Cultural modernity: Consensus or conundrum?

Subclinical thyroid disease: consensus or conundrum?

In 2002, a scientific review and consensus committee, which included representatives from the American Thyroid Association, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, and the Endocrine Society convened a panel of expertise to define STD and review the literatures regarding the risk and benefit of treatment, the panel had come out with definition of subclinical hypothyroidism as (a s...

Translations and Transformations: China, Modernity and Cultural Transmission Workshop on Religion, Secularism, and Modernity in Asia

Why did conversion to Christianity take place in some Asian areas and not others? What happened when sacred and religious texts from Abrahamic traditions, especially Christianity, were translated into Chinese? What were the effects when the secular and the religious were asserted to be separate realms? What were the consequences for ideas about the private, the public, and the state? How did re...

Hysterical stupor or yogic sleep? The conundrum

A woman in the care of the author 40 years ago was reported to have been sleeping for 2 days. We treated her condition as conversion hysteria. Her private psychiatrist was the renowned R. D. Laing; he was unhappy with our line of management, on the grounds of the arbitrariness of the diagnosis, the labelling of the woman with a diagnosis of hysteria and the treatment of the patient without her ...

Nasolabial Cyst: A Diagnostic Clarity or Conundrum?

Case-Cohort Conundrum: Fish or No Fish?

Author's disclosures of potential conflicts of interest are found at the end of this article. O ncology advanced practitioners (APs) are advocates for and witnesses to the increasing interest in self-regulation of health care by patients. Data from the 2007 National Health Interview Survey (a cross-sectional household interview) suggest that one way in which patients with cancer attempt to mana...