Obesity: a medical history

Medical History of Obesity

This paper contains the following sections, in approximate chronological order. Early years, Scientific research on energy metabolism, Clinical teaching, Evidence on health risks, Slow recognition of obesity in diabetes, Depression and war, some Obesity research continued in the 1950s and 1960s, New approaches to management, a Universal standard weight for height, Luxuskonsumption, Calories (in...

Department of medical education; A personal history

This is a brief overview of the history of formal introduction of the art andscience of education into the sphere of medical education in Shiraz. Before this introduction medical education was, and in the majority of other institutions world-wide still is, a simple transfer of knowledge from teacher to student. The students accepted their passive role because this was how they had been taught a...

A celebration of medical history

LLOYD G. STEVENSON (editor), A celebration of medical history, Baltimore, Md., and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. vi, 228, illus., £12.75. The fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Institute and Library for the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, was appropriately marked by festivities, academic as well as gastronomic. Distinguished scho...

Medical History takes a Partner

1 Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, Fairchild Center, New York, New York, United States of America, 3 Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, Fairchild Center, New York, New York, United States of America, 4 Harvard Medical School Department of Pathology, Boston, Mas...

A History of Medical Residency.