Category: Health and Medicine
Among her many activities, JHU Press author Sara Palmer serves as chair of the board of Baltimore's League for People with Disabilities. Recently, we came across the League's charming and inspiring addition to the flood of "Happy" videos based on the Pharrell Williams hit song. And that, in turn, inspired us to invite Sara and…
Among her many activities, JHU Press author Sara Palmer serves as chair of the board of Baltimore's League for People with Disabilities. Recently, we came across the League's charming and inspiring addition to the flood of "Happy" videos based on the Pharrell Williams hit song. And that, in turn, inspired us to invite Sara and…
Guest Post by Donald E. Thomas, Jr., M.D., FACP, FACR “To know lupus is to know medicine” is a common saying repeated by attending physicians to their medical students and residents. For the medical student and the young physician, this can create some anxiety and can be quite intimidating. Even experienced physicians can find it…
Guest Post by Nicolas Rasmussen Historians widely share the attitude that it is not possible to write a proper historical account of fairly recent events. Fifty years is about the respectable time horizon before events become sufficiently past that they constitute legitimate subject matter for history. There are at least two good reasons for this attitude.…
Sociologist Renée C. Fox considers how communications from Médecins San Frontières/Doctors Without Borders keep her connected with the achievements, trials, dreams, and values of medical humanitarian action. She is the author of Doctors Without Borders: Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of of Médecins Sans Frontières, published by Johns Hopkins Press. I first became aware of Doctors…
Sociologist Renée C. Fox considers how communications from Médecins San Frontières/Doctors Without Borders keep her connected with the achievements, trials, dreams, and values of medical humanitarian action. She is the author of Doctors Without Borders: Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of of Médecins Sans Frontières, published by Johns Hopkins Press. I first became aware of Doctors…
Guest Post by Dan Morhaim The tools are here. We just need to use them. These tools offer something rare and important in our modern medical system: an opportunity to exert influence. I am talking about advance directives, the powerful instruments that allow each of us to manage the final chapter of life in a…
In honor of World Health Worker Week, we present an excerpt from an article by Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Louis Galambos and Tina Flores which originally appeared in the Huffington Post. Imagine having a stroke in a place where the nearest health facility is a two-hour walk away. And should you manage to find your way…
Guest Post by Annemarie Goldstein Jutel Putting a name to an illness is as much a social task as it is a medical one. The pursuit of diagnosis is often the reason we choose to seek medical attention (“What’s wrong with me, doctor?”). It separates the lay person from the professional (doctors diagnose, lay people…
Today is the fifth and final in a series of brief podcast excerpts from The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementias, and Memory Loss. This bestselling title by Nancy L. Mace, M.A., and Peter V. Rabins, M.D., M.P.H., is in its fifth edition and is now available…