Medicine in Literature
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Some literary accounts of possible childhood paraplegia and neurorehabilitation.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To identify examples of the practice of neurorehabilitation in 19th and early 20th century NOVELS. METHODS: Four case of apparent childhood paraplegia, which date from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, are described. The approaches ... Read more...

[Discussion on reinforcing-reducing manipulations of acupuncture in Internal Classic]

29 Sep 2009 To study and analyze the reinforcing-reducing manipulations of acupuncture in Internal Classic. The major methods of reinforcing-reducing manipulations of acupuncture in Internal Classic were reinforcing-reducing by manipulating the needle in ... Read more...

Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome: its presentation in F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' and its oral manifestations.

29 Sep 2009 Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) was first documented in the medical literature in 1886. A HGPS patient has the physical characteristics and appearances of an elderly individual. In 1921, F. Scott Fitzgerald published a short story ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Medicine in Literature'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Strange power of speech. 29 Oct 2009
• [Narratives about cancer--the meeting with health care] 20 Oct 2009
• Some literary accounts of possible childhood paraplegia and neurorehabilitation. 29 Sep 2009
• [Discussion on reinforcing-reducing manipulations of acupuncture in Internal Classic] 29 Sep 2009
• "Psychoanalysis and the unconscious" and D.W. Winnicott's transitional and related phenomena. 29 Sep 2009
• The piano teacher: a case study in perversion and sadomasochism. 29 Sep 2009
• A psychoanalytic look at Herman Melville from his use of source materials for Moby-Dick. 29 Sep 2009
• Henry James and the art of the dream. 29 Sep 2009
• Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome: its presentation in F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' and its oral manifestations. 29 Sep 2009
• [Zero hour--the poet Dorothy Parker and insomnia] 22 Sep 2009
• The death of Ivan Ilyich and pain relief at the end of life. 10 Sep 2009
• The importance of time in ethical decision making. 30 Aug 2009
• ["Death sleeps in life and life sleeps in death". The enigma of suicide--the example Stig Dagerman] 30 Aug 2009
• [Medical picture and literature mystery] 10 Aug 2009
• [An unidentified body in the lake] 3 Aug 2009
• The first chapter of an ORL detective novel. 30 Jul 2009
• Medicine and the arts. The Course of a Particular by Wallace Stevens. Commentary. 30 Jul 2009
• The patient's view: John Donne and Katharine Anne Porter. 16 Jul 2009
• Indescribable pain in literature: A commentary on Crawford. 15 Jul 2009
• [Physician--sculptures and literature puzzle] 6 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Medicine in Literature'

Descriptor UI: D008513

Alternative terms: Medicine in Literature; Literature, Medicine in; in Literature, Medicine;

Tree Number: K01.517.584;

Technical Notes: no qualif; coord IM with med aspect (IM) + specific lit heading (IM) + literary type if pertinent (as POETRY; DRAMA, etc.) (IM); DF: MED LIT