‘The People’s Psychiatrist’: Chief Madman or Revolutionary Healer?

A healer or an executioner? The proper role of a psychiatrist in a criminal justice system.

The Flow of Peoples: International Migration as a Revolutionary Force

History shows that migration usually moves from areas where population is growing fast to regions where this increase is slower. At present, immigration from poor regions to richer coun tries outstrips emigration from developed countries. A century ago in Europe and now in the poorest countries, migration has relieved tensions bred by declining mortality and accelerating popula tion growth. The...

Benjamin Rush, MD: assassin or beloved healer?

Benjamin Rush, MD (1745-1813), was not only the most well known physician in 18th-century America, he was also a patriot, philosopher, author, lecturer, fervent evangelist, politician, and dedicated social reformer. He was unshakable in his convictions, as well as self-righteous, caustic, satirical, humorless, and polemical. Unquestionably brilliant, he graduated from what later became Princeto...

Soul of the Healer

s of Articles Authored or Coauthored by Permanente Clinicians minority subgroup outcomes will assist more in-depth understanding of potential differences in either the processes or outcomes of behavior change interventions. CONCLUSIONS: Primary care clinicians, including obstetrician-gynecologists, can contribute to preventing CVD in women through implementing credible evidence-based recommenda...

DNA healer

that normally crowd the AIS’s plasma membrane dispersed. When ankyrinG was absent the erstwhile axons began to resemble dendrites, sprouting spines and developing excitatory synapses. Characteristic molecules from the cell body and dendrites, such as the microtubule polymerizing protein MAP2, also infi ltrated the axons. The AIS appears to serve as a fi lter that screens out dendritic proteins,...