Essentially clinical in its approach, Psychic Retreats discusses the problem of patients who are 'stuck' and with whom it is difficult to make meaningful contact. John Steiner, an experienced psychoanalyst, uses new developments in Kleinian theory to explain how this happens. He examines the way object relationships and defences can be organized into complex structures which le...(展开全部)

'Bad Science' hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess. Doctors and patients need good scientific evidence to make informed decisions. But instead, companies run bad ...(展开全部)

Patients of the State is a sociological account of the extended waiting that poor people seeking state social and administrative services must endure. It is based on ethnographic research in the waiting area of the main welfare office in Buenos Aires, in the line leading into the Argentine registration office where legal aliens apply for identification cards, and among people w...(展开全部)

Patients of the State is a sociological account of the extended waiting that poor people seeking state social and administrative services must endure. It is based on ethnographic research in the waiting area of the main welfare office in Buenos Aires, in the line leading into the Argentine registration office where legal aliens apply for identification cards, and among people w...(展开全部)

“Nathalia Holt presents a thorough account of the research that provides scientists with hope that a cure will one day be achievable... and her empathy shines through in her prose. This is as important a social history as it is a medical document.”—The Daily Beast Two patients—each known in medical history as the Berlin Patient—were cured of the HIV virus. The two patients’ di...(展开全部)

A total institution is defined by Goffman as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated, individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life. Prisons serve as a clear example, providing we appreciate that what is prison-like about prisons is found in institutions w...(展开全部)

In this study the author asserts that the most basic biological and medical terms we use to describe our own bodies - male and female, healthy or sick - are indeed cultural constructions. To illustrate this, Barbara Duden delves into the records of an 18th-century German physician who documented the medical histories of 1800 women of all ages and backgrounds, often in their own...(展开全部)

【美】戴尔•E.布来得森（Dale E. Bredesen） 国际公认的神经系统变性疾病研究权威专家，巴克老龄化问题研究所创始人，加州大学洛杉矶分校教授，拥有30多项个人专利。 曾在诺贝尔奖获得者斯坦利·普鲁西纳教授的实验室研从事博士后研究，在加州大学旧金山分校担任神经病学首席住院医师。 1998年，创办巴克老龄化问题研究所，这是美国早期专门研究衰老和慢性疾病关系的独立研究机构。2013年，回到加州大学洛杉矶分校担任阿尔茨海默病研究中心主任。 他和他的团队研究阿尔茨海默病问题30多年，发表了200多篇研究论文，取得了诸多突破性进展，并将研究成果转化为治疗阿尔茨海默病和其他神经系统变性疾病的有效方法，为阿尔茨海默病的治疗带来了希望。

Why do kids born in the summer get diagnosed more often with A.D.H.D.? How are marathons harmful for your health, even when you’re not running? What do surgeons and salesmen have in common? Which annual event made people 30 percent more likely to get COVID-19? As a University of Chicago–trained economist and Harvard medical school professor and doctor, Anupam Jena is uniquely e...(展开全部)