How Pathologists Can Contribute Diagnosis in Medical Mycology

How can medical schools contribute to bringing about health equity?

The role of medical schools is in a process of change. The World Health Organization has declared that they can no longer be ivory towers whose primary focus is the production of specialist physicians and cutting edge laboratory research. They must also be socially accountable and direct their activities towards meeting the priority health concerns of the areas they serve. The agenda must be se...

Why and How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health? Proposals for Collaborative Research Avenues

Written by a group of political science researchers, this commentary focuses on the contributions of political science to public health and proposes research avenues to increase those contributions. Despite progress, the links between researchers from these two fields develop only slowly. Divergences between the approach of political science to public policy and the expectations that public hea...

How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health: A Response to Gagnon and Colleagues

Fundamental Medical Mycology

In Fundamental Medical Mycology, Errol Reiss, Jean Shadomy, and Marshall Lyon have produced a valuable new text. Drs Reiss and Shadomy are medical mycologists who have extensive research and educational experience with the increasing spectrum of pathogenic fungi, including diagnosis of infections they cause and host defenses. Dr Lyon is an infectious diseases physician with clinical expertise i...

Atlas of Medical Mycology

cance of this. Another feature of considerable clinical importance concerns the possible unfavorable effect which traumatic stress and certain inoculations may exert on the early stages of acute disease. All of these and other subjects received wide discussion. Readers of this volume will do well to read carefully the introductory address entitled, "Medical Research and Natural Philosophy" by t...