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Medicine
fromPsychology Today
13 hours ago

The Compelling History of a Disease Basis for Mental Illness

Psychiatry pursued brain-disease explanations for mental disorders, driven by medicine's historical emphasis on physical disease, despite lack of definitive brain-disease findings this century.
Medicine
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Theory Determines What Psychiatry and Medicine Think and Do

Medicine and psychiatry remain guided by a reductionistic theory largely discarded by other sciences, shaping care, teaching, and research often without clinicians' awareness.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Questioning the Boundary Between Pain and Suffering

Pain and suffering are some of the most common reasons patients seek out doctors. These patients seek answers about the causes of pain and they seek relief. Pain and suffering are not only unpleasant experiences that compromise our well-being. They threaten the sense we make of the world.Pain makes each of us ask: Why me? Why now? While pain and suffering have always been a problem for humans, they have not been the same kind of problem.
Medicine
History
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

Once upon a time, nostalgia was epidemic among homesick soldiers

Nostalgia is a complex emotion that evolved from 17th-century homesickness into a temporal longing and a tool used in modern marketing.
Public health
fromThe Nation
2 months ago

Public Health Was a Place for Warriors Once. It Needs to Be Again.

Public health shifted from collective environmental advocacy to individual-focused medicine, undermining its power and influence.
fromThe Mercury News
7 months ago

A San Francisco museum explores the cringey history of eye medicine

The exhibition explores the evolution of ophthalmology in Asia, showcasing artifacts and methods that trace back to 10th-century practices, including early cataract surgery techniques.
Medicine
philosophy
fromAeon
8 months ago

One woman's nose and two men's hubris: a nasogenital tale | Aeon Essays

The late 19th-century nasogenital reflex theory linked nose surgeries to reproductive health, highlighting early misconceptions in medical science.
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