John O'Malley and "How We Got To Be Who We Are"

Forecasting American health care: how we got here and where we might be going.

This article is a form of thinking about the future properly regarded as conditional forecasting. It begins by reminding readers of the enormous changes in American medicine since World War II. The second part revisits critically an earlier effort at conditional forecasting for 1995 that Paul Starr and I published in the early 1980s. Besides reviewing the prescience of our forecasts, the second...

The History of the Teaching of Gross Anatomy - How we got to where we are!

Evidence primarily from historical considerations is gathered to compare a variety of approaches to the teaching and learning of gross (topographical) human anatomy. The historical approach adopted is not just a chronological approach to the development of pedagogy but is conceptually based to underline the changing culture of medicine and the ways in which normal and abnormal structure and fun...

Biomedical informatics: how we got here and where we are headed

This landmark issue of JAMIA is the first to introduce articles reflecting our extended scope in translational bioinformatics (TBI), as described in the editorial by Butte and Shah (see page 352). Just as medicine has evolved to rely on both molecular and clinical phenotyping, biomedical informatics has evolved to encompass the integration and analysis of information from different biological l...

How we got here, where we are going and being a cog in something turning.

Editorial " …nanomedicine is one of the most important subjects at the very cutting edge of modern science and … Nanomedicine is the voice of this efflorescent discipline. " How we got here, where we are going and being a cog in something turning I am delighted that Nanomedicine will be going to eight issues in 2009, only 3 years after the journal's inauguration. This means that the scientific ...

nt Analysis : How We Got Here and Where We Are ( An Update )