Stories
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Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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The colonist who faced the blue terror
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
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Can isolation lead to manipulation?
Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.
Catalogue
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Implications of nanotechnology for environmental health research / Lynn Goldman and Christine Coussens, editors ; Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine.
Date: [2005], ©2005- Books
Cancer and the environment : gene-environment interaction / Samuel Wilson [and others], editors ; Roundtable on Environment Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine.
Date: [2002], ©2002- Books
Enhancing the vitality of the National Institutes of Health : organizational change to meet new challenges / Committee on the Organizational Structure of the National Institutes of Health, Board on Life Sciences National Research Council, Health Sciences Policy Board, Institute of Medicine, National Research Council, Institute of Medicine.
Date: 2003- Books
Guidelines for human embryonic stem cell research / Committee on Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Board on Life Sciences, Division On Earth and Lite Sciences, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine.
Date: [2005], ©2005- Books
Sharing clinical trial data : maximizing benefits, minimizing risk / Committee on Strategies for Responsible Sharing of Clinical Trial Data, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Date: [2015]