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Molecular reductionism has failed to deliver the broad-based therapeutic insights that were initially hoped for. Simple reductionism is now being replaced by so-called "systems biology." This is a poorly defined approach and/or discipline with some versions of it relying excessively...
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PMID: 21636568
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The experience of futility among frontline clinicians in community psychiatry is produced by the temporal structuring of their work. All health care providers share the disposition to intervene in the course of disease. Specific notions about the course of severe mental illness are woven into the mis...
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PMID: 21834358
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The relationships among the living apes and modern humans have effectively been resolved, but it is much more difficult to locate fossil apes on the tree of life because shared skeletal morphology does not always mean shared recent evolutionary history. Sorting fossil taxa into those...
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PMID: 21331035
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Cuadernos de bioetica : revista oficial de la Asociacion Espanola de Bioetica y Etica Medica (21)73 2010
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We will find a different view in the works of Peter Singer in an article of M. A. Warren. The reasons from one and another will be shown to find a solution to this intricate controversy....
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PMID: 21090845
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Global Public Health (5)5 2010
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With the world's highest antenatal HIV prevalence rate (39.2%), Swaziland has also been described as among the most stigmatising. Yet, only recently was an anti-HIV stigma and discrimination (S&D) platform included in the government's National Multisectoral HIV and AIDS Policy. This study draws on a...
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PMID: 19787517
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The interview is the tool for data collection the most used in the context of research conducted in health sciences, human sciences and social sciences. After completing some generalities about the different types of interviews, the focus is on semi-structured interview during its various stages inc...
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PMID: 20957800
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Knowledge production has an intrinsic political dimension. Starting from this presupposition, it is argued that the systematic integration of and reflection on the political dimension is necessary for an adequate understanding of historical processes of knowledge production in the sciences. The cons...
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PMID: 20695413
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Annals of Human Biology (37)3 2010
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Das Gesundheitswesen (72)4 2010
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We will explore if such conceptions of health also affect the teachings of the Christian churches.
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PMID: 20306389
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Journal of Agromedicine (15)2 2010
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The most recent National Occupational Research Agenda includes, as a goal, conducting research that enhances the understanding of psychological factors that affect the well-being of people engaged in farming. The author proposes a construct, the agrarian imperative, as an explanation for why people...
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PMID: 20407984
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I show that although Wallace's involvement was initially enthusiastic, over time his views came into conflict with both groups. His involvement in established human science institutions declined, and Wallace turned towards other social locations for cultivating his knowledge of and engagement with q...
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PMID: 20503822
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An interest in global histories of science is not new. Yet the project envisioned by this Focus section is different from that pursued by natural historians and natural philosophers in the early modern age. Instead of tracing universal patterns, there is value in attending to the connections and dis...
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PMID: 20575491
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EMBO Reports (11)3 2010
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American Historical Review (115)1 2010
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In this study, the frequency of bridging of the hypoglossal canal was investigated on 324 skulls belonging to 10 ancient Anatolian populations recovered from various archaeological sites and dated from Early Bronze Age to the first quarter of the 20th century. The change in the frequency of bridging...
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PMID: 20097339
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Pathologica (102)1 2010
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Antonio Ascenzi is well known within the scientific community for his original contributions to morbid anatomy and in particular for his studies on the fields of bone biology, bone biomechanics, haematology and congenital heart disease. Additionally, Ascenzi was also interested in human evolution an...
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PMID: 20731247
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Orvostorteneti kozlemenyek (56)1-4 2010
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The anatomy of the human body based on a special teleological system is one of the greatest miracles of the world. The skull's primary function is the defence of the brain, so every alteration or disease of the brain results in some alteration of the skull. This analogy is to be iden...
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PMID: 21661257
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Gaceta medica de Mexico (146)2 2010
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We develop some key notions of body and corporeity that throughout history involve different symbolic conceptions of the diseased body from an anthropological perspective. We highlight the polysemic nature of bodily performance that involves nature and culture as well as the mind-body dual condition...
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PMID: 20626133
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I take into account an image, or concept, that of 'machine', and more precisely one of its most problematic and controversial derivations, that of 'man-machine', which are at the basis of all the representations, and in particular medical representations, of the human action as a result of an 'autom...
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PMID: 21425656
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Nursing training and practice have for a long time taken a biomedical approach to disease and the body, which fails to guarantee treatment which takes into account the differences of each patient. With transcultural healthcare theories and practices, partly inspired by anthropology, patients are exp...
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PMID: 20799483
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We have proposed a genome-wide association approach in molecular anthropological studies by providing lessons from the exemplary study of the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium. We have also highlighted the importance and uniqueness of Indian population groups in facilitating the design and find...
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PMID: 19810820
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American Historical Review (114)5 2009
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British Journal for the History of Science (42)155 Pt 4 2009
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This paper focuses on the response of the Royal Society to the increasing contact with parts of the globe beyond Europe. Such contact was in accord with the programme of Baconian natural history that the early Royal Society espoused, but it also raised basic questions about the extent and nature of...
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PMID: 20503959
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Scientific American (301)2 2009
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Der Nervenarzt (80)8 2009
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In recent years the ability of neuroscience to identify and intervene in mental functions has progressed immensely, which raises several anthropologic and ethical questions. Meanwhile neuroethics arose as a new interdisciplinary field for critical analysis of neuroscientific actions and ethical refl...
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PMID: 19271206
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Croatian Medical Journal (50)3 2009
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This paper surveys the opinions expressed in the recent literature on the origins of the anatomically- modern Homo sapiens, and reviews the evidence from cranial and dental morphology argued by proponents of opposing views to support their case. It also critically analyses problems facing the interp...
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PMID: 19551306
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YAKUGAKU ZASSHI (129)2 2009
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It becomes the important issue for the medical supplies administration to solve the drug lag in our country. As means to overcome both the slow speed and high cost of clinical trial for new drug application in Japan, it seems useful to carry out clinical development simultaneously in East Asia count...
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PMID: 19182451
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Lamarck's theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics and immediate responses to environmental challenges has offered a promise of protagonism of human beings and their fellow travellers, the other organisms, in the evolutionary process. Darwin's theory about evolution by natural selection...
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PMID: 21032945
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This paper attempts to provide a general overview about the way in which Brazilian medicine and physical anthropology gave a naturalistic approach to the idea of race and to the "problem" posed by the mixture of races in the country during the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the...
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PMID: 21032940
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This article examines the work of the German-Peruvian physician Max Kuczynski/Máxime Kuczynski-Godard (Berlin 1890-Lima 1967) in rural areas of Central Asia (1924-26) and Peru (1938-48). The main focus of the text is on the scientific approach behind the specific interest of this pathologist in dis...
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PMID: 19852393
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The essence of anthropological typology is to classify people as belonging to anthropological types according to predetermined sets of morphological traits. The authors of the concept claim that traits characteristic of a given type are monogenic and have a Mendelian inheritance pattern. According t...
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PMID: 20441085
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The disease environment, health problems and causes of mortality of enslaved Barbadians are described. Data are derived mainly from documentary sources; also included are bio-archaeological data from analyses of skeletons recovered from Newton Plantation cemetery. Major topics include infectious dis...
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PMID: 19565997
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In his main work, "On the origin of species", Darwin has refrained from discusion of the origin of man; be only mentioned that his theory would "throw light" on this problem. This famous Darwin's phrase turned out to be one of the most succesful scientific predictions. In the present paper some of t...
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PMID: 19891409
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The authors present a review of records of intestinal parasitic helminths from animals in human archaeological remains, reported since the emergence of paleopathological studies. The objective was to relate paleoparasitological findings to geographic, biotic, and abiotic factors from the environment...
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PMID: 19551285
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We submit that this striking disinterest reflects a combination of ignorance and denial that is putting the long-term interests of society in jeopardy. With the pace of change now outstripping that of adaptation, it is no longer alarmist for academics to raise awareness about the approach of human e...
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PMID: 19168949
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Nature Medicine (14)12 2008
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From his early years as a medical student at Harvard University to his job as the director of the HIV/AIDS unit at the World Health Organization (WHO), Jim Yong Kim has worked toward building health care systems to provide care for poor people on a global scale. In the late 1980s, Kim worked with a t...
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Nature Medicine (14)12 2008
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Journal of Anatomy (213)6 2008
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We explored the extent to which commonly preserved mandibular corpus morphology can be used to: (i) discriminate among extant hominid taxa and (ii) support species designations among fossil specimens assigned to the genus Homo. In the first part of the study, discriminant analysis was used to test f...
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PMID: 19094183
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