Showing posts with label medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medicine. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 06, 2019

Sunspots 718

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Christianity: He Lives argues that Matthe...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Sunspots 698

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Christianity: Christianity Today reports that many US ...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

On the implementation of penicillin - Howard Florey, Edward Abraham, Ernst Chain, Norman Heatley and others

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I recently read The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The story of the Penicillin Miracle , by Eric Lax. The book was a thorough study of the...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Sunspots 521

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: The Arts: Left Behind is going to be avai...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

An important book on cancer

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At the urging of a relative, who lent it to me, I recently read what some have labeled the most important book on cancer published in my lif...
Monday, August 26, 2013

Malaria vaccine?

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The World Health Organization says that malaria is one of the six most important infectious diseases, killing about a million people a yea...
Friday, December 14, 2012

The Global Burden of Disease study

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National Public Radio has reported on a massive study, on the Global Burden of Disease, which attempted to answer the question "how ma...
Monday, August 02, 2010

Dying and religious belief

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An on-line acquaintance sent me a link to an news report entitled " Strong Religious Faith Associated With Aggressive End-of-Life Care ...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Sunspots 260

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Humor: (or something) CNN reports that about 300 chefs in Leba...
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Thursday, March 08, 2007

Five Ways to Look at Death

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Eric Cohen, writing in The New Atlantis , describes five ways of looking at death. He relates the five following persons to them: Jacob fro...
Saturday, July 29, 2006

Repairing faces (and other parts), 2

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I posted recently on a book on the ethics of surgery. I also read a second book, Surgically shaping children: technology, ethics, and the pu...
Friday, July 28, 2006

Repairing faces (and other parts), 1

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I have recently read two books dealing with the ethics of certain types of surgery. One of these was Cutting to the Core : Ethics of Contest...
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Saturday, July 22, 2006

Moral Stem Cells

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An editorial in the May issue of First Things argues that there is a possibility of producing embryonic stem cells without producing (or, ...
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Saturday, January 22, 2005

C. S. Lewis on faith and surgery

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[In one sense, Faith] means simply Belief--accepting or regarding as true the doctrines of Christianity. That is fairly simple. But what doe...
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