Violence, mental illness, and the brain – A brief history of psychosurgery:...
Abstract — In the final installment to this three-part, essay-editorial on psychosurgery, we relate the history of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in humans and glimpse the phenomenal body of work...
View ArticleOn Psychosurgery and Mind Control — A Review of Miguel Faria's "Violence,...
In his three-part series on psychosurgery in America entitled "Violence, Mental Illness and the Brain," my friend, Dr. Miguel Faria, has written one of the best published summaries on the history of...
View ArticleForgotten lessons on medical history for medical students
A Prelude to Medical History (1961) by Dr. Félix Martí-Ibáñez (1911-1972) is a short but interesting book on medical history based on a series of lectures to an entering class of medical students, who...
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A history of medicine from a secular humanist perspective!
The Story of Medicine by Victor Robinson, M.D. The New Home Library, New York; 1943. Bibliographical Notes, Indexed, 564 pages. read more
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Neolithic trepanation decoded — A unifying hypothesis: Has the mystery as to...
Abstract — The perplexing mystery of why so many trephined skulls from the Neolithic period have been uncovered all over the world representing attempts at primitive cranial surgery is discussed. More...
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A fascinating look at primitive and ancient medicine by medical historian and...
Plinio Prioreschi, MD, PhD (1930–2014), the author of this monumental series of tomes on the history of medicine was an accomplished scholar — i.e., physician, scientist, linguist (of classical and...
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A critique of Dr. Miguel Faria's book, Vandals at the Gates of Medicine....
It is not often one comes across a book that contains so much useful and enlightening information and wisdom. In Vandals at the Gates of Medicine, Dr. Miguel Faria has captured the essence of our...
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A journey through time to ancient Greek medicine with medical historian and...
In our review of the first volume in this series we introduced the medical scholar Dr. Plinio Prioreschi, the author of this marvelous narrative of the history of medicine, and listed the composition...
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Another medical journey to ancient Rome and Roman medicine with medical...
This is the third volume of the monumental A History of Medicine series by the medical historian and classical scholar Plinio Prioreschi M.D., PhD.[1] A limited number of these books were published,...
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Neolithic trepanation decoded — A unifying hypothesis: Has the mystery as to...
Abstract — The perplexing mystery of why so many trephined skulls from the Neolithic period have been uncovered all over the world representing attempts at primitive cranial surgery is discussed. More...
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A fascinating look at primitive and ancient medicine by medical historian and...
Plinio Prioreschi, MD, PhD (1930–2014), the author of this monumental series of tomes on the history of medicine was an accomplished scholar — i.e., physician, scientist, linguist (of classical and...
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A critique of Dr. Miguel Faria's book, Vandals at the Gates of Medicine....
It is not often one comes across a book that contains so much useful and enlightening information and wisdom. In Vandals at the Gates of Medicine, Dr. Miguel Faria has captured the essence of our...
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A journey through time to ancient Greek medicine with medical historian and...
In our review of the first volume in this series we introduced the medical scholar Dr. Plinio Prioreschi, the author of this marvelous narrative of the history of medicine, and listed the composition...
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Another medical journey to ancient Rome and Roman medicine with medical...
This is the third volume of the monumental A History of Medicine series by the medical historian and classical scholar Plinio Prioreschi M.D., PhD.[1] A limited number of these books were published,...
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The Nazi War on Tobacco and Cancer
I was recently asked to review The Nazi War on Cancer by Robert N. Proctor for Ideas on Liberty. What follows here is a more extended critique of this scholarly but deeply disturbing book.read more
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A conversation with Dr. Adam Bogart about the Bolsheviks and Lenin's and...
November 12, 2016, Hi Miguel, Food for thought [“Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev (1857–1927): Strange Circumstances Surrounding the Death of the Great Russian Neurologist” by Kesselring J] … It seems...
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A conversation between Drs. Daniel E. Nijensohn and Adam R. Bogart about...
This conversation should be of interest not only to neurosurgeons and neuroscientists, but also political and social scientists, as well as the well-informed segment of the general public, and not just...
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