‘Contagion’ Across Disciplines: Five Must-read Books on COVID-19

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While emphasizing the place of books and experience with patients in medical education, it was not only medical texts that Osler felt students should read and know. He had a recommended list of bedside books for medical students (Table 1). In some cases Osler, the most famous of McGill professors, was recommending a body of work rather than a book, and although he was not explicit in what we sh...

Lamaze International's Must-Read List.

Following are the articles and publications from 2001 labor pain will be included in the proceedings from the Pain Conference to be published in a supplement (as well as one from late in 2000 and one excellent rebuttal that was published in 2002) that Lamaze Interto the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology in the spring of 2002. In the above article, Dr. Lowe national’s Education Council...

Olfactory consciousness across disciplines

Although vision is the de facto model system of consciousness research, studying olfactory consciousness has its own advantages, as this collection of articles emphatically demonstrates. One advantage of olfaction is its computational and phenomenological simplicity, which facilitates the identification of basic principles. Other researchers study olfactory consciousness not because of its simp...

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Open books on contact five-manifolds

The aim of this paper is to give an alternative proof of a theorem about the existence of contact structures on five-manifolds due to Geiges. This theorem asserts that simply-connected five-mani-folds admit a contact structure in every homotopy class of almost contact structures. Our proof uses the open book construction of Giroux.