Industrialized Society and the Medical Sciences

From the Japanese Association of Medical Sciences Japanese Stomatological Society

JMAJ, May/June 2011 — Vol. 54, No. 3 *1 Part of this manuscript appeared in the proceedings of the International Symposium on Oral Medicine ‘Grand Design for Future Dentistry’ that was held on December 4, 2010 at Acros Fukuoka International Conference Hall (Fukuoka, Japan). *2 President, Japanese Stomatological Society. Department of Oral-Maxillofacial Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, The ...

Enhancement, ethics and society: towards an empirical research agenda for the medical humanities and social sciences

For some time now, bioethicists have paid close attention to issues associated with 'enhancement'; specifically, the appropriate use and regulation of substances and artefacts understood by some to improve the functioning of human bodies beyond that associated with 'normal' function. Medical humanities scholars (aside from philosophers and lawyers) and social scientists have not been frequent p...

Shakspere and the Medical Sciences

It has almost become a stereotyped plan for the president of a society like ours to introduce into his address, by way of preface, a statement, more or less in detail, that for the fulfilment of the.duties of the office he is much less capable than any of his predecessors. This is probably an outcome of the retiring modesty of the Profession in its individual capacity and of the desire to carry...

The Portsmouth Medical Society and Medical Centre.

Medical and Biological sciences

group of 116 women for comparison has daughters with physiological flowing of pubescence period. The age of first menstruation and a character of the beginning of the women’s menstrual function in the comparative groups aren’t greatly different. Real difference in the clinic demonstration of diseases of ears, noses, threats organs 57(49,1%) the daughters have their broken menstrual function and...