07 FEB 2014 by ideonexus
Research Domain Criteria (RDoC)
The goal of this new manual, as with all previous editions, is to provide a common language for describing psychopathology. While DSM has been described as a “Bible” for the field, it is, at best, a dictionary, creating a set of labels and defining each. The strength of each of the editions of DSM has been “reliability” – each edition has ensured that clinicians use the same terms in the same ways. The weakness is its lack of validity. Unlike our definitions of ischemic heart diseas...
1 DSM to be replaced with a matrix of quantifiable measures.
24 JAN 2014 by ideonexus
Florence Nightingale Worshiped Quantification
[Of her] Her statistics were more than a study, they were indeed her religion. For her Quetelet was the hero as scientist, and the presentation copy of his Physique sociale is annotated by her on every page. Florence Nightingale believed—and in all the actions of her life acted upon that belief—that the administrator could only be successful if he were guided by statistical knowledge. The legislator—to say nothing of the politiciantoo often failed for want of this knowledge. Nay, she we...Folksonomies: virtue quantification
Folksonomies: virtue quantification
1 Described here as being virtuously dedicated to statistics and measurement in medicine.
21 AUG 2013 by ideonexus
Drugs is a Human Construct
The human body is an assembly of chemicals, as is all food & all medicine. So what we label as a drug is a social construct.
Lifting weights changes your bio-physiology in a way that creates performance-enhancing effects on your body.
Drinking coffee changes your metabolism in a way that creates performance-enhancing effects on your body.
Eating breakfast changes your biochemstry in a way that creates performance-enhancing effects on your body.
Practicing in your sport of choice creat... 1 
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notesEveryone and every substance is chemicals and molecules. How we classify them is purely a social construct.
11 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
The Nobel Prizes
The capital ... shall form a fund, the interest of which shall be distributed annually as prizes to those persons who shall have rendered humanity the best services during the past year. ... One-fifth to the person having made the most important discovery or invention in the science of physics, one-fifth to the person who has made the most eminent discovery or improvement in chemistry, one-fifth to the one having made the most important discovery with regard to physiology or medicine, one-fif... 1 notes
notesAs described by Alfred Bernhard Nobel in his will.
08 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
Characteristics of a Good Surgeon
It is necessary that a surgeon should have a temperate and moderate disposition. That he should have well-formed hands, long slender fingers, a strong body, not inclined to tremble and with all his members trained to the capable fulfilment of the wishes of his mind. He should be of deep intelligence and of a simple, humble, brave, but not audacious disposition. He should be well grounded in natural science, and should know not only medicine but every part of philosophy; should know logic well...Folksonomies: virtue
Folksonomies: virtue
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notesA list of talents and virtues.
07 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
Printing Books Makes the World Alive
After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially since 1563, the number of writings published in every field is greater than all those produced in the past thousand years. Through them there has today been created a new theology and a new jurisprudence; the Paracelsians have created medicine anew and the Copernicans have created astronomy anew. I really believe that at last the world is a... 1 notes
notesKepler marvels at the world brought about by the printing press.
28 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
The Birth of Immunology
I like to think that when Medawar and his colleagues showed that immunological tolerance could be produced experimentally the new immunology was born. This is a science which to me has far greater potentialities both for practical use in medicine and for the better understanding of living process than the classical immunochemistry which it is incorporating and superseding.Folksonomies: immunology
Folksonomies: immunology
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notesBurnet mentions the importance of producing immunological tolerance experimentally.
23 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
Doctors Interfere with the Living Principle
Doctor, no medicine.—We are machines made to live—organized expressly for that purpose.—Such is our nature.—Do not counteract the living principle.—Leave it at liberty to defend itself, and it will do better than your drugs. 1 notes
notesA quote from Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte on how living things know how to survive on their own without the interference of medicine.
14 SEP 2011 by ideonexus
Medicine Works in Great Leaps
Medicinal discovery,
It moves in mighty leaps,
It leapt straight past the common cold
And gave it us for keeps. ...leaving us little things like the common cold.
14 SEP 2011 by ideonexus
Definition of Medicine
Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and when not in health, and the means by which health is likely to be lost and, when lost, is likely to be restored back to health. In other words, it is the art whereby health is conserved and the art whereby it is restored after being lost. While some divide medicine into a theoretical and a practical [applied] science, others may assume that it is only theoretical because they see it as a pure science.... 1 notes
notesBoth theoretical and practical, but then, all sciences have both qualities.
