Science
Rebekah Burgess Abramovich
George Bradford Brainerd: innovator of laryngeal photography
Alexander J. Adams
Objections to Kuhn’s theory of scientific progression
Wladimir Alonso, Steven Zhixiang Zhou, and Cynthia Schuck-Paim
The first clinical trial and controlled biological experiments
Adriano Angelucci
Lights and shadows and Vitamin D
Geoffrey Baird
Thomas Bayes and Bayes’ Theorem in Medicine
Philippe Campillo
Etienne-Jules Marey (1830- 1904). The study of movement in the functions of life: eclecticism and inventiveness
Jules Amar (1879-1935). A method to help soldiers who were amputated or mutilated during the First World War reintegrate society
Richard J. Caselli
Creativity and human nature (What Wallace saw)
Robert Cutillo
The pressure for certainty in an uncertain world: a new application of Boyle’s Law
George Dunea
Paul Ehrlich: from aniline dyes to the magic bullet
Albrecht von Haller, physiologist and polymath
Charles Darwin’s illnesses
William Beaumont and Alexis St. Martin new
Loathsome Beasts: Images of reptiles and amphibians in art and science new
Tu Youyou, discoverer of artemisinin for resistant malaria new
Ronald Fishman
Nature telling her secrets: the Kepler–Descartes connection
James L. Franklin
John Dalton’s Eyes: A History of the Eye and Color Vision, Part One
John Dalton’s Eyes: A History of the Eye and Color Vision, Part Two
John Hayman
Charles Darwin’s illness and the ‘wondrous water cure’
The illness of Tom Wedgwood: a tragic episode in a family saga new
Nicola Hodson
Teresa L. Johnson
William Kingston
How a bishop unwittingly kick-started the DNA revolution
Trevor Klee
Hume and autism-causing vaccines
Yvette Koepke
Sir Francis Bacon’s overlooked contributions
Marshall A. Lichtman
The first description of DNA: a six million dollar letter from Francis to Michael Crick new
Philip R. Liebson
Philosophy of science and medicine series — I: Hippocratic Concepts of Medicine
Philosophy of science and medicine series — II: Galen vs. Hippocrates
Philosophy of science and medicine series — III: Greek science
Philosophy of science and medicine series — IV: Alexandrian period
Philosophy of science and medicine series — V: Roman period
Philosophy of science and medicine series – VI: Islamic science
Philosophy of science and medicine series – VII: Roman and medieval symbolism
Philosophy of science and medicine series – VIII: Physics
Philosophy of science and medicine IX: Western science in the High Medieval period
Philosophy of science and medicine X: Aristotle to the early 20th Century
John Massie
Star Wars and medical progress: a lesson to be learned from fiction
Adil Menon
The Rockefeller Institute and the growth of cell biology
Marco Nathan and Diego Brancaccio
Should a scientist be elegant?
Daniel Nebert
Darwin’s ideas: supported by science
JMS Pearce
John Tyndall, FRS: The beauty of science
Alfred Russel Wallace
Ernest Henry Starling and the birth of English Physiology new
Einar Perman
The men who standardized temperature measurements
Beatriz GT Pogo
Histone acetylation a half century later: the modest birth of epigenetics
David Poole, Michael White, and Brian Whipp
Jayant Radhakrishnan
Albert Einstein headed off at the “Nobel pass” by Alvar Gullstrand new
Sue Reeves
Santorio Santorio – physician, physiologist, and weight-watcher
Pradipto Roy
Tajri Salek
Elizabeth A.J. Scott
Dream interpretation and insomnia across cultures and history
Justin Shea
Andy Tay
Using bacteria in cancer therapy
Mariel Tishma
Lazaros C. Triarhou
Contrasting notions of Ramón y Cajal and Constantin von Economo on forced propulsion
Lydia Usha
Creative thinking in medicine: can we learn it from the masters and practice it?
Hannah Wilson
Philip K. Wilson
Visualizing the human body through the ages
Isuri Upeksha Wimalasiri
Serendipity: is it mere lucky coincidence?
Vignettes
Carl Ludwig, pioneer in human physiology
Jean Marie Poiseuille: physics and mathematics
Van Leeuwenhoek’s discovery of “animalcules”
Claude Bernard, one of the greatest scientists
Giovanni Borelli, polymath of Naples and Pisa
Johannes Purkinje: physiologist with wide interests
Litmus paper and other pH indicators new
Improving the ophthalmoscope new
Photography in medicine new
The wife of Antoine Lavoisier new
