Medicine an evolving profession

Literature and medicine: an evolving canon.

presented and developed in a literary way—that is, embedded in a complex human situation replete with highly charged emotions. The emotional and sometimes ambiguous context that makes these stories so pedagogically useful, however, makes some ethicists uneasy. They argue that the attention given to pain, suffering, and emotion in such literary cases can distract readers from the abstract reason...

The Profession of Medicine and its Rivals

“In the next room you could hear the buzzers sounding. After about 20 minutes you could hear the men shouting for the nurse, “Nurse, nurse”, and it just went on and on. And then very often it would be two people calling at the same time and then you would hear them crying, like shouting “Nurse” louder, and then you would hear them just crying, just sobbing, they would just sob and you just pres...

The Development of Medicine as a Profession

different teaching methods favoured in the same medical school by successive staffs. The mark left by the teacher upon the student body has been studied with particular care by the authors, as also the changing balance between research and teaching programmes. For those unfamiliar with certain links between European and American pharmacology in the last century and the role played in recent yea...

Machine Learning and the Profession of Medicine.

Developing a Library Collection in Bioinformatics: Support for an Evolving Profession

This chapter provides guidelines for developing a university library collection for bioinformatics programs. The chapter discusses current research and scholarly communication trends in bioinformatics and their impact on information needs and information seeking behavior of bioinformaticians and, consequently, on collection development. It also discusses the criteria for making collection devel...