Book Review: A Hundred Years of Medicine

One hundred years of the teaching of medicine in Singapore.

The Medical School was founded in 1905 in response to the need to train doctors for Singapore. In 2005, this School, now the Faculty of Medicine in the National University of Singapore, will celebrate her 100th year. This brief review attempts to chronicle the way in which the medical course has been designed over the years to address the principal aims of undergraduate medical education. From ...

The New York Academy of Medicine: Its First Hundred Years

PROBLEMS OF MORPHOGENESIS IN CILIATES. THE KINETOSOMES IN DEVELOPMENT, REPRODUCTION AND EVOLUTION. By Andre Lwoff. New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1950. 103 pp. $2.50. This book consists of two parts: first, detailed observations on the behavior of the blepharoplasts in ciliates; and, second, an attempt to relate these observations to current speculations on the regulatory mechanisms guiding cell ...

Grand rounds: one hundred years of internal medicine

Grmek is admirably receptive to the socio-cultural shaping of responses to epidemic disease. Pointing out the irony of the fact that Susan Sontag's Illness as metaphor (1979) appeared on the very brink of the emergence of AIDS, he draws upon her perception that every age gets the symbolic disease it deserves to explore the metaphorical freighting of AIDS. Clearly aware that the ban upon figurat...

Book of Abstracts – in alphabetic order – A hundred Years of Film Theory

Medicine at Harvard. The first three hundred years