Medical abortion: the hidden revolution

Medical abortion: the hidden revolution.

While the medical abortion (MA) drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, have radically altered reproductive health practices around the world, there has been little field research on the sales and use of these drugs, especially in developing countries. This leaves the family planning community with many unanswered questions. While good profiles of contraceptive use are available for many countries...

The Impending Medical Revolution

In an impressive review of the impact of molecular biology and genetics on medical thinking, Dr. Deryck Taverner makes the telling point that medicine, far from becoming more scientific in our day, is merely becoming more technological. He demonstrates the limitations of the concept of disease as an entity, and of the nonsense of dividing illness into the real and the imaginary: it is noteworth...

The American medical ethics revolution

inconsistencies in the quality, style and intention of the essays. Some contributors content themselves with quite straightforward empirical narrative; others have felt theoretically (or speculatively) more ambitious. Scholarly authority is likewise occasionally uneven. In this respect, however, the principal fault often does not lie with the individual authors. A number of contributors (Hall, ...

Abortion by Medical Profession

The medical revolution of the seventeenth century

Taking the other tack, Richard Palmer explores the story of the papal physicians, a subject "killed ... stone dead" by the erudition of Prospero Mandosio (1696) until resurrected by Palmer with his witty and pithy observations. The turn-of-the-seventeenth-century German Prince, Maurice of Hesse-Kassel, took a direct interest in the medical details of his court and country, which Bruce Moran exp...