects on cognition and sensory and motor abilities. In 1929, another inspired his nephew’s successful public relations campaigns, which linked smoking cigarettes with female empowerment, if you can believe it. Since 1895, other psychologists were directly involved in advertising, using surveys and other new ploys to get us to buy their products. (You didn’t need toothpaste to clean your teeth; you needed it to make you sexier.) One psychologist even changed the comic book world and influenced an entire movement (that would be the feminist movement). In the early 1940s, Harvard psychologist William ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4828983 Tue, 17 May 2011 10:30:00 +0100 4828983 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4829282&cid=t_92358_149_f&fid=35776&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpipeline.corante.com%2Farchives%2F2011%2F05%2F16%2Fups_and_downs.php I was thinking the other day that I never remembered hearing the phrase "Big Pharma" when I first got a job in this business (1989). Now I have some empirical proof, thanks to the Google Labs Ngram Viewer, that the phrase has only come into prominence more recently. (Fair warning: you can waste substantial amounts of time messing with this site). Here's the incidence rate of "big pharma" in English-language books from 1988 to 2000. It comes from nowhere, blips to life in 1992, doesn't even really get off the baseline until 1994 or so, and then takes off. (The drops in 2005 and 2008 remain unexplained - did the log phase of its growth end in 2004?) Update: that graph holds for the uncapitalized version of the phrase. If you put the words in caps, you get the even more dramatic takeoff show... In the Pipeline blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4829282 Mon, 16 May 2011 12:06:15 +0100 4829282 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4829229&cid=t_92358_136_f&fid=39026&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcarolinemfr.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F05%2Fthings-change-but-they-dont-really.html Last night I was lying in bed listening (with a tiny bit of insomnia) to the heavy rain come down and realized that I wasn't concerned that the roof might leak. This is a significant change, there were a few years where I would dread every forecasted rain storm and even make a point not to be home in case the roof did leak. When we bought the house in early 2005, we knew we needed a new roof. We had some ice dam issues that first year which caused some ceiling damage too. We had the roof replaced in the summer of 2005. On New Year's Day 2006, I was working in my office upstairs and heard a drip. The roof was leaking in my office. We found a new roofer who would come that day and did some repairs. A few trips by the roofer and several hundred dollars later, we no longer had any drips but I ... Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4829229 Sun, 15 May 2011 11:25:00 +0100 4829229 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4820931&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F05%2F13%2Fself-fulfilling-doomsday-prophecies%2F In a world experiencing global climate change and massive environmental degradation, could it be that doomsday prophecies are a cause and consequence of the seeming indifference and recalcitrance of so many Americans? From NPR’s Here and Now: * * * Margaret Pease stands on a corner in downtown Pittsburgh, handing out doomsday pamphlets. “JUDGMENT DAY FOLKS!” she yells with a volume that would make a drill sergeant proud. “May 21, 2011!” For the past seven months, Pease has been crisscrossing the country in a caravan with eight others, warning anyone who will listen that God’s wrath is near. “I might be a little loud, but I want people to get the message,” she says. “I don’t want anybody’s blood on my hands. … JUDGMENT ... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4820931 Fri, 13 May 2011 04:01:57 +0100 4820931 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4820922&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F05%2F12%2Funderstanding-research-methodology-5-applied-and-basic-research%2F In conclusion, I will leave you with the words of Keith Stanovich: [I]t is probably a mistake to view the basic-versus-applied distinction solely in terms of whether a study has practical applications, because this difference often simply boils down to a matter of time.  Applied findings are of use immediately.  However, there is nothing so practical as a general and accurate theory. (2007, p.107) References Stanovich, K. (2007).  How to Think Straight About Psychology: 8th Edition.  Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon. Photo by Helen Cook, available under a Creative Commons attribution license. (Source: World of Psychology) World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4820922 Thu, 12 May 2011 19:55:10 +0100 4820922 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4803233&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F05%2F09%2Fpsychologys-history-of-being-mesmerized%2F All words have a history. But some are particularly interesting to explore when it comes to psychology — because they’re directly born from it. How many times have you been mesmerized by something, so captured by it that it was like you were in a trance? The word “mesmerize” dates back to an 18th century Austrian physician named Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815). He established a theory of illness that involved internal magnetic forces, which he called animal magnetism. (It would later be known as mesmerism.) Mesmer believed that good physical and psychological health came from properly aligned magnetic forces; bad health, then, resulted from forces essentially being out of whack. He noticed a treatment that seemed to work particularly well in correcting these misaligned force... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4803233 Mon, 09 May 2011 15:35:51 +0100 4803233 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4803250&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F05%2F08%2Fmy-lai-massacre%2F From Wikipedia: My Lai was the mass murder of 347–504 unarmed citizens in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968, conducted by a unit of the United States Army. All of the victims were civilians and most were women, children (including babies), and elderly people. Many of the victims were raped, beaten, tortured, and some of the bodies were found mutilated. The massacre took place in the hamlets of Mỹ Lai and My Khe of Sơn Mỹ village during the Vietnam War. While 26 US soldiers were initially charged with criminal offenses for their actions at My Lai, only William Calley was convicted of killing 22 villagers. Originally given a life sentence, he served three and a half years under house arrest. When the incident became public knowledge in 1969, it prompted widespread outrage around the wor... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4803250 Sun, 08 May 2011 22:51:10 +0100 4803250 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4803447&cid=t_92358_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmemory.loc.gov%2Fafc%2Fafcss39%2F264%2F2647b2.mp3 [originally published by Politics Daily in 2010; reposting for Mother's Day 2011] Sam Houston Memorial Musuem, where my grandmother worked for 25 years. My grandmother Grace Crawford Longino came into this world in 1901 and left it in 2002. In mid-century she seemed to be the most important woman in her town of Huntsville, Texas. By the time she died, she was almost forgotten except by family and the few friends still alive. When she was in her late 80s I’d end conversations with “I love you” because I never knew if it would be our last. In reply, she’d say thank you. One time I teased her about that. “You never say ‘I love you’ back to me. Maybe you don’t love me.” “Not love you? Why, the very idea!” she said. “I&#821... Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4803447 Sun, 08 May 2011 05:00:32 +0100 4803447 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4794903&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F05%2F06%2Fsituational-sources-of-the-holocaust%2F From the Harvard Gazette: The table slab was cold and hard beneath 6-year-old Irene Hizme as doctors and nurses took measurements and blood samples. She didn’t know what was happening to her, and by the time it was all over, she wouldn’t care. She was found lying nearly comatose on the ground by a woman who brought her home to begin her recovery. Though it’s routine for children to be examined by physicians, that was hardly the case here. Her doctor was Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi who conducted cruel experiments on inmates at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Hizme, who survived both her imprisonment and Mengele’s experiments, told her story to a rapt audience at Harvard Medical School’s Joseph Martin Conference Center in the New Research Building on Apri... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4794903 Fri, 06 May 2011 12:37:11 +0100 4794903 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4771211&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F04%2F30%2Fthe-freudian-problem%2F Excluding pop psychologists, (such as Dr. Phil, Dr. Drew or Wayne Dyer) Sigmund Freud is probably the most well known name associated with psychology (at least to the lay public).  In Frank Sulloway’s book, Freud: Biologist of the Mind, the author notes, “Few individuals, if any, have exerted more influence upon the twentieth century than Sigmund Freud.” (Shermer, 2001, p.203). A 1981 survey of chairpersons of graduate psychology found that the respondents considered Freud the most influential figure in the history of psychology (Davis, Thomas, & Weaver, 1982).  But times have changed. “[I]f all the members of the American Psychological Association [APA] who  were concerned with Freudian psychoanalysis were collected, they would make up  less than 10 percent of the membersh... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4771211 Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:00:59 +0100 4771211 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4768263&cid=t_92358_155_f&fid=38409&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneuropathologyblog.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F04%2Fslug-nutty-boxers-head-scrambled.html American boxer John Heenan (1835-1873)As part of National Lab Week activities, I delivered a presentation yesterday to staff at the College of American Pathologists headquarters in Northfield, IL on the topic of chronic brain injury among football players. Repetitive brain trauma in sport was first recognized among boxers, and thus the early-onset dementia -- and, in some cases, parkinsonian symptoms -- associated with this kind of trauma was named dementia pugilistica. Since the recognition of this phenomenon in other sports, most notably football, the entity has been renamed Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). Among the first papers describing repetitive traumatic brain injury in sport was one authored by neuropathologist Harrison S. Martland, MD, who published his results in the Jou... neuropathology blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4768263 Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:56:00 +0100 4768263 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4762853&cid=t_92358_125_f&fid=37825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbibbynews.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F04%2F28%2Fwhat-everyone-ought-to-know-about-eastman-dental%2F Bibby Library has preserved the history of Eastman Dental and dentistry in the Rochester New York area through its print and digital archive collections. The American Library Association has designated the week of April 24-30 as preservation week. Here are a few interesting facts about Eastman Dental: 1.  Eastman Dental has been providing oral health [...] (Source: Bibby Library News and Tips) Bibby Library News and Tips blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4762853 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:51:57 +0100 4762853 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4744840&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FEbcqXrugPxg%2F URL: http://www.minddisorders.com/The Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders contains medical articles on mental disorders and conditions. Over 150 mental disorders are organized alphabetically. For: AnyoneTopics: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Common Factors, Diagnosis, Educational Psychology, General Psychology, Health Psychology, History of Psychology, Mental Health, OCR Level-A Psychology, Pediatric Depression, Psychodynamic, Social PsychologyFeatures: Articles, Databases, Glossary, e-learning The Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders contains medical articles on mental disorders and conditions. Over 150 mental disorders are organized alphabetically. Here are examples of topics of articles on our website: Learning Disorders Magnetic resonance imaging Manic episode Multisyst... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4744840 Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:00:19 +0100 4744840 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4744807&cid=t_92358_83_f&fid=34856&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidesurgery.com%2F2011%2F04%2Fdr-thomas-addison%2F Thomas Addison, M.D. was the chief physician at Guys’s Hospital in 1855 when he published his famous paper first describing the connection between disease of the adrenals and the then fatal constellation of symptoms that later came to be named after him. Dr. Thomas Addison (photo courtesy Wikipedia) Addison was a brilliant clinician and diagnostician. He is also credited with recognizing the clinical syndrome of pernicious anemia (vitamin B12 deficiency.) However, he was apparently a poor bedside clinician with a somewhat cold and detached bedside manner. This may have been a result of his lifelong battle with melancholia, which resulted in several suicide attempts throughout his life, including a successful attempt when he pitched himself headfirst off of the second story of a buil... Inside Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4744807 Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:41:26 +0100 4744807 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4742474&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=38954&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffrontierpsychiatrist.co.uk%2Fabsinthism-3%2F Absinthe is an emerald green liqueur flavoured with extracts of green anise, Florence fennel and wormwood - a combination sometimes known as the ‘holy trinity’.  The medical use of wormwood dates back to antiquity and it is mentioned in the Ebers Papyrus, the oldest preserved medical document.  The first evidence of absinthe in the modern sense of a distilled spirit dates to the 18th century. The exact origins of the drink are unknown.  It is often held that Dr. Pierre Ordinaire, a French doctor living in Couvet, Switzerland, developed the recipe circa 1792.  In 1797, the first absinthe distillery was opened by Henri Louis Pernod.  The drink went on to achieve great popularity in late 19th and early 20th-century France.  It became so popular in bar... blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4742474 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:05:57 +0100 4742474 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4734159&cid=t_92358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2011%2F04%2F21%2Fhow-to-use-museum-collections-in-teaching-history%2F Of course you can, but few history teachers actually take the opportunity. Museum collections remain a remarkably underutilised resource in academic history teaching. And the history of science, technology and medicine is no exception. Here at Medical Museion we have occasionally brought material objects into our medical history courses and also into the course we’re giving on medical science and technology studies for medical engineering students. We have plans to do much more, especially when it comes to integrating traditional academic and curatorial perspectives on material objects, and we are very eager to learn about other university museums with more teaching experience than we have. Therefore, the initiative taken by The Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious ... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4734159 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:02:29 +0100 4734159 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4734205&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F04%2F21%2Fa-snippet-of-psychologys-scientific-roots%2F Throughout the years, sometimes it seems that the public has been iffy about psychology and psychologists. Part of the problem is a lack of knowledge. Past surveys have shown that many people have no idea what psychologists even do. More recent research has found that the public largely views psychology in a positive light. But people still have a limited understanding of the discipline and don’t view it as a hard science. A 1998 survey revealed that both adults and college faculty viewed the physical sciences more favorably. They believed that psychology — along with sociology — led to fewer critical contributions to society and had less expertise than the physical sciences. How did psychology get this bad reputation? PsyBlog’s Jeremy Dean (which, by the way, is an aweso... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4734205 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:01:13 +0100 4734205 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4734101&cid=t_92358_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Famazing-leaps-in-medical-knowledge-heart-physiology-then-and-now%2F2011.04.20 These last several weeks I have been absolutely overwhelmed with science, meetings, writing, and reviews. I might complain, but I should also be flattered that I am as busy as I am. Mama is in demand, little muffin. Still, things are beginning to slow down to a tolerable level on my end, which means I will be back to blogging. Today I was working on some writing when I had cause to review some historical texts. It gives me pause to stop and consider things that we take for granted. For example, think about how blood flows through the heart and lungs… Figure 1: Blood flows from right to left, across the lungs. I can’t tell you how many times a day I look at a heart and  take for granted that blood should flow from the venous circulation, into the right side of the heart, acros... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4734101 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:00:08 +0100 4734101 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4734222&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F04%2F20%2Flouis-hyman-on-manufacturing-debt%2F Louis Hyman will speak today on how debt became a good investment.  The event is sponsored by Sickle (Jon Hanson’s corporations class) and HALB and open to the public.  Lunch will be served. (Source: The Situationist) The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4734222 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 04:01:04 +0100 4734222 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4723942&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F04%2F18%2Funderstanding-research-methodology-4-peer-review-process%2F Conclusion The peer review process is not perfect, but it is the best safeguard we have against junk science. When evaluating the worth of scientific data, in addition to verifying its publication in a peer-reviewed journal, it is important to take into consideration:  funding sources, whether the study has been replicated, study design, sample size, and conflicting interest (design details and critiques will be discussed in later articles). When referencing scientific data, it is common for individuals to reference popular science magazines and books.  Be extra cautious when getting your science information from these sources. Of course, there is some good science information published in popular science publications.   But, when the authors cannot provide references for their scienti... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4723942 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:44:26 +0100 4723942 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4723964&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=38954&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffrontierpsychiatrist.co.uk%2Fdancing-mania%2F Sometime in mid-July 1518 a woman stepped into one of Strasbourg’s streets and began dancing. Within a week another thirty four had joined her. By end of August, it is said that 400 people had experienced the madness, dancing uncontrollably around the city.   Local physicians were consulted. They excluded astrological and supernatural causes, declaring it to be a ‘natural disease’ caused by ‘hot blood’; treatment: more dancing.  In an echo of the raves that would prove so popular five hundred years later, two guildhalls and an outdoor grain market were cleared so the afflicted could dance freely and uninterrupted.  Musicians were provided.  When dancers began to die the governors rethought their strategy.  A new diagnosis was made... blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4723964 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 08:17:26 +0100 4723964 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4709236&cid=t_92358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2011%2F04%2F13%2Fcollecting-the-voices-and-materials-of-genomics%2F I haven’t been to an interesting scholarly meeting for a long time — so it was pretty frustrating to realise that two meetings on some of my favourite research and curatorial interests are taking place at the same time. The first meeting (which I’ve already signed up for as a contributor) is a small workshop on “collecting genomics”, 12-14 May. It’s organised by John Durant at the MIT Museum and Liba Taub at HPS Cambridge and there are only going to be 15-20 people around the table; a perfect setting for in-depth discussions about one of the crucial challenges to science, technology and medical museums in the future: how to document, collect and make sense of one of the most important developments in late 20th century ST&M. The other meeting i... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4709236 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:00:24 +0100 4709236 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4704969&cid=t_92358_155_f&fid=38409&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneuropathologyblog.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F04%2Fprehistoric-human-brain-found-pickled.html A brain in near-perfect condition was found recently in the skull of a person who was decapitated over 2, 600 years ago. Here's the link to the article from Discovery News.Thanks to Dr. Doug Shevlin for alerting me to this fascinating find.Scientists believe submersion in anoxic environment preserved tissue. (Source: neuropathology blog) neuropathology blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4704969 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:25:00 +0100 4704969 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4704700&cid=t_92358_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fcomical-rhyming-history-of-life-free-ebook.html Last year, James Dunbar researched and wrote a scientifically accurate, rhyming comic book about the origin of the universe. This year, he’s back with part 2 of the trilogy: “It’s Alive! The Universe Verse: Book 2″ Dunbar’s new tome, available digitally or in paper tells the story of life on Earth and its likely origins from non-living chemicals. It covers the formation of the solar system, Earth’s early history, the fundamental principles of evolution and natural selection and the basic structures and systems of life as we know it. It’s (w)rapped up in a well-written rhyme and reason full-colour illustrated book. Dunbar covered the various costs by crowd-sourcing funds using Kickstarter. You can preview the book on his website, order the $15.95 p... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4704700 Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:11:56 +0100 4704700 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4696607&cid=t_92358_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FGaYv4vnKj9A%2F By David BoazIn this week’s Britannica column, I look at the claims being made for the budget cuts in the weekend deal: “The largest annual spending cut in our history,” President Obama said. Speaker of the House John Boehner called it the “largest real dollar spending cut in American history.” Saturday’s front-page, upper-right headline in the Washington Post proclaimed: BIGGEST CUTS IN U.S. HISTORY The story went on to say that Obama “said the cuts would be painful but necessary.” NPR’s Andrea Seabrook reported, “The Republicans got big, big cuts.” And are they? Please. It’s a cut of $38 billion in a budget of $3,819 billion. That’s 1 percent. That’s a rounding error in federal budgeting…. That same budget table shows that federal spending fell f... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4696607 Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:20:24 +0100 4696607 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4684733&cid=t_92358_149_f&fid=35776&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpipeline.corante.com%2Farchives%2F2011%2F04%2F07%2Fwhats_really_killing_pharma.php Anthony Nicholls over at OpenEye really unburdens himself here, in a post that I recommend to anyone in the business (or anyone who wants to see what some of our problems are). Some highlights: I have come to believe (and I admit that this is only a theory) that as more and more of pharma’s budget was funneled into advertising and direct marketing to both the general public and to doctors themselves, the path to the top in pharma ceased to be via the lab bench and instead was by way of Madison Avenue. . . . . .I want to end with one of my favorite management insanities- the push within big pharma to remake themselves in the image of biotechs—the reasoning being that biotechs “get things done” and are more productive. Leaving aside the fact that over its history, biotech as a whol... In the Pipeline blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4684733 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:55:23 +0100 4684733 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4676876&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F04%2F04%2Fcanons-of-confabulation%2F From the Law and Mind Blog, here’s an excellent post by Michael Lieberman about a chapter (forthcoming in Ideology, Psychology, and Law (ed, Jon Hanson, 2011) authored by Situationist Contributors Eric Knowles and Peter Ditto. * * * Knowles and Ditto’s chapter on Preference, Principle, and Causistry – detailed elsewhere on this blog – bears a striking resemblance to Karl Llewellyn’s famous critique of the use of canons of construction in judicial opinions.  Given the title of this blog, how can we not explore such a clear intersection of the mind sciences and the law? Canons of construction are interpretive tools invoked by judges to discern the meaning of statutes.  To couch this in Knowles and Ditto’s terms, the universe of canons exists as a menu of principles upon wh... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4676876 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:30:39 +0100 4676876 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4664229&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F03%2F31%2Fhistory-of-a-suicide-an-interview-with-jill-bialosky%2F Today I have the pleasure of interviewing Jill Bialosky, author of the new book History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life, in which she brilliantly weaves together her sister’s inner life and brings an awkward but essential topic of discussion out of the shadows. 1. If you could have readers leave with one piece of truth about suicide, what would it be? Jill: Suicide is a multi-faceted, complex event and though there may be a present catalyst that triggers it, ultimately it is a psychological drama that happens within the mind of a suicidal individual resulting from intense inner pain. This is a theory developed by Dr. Edwin Shneidman, one of the leading figures in the study of suidiology and it is the one theory that makes sense to me. We must recognize the inner pain ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4664229 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:24:08 +0100 4664229 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4658382&cid=t_92358_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fherbalists-if-ancient-wisdom-exists-so-does-ancient-stupidity%2F2011.03.30 David Kroll’s recent article on thunder god vine is a great example of what can be learned by using science to study plants identified by herbalists as therapeutic. The herbalists’ arsenal can be a rich source of potential knowledge. But Kroll’s article is also a reminder that blindly trusting herbalists’ recommendations for treatment can be risky. Herbal medicine has always fascinated me. How did early humans determine which plants worked? They had no record-keeping, no scientific methods, only trial and error and word of mouth. How many intrepid investigators poisoned themselves and died in the quest? Imagine yourself in the jungle: which plants would you be willing to try? How would you decide whether to use the leaf or the root? How would you decide whether to chew the raw leaf... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4658382 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:00:06 +0100 4658382 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4658416&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FfJnd2T4XH_8%2F URL: http://www.brunswik.org/The Brunswik Society is an informal association of researchers who are interested in understanding and improving human judgment and decision making. For: Clinicians, ResearchersTopics: Academia, Behaviour Management, Clinical Decision Making, Clinical Psychology, General Psychology, History of Psychology, Research Methods, TeachingFeatures: Articles, Author Lists, Collaborative News, Conferences, Information, Links, Research, Societal or Organizational Membership, e-learning The Brunswik Society is an informal association of researchers who are interested in understanding and improving human judgment and decision making. Members of the Society share an appreciation of the work of the psychologist Egon Brunswik. The Society has no dues. Its primary activitie... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4658416 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:00:15 +0100 4658416 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4653495&cid=t_92358_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2011%2F03%2Fwho-wins-cultural-war-one-who-gets.html Image via WikipediaWhen the Wall Street Journal publishes a piece like this, you best stop whatever you are doing and pay attention. Because we are not speaking now of subtle indications of possible future unrest, we are talking about immediate, actionable intelligence.Tax the Super Rich now or face a revolution Paul B. Farrell - MarketWatchYes, tax the Super Rich. Tax them now. Before the other 99% rise up, trigger a new American Revolution, a meltdown and the Great Depression 2.Revolutions build over long periods — to critical mass, a flash point. Then they ignite suddenly, unpredictably. Like Egypt, started on a young Google executive’s Facebook page. Then it goes viral, raging uncontrollably. Can’t be stopped. Here in America the set-up is our nation’s pervasive “Super-Rich D... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4653495 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:21:00 +0100 4653495 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4653515&cid=t_92358_136_f&fid=39026&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcarolinemfr.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F03%2Fwhere-am-i-what-am-i-doing-how-am-i.html Its time to break from the analysis of news and other random thoughts and talk about me again. I am approaching the season of 'all the check ups' again. I am just ignoring them - as my inner three year old handles it the best if I do. I have lots of doctor appointments in the next month or so.I will see my radiation oncologist for a check up - she is actually very nice and is quick to recommend tests or other follow ups. She is Russian and shows up for her appointments in a white medical jacket over a funky outfit with outrageous shoes - usually high heels.I will see the knee surgeon to find out what damage I inflicted on my formerly good knee while falling this winter. It only hurts when it gets twisted or I decide to do something complicated like climb stairs.I will see my new primary ca... Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4653515 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:23:00 +0100 4653515 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4642650&cid=t_92358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2011%2F03%2F27%2Fwhats-actually-meant-by-the-life-and-biography-of-new-materials%2F Historians and curators of medicine might be interested in the conference ‘The Life of New Materials’ organised by the Hagley Museum and Library, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science ,17 - 18 November 2011. The conference will explore “the lives of the new materials that have made possible many of the technological advances of our age. Whether based on plant, metal, chemical, or nano technologies, the development, use, re-use, and disposal of new materials is an embedded feature of our industrial society”. The organisers wish to understand “the relationships from which new materials emerge, and which they in turn often refashion”, and they are especially interested in proposals that focus on Th... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4642650 Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:40:48 +0100 4642650 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4642934&cid=t_92358_136_f&fid=39026&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcarolinemfr.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F03%2Fmammograms-arent-as-useful-after-breast.html Well, yip-diddy-doo-dah! After breast cancer treatment, they send you on your way in your life and tell you, 'be vigilant, follow up with your doctors, and get regular mammograms'. Now they say 'mammograms are not as useful after breast cancer - they are less effective/less sensitive. The study (of course another study) recommends ultrasounds, MRIs and possibly the new 3D mammograms which were just approved by the FDA.Thank you for confusing me and stressing me out some more (I am supposed to reduce the stress in my life). I do know where I go for treatment, first of all if you have any previous history, you get the specialized super duper digital mammograms as opposed to the regular digital mammograms. And if there is any question, you get sent for an ultrasound right then and there. But ... Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4642934 Sun, 27 Mar 2011 10:31:00 +0100 4642934 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4642677&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F03%2F26%2Fwhen-should-i-come-off-my-antidepressant-6-things-to-consider%2F The question of whether or not you should start taking antidepressants is complex and difficult to answer. But even fuzzier is the question of when or if you should stop. Last May, NPR ran a piece called Coming Off Antidepressants Can Be Tricky Business. Joanne Silberner writes: Several top psychiatrists say there’s just not enough data to say for sure when to try coming off an antidepressant. Drug companies generally test their new products for a few months or up to a year. They don’t spend much time looking into how to taper off their products. The dense informational inserts that come with prescription drugs have a lot of information on how to take the product, but no information on how to stop. According to the Johns Hopkins Depression and Anxiety White Papers, antidepress... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4642677 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:58:36 +0100 4642677 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4615185&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F03%2F21%2Fthe-surprising-history-of-the-lobotomy%2F This article lists the “top 10 fascinating and notable lobotomies,” including an American actor, a renowned pianist, the sister of an American president and the sister of a prominent playwright. What have you heard about lobotomies? Are you surprised by the history of the procedure? Photo by frostnova, available under a Creative Commons attribution license. (Source: World of Psychology) World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4615185 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:30:14 +0100 4615185 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4615160&cid=t_92358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2011%2F03%2F19%2F7384%2F Representing one the peripherally participating institutions in the Nordic Network for Medical History, I’m pleased to broadcast the good news about the upcoming summer course on ‘Historicisation’ to be held in Bergen, 24–26 August, 2011. The aim of the course is to teach postgraduate students how medical historical research can be ‘historicised’. As the organisers write, “just how historians, social scientists and others proceed in order to do this varies”: For instance, the ‘proper’ context in which an object of study can be placed may look rather different for historians and medical scientists – as may indeed what constitutes the object of study itself. Historicisation may imply a denaturalisation of certain objects of study, such as th... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4615160 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:00:02 +0100 4615160 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4615192&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FK2_jnK1fizk%2F URL: http://www3.uakron.edu/ahap/The Archives of the History of American Psychology (AHAP) was established in 1965 at The University of Akron to promote research in the history of psychology by collecting, cataloguing, and preserving the historical record of psychology. The central feature of the AHAP is the manuscript collection, which includes the papers of over 740 psychologists. The growth of the repository exceeded projections, both in the rate at which materials were donated and in their diversity. This expansion led in 1976 to the establishment of the Child Development Film Archives, a unit that cares for both research footage and instructional films. This expansion was followed, in 1980, by a decision to supplement the numerous unsolicited gifts of books by devoting space to the pu... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4615192 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:00:29 +0100 4615192 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4600566&cid=t_92358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2011%2F03%2F16%2Fblog-on-the-history-of-neurology-and-the-neurosciences%2F Cannot understand why I haven’t come across The Neuro Times blog — a historical blog dedicated to neurology and the neurosciences — before. Full of good stuff and a good example to follow. Tweet (Source: Biomedicine on Display) Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4600566 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:01:15 +0100 4600566 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4592393&cid=t_92358_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fcavernous-angiomas-screening-of-a-family-over-three-generations%2F2011.03.15 Cavernous angiomas belong to a group of intracranial vascular malformations that are developmental malformations of the vascular bed. These congenital abnormal vascular connections frequently enlarge over time. The lesions can occur on a familial basis. Patients may be asymptomatic, although they often present with headaches, seizures, or small parenchymal hemorrhages. In most patients, cavernous angiomas are solitary and asymptomatic. In recent times, increasing MRI has detected several such asymptomatic cases and has prompted a study into the genetics and natural history of this condition. It is now known that cavernous angiomas have a genetic basis. Familial forms of cavernous angiomas are associated with a set of genes called CCM genes (cerebral cavernous angioma). This is a case repor... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4592393 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:00:02 +0100 4592393 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4592456&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F03%2F15%2Fhistory-of-psychology-americas-first-eharmony%2F It all started with the Marital Rating Scale. Physician and psychologist George W. Crane, MD, PhD (1901-95) created a questionnaire called the Marital Rating Scale in the 1930s to help couples assess their marriages. (Crane maintained a private practice and wrote the newspaper column “The Worry Clinic.”) According to an article in APA’s Monitor on Psychology, to create his scale, Crane asked 600 husbands about their wives’ positive and negative attributes. (Husbands were also questioned, so there’s a scale for them, too.) Then he listed the 50 qualities that came up most often. While Crane tried to make the process scientific, he “did admit to using a personal bias in weighting the items that he thought were most important in marriage.” How did the scale work? According to t... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4592456 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:04:22 +0100 4592456 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4592623&cid=t_92358_134_f&fid=35187&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDiabetesDaily%2F%7E3%2FB3U_aR7LtY8%2Fdiabetes-genetics-how-is-diabetes-inherited.php An estimated 2.5 to 3 million Americans have type 1 diabetes. My father was one of them. Diagnosed around age 10, he spent most of his life injecting insulin into his arms, stomach and legs. Eventually, his eye sight and heart could no longer function properly, and he passed away when I was in high school.Around this time, I was introduced to the subject of genetics. I thought back to all those check-ups at the Joslin clinic (now Joslin Diabetes Center) and realized that genetics was the reason everyone watched me and my sister so closely. Genetics was the reason my family was so scared when I starting gaining too much weight in middle school and freaked out every time my foot fell asleep or I was thirsty. Genetics.The loss of my father and timely introduction to genetics drove my decision... Diabetes Daily blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4592623 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:05:07 +0100 4592623 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4592305&cid=t_92358_83_f&fid=34690&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Finsolence%2F%7E3%2FIEg98V1tQts%2Ffun_with_a_clueless_daylight_savings_tim.php Today is the Monday after Daylight Saving Time started. I always hate this day. Getting to work on time is always that much more difficult, and I always feel a bit run down for the few days afterward until my body adjusts. This time of year also predictably produces idiotic screeds about Daylight Saving Time, for instance, this one by someone named Chip Wood entitled Who's The Idiot Who Foisted Daylight Saving Time On Us? While I can sympathize with the sentiment, the actual rant is a heapin' helpin' of burning stupid: It all began back in the dark days of the Great Depression, I'm told. The idea was that moving clocks forward in the spring and back in the fall would give farmers one more hour of daylight each day. All of the money they'd save not having to burn kerosene or use electricit... Respectful Insolence blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4592305 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:00:00 +0100 4592305 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4580955&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F03%2F14%2Fdiet-coke-and-depression%2F When you are a recovering drunk, you don’t have a ton of options at parties. I used to be an avid Diet Coke drinker. But last summer my sister scared the well you know out of me when she started talking about what aspartame can do to your system. I am chemically sensitive as it is, and many of you are, too, probably — which is why I don’t drink alcohol and gave up smoking. But I was curious if Diet Coke was really that dangerous. I did some research, and as you well know, every paranoia will be confirmed eventually by some article on the web. I found an article about Diet Coke on John McManamy’s website about Diet Coke . What was particularly interesting to me was the relationship between aspartame and depression and bipolar disorder. Says John: In 1993, Dr Walt... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4580955 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:15:06 +0100 4580955 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4580894&cid=t_92358_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fwhat-i-want-her-to-know-about-diabetes%2F2011.03.13 After a tough low this morning: I want her to know that she was wanted so much, well before she arrived, and that her parents went to great lengths to make sure her arrival was as safe as they could manage. I want her to know that those moments when she has to wait while I test, or while I bolus, or the times when I have to set her in her crib and gulp down grape juice while she stands there with her big, brown eyes staring at me while her mouth tugs into an impatient smile, that I love her and I just need to deal with diabetes for a few seconds so I can be the best mommy I can. I want her to know that if my eyes don’t get better, it’s not her fault. It’s not my fault, either. The fault lies with diabetes. I want her to know that the reason I’ll sometimes frown at... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4580894 Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:00:34 +0100 4580894 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4570522&cid=t_92358_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FPc_OKJPdstk%2F By Patrick J. MichaelsThe Current Wisdom is a series of monthly posts in which Senior Fellow Patrick J. Michaels reviews interesting items on global warming in the scientific literature that may not have received the media attention that they deserved, or have been misinterpreted in the popular press. The Current Wisdom only comments on science appearing in the refereed, peer-reviewed literature, or that has been peer-screened prior to presentation at a scientific congress. **********  The recent publication of two articles in Nature magazine proclaiming a link to rainfall extremes (and flooding) to global warming, added to the heat in Russia and the floods in Pakistan in the summer of 2010, and the back-to-back cold and snowy winters in the eastern U.S. and western Europe, have gotten a ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4570522 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:26:05 +0100 4570522 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4570588&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FGiBsQliafv8%2F URL: http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/psychol_soc.htmlThis is one of a set of subject pages in the Scholarly Societies Project, which facilitates access to websites of scholarly societies across the world. This subset of the main website, is set up to try and include ALL websites of societies involved with psychology. The main website includes MOST websites that are involved with any scientific societies. For: Anyone, Clinicians, Researchers, StudentsTopics: Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Educational Psychology, General Psychology, Health Psychology, History of Psychology, Mental Health, Mental Health Promotion, OCR Level-A Psychology, Psychology and Technology, Social Psychology, Teaching PsychologyFeatures: Community and Social Networking, Group Management, Information, L... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4570588 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:00:49 +0100 4570588 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4565909&cid=t_92358_88_f&fid=38129&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Flifeinthefastlane%2FWZHV%2F%7E3%2FjUgxZhBB8NA%2F What resources must the budding Oslerophile seek out? Here are the LITFL-approved books and websites for learning about Sir William Osler. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane) Life in the Fast Lane blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4565909 Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:36 +0100 4565909 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4560334&cid=t_92358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2011%2F03%2F08%2Fthe-museographer-and-the-object%2F In the process of selecting objects for a new exhibition, I (re)discovered this room: It is located beneath the roof of the museum, and contains, as the picture shows, literally hundreds of small glass vials with various chemical labels. Most are empty, but a few still has the original contents. Aside from being a treasure chest for our exhibition, the room also reminded me of the degree to which being in a house filled with things makes me think differently about the history of medicine. This might not exactly be a groundbreaking insight, but is bears repeating often. The material environment we occupy is foundational for our cognitive states. This sentiment is expressed in the following quote from Claude Lévi-Strauss, which, although it is aimed at ethnographical collectors, seem to m... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4560334 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:00:47 +0100 4560334 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4554639&cid=t_92358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2011%2F03%2F07%2Fcompanies-preparing-skeletons-for-schools-in-the-early-post-war-period%2F My curiosity was just raised by a mail inquiry by Stuart Tallack, who’s asking members of the UK Medical Collections Group for help to clarify a memory from the late 1950s: I visited a company that prepared and articulated skeletons. A room at the back of the premises contained two tanks, one of caustic solution and the other of plain water. Both had gas flames beneath and were used to clean the skeletons of earth and tissue. I do not remember the room where they were articulated with springs and wires but I do recall the office and its cabinet of older and more interesting specimens. I seem to remember shaking the hand of a seven foot Russian, long dead, but still impressive. The company must have been near University College Hospital as I went via Goodge Street station and crosse... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4554639 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:39:24 +0100 4554639 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4552152&cid=t_92358_155_f&fid=38412&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpathlabmed.typepad.com%2Fsurgical_pathology_and_la%2F2011%2F03%2Fsolving-the-puzzle-of-henry-viii.html ScienceDaily (Mar. 3, 2011) — Blood group incompatibility between Henry VIII and his wives could have driven the Tudor king's reproductive woes, and a genetic condition related to his suspected blood group could also explain Henry's dramatic mid-life transformation into a physically and mentally-impaired tyrant who executed two of his wives. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110303153114.htm# Fascinating medical history article!  The Kell blood group system is probably the third most important blood group system (after ABO and Rh) because Kell antigens are highly immunogenic and Kell antibodies can cause hemolytic transfusion reactions and hemolytic disease of newborn.  Fortunately, only about 9% of whites and 2% of blacks are K positive; so although K an... The Daily Sign-Out blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4552152 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:23:00 +0100 4552152 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4545010&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F03%2F03%2Fcultivating-creativity-every-day%2F On June 4, 2007 artist Noah Scalin created a skull on his blog and promised to create a different skull every day for a year. He did. He created a variety of skulls: everything from his first orange paper skull to a flower skull to a PB&J skull to a skull made out of pennies. That’s 365 skulls and counting. (He continues the project today with submissions from readers.) His daily project inspired the book 365: A Daily Creativity Journal: Make Something Every Day and Change Your Life! In it, Scalin encourages readers to create their own year-long project. He shares one suggestion each day to help spark readers’ imaginations. He writes that “a daily project is a personal journey that can offer you a rare opportunity for self-discovery and personal growth with tangible results�... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4545010 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:35:58 +0100 4545010 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4540539&cid=t_92358_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007944.html Megadrought. What a great word. Not tinny at all. Looking at the previous interglacial most like our current Holocene era some climate history researchers found that the US southwest can undergo a megadrought during a warmer interglacial such as the interglacial we are currently in. In a letter published recently in the journal Nature, Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers and an international team of scientists report that the Southwest region of the United States undergoes "megadroughts"—warmer, more arid periods lasting hundreds of years or longer. More significantly, a portion of the research indicates that an ancient period of warming may be analogous to natural present-day climate conditions. If so, a cooler, wetter period may be in store for the region,... (Source: FuturePundi... FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4540539 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4540539 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4525054&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F02%2F26%2F3-top-sources-of-psychology-myths%2F In a recent interview I asked Scott Lilienfeld, the author of 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology, about the sources of psychology myths.  Here’s what he has to say about where psychology myths come from: The primary source is the huge, burgeoning pop psychology industry: self-help books, the internet, films, TV shows, magazines, and the like. But many of these myths also spring from the allure of our everyday experience; many of these myths seem persuasive because they accord with our common sense intuitions. But these intuitions are often erroneous. The public can defend themselves against shams by becoming armed with accurate knowledge. Many other fields — not just psychology — are subject to myths disseminated by the media. So what are some of the top sources of psy... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4525054 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:19:26 +0100 4525054 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4522127&cid=t_92358_99_f&fid=35342&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.vcu.edu%2Fcbuttery%2F2011%2F02%2Fover-diagnosed-making-people-sick-in-the-pursuit-of-health.html This new book written by three researchers from the Dartmouth medical school in New Hampshire A powerful new book claims that overdiagnosis is one of medicine’s biggest problems, causing millions of people to become patients unnecessarily, producing untold harm, and wasting vast amounts of resources. Comments This should be required reading for researchers as well as members the medical press corps who often go out on a limb touting new treatments and new drugs. We see this issue in the editorial this week in the BMJ concerning overuse of statins, and other recent publications about improper use of screening. Ivan Illych and others have been making this point for 40 years but no one at the policy level bothers to consider the issue. (Source: Dr. Buttery's Public Health BLOG) Dr. Buttery's Public Health BLOG blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4522127 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:45:33 +0100 4522127 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4517166&cid=t_92358_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fthe-importance-of-diagnosing-birth-defects%2F2011.02.24 Birth defects, particularly those of the blood vessels, account for the majority of infant deaths, especially after the first week of life. Congenital heart disease (CHD) — meaning defects of the heart – is responsible for one-third of deaths between birth and the first year of life. Therefore, the diagnosis of CHD is critical in order to plan life-saving treatments, such as the proper place for the delivery, the type of delivery, and its timing. If it’s known in advance that an unborn baby has a heart problem and is delivered in a hospital that provides special care, its survival and future health will increase dramatically. Who’s at risk for having CHD and which expectant moms should have further evaluation? Families who have a history of CHD — especially ... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4517166 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:49 +0100 4517166 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4507371&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F22%2Fblaming-the-victim%2F Of the many experimental results that have surprised me over the years, Cathaleene Jones and Elliot Aronson’s classic experiment on rape victims stands near the top.  How could it be that when a victim was described as a “virgin,” participants were more willing to hold her responsible for the rape than when she was described as a “married woman” or “divorcee”? As Melvin Lerner and Dale Miller later explained, “[T]he knowledge that innocent, highly respectable females can be raped was particularly threatening to the subjects’ belief that the world is just, and to avoid the threat posed by this type of admission, it was necessary to find fault with the actions of the victim. Thus, the subjects appear to have tried to convince themselves that the... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4507371 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 04:01:46 +0100 4507371 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4501624&cid=t_92358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2011%2F02%2F20%2F7064%2F In the 12 February issue of The Lancet, Jacqueline Finch from University of Manchester’s Centre for Biomedical Egyptology (yes, such a centre really exists!), writes a charming report of her investigation of Egyptian prosthetic devices. Jacqueline Finch, “The ancient origins of prosthetic medicine”, Lancet, 377: 548 – 549 (2011). See also Medgadget’s comment here. Tweet (Source: Biomedicine on Display) Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4501624 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:00:15 +0100 4501624 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4489727&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F02%2F17%2Fthe-birth-of-the-mental-asylum%2F The first hospital in the U.S. opened its doors in 1753 in Philadelphia. While it treated a variety of patients, six of its first patients suffered from mental illness. In fact, Pennsylvania Hospital would have a pivotal impact on psychiatry. Benjamin Rush, a physician who has been referred to as “the father of modern psychiatry” largely due to his book, Medical Inquiries and Observations on the Diseases of the Mind, worked at the hospital. He believed in treating mentally ill patients with bloodletting, a treatment that was used by Ancient civilizations. He dismissed demonic theories behind mental illness, and instead thought that psychiatric disorders originated from “hypertension in the brain’s blood vessels” (as cited in Goodwin, 1999). It was thought that removing bl... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4489727 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:17:01 +0100 4489727 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4489678&cid=t_92358_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fmedical-aspects-of-the-king%25e2%2580%2599s-speech%2F2011.02.16 Over the weekend I went to see “The King’s Speech.” So far the film, featuring Colin Firth as a soon-to-be-king-of-England with a speech impediment, and Geoffrey Rush as his ill-credentialed but trusted speech therapist, has earned top critics’ awards and 12 Oscar nominations. This is a movie that’s hard not to like for one reason or another, at least most of the way through. It uplifts, it draws on history, it depends on solid acting. What I liked best, though, is the work’s rare depiction of a complex relationship between two imperfect, brave, and dedicated men. At some level, this is a movie about guys who communicate without fixating on cars, football (either kind), or women’s physical features. Great! (Dear Hollywood moguls: Can we have more like this, please?) T... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4489678 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:00:11 +0100 4489678 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4482825&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F02%2F15%2Fthe-psychology-of-advertising%2F How often have you seen a teeth-whitening ad that shows the person with bright, white teeth as more attractive — sexier even? Or viewed an ad for a green cleaning product that made you fearful that using a chemical product would harm your kids? Or just think of any product — diet food, skin care, insurance company, car, medication — that features celebrity testimonials or the words of other consumers who’ve achieved “incredible results.” For these common advertising ploys, you can thank John B. Watson, the founder of behaviorism here in America. After getting fired from his academic post at Johns Hopkins, Watson began working for one of the biggest advertising agencies in New York City, J. Walter Thompson. (He was dismissed for his scandalous divorce. Short story: He fell in lo... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4482825 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 01:00:37 +0100 4482825 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4441989&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F02%2F06%2Fmaslow-revisited-the-hierarchy-of-chakras%2F What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization. – Abraham Maslow In psychology, physiology, and medicine, wherever a debate between the mystics and the scientifics has been once for all decided, it is the mystics who have usually proved to be right about the facts, while the scientifics had the better of it in respect to the theories. – William James In the 40 years since Abraham Maslow’s death, the impact of his thinking about human needs and potential is still resonating in business and academic circles. Maslow’s original writings first appeared in a 1943 paper, A Theory of Human Motivation, and helped frame what drives us. It was drawn from his careful review and observation of those known for their greatness, and others, students in particul... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4441989 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 13:36:18 +0100 4441989 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4436783&cid=t_92358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2011%2F02%2F04%2Fvision-and-touch-a-material-history-of-blindness%2F Our own Jan Eric Olsén has received 3.2 mill DKK (about 400.000 euro) from the Velux Foundation for a research project on the history of blindness, titled “Vision and touch: a material history of the world of blindness”. Drawing on archival sources from the Danish Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired, as well as the big ophthalmological and blind-historical collections in Medical Museion, the project will explore the medical and cultural tension between vision and blindness: The material objects used by the blind and by emphasising the importance of the sense of touch, the project will provide an alternative viewpoint to earlier historical accounts of blindness and its complex relation to vision. By shifting focus from the iconography of blindness to the material ob... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4436783 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:13:03 +0100 4436783 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4433138&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FahyWG7Pa2zQ%2F URL: http://www.hsl.virginia.edu/historical/eugenics/index.cfmFrom psychcentral.com/blog which is highly recommended of course, if you haven’t read them, come many different and various blogs dealing with many facets of psychology. I recently read a blog by Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S., on the psychcentral blog World of Psychology discussing Eugenics and Carrie Buck, who was a woman who was sterilized in 1927 in the State of Virginia because some viewed her and her family as imbeciles and that they should not reproduce. Horrendous as this is, considering no one knows how a person will turn out, regardless of his or her environment or hereditary issues–many “higher ups” in society considered eugenics to be the right thing to do. Read more about eugenics on this websit... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4433138 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:00:05 +0100 4433138 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4429058&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F02%2F02%2Feating-your-shadow-in-honor-of-groundhog-day%2F To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light. Once one has experienced a few times what it is like to stand judgingly between the opposites, one begins to understand what is meant by the self. Anyone who perceives his shadow and his light simultaneously sees himself from two sides and thus gets in the middle. — Carl Gustav Jung The despised self, the disowned self, and the shadow: By any name psychology has acknowledged the dark side of our personality in many forms. It is also in literature (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) and at the movies (Black Swan) we may first come to know the shadow. Psychology has long since been trying to get us to deal with it. There is a way. The ultimate way of coping with it is to eat it. The Shadow Effect, by the leading spiritual healers of ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4429058 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:05:52 +0100 4429058 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4419353&cid=t_92358_133_f&fid=35084&url=http%3A%2F%2Fballastexistenz.autistics.org%2F%3Fp%3D656 Another short one but at least I’m posting. It’s something I just remembered while thinking about history.  I’ve written about hypergraphia before. It’s the medicalized term for compulsive writing (just one form of compulsion-level creativity thought to be linked to temporal lobe oddities, and it’s a way I’ve been described before). It doesn’t have to be any particular kind of writing though. I used to just write lists, or write the words of a book over and over. Many people described as hypergraphic write incredibly detailed journals going over every minute of the day.  I was telling someone about this years ago. Turns out she was a history major. Her response was “Oh historians love people like that!  That’s how they find out what ... Ballastexistenz blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4419353 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:15:07 +0100 4419353 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4419432&cid=t_92358_149_f&fid=35776&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpipeline.corante.com%2Farchives%2F2011%2F01%2F31%2Fwhats_the_most_worthwhile_new_drug_since_1990.php A query from a reader prompts me to ask this question, in preparation for a rather long post in the new future. What do you think is the most worthwhile new pharmaceutical brought to market since 1990? That's an arbitrary cutoff, but twenty years is a reasonable sample size. And I'll let everyone define "worthwhile" as they see fit - improvement over existing drugs, opening new therapeutic areas, cost-effectiveness, what have you. Just be sure to make your case, briefly, when you nominate a candidate. Let's see, first off, if it's a topic that can be agreed on at all. (Source: In the Pipeline) In the Pipeline blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4419432 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:16:17 +0100 4419432 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4405823&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F01%2F27%2Fphrenology-examining-the-bumps-of-your-brain%2F The next time you say, “so and so should have her head examined,” remember that this was literally done in the 19th century. Phrenology, as it became known, is the study of brain function. Specifically, phrenologists believed that different parts of the brain were responsible for different emotional and intellectual functions. Furthermore, they felt that these functions could be ascertained by measuring the bumps and indentations in your skull. That is, the shape of your skull revealed your character and talents. Viennese doctor and anatomist Franz Josef Gall originated phrenology, though he called it cranioscopy. He was correct in saying that brain function was localized (this was a novel idea at the time), but unfortunately, he got everything else wrong. When Gall was young, he not... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4405823 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:01:01 +0100 4405823 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4399530&cid=t_92358_88_f&fid=38129&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Flifeinthefastlane%2FWZHV%2F%7E3%2FmC5xhZnxOEs%2F A shout out for Whonamedit.com: a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms that aims to present a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane) Life in the Fast Lane blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4399530 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:00:33 +0100 4399530 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4394538&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=38950&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shockmd.com%2F2011%2F01%2F25%2Fthe-history-of-wikipedias-first-decade%2F A short narrative and video about the story of the founding and evolution of Wikipedia.   No related posts. (Source: Dr Shock MD PhD) Dr Shock MD PhD blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4394538 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 07:09:03 +0100 4394538 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4394445&cid=t_92358_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fwhat-is-a-%25e2%2580%259ccomplete%25e2%2580%259d-physical%2F2011.01.24 A reader requests: Can you do a post on what procedures constitute a thorough physical, in your opinion? I haven’t had one in several years and thinking of making an appointment now. The last doctor I went to didn’t even listen to my heart or go though the motions with feeling my belly and that stuff. And of the last three doctors I went to, I realized they didn’t bring up my immunization records. Is this usually left for the patients to bring up on their own? Good question. What exactly is a physical? Does it include blood work? What about an EKG? And a cardiac stress test? Is an “executive physical” an orgy of “more is better,” previously paid lavishly, really better than a “camp physical?” Here’s the thing: There is no such thing as a “complete physical exami... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4394445 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:00:47 +0100 4394445 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4394530&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F01%2F24%2Feugenics-the-story-of-carrie-buck%2F Psychology has a fascinating and rich history, filled with amazing advances. But it wasn’t all progress. Psychology has a painful past — with many victims. One of the most devastating times in psychology was a movement called eugenics, a name coined by Sir Francis Galton in 1883. The goal of eugenics was to improve the genetic composition of the population: to encourage healthy, smart individuals to reproduce (called positive eugenics) and to discourage the poor, who were considered unintelligent and unfit, from reproducing (negative eugenics). One of the main methods to discourage reproduction was through sterilization. While it seems ludicrous now, many people, both abroad and in the U.S., agreed with the principles of eugenics. In fact, state governments soon started establishing st... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4394530 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:52:48 +0100 4394530 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4382793&cid=t_92358_106_f&fid=36682&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSutureForALiving%2F%7E3%2FOpTjj0KVzbo%2F1790-eagle-quilt-wip.html A few months ago I was contacted by the person who bought my “War Eagle” quilt. She wanted me to take part in a project she is putting together which will feature an “eagle” quilt representing each decade. The decade I get is 1790-1800. Before agreeing, I pulled out a couple of my quilt books to be sure I knew what quilts looked like during that time frame. I wanted to be sure I could deliver a quilt that looked like it came from 1790. In Barbara Brackman’s Clues in the Calico (p 14-15) In the mid-eighteenth century, ……Like the bed quilts, petticoats were of whole cloth, often of silk or glazed wool, quilted with designs such as feathers and flowers. In Roderick Kiracofe’s The American Quilt --- 1750-1825 Preindustrial America chapter (p 46-48) Many quilts from this pe... Suture for a Living blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4382793 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:17:00 +0100 4382793 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4361047&cid=t_92358_106_f&fid=36682&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSutureForALiving%2F%7E3%2F65iCqoMIGdI%2Fshout-outs_18.html Enabling Healthy Decisions is the host for this week’s Grand Rounds! You can read this week’s edition here. The concept of “engagement” in healthcare is a difficult one. Traditionally, we’ve had a build it and they will come approach that didn’t encourage preventative care. It also didn’t openly acknowledge the challenges that consumers have in dealing with medication adherence and even understanding the system or their physician’s instructions. In this week’s edition of Grand Rounds, I looked at submissions and recent posts from several angles on this issue. One of the most engaging was from the healthAGEnda blog where Amy tells her personal story about being diagnosed with Stage IV inflammatory breast cancer and trying to work though the system. Her focus on patient... Suture for a Living blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4361047 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:52:27 +0100 4361047 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4361048&cid=t_92358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2011%2F01%2F18%2Fmalaria-museum-coming-up%2F We got this cuddly edition of the malaria parasite from Marco Herbst who was here visiting the museum last week, to get inspiration for his upcoming Malaria Museum in Berlin. Marco’s approach to making a museum was refreshingly nontraditional. Far from being webbed up in museological concepts and theories, he builds on a growing fascination with his subject along with the human instinct to collect interesting things. The former owner of a night club in Dublin and a bar in Berlin, Marco has some of the passion and personality of the renaissance collector with his cabinet of curiosities. I’m looking forward to popping by his museum for my daily gin and tonic – a drink originally invented to prevent malaria, as the tonic water contains the alkaloid quinine. But of course ba... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4361048 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:29:51 +0100 4361048 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4352753&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F15%2Fmartin-luther-king-jr-%25e2%2580%2599s-situationism-2%2F This post was originally published on January 22, 2007. * * * Monday’s holiday provides an apt occasion to highlight the fact that, at least by my reckoning, Martin Luther King, Jr. was, among other things, a situationist. To be sure, King is most revered in some circles for quotations that are easily construed as dispositionist, such as: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Taken alone, as it often is, that sentence seems to set a low bar. Indeed, some Americans contend that we’ve arrived at that promised land; after all, most of us (mostly incorrectly) imagine ourselves to be judging people based solely on their dispositions, choic... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4352753 Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:53:07 +0100 4352753 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4343082&cid=t_92358_83_f&fid=34690&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Finsolence%2F%7E3%2FzqRypladfDQ%2Fno_doubt_the_anti-vaccine_movement_will.php Clearly, once the allegations of Andrew Wakefield's fraud, conflicts of interest, and business plans to profit off of his demonization of the MMR came to light, it was only a matter of time before this arrived: NOTE: Apparently the creator of this parody has removed it. I've sent an e-mail asking to reconsider. Read the comments on this post... (Source: Respectful Insolence) Respectful Insolence blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4343082 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 05:00:01 +0100 4343082 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4337940&cid=t_92358_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fconsider-medical-conditions-before-jumping-on-the-new-years-resolution-diet-and-exercise-bandwagon%2F2011.01.11 The first week of January was full of news reports of giving advice on your new diet and exercise program to help you lose the weight you’ve always wanted to. In a previous post and video I talk about some do’s and don’ts when planning for your weight loss New Year’s resolution. In the video below, I talk about some medical issues to keep in mind before starting your program. For example, do you have a family history of medical problems like high blood pressure or diabetes? If so, you may want to schedule an appointment with your personal physician before jumping on the diet and exercise bandwagon. If you find this video helpful, I invite you to check out other TV interviews at MikeSevilla.TV. Enjoy! *This blog post was originally published at Doctor Ano... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4337940 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:00:00 +0100 4337940 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4331065&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=34958&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.counsellingresource.com%2F%7Er%2Fpsychology-philosophy%2F%7E3%2F5Xxxq2-FRMM%2F What does it mean to be 'natural' or 'wild'? Are these qualities, on an archetypal level, associated with women? Can we recognise the archetypes of wild women, incarnating freedom and desire, or earth mothers, here to nurture, who are ultimately very powerful, yet possibly not very bright?Tags: boundaries, control, history, marketing, men, relationships, sexuality, society, women (Source: Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life) Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4331065 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:54:15 +0100 4331065 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4331050&cid=t_92358_106_f&fid=36682&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSutureForALiving%2F%7E3%2F0r_g8nPhecA%2Fshout-outs_11.html FDAzilla blog is the host for this week’s Grand Rounds!   You can read this week’s edition here. When when I read the posts from this week’s grand rounds, I am astounded at how advanced, how intense, how personal, how vast, and also how amazingly complicated health care here in America is.  It’s so complicated that probably only the most astute health care observers will even understand every post below. As you read through the best posts from the medical blogosphere for the week, just think about how amazing all of this is -  health care leads to all kinds of misconceptions, frustrations, discoveries, inspiration, opportunities, tragedy, and humor. ………… …………………………… Kim, Emergiblog, is the host of the latest edition of Change of... Suture for a Living blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4331050 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:26:01 +0100 4331050 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4324817&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F08%2F200-countries-200-years-4-minutes%2F I’m getting excited about the Fifth Law and Mind Sciences Conference: “The Psychology of Inequality” that will be held at Harvard Law School on February 26, 2011. It promises to be a great event.  (As a reminder, you can register for the conference here.) To whet your appetite, check out this amazing animated graph constructed by Dr. Hans Rosling tracking changes in global health over the last 200 years by country.  It’s well worth the four-minute watch! * * * * * * For a sample of related Situationist posts, see “The Situation of Healthy Aging,” “Inequality and the Unequal Situation of Mental and Physical Health,” “The Stressful Situation of Disease,” and “The Interior Situation of Intergenerational Poverty.” (Source: The Situationist) The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4324817 Sat, 08 Jan 2011 04:01:42 +0100 4324817 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4322514&cid=t_92358_88_f&fid=38959&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.epmonthly.com%2Fwhitecoat%2F2011%2F01%2Fdo-they-have-gastroenteritis-or-antimony-poisoning%2F Hey all, it’s ERP from erstories.net. Haven’t done a guest post in a while but here ya go. Recently there has been a huge uptick of visitors to my ER violently ill with vomiting and diarrhoea.  They (the CDC) thinks it is Norovirus, but that got me thinking.   We see episodes of this sort of thing so often that we almost turn off our brains as clinicians.  We say “you have a virus” before the patient has finished telling us the full story.  We blindly order Zofran, IV fluids and check some electrolytes.  If they feel better after a bolus of fluids and they tolerate some liquids, they go home.  Quick and easy.  Anyway, I got to thinking, what if something else is going on?  Something weird or random (I know I am a geek like that). Something sinister?   Dur... WhiteCoat's Call Room blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4322514 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 07:01:29 +0100 4322514 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4318328&cid=t_92358_87_f&fid=38368&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDisruptiveWomenInHealthCare%2F%7E3%2FVf7qikM2ErY%2F By Sharon Terry. A peek into the past can reveal a lot about your future. Family health history is the story of diseases that run in your family. It is one part of the entire history of your family. Along with culture, values, environment, and behaviors, family health history influences the way you live your life. Learning about your family health history can help you make healthy choices: It is a cheap, easy way to improve your own health and the health of your family. Share the information you gather with your healthcare provider to further reduce your risk of disease and create a partnership around your health. Check out the Does It Run In the Family? toolkit in English and Spanish! “A Guide to Family Health History” explains the importance of family health history, how to collect ... Disruptive Women in Health Care blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4318328 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:05:46 +0100 4318328 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4314062&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F05%2Fthe-unequal-situation-of-seperation%2F From Rice News (by Mike Williams): However much people choose to live in a segregated society, the trend is a losing proposition for all. That was the takeaway message delivered by Rice’s Michael Emerson in a presentation to the Houston Association of Hispanic Media Professionals (HAHMP) last week. Members came to campus to hear him discuss select results from the Houston Area Survey, particularly as they relate to housing preferences among blacks, whites and Hispanics. Emerson, the Allyn and Gladys Cline Professor of Sociology and co-director of the university’s new Institute for Urban Research (IUR), gave a brief summary of segregation in Houston based on the 2000 Census that showed distinct separation between black and white neighborhoods, with Hispanics somewhat more integr... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4314062 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 04:49:32 +0100 4314062 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4309616&cid=t_92358_88_f&fid=38129&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Flifeinthefastlane%2FWZHV%2F%7E3%2FEvlSbJeYmzg%2F This feature post looks at the graphic hard hitting advertising campaign by the Transport Accident Commision of Victoria, over the past 20years. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane) Life in the Fast Lane blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4309616 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 02:41:21 +0100 4309616 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4305093&cid=t_92358_149_f&fid=35776&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpipeline.corante.com%2Farchives%2F2011%2F01%2F03%2Fand_so_2011.php So, let's get things underway around here: 2010 was, as has been the rule, Not A Good Year for the drug industry. But overall, I think it did break the pattern that had been going since about 2006, of each year being worse than the one before. That's just an impression, mind you, but perhaps some sort of bottom has been reached? We'll find out. My guess is that 2011 will end up looking more like the prelude to 2012. We have a number of patent expirations coming up (with Lipitor, late this year, as the marquee event), but they'll probably affect next year's earning's more than this year. (Note that if you're a research-driven drug company, these things are bad news, but if you're a generic company (or a drug store chain), the picture is much rosier. Predictions for this year can be entere... In the Pipeline blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4305093 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:53:00 +0100 4305093 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4302093&cid=t_92358_83_f&fid=34690&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Finsolence%2F%7E3%2F7eOsfIEBTWQ%2Fas_2010_ends_lets_be_careful_out_there.php As hard as it is to believe, today is the last day of 2010. An old year has flown by once again, and, almost before I realized it, a new year will arrive where I live in mere hours. It's been a truly weird year, even more so than the average level of weirdness. That's why I can't think of a better way to close it out than to post something that is just as weird as 2010 has been. Ever since I saw this on Bioephemera nearly three weeks ago, I've been looking for an excuse to post this video. Given that I'm going to spend the last day of 2010 working on a grant, leaving little time for finishing the year out with one of my typical 3,000+ word rants. I guess you'll just have to wait until 2011 for a resumption of that habit of mine. In the meantime, check out this awesomely weird video: ... Respectful Insolence blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4302093 Fri, 31 Dec 2010 16:00:00 +0100 4302093 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4302266&cid=t_92358_136_f&fid=39026&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcarolinemfr.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F12%2F1000-character-medical-description.html Computerized medical records are the way of the future. Oh goody. now we are dependent on technicians limiting what doctors can say about us and making them fill in forms etc. What if we don't fit in a form?This doctor was trying to describe his patient's health and was stuck with 1000 characters. Could I be described in 1000 characters? I just went over to MS Word and started typing to describe myself. I got up to 300 characters pretty darn fast. Never mind talking in medical jargon about my health crap. And all of my health issues which are still in paper records in a vault some place.But if a doctor is prepping me for surgery or making a treatment recommendation, there should be no limitations on what (s)he is writing. I want a full description and complete details. My red blood count r... Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4302266 Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:32:00 +0100 4302266 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4294546&cid=t_92358_83_f&fid=34690&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Finsolence%2F%7E3%2FUwpkVscoVs0%2Fthe_art_of_medicine_in_ancient_egypt.php It's the week between Christmas and New Years, and, oddly enough, I'm feeling exceptionally lazy. For one thing, it's a slow "news" time; nothing much is happening to blog about, at least nothing that's motivated me to rouse myself from my declining food-induced coma to lay down some not-so-Respectful Insolence today. For another thing, I'm supposed to be on vacation! Well, sort of. I will be working on grants for part of today, and I've already answered a whole bunch of work-related e-mails, fool that I am. In any case, this post dates way, way back to November 2005. True, I did repost it once in December 2006 (during the very same period between Christmas and New Years, actually), but that still means that, if you haven't been reading for at least four years, it's new to you. I'll probab... Respectful Insolence blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4294546 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:00:00 +0100 4294546 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4277835&cid=t_92358_88_f&fid=38129&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Flifeinthefastlane%2FWZHV%2F%7E3%2FN12ivICcXcI%2F William Osler's Australian connections and his Australian legacy is discussed in the Medical Journal of Australia. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane) Life in the Fast Lane blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4277835 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:03 +0100 4277835 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4281287&cid=t_92358_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007768.html Razib Khan has been dropping hints that some big story about human evolution was about to break. Finally the official announcements are here and it is quite a story. "Archaic" humans separate from Neanderthals bred with some human populations and some humans alive today carry some of their genes. Is that cool or what? Researchers have discovered evidence of a distinct group of "archaic" humans existing outside of Africa more than 30,000 years ago at a time when Neanderthals are thought to have dominated Europe and Asia. But genetic testing shows that members of this new group were not Neanderthals, and they interbred with the ancestors of some modern humans who are alive today. Well, if two such groups are... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4281287 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4281287 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4275349&cid=t_92358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2010%2F12%2F20%2Fthe-intensive-care-unit-on-display%2F One of my favourite fellow bloggers, medical photographer Øystein Horgmo, has just written about how he was recently invited to document a family taking farewell of a young father in an intensive care unit. It’s a moving story. But what actually caught my interest was this painting (by medical doctor Joseph Dwaihy and artist Sara Dykstra), which Øystein uses the illustrate the story. Based on a photograph from the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Centre’s first intensive care unit, circa 1955 (read more here), the painting is reminiscient of Norman Rockwell-realism. Like Rockwell, Dwaihy and Dykstra portray people in mundane situations. It’s people who play the primary role. The instruments are background props. Compare Dwaihy and Dykstra’s painting... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4275349 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:04:10 +0100 4275349 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4258927&cid=t_92358_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F15%2Fthe-inherited-situation-of-racial-inequality%2F Discussion about (In)Equality,” “The Interior Situational Reaction to Inequality,” “The Situation of Mortgage Defaults,” “The Situation of the Mortgage Crisis,” and “The Interior Situation of Intergenerational Poverty.” (Source: The Situationist) The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4258927 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 04:01:14 +0100 4258927 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4251143&cid=t_92358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2010%2F12%2F11%2Fwhy-do-we-visit-anatomical-museums-for-curiosity-or-for-learning-or-maybe-some-other-reason%2F Plakat für ein anatomisches Museum, Hamburg, 1913 (from Morbid Anatomy) Next Friday, 17 December, Elena Corradini at the Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia organises a seminar on “Visiting an Anatomical Museum: curiosity or training?”: Anatomical University Museums are the keepers of collections which often are very old and different for their consistence and typology. These museums have a fundamental role for the preservation and valorization of cultural historical‐scientific heritage, therefore must become a place of interdisciplinary synthesis. They represent the progress of studies in the past and for the future, and play their fundamental role for the research and for the promotion of educational activities. This role will allow them to be a service for University students ... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4251143 Sat, 11 Dec 2010 12:34:10 +0100 4251143 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4245339&cid=t_92358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2010%2F12%2F09%2Fwe-have-cake-and-talk-about-diabetes%2F I had coffee and cake with our new PhD Adrian Bertoli the other day. Adrian is going to work with the relationship between type-2-diabetes and patient identity throughout the last 50 years, with Thomas as supervisor. Adrian’s project is financed by the cross-disciplinary Center for Healthy Ageing at Copenhagen University. Knowledge about an illness is traditionally communicated directly from the doctor (the source) to the patient (the receiver). Adrian told me that he will look into how contemporary patient groups and social media on the internet make this kind of knowledge more accessible. Knowledge is, seen from this angle, no longer something you receive from a single authoritative source but something that grows and gets its authority from its multiple authors. Knowledge is not som... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4245339 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:30:04 +0100 4245339