Facets

2018

#10622

Cesarean section: An American history of risk, technology, and consequence.

A study of the sharp increase in cesarean births (up to 25%) in the U.S. during the 2nd half of the 20th century, as a result of technologization of medicine and, consequently, obstreticians' weakened skills, the malp…

2018

#10645

Knowledge, power, and women's reproductive health in Japan, 1690–1945.

2018

#10935

Reading contagion: The hazards of reading in the age of print.

2018

#11051

Carving a niche: The medical profession in Mexico 1800-1870.

2018

#11089

Mental illness in ancient medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina. Edited by Chiara Thumiger and Peter Singer.

2018

#11382

Rhetoric, medicine, and the woman writer, 1600–1700.

"How did physicians come to dominate the medical profession? Lyn Bennett challenges the seemingly self-evident belief that scientific competence accounts for physicians' dominance. Instead, she argues that the whole e…

2018

#11436

The Caribbean and the medical imagination, 1764-1834. Slavery, disease and colonial modernity.

2019

#10912

Novel virus related to Kaposi's Sarcoma associated herpesvirus from Colobus monkey.

Discovery of a new Karposi's Sarcoma virus in monkeys, named CbGHV1. Autopsy showed that the monkey died from a "primary effusion lymphoma" similar to the deaths of humans from human Karposi Sarcoma virus. (Thanks to …

2019

#10913

Kaposi sarcoma in mantled guereza.

Order of authorship in original publication: Grewer, Bleyer, Matz-Rensing. Further work on the CBGHV1 (Colobine gammherpesvirus 1) which causes a pathology in the Colobus monkey very similar to that seen humans. (Than…

2019

#11080

Brill's companion to the reception of Galen. Edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Barbara Zipser.

This collective work shows how Galen was adopted, adapted, admired, contested, and criticized across diverse intellectual environments and geographical regions, from Late Antiquity to the present day, and from Europe …

2019

#11367

Allied medicine in the Great War: The medical front and the people who fought.

2019

#11374

A randomized, controlled trial of Ebola virus disease therapeutics.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Mulangu, Dodd, Davey.... One synthetic drug (Remdesivir, an antiviral) and 3 biologicals were used in this trial. The 3 biologicals were: REGN-EB3, a triple monoclonal …

2019

#11398

Pathogen genomics in public health.

"An important transformation is under way in public health. Next-generation sequencing (also called “high-throughput sequencing”) is reshaping communicable disease surveillance, allowing for earlier detection and more…

2019

#12325

Pioneering British women chemists: Their lives and contributions.

2019

#12407

Can artificial intelligence reliably report chest x-rays? Radiologist validation of an algorithm trained on 2.3 million x-rays.

"Background: Chest X-rays are the most commonly performed, cost-effective diagnostic imaging tests ordered by physicians. A clinically validated AI system that can reliably separate normals from abnormals can be inval…

2019

#13010

Perilous chastity: Women and illness in Pre-Enlightenment art and medicine.

"Bearing such titles as The Doctor's Visit or The Lovesick Maiden, certain seventeenth-century Dutch paintings are familiar to museum browsers: an attractive young woman—well dressed, but pale and listless—reclines in…

2020

#11485

The myth of the perfect pregnancy: A history of miscarriage in America.

2020

#11867

The promise and challenge of therapeutic genome editing.

A review of the scope of potential genome editing applications, the strategies from the most basic (2012) to the most recent (i.e. No. 11866), the current status of tissue specific delivery, accuracy, precision and sa…

2020

#11868

The arms race between bacteria and their phage foes.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Hampton, Watson, Fineran. Summarizes, and documents with 173 references, the extensive research on the multitude of methods that bacteriophages use to disable the CRISP…

2020

#11876

A bacteriophage nucleus like compartment shields DNA from CRISPR nucleases.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Mendoza, Nieweglowska, Govindarajan. The authors showed that the large phage that specifically infects a Pseudomonas bacterium segregates its DNA, which the phage CRISP…

2020

#11877

Clades of huge phages from across Earth's ecosystems.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Al-Shayeb, Sachdeva, Chen.... Doudna. Open access, available from nature.com at this link. This paper was a collaboration of about 50 scientists of diverse regions and …

2020

#13512

The history of medications for women: Materia medica woman.

"...includes botanical, chemical, pharmacalogical, and therapeutic details where appropriate, as well as extensive quotations from both contemporary and old, rare books. The text is complemented with the history of ob…

2021

#14318

Coming home: How midwives changed birth.

2022

#13904

Women healers: Gender, authority, and medicine in early Philadelphia.

2024

#14319

Exposed: The hidden history of the pelvic exam.