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Pain and suffering
brings added value to the study of pain and suffering? For teachers like me who are planning to co-teach a course on religion and medicine, in my case to students from Harvard Medical School and from Harvard Divinity School, this collection is a step forward, but it would have been more helpful if it had set up an ongoing dialogue between its two parts, forcing scholars who are comfortable anal...
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This is not my usual issue specific and highly researched editorial piece, and for that I apologize in advance. In the next issue of Neuromodulation, I will discuss the significant issues with respect to quality control, patient outcomes and cost effectiveness facing both device manufacturers and physician practitioners of neuromodulation. During the production time of the current issue, howeve...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Anesthesiology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0003-3022
DOI: 10.1097/aln.0b013e3182181354