Introduction: Telling Han history in pictorial carvings

Pictorial Introduction to Neurological Surgery

THIS book is a lavishly illustrated introduction to operative neurosurgical technique. It opens with precise instructions on the preparation of the operative field; then, in following chapters, the surgery of the scalp, skull, and brain are successively described, and finally there is a chapter on the surgical treatment of injuries of the head. The book was apparently compiled at the request of...

Pictorial history of European medicine and pharmaceutics

feature which "today has no place in the pathology of coronary disease", while it dia not even mention the coronary vessels, which play "a decisive role" in the disease Leibowitz claims to have diagnosed. In his retrospective diagnosis, therefore, Leibowitz has to ignore evidence which is given, and invent evidence which is not given. Just how great a discordance is required between our medical...

Scientific Natural History: Telling the Epics of Nature

History of HTA: Introduction.

For the past several years, we have discussed the idea of producing a publication on the history of health technology assessment (HTA). It seemed important to us to develop this history now, while those who lived it can give their own accounts. An exception is Seymour Perry, the first president of ISTAHC and the Director of the first national public program in HTA, the U.S. National Center for ...

Introduction and History

Luminescent organisms have been observed throughout the ages. The cause of the luminescence wasn’t known until the advent of the microscope and modern science. In the oceans, sailors often remarked at the eerie glowing water generated by their vessels. Christopher Columbus, during his historic voyage across the Atlantic, noticed mysterious patches of luminescent light around the waters of his s...