The Best Surgeon in England: Percivall Pott, 1713-88
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Percivall Pott (1713-88) was a leading surgeon in eighteenth-century Britain. This work mines the...
Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery
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Here is the first biography to appear in fifty years of Harvey Cushing, a giant of American medicine...
Early Modern Cartesianisms: Dutch and French Constructions
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There is a general sense that the philosophy of Descartes was a dominant force in early modern...
The Integrated Self: Augustine, the Bible, and Ancient Thought
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Well before his entry into the religious life in the spring of 386 C.E., Augustine had embarked on a...
The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
Stephen Thomas Ziliak and Deirdre McCloskey
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"Statistical significance," a technique that dominates medicine, economics, psychology, and many...
Tools for Critical Thinking in Biology
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science's report on Vision and Change in...
Earth Ancients
Podcast
Earth Ancients chronicles the growing (and often suppressed) evidence of known and unknown ...
Public Health Informatics: Designing for Change - A Developing Country Perspective
Sundeep Sahay, T. Sundararaman and Jorn Braa
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Over the last three decades enormous effort has gone into strengthening public health information...
Stress and Strategy
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Originally published in 1987, this title is concerned with the association between stress and...
Regulating Preventive Justice: Principle, Policy and Paradox
Tamara Tulich, Rebecca Ananian-Welsh, Simon Bronitt and Sarah Murray
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Like medicine, law is replete with axioms of prevention. 'Prevention is better than cure' has a long...