TUBERCULOSIS EXHIBIT AND CABINET

Cabinet and Presidency

Cabinet and presidency represent the two most important and prevalent types of political executive. The structures and functions of political executives have varied widely over time and place, and no single conceptual framework can contain all these variations and their consequences. Although this section is titled “Cabinet and Presidency,” it is often difficult to categorize existing political...

Stocking oncology's medicine cabinet.

Column: File Cabinet Forensics

Reverse Engineering is the traditional bread-and-butter of digital forensics research. Companies like Microsoft and Apple deliver computational artifacts (operating systems, applications and phones) to the commercial market. These artifacts are bought and used by billions. Some have evil intent, and (if society is lucky), the computers end up in the hands of law enforcement. Unfortunately the o...

The family medicine cabinet.

Medicine selection and storage was examined in 130 families. Over 50 per cent were found to be less than adequate. Health education advice helped half the inadequate group to change to adequate. Age and social class were not related to hoarding of prescribed drugs, to initial standards of storage or selection, nor to the likelihood of a response to advice. Those who hoarded medicines but stored...

A Cabinet of Medical Curiousities

Ryan's theory is that a virus behaves as an aggressive symbiont in that it can con-comitantly live within a host (enjoying protection and employing its replicative facility) without causing disease and benefit the host by designedly causing disease in rival species. He uses this concept to introduce the idea that the emergence of viruses is inevitable when one species imposes on the habitat of ...