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Literature and Medicine and Narrative Medicine: A Distinction between Terms
The terms literature and medicine and narrative medicine are often used interchangeably to describe story-based study in medicine and medical education. In this dissertation, I explore distinctions between literature and medicine and narrative medicine and assert that a conflation of these terms is …
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Anxiety in medicine
Its about anxiety and how it can affect both medical students and health professionals in day to day life. Defining anxiety and how it can be diagnosed and treated affectively. The history and pathology of anxiety. The pharmacological mechanisms involved in anxiety. How anxitey can have a negative …
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Meta-learning in Medicine
… such problems and to have a large impact on medicine and quality of healthcare delivery. In this paper, we provide the background of this problem, review the commonly used strategies for solving such problems and discuss the state-of-the-art of meta-learning models. To address the clinical …
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Moral Responsibility in Medicine
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T14:28:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8004313.pdf: 8130855 bytes, checksum: 43e2ab32f2b623c19cdc3e80e6e7cf31 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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Gap Between Practices of Evidence-based Medicine and Personalized Medicine: A Barrier in Learning
Background: Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is the use of high-quality clinical research in making decisions about the care of patients. Health professionals have used EBM to guide clinical decision-making for the last three decades. However, critics have suggested that EBM focuses on groups of …
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Images of Experience: Decolonizing Medicine
… set of beliefs and practices. Practitioners of medicine make up a distinct culture. This culture is formed as a site of discontinuity in a large part through the experiences of medical education from that of the experiences of the one we call patient. The dissertation explores the current …
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The Prospects of Personalising Medicine
Personalised Medicine (PM) is touted as a medical revolution where medical treatment and diagnosis is tailored to the individual patient so that it is optimal, safe, and exactly appropriate. Each chapter in this dissertation deals with the conceptual, methodological, epistemic, or ethical issues of …
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Statistical foundations for precision medicine
… The growing concept of "precision medicine" addresses this challenge by recognizing the vast yet fractured state of biomedical data, and calls for a patient-centered view of data in which molecular, clinical, and environmental measurements are stored in large shareable databases. …
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Cultural Encounters in Medicine: (Re)Constituting Traditional Medicine in Taiwan under Colonization, Modernity, and Exchange
Today we have many alternative medicines, not a few of which connect back to aboriginal cultures. Some of these alternative medicines were born under the influence of European imperialism, as they were not "alternative" until modern empires and modern medicine came to these distant regions. The …
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The enchantment of Western Herbal Medicine
In the UK the profession of Western Herbal Medicine (WHM) has had to engage with politics and with science in order to survive. Social science work on WHM suggests that traditional knowledge is being overtaken by biomedical knowledge, with one paradigm replacing another, although collaboration with …
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The Enchantment of Western Herbal Medicine
In the UK the profession of Western Herbal Medicine(WHM) has had to engage with politics and with science in order to survive. Social science work on WHM suggests that traditional knowledge is being overtaken by biomedical knowledge, with one paradigm replacing another, although collaboration with …
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Image processing techniques in nuclear medicine
… with new radiopharmaceuticals for nuclear medicine investigations.
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Coordination Chemistry in Biology and Medicine
<p>PART I. Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Metal-Citrate Complexes and the Investigation of Metal-Citrate Transporters in Gram-Positive Bacteria</p> <p>Abstract.</p> <p>Syntheses of new barium, cadmium, calcium, cobalt, iron, lead, magnesium, manganese, nickel, and strontium citrate …
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The Medicine Wheel for Carbohydrate Counting
… of a culturally specific web-based tool “The Medicine Wheel for Carbohydrate Counting.” This web-based educational tool reflects Native American culture and values, primarily of the Native Americans of the Northern Plains. In-depth interviews from ten adult Native Americans with a diagnosis of …
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Communication about Complementary Medicine in Oncology
Contains fulltext : 311819.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Biomedical robots. Application to transnational medicine
Esta tesis trata sobre el análisis y diseño de robots biomédicos y su aplicación a la medicina traslacional. Se define un robot biomédico como el conjunto de técnicas provenientes de la matemática aplicada, estadística y ciencias de la computación capaces de analizar datos biomédicos de …
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