What can medical ethics learn from history?

What can medical ethics learn from history?

What Can We Learn from Medical Whistleblowers?

A year ago, I received an E-mail from a research scientist at a major pharmaceutical company. The scientist had read my articles on whistleblowers who had raised concerns about the undue infl uence of the pharmaceutical industry on American medicine My industry source had information for me about drug company practices, but—out of fear of career ruin—would only talk on the condition that I woul...

What Can We Learn from the History of Nordic Computing?

The panel discussion took place during the second day of the conference. Professor Hans Andersin (Finland) had planned to participate but was unable to do so. Historian Dr. Lars Ilshammar (Sweden) was invited to participate with prepared questions for the panel. The panel members had prepared introductory statements that expressed specific comments about the historical development. In regard to...

Hamstring muscle strain injuries: what can we learn from history?

Hamstring muscle strain injuries remain one of the most challenging issues facing sports medicine. 1 Over the past 100 years, there has been a gradual evolution in our understanding and management of hamstring injuries, but the challenge of optimising the management of the acutely injured hamstring remains. In recent years, increasingly high-quality studies have addressed the aetiology, risk fa...

What can medical education learn from the neurobiology of learning?

The last several decades have seen a large increase in knowledge of the underlying biological mechanisms that serve learning and memory. The insights gleaned from neurobiological and cognitive neuroscientific experimentation in humans and in animal models have identified many of the processes at the molecular, cellular, and systems levels that occur during learning and the formation, storage, a...