Although many 19th-century misconceptions about the foreskin have been dispelled since it was shown that infantile phimosis was not an abnormality, the ideas that ritual or religious circumcision arose as a hygiene measure, and that circumcision makes no difference to sexual response, have persisted. The first idea should be dismissed as a myth and the second has been seriously questioned by mo...

It is the purpose of this paper to present an approach to teaching a concise, focused method to obtain a medical history from patients in the Emergency Department. Diagnostic reasoning starts with the medical history. Nowhere is obtaining an accurate history more important than in the Emergency Department. Here the demand for a quick focused and effective assessment and presentation prompts som...

OBJECTIVE To retrieve the historical trajectory of the implementation of a multi-professional healthcare residency at the Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, in partnership with the Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre. METHOD Historical research based on oral history. Interviews were conducted with six professionals of both institutions from October to December 2...

This paper contains excerpts and colloquies selected from interviews which will appear in a proposed book-length oral history of the Yale University School of Medicine. The book, which considers all the constituent members of the Yale academic medical community, is a statement about contemporary issues in medicine. Owing to space constraints, only excerpts from students appear in this paper. It...

introduction: measles is a severe contagious disease preventable by vaccination. besides the prevalence of measles in iran, ministry of health conducted a nation-wide vaccination against measles for all the 5-25 years old population in 2003. this study was done to evaluate the anti measles igg antibody among the medical students from baqiyatallah university of medical science. materials & metho...

Since 1999, progress has been made, to varying degrees, in numerous areas of medical history research in China including history of TCM, history of western medicine, history of integrated Chinese and western medicine, history of traditional medicine of Chinese minorities, history of medicine of foreign countries, history of medical exchanges between China and other countries, and history of com...