American Medicine and the Public Interest, by ROSEMARY STEVENS, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1971, pp. xiii, 572, £9.00. Rosemary Stevens has delineated the effect on medicine of the formation of professional societies representing the specialties into which it became divided in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its introductory section, an examination of professionalizato...

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We review the experimental evaluations of several widely marketed nonprescription compounds claimed to be memory enhancers and treatments for age-related memory decline. We generally limit our review to double-blind placebo-controlled studies. The compounds examined are phosphatidylserine (PS), phosphatidylcholine (PC), citicoline, piracetam, vinpocetine, acetyl-L-carnitine (ALC), and antioxida...

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In this essay, I discuss the difficulty of sustaining an inquisitorial system of policy research and analysis when it is embedded in a broader adversarial political setting. Conflicts of interest in public policy research exist on a continuum from blatant pecuniary bias to more subtle ideological bias. Because these biases are only partially susceptible to correction through individual effort a...

AMERICAN MEDICINE AND THiE PUBLIC INTEREST. By Rosemary Stevens. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1971. xiii, 572 pp. $18.50. In this second volume of a planned trilogy, Rosemary Stevens presents a sclholarly analysis of the evolution of specialization in American Medicine. In pointing out the transformation of the average doctor in a slhort span of time from relative scientific i...