Writing patients’ histories

Writing histories of sexuality in the Middle East.

THE STUDY OF HISTORIES OF SEXUALITY in the region that today we term the Middle East has only recently become a domain populated by historians, and much innovative work continues to be accomplished by literary scholars, social scientists, and, recently, art historians. This interdisciplinarity results in part from the fact that our primary sources confound modern disciplinary taxonomies—we enco...

After-Histories of Tuberculous Patients

Writing to our patients.

Examining the Mirror of Herodotus: Oppositional Writing and Hellenic Identity in The Histories

In this paper I examine Herodotus’s use of oppositional writing in the Histories as it relates to Hellenic identity in the 5th century BCE. As Greece was divided socially, politically, and linguistically, the presence of Hellenic identity at that time is questionable. Through literary analysis I determine the characteristics of antitheses and identify various cultural oppositions as either impl...

Obtaining family histories from patients with cancer.

Information obtained from family history data can provide valuable insight into the biologic and environmental etiologies of an individual's personal and family history of disease. The purpose of this article is to provide a brief introduction to cancer genetics and discuss ways to obtain accurate family histories in a time-efficient manner to identify families with a hereditary cancer syndrome...