H. T. Engelhardt Jr., and S. F. Spicker, Eds. [1975]: Evaluation and Explanation in the Biomedical Sciences and [1976]: Philosophical Dimensions of the Neuro–Medical Sciences, volumes 1 and 2 of Philosophy of Medicine, edited by H. T. Engelhardt and S. F. Spicker. Dordrecht: Reidel. Pp. 240 and 274, respectively.

1978 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-406
Author(s):  
CAROLINE WHITBECK
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Medicine ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Medical Sciences

A checklist to help students analyze published articles in basic medical sciences.

1995 ◽  
Vol 268 (6) ◽  
pp. S21 ◽  
Author(s):  
P K Rangachari ◽  
S Mierson
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Student Responses ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Reading Textbooks ◽  
Scientific Life ◽  
Basic Medical

Because critical analysis of published information is an essential component of scientific life, it is important that students be trained in its practice. Undergraduate students who are more accustomed to reading textbooks and taking lecture notes find it difficult to appreciate primary publications. To help such students, we have developed a checklist that helps them analyze different components of a research article in basic biomedical sciences. Students used the checklist to analyze critically a published article. The students were assigned an article and asked to write a paper (maximum 2 pages of single-spaced type) assessing it. This assignment has been found useful to both undergraduate and graduate students in pharmacology and physiology. Student responses to a questionnaire were highly favorable; students thought the exercise provided them with some of the essential skills for life-long learning.

scholarly journals Dreams and schemes: The Biochemical Society: Supporting Excellence in the Science Base

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 47-48
Author(s):  
Keith Gull
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Science Base ◽  
Funding Agencies

A recent report entitled ‘The Freedom to Succeed’ has been published by the Academy of Medical Sciences. It presents the findings and recommendations of a committee, chaired by Professor Keith Gull CBE FRS FMedSci (an ex-Chairman of the Biochemical Society), that reviewed research fellowships in the biomedical sciences. In this article, Professor Gull outlines some aspects of this report, which has broad implications for fellows, funding agencies and higher education institutes. The report can be seen at http://www.acmedsci.ac.uk.

scholarly journals Online Teaching and Learning in Biomedical Sciences: Students’ and Staff’ Attitudes and Experiences on the New Educational Environment Imposed by the COVID 19 Outbreak

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Nikolic Turnic ◽  
Ljiljana Tasic ◽  
Vladimir Jakovljevic ◽  
Marko Folic ◽  
Milan Zaric ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Preliminary Evaluation ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
Learning Conditions

Abstract The aim of this pilot study is a preliminary evaluation of previous models / modalities of online teaching at the Faculty of Medical Sciences in Serbia and to examine the attitudes of students and academic staff about education during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as their previous experiences. The research was designed as an observational qualitative epidemiological study which was conducted on a population of students and academics staff at the Faculty of biomedical sciences, University of Kragujevac during the pandemic of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Serbia. The first phase is a pilot study which included 332 participants performed between December 2020 and January 2021. The pilot study questionnaire is formed for the purposes of the research and consists of 17 closed-ended questions with graduated answers. Students and academic staff completed the questionnaire through an online learning platform in all environments and from all electronic devices. The importance of this study is reflected in the fact that it provides detailed and valid data that can serve the purpose of improving the efficiency of online teaching at the faculties of medical sciences in Serbia In general, the results of our study indicate that in addition to great inexperience, both students and academic staff cope well during online education and the changed environment and learning conditions despite all the difficulties.

Oxford Handbook of Medical Sciences

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
System Development ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Biomedical Science ◽  
Cell Physiology ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Allied Health Professions ◽  
Endocrine Organs ◽  
Scientific Principles

The Oxford Handbook of Medical Sciences is written by biomedical scientists and clinicians to be the definitive guide to the fundamental scientific principles that underpin medicine and the biomedical sciences. It provides a clear and easily digestible account of basic cell physiology, biochemistry, and molecular and medical genetics, followed by chapters integrating the traditional pillars of biomedicine (anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pathology, and pharmacology) for each of the major systems and processes of the human body: nerve and muscle, musculoskeletal system, respiratory and cardiovascular systems, urinary system, digestive system, endocrine organs, reproductive system, development from fertilization to birth, neuroanatomy and neurophysiology, infection and immunity, and the growth of tissues and organs. Also included are chapters on medicine and society and techniques used in biomedical science research. In its third edition, the Oxford Handbook of Medical Sciences is now fully illustrated in colour, and cross-referenced to the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, tenth edition, Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialities, eleventh edition, and Oxford Handbook of Practical Drug Therapy, second edition. Its concise writing style makes it an invaluable source of information for practitioners and students in medicine, biomedical sciences, and the allied health professions.

The shift of the paradigm between ageing and diseases

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (10) ◽  
pp. 1635-1644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Salvatore
Keyword(s):  
Individualized Medicine ◽  
Genetic Alterations ◽  
Position Paper ◽  
Degenerative Diseases ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Direct Benefit ◽  
Physiological Ageing ◽  
Increased Risk

AbstractIn the area of the Medical Sciences, the chronological age has always been, and still is, an indicator by which we try to understand the health status of an individual. However, besides considering people born with an already expressed disease, each human genome has sequence alterations called predisposing mutations; carriers of such genetic alterations have an increased risk of contracting diseases during their life. In addition, the exposome, i.e. the totality of environmental noxae (“hits”) to which our body is exposed throughout life (through ingestion, breathing, body surface hits, and psychosociological stress agents, etc.) contributes to increase gradually but inexorably the frailty of an organism, and this process is usually referred to as “physiological ageing”. This position paper proposes that we invert our visual angle and view the passage-of-time not as the cause of diseases, but consider the genome alterations present at birth and the noxae received during our life as the real major causes of ageing. The Biomedical Sciences are now increasingly unraveling the etiopathogenesis of most chronic degenerative diseases; thus, it will be possible to monitor and treat those that most contribute to the increased frailty of each person, which is now referred to with the misnomer “physiological ageing”. These concepts are not banal; indeed, they imply that we must try to avoid the causes of alterations that result later in chronic degenerative diseases. Thus, we should shift our attention from the cure to the prevention of alterations/diseases also to improve both the length and quality of our life. Moreover, this approach involves real personalized or individualized medicine, thus conferring a more direct benefit to each of us by finalizing either the cure or the monitoring of diseases.

scholarly journals Anti-essentialism, modal relativity, and alternative material-origin counterfactuals

Synthese ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederique Janssen-Lauret
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Medicine ◽  
Ordinary Language ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Modal Properties ◽  
Alternative Material ◽  
Medical Reasoning

AbstractIn ordinary language, in the medical sciences, and in the overlap between them, we frequently make claims which imply that we might have had different gametic origins from the ones we actually have. Such statements seem intuitively true and coherent. But they counterfactually ascribe different DNA to their referents and therefore contradict material-origin essentialism, which Kripke and his followers argue is intuitively obvious. In this paper I argue, using examples from ordinary language and from philosophy of medicine and bioethics, that statements which attribute alternative material origins to their referents are useful, common in political and medical reasoning, and in many cases best interpreted literally. So we must replace the doctrine of material-origin essentialism with one that can make sense of ordinary discourse and the language of the medical sciences. I propose an anti-essentialist account of such counterfactuals according to which individuals’ modal properties are relative to a given inquiry.

Philosophical and aesthetic aspects of the face in the context of teaching selected humanities subjects at the Poznan University of Medical Sciences

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-50
Author(s):  
Jan Zamojski
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Medicine ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Film Adaptation ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Animated Films ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of

The paper starts off from the prehistoric role of the face and the dominant significance of the question of the face in the humanities. Author will address the above questions in the context of his own teaching of such subjects as Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Medicine. He draws attention to the role of works of art he uses in the teaching process, e.g. the tale Beautiful Face from the book 13 Tales from the Kingdom of Lailonia by the eminent philosopher Leszek Kołakowski. As the person instrumental for the film adaptation of this book and the script writer, the author will share his experience of making use of films from the series 14 Tales from the Kingdom of Lailonia by Leszek Kołakowski, begun in the late 1990s. Contributing to the making of individual films in the TV Studio of Animated Films in Poznań were distinguished directors, outstanding actors, e.g. Zbigniew Zapasiewicz and Andrzej Seweryn and expert stage designers. Of special importance for the teaching process in the context of these films is the intersemiotic translation, related to the questions of the face. Author will moreover reference in his teaching practice ideas put forth by philosophers such as Plato, Emanuel Levinas and Jan Payne and works by such eminent artists as Tadeusz Kantor and Zbigniew Libera. Individual issues discussed in the paper will be illustrated with ample iconography related to the face, including images unpublished earlier, such as those from the films from the above series, currently under production.

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