Role of anatomy in our contemporary age and the history of the Anatomy Museum of Naples.
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This work analyzes the significance of anatomical knowledge in the contemporary age through the history of a prestigious institution, the Anatomy Museum of Naples. The museum's past was ineluctably linked not only to the local sociopolitical events but also to the scientific developments of medicine. The museum is an academic place where the importance of the anatomic science in the contemporary age both in the scientific and in the cultural fora is evident. (+info)
History of the development of sleep medicine in the United States.
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Sleep Medicine has only recently been recognized as a specialty of medicine. Its development is based on an increasing amount of knowledge concerning the physiology of sleep, circadian biology and the pathophysiology of sleep disorders. This review chronicles the major advances in sleep science over the past 70 years and the development of the primary organizations responsible for the emergence of Sleep Medicine as a specialty, sleep disorders as a public health concern and sleep science as an important area of research. (+info)
Research and practice combined--ideas for a life in general practice.
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"Industrious, submissive, and free of diseases": 156 years of physicians in Liidlii Kue/Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories.
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INTRODUCTION: Physician recruitment to rural and remote communities poses a major challenge to health care delivery in Canada. Rather than focusing solely on the politics and policies that contribute to the shortage of family physicians in Canada's North, we argue that more attention should be paid to the reasons that lead, and have led, family physicians to the North, and also to the factors that contribute to physician retention. METHODS: We used archival research and semi- and unstructured interviews to provide a history of medicine in Liidlii Kue/Fort Simpson, NWT, and to describe the features of physicians who have served and continue to serve this Northern community. RESULTS: Results show that medicine in Liidlii Kue/Fort Simpson can be divided into 4 distinct eras: the prehospital era (1848-1916), the early hospital era (1917-1925), the middle era (1926-1972) and the government era (1973-present). Thirty-eight physicians were identified as having worked in Liidlii Kue/Fort Simpson. Of those, 19 were contacted. Nine physicians and the offspring of 1 deceased physician were interviewed. We found physicians fell into 1 of 4 categories: new graduates, those seeking midcareer (or midlife) change, those about to retire and international medical graduates. CONCLUSION: By examining Liidlii Kue/Fort Simpson as a case study, this research fills the dearth of knowledge in the factors that contribute to physician recruitment and retention in Canada's North. (+info)
Teaching medical history to medical students - the Monash experience.
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It is important to provide medical students with the inspiration to explore, to acquire knowledge about matters outside the narrow range of clinical medicine, to develop ideas and opinions, to discuss them openly, and to write about these ideas in a way that nondoctors would find intelligible. With this aim in view, the authors devised a course in medical history for first year medical students at Monash University in Melbourne, Victoria. This article describes our experiences. (+info)
The historiography of medical history: from great men to archaeology.
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The history of medicine is always written from the basis of the historian. Contemporary historiography provides an understanding of the major methods of historical analysis and their influences on the writing of medical history. Medical history in the 20th century has emphasized the historiographic methods of the history of great men, historicism, social history, and intellectual history. Each methodology has inherent biases that influence the historian's analysis of the past. Understanding the historian's biases provides the reader important tools for the interpretation of medical history. (+info)
The political economy of U.S. primary care.
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