• To improve our knowledge of the natural history of asthma, we observed a primary care cohort of children and adolescents that had been screened 10 years earlier for respiratory tract signs and symptoms by Kolnaar et al. (annfammed.org)
  • 9, 10 The objective of the current study was to clarify the natural history of respiratory tract complaints and asthma in primary care. (annfammed.org)
  • It is rarely appreciated how much of the history of Eurasian medicine in the premodern period hinges on cross-cultural interactions and knowledge transmissions. (bloomsbury.com)
  • Compact and readable, and yet richly informative about the interactions between a wonderful diversity of linguistic and scholarly traditions, ReOrienting Histories of Medicine will now be the first book that I recommend to students for orientation about the early history of Eurasian medical exchange. (bloomsbury.com)
  • Like many fields of historical research, medical history has over the last fifty years, become a discipline which employs a growing variety of sources. (history.ac.uk)
  • These include many sources by medical professions and institutions, and, in line with the central core of the social history of medicine, views of patients, long-term sufferers or primary carers. (history.ac.uk)
  • Also listed here is a range of sources not primarily about medical history but which still yield copious amounts of relevant material. (history.ac.uk)
  • However relevant source material can also be found in more general sources, not specifically focused on medical history. (history.ac.uk)
  • We will cover a wide thematic range -- from the introduction and spread of 'medical science', to the dark histories of racial science and eugenics, to the moral judgments placed upon unruly bodies and behaviours. (warwick.ac.uk)
  • Global medicine" highlights the multivalent and multidirectional flows of transnational medical practices and ideas that shaped Chinese East Asia in the twentieth century. (nih.gov)
  • I arrived at NIH in 1957, and I had had a vast history of training in handling of radioactivity at Oak Ridge in 1950 and I had some 7 years on the Columbia University Radiation Committee for the entire university, not just the Medical Center. (nih.gov)
  • Medical myths about gender roles and behaviors, constructed as facts before medicine became an evidence-based science, have resonated perniciously. (time.com)
  • There have been many books and articles documenting the history of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). (nih.gov)
  • The latest one- Images of America: US National Library of Medicine (Arcadia Publishing)-actually draws on the stories of the people who have worked there and helped to shape its 180 years of service to the nation and the world. (nih.gov)
  • Researching, selecting, and synthesizing material for this new, publicly available history of the National Library of Medicine was like discovering and documenting a family tree," said Reznick. (nih.gov)
  • The blog also has links to free digital copies of Images of America: US National Library of Medicine and its 170 photographs . (nih.gov)
  • Interviewing these gentlemen will be Dr. Richard Mandel, who is currently on contract with the Clinical Center Office of communications developing a history of the Clinical Center, Dennis Rodrigues from the NIH Historical Office and Ronald Newman from the Department of Nuclear Medicine, who is currently the Chief of that section. (nih.gov)
  • The Radiology Department got an early rectilinear scanner which I believe was used for lung and other body scans and my first real contact with that was Dr. William Ashburn, who is now the Chief of Nuclear Medicine at La Jolla, and Bill was, I guess, maybe a second or third year resident in the Radiology Department at that time. (nih.gov)
  • The book's co-editors, Jeffrey S. Reznick and Kenneth M. Koyle , chief and deputy chief of NLM's History of Medicine Division, and their colleagues in the division researched and wrote the chapters, which convey the library's history. (nih.gov)
  • And we expect medicine, as a science, to uphold the principles of evidence and impartiality. (time.com)
  • ISBN 978-0-7190-9592-4 The Politics of Vaccination: A global history. (wikipedia.org)
  • This is an important book for those interested in the history of medicine and the transmissions of knowledge that have taken place over the course of global history. (bloomsbury.com)
  • T]he book is a suitable read for those interested in diverse histories of medicine and for survey courses on the global history of medicine. (bloomsbury.com)
  • By examining two case studies on how the Chinese diaspora became central in shaping biomedicine in China and Taiwan from 1937 to 1970, Dr. Soon will make a case for a new historical concept of global medicine. (nih.gov)
  • The book documents NLM's significant contributions to American culture and history and demonstrates the "NLM's story as part of the fabric of U.S. history," said Reznick. (nih.gov)
  • This presentation reveals the critical intersections of international expertise, transnational connections, and diasporic affect in shaping medicine and society in modern China and Taiwan. (nih.gov)
  • History as told from the perspective of an institution's leaders provides an important but incomplete picture of that institution's contributions to society. (nih.gov)
  • Other images were obtained from the National Archives, the Smithsonian Institution Archives, the National Museum of Health and Medicine, and the Tulane University Rudolph Matas Library of the Health Sciences. (nih.gov)
  • Instead, Reznick, Koyle, and their colleagues were interested in providing a visual history that focused on the staff and their direct contributions to and involvement in the life of the library. (nih.gov)
  • DR. MANDEL: This is an interview of Dr. Jack Davidson, Dr. Giovanni DiChiro, Dr. Gerald Johnston, and Dr. John Harbert, all formerly of the Department of Nuclear Medicine in the Clinical Center about the history of that department. (nih.gov)
  • Nuclear Medicine or the department that would become Nuclear Medicine was given an independent status by Jack Masur, in the original leadership of the Clinical Center. (nih.gov)
  • And I made a formal proposal to the management in Building 1 that they ought to consider instituting a Department of Nuclear Medicine in the Clinical Center to centralize these facilities and to be available then to all patients in any institute. (nih.gov)
  • Reznick and Koyle hope this open access, as well as the narrative of the book itself, will make the history of the NLM more accessible to the general public. (nih.gov)
  • The new book differs from earlier, traditional histories that featured either only the "higher-ups" or programs without the names and faces of the people who worked in them, according to Reznick and Koyle. (nih.gov)
  • It is a history of people, of their bodies and their lives, not just of physicians, surgeons, clinicians and researchers. (time.com)
  • But a history drawn from stories of the people who are integral to the day-to-day running of that institution can offer a fresh perspective and a more holistic understanding of the past. (nih.gov)
  • To learn more, read the "Circulating Now" blog posts about NLM's history. (nih.gov)
  • And somewhere along about 1965, from my vantage point--I had survived as the sole Chairman of the Radiation Committee when George Williams got off--and I felt that this subject of nuclear medicine as an entity was coming into being. (nih.gov)
  • DR. MANDEL: What I would like to do this afternoon is start as close to the beginning as we can in terms of Nuclear Medicine at the Clinical Center and then we'll come through the l960s and years subsequent to that. (nih.gov)
  • Modern scientific medicine, as it has evolved over the centuries as a profession, an institution and a discipline, has flourished in these exact conditions. (time.com)
  • Prevailing social stereotypes about the way women experience, express, and tolerate pain are not modern phenomena-they have been ingrained across medicine's history. (time.com)
  • This 30 CATS first-year option module will introduce students to concepts in the history of the body and mind, and how they have been framed across place and time. (warwick.ac.uk)
  • What I need to know is to what degree was Nuclear Medicine independent from the categorical institutes here in those years and to what degree did they feel sort of beholden to the other institutes and sort of obligated, particularly to the Cancer Institute, to do their work? (nih.gov)