A Historical Overview of Space Medicine

Medicine and art: an historical overview.

Art is an exercise of human skill - sometimes figments of imagination to express the natural world in various forms-literal and visual. Medicine and art interact in the doctor's life and work. The science and art of healing takes many forms; so does the expressive and evocative process known as art. The details are presented here.

A Brief Overview of the Specialty of Travel Medicine

Medicalization of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: a Historical-Critical Analysis

Medicalization, in the sense of expansion of medicine in different aspects of human life and ultimately the transformation of medicine into a tool of social control and domination, is a common interpenetration in the literature. This concept, since its inception in the mid-twentieth century, has been an exclusive critique of modern medicine, meaning that branch of medicine based on biomedical p...

Placebos and placebo effects in medicine: historical overview.

some experimental intervention. Although the most frequently used placebo is the 'sugar pill' in drug trials, placebos can be and have been used for all kinds of interventions, ranging from placebo ultrasound in the treatment of pressure ulcers and placebo surgery in the treatment of osteoarthritis to sham traction in the treatment of low back pain and placebo oestrogen implants in the preventi...

RTV4HCI: A Historical Overview