History, the Torch That Illuminates: Lessons from Military Medicine

Ten Lessons from the Military to Markets

This article is based on the content analysis of two comprehensive presentations made in August 2009. The first was made by General Sarath Fonseka, the former Army Commander, at an event organized by the Postgraduate Institute of Management Alumni (PIMA). The second presentation was made by the Defence Secretary, Mr Gothabaya Rajapaksa at Business Today Top 10 Corporate Awards ceremony. The lis...

History and evidence-based medicine: lessons from the history of somatic treatments from the 1900s to the 1950s.

This paper examines the early history of biological treatments for severe mental illness. Focusing on the period of the 1900s to the 1950s, I assess the everyday use of somatic therapies and the science that justified these practices. My assessment is based upon patient records from state hospitals and the contemporaneous scientific literature. I analyze the following somatic interventions: hyd...

History Lessons from Bacteria

Microbes have been catapulted into the spotlight again by recent studies showing that uniquely modern phenomena, like jet lag and artificial sweeteners, can affect health by altering the microbiome (Suez et al., 2014; Thaiss et al., 2014). However, even as the nature of our current relationship with bacteria unfolds, DNA sequencing and proteomic approaches are giving us a fascinating glimpse in...

Political - Military Lessons from U . S .

Lessons learned from modern military surgery.

The era of global terrorism and asymmetric warfare heralded by the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States have blurred the traditional lines between civilian and military trauma. The lessons learned by physicians in the theaters of war, particularly regarding the response to mass casualties, blast and fragmentation injuries, and resuscitation of casualties in austere environments, like...