Telling the true Gibraltarian Story: an Interview with Gibraltarian writer M.G. Sanchez

Telling the True Story of Biology

Book Reviews another way to teach science—smaller, less spectacu-Telling the True Story of Biology lar, and until now, less-respected by the marketplace. That other way is to tell stories. I am convinced that all great teachers (and the Ameri-Discovery—Windows on the Life Sciences can scientific community has had its share), are storytell-By R.A. Lewis ers. I would also suggest that the most su...

Editor's Note/Man, the Story-Telling Animal

Story-telling: an essential part of science.

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Telling a story

The genre of storytelling in the form of case studies is an effective way of teaching and learning. Contemporary research on the case method is absent in the academic discipline of communication. This issue needs to be addressed and research on the effectiveness of the case method needs to be done in the academic area of communication. This paper discusses the reasons behind the popularity of t...

Tuberculosis mortality and recent childbirth: a retrospective case-control study of Gibraltarian women, 1874-1884.

Prior to the introduction of effective treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis, there was little consensus on the potential health risk of pregnancy among infected women. While, intuitively, pregnancy was viewed as a risk for tuberculosis disease and mortality, early studies could not establish such a link with any great certainty. Our case study combines the methods of family reconstitution and a...