Careers in Space Medicine
Outer space has a very different environment from that of Earth. The atmosphere, radiation, and gravity levels are so drastically varied that several adjustments are made to ...
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Medicine
Traditionally, space medicine has tackled medical problems associated with the space environment. Increasingly, however, space medicine also encompasses research conducted aboard space statio...
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Theory and Experiment Redefine Medical Practice and Philosophy
Overview
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries there was considerable debate among physicians about the appropriate philosophical ba...
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Overview: Medicine 1800-1899
Despite the exciting advances that took place in science and medicine in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it was only in the nineteenth century that medicine itse...
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Overview: Medicine 1900-1949
Overview
The twentieth century was a period of rapid scientific development and unprecedented progress in the biomedical sciences. During the first half of the twentieth c...
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The Impact of Radioactivity on Medicine Between 1900 and 1949
Overview
In 1896 Antoine Henri Becquerel (1852-1908), a professor at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France, discovered radioactivity in...
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Overview: Medicine 1950-Present
During the twentieth century, medical theory and practice underwent more profound changes than in all of the years since the time of Hippocrates (460?-377? B.C.). Since...
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Medicine and Women: 1950-Present
Overview
Since the 1950s, women's preventative medicine and health care have greatly improved in the developed world, particularly through the availability of n...
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“Today, there is no better nation in which to become sick than the United States.” —Doug Bandow
“Yes, as we’re often told, American medicine is the best in the world. ....
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Over time, brilliant medical advances have been made. With this progress come new medical procedures that change society. Such medicinal techniques include plastic surgery, prenatal screening, and hu...
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Careers in Space Medicine
Theory and Experiment Redefine Medical Practice and Philosophy
Medicine
