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PERSPECTIVES /1ws iotocy / AND MEDICINE Fs THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS VOLUME 36 © 1992, 1993 By THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PUBLISHED AUTUMN 1992 WINTER, SPRING, SUMMER 1993 PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE VOLUME 36 - CONTENTS Walton C. Galinat Corn, Columbus, and Culture Paul B. Beeson Fashions in Pathogenetic Concepts During the Present Century: Autointoxication, Focal Infec- tion, Psychosomatic Disease, and Autoimmunity Ian Buckley Tumor Suppressor Genes, Pattern Control, and Tumorigenesis Samuel Hellman Curies, Cure, and Culture Robert J. Glaser The Impact of Philanthropy on Medicine and Health Tony Miksanek Literary Portraits of the Family Physician Brian Williams and Science for Development Gavin Williams Carl A. Boswell, The Concept of Cellular Tone: Reflection on the Isabelle Joris, and Endothelium, Fibroblasts, and Smooth Muscle Guido Majno Cells Lee N. Muecke Prenatal Screening for Neural Tube Defects: A Choice for All William E. Stehbens Causality in Medical Science with Particular Ref- erence to Heart Disease and Atherosclerosis Peter Martens The Faiths of Two Doctors: Thomas Browne and William Osler Jeffrey R. Botkin and Confusion in the Determination of Death: Distin- Stephen G. Post guishing Philosophy from Physiology Irving M. Klotz Munchausen Syndromes: Hoaxes, Parodies, and Tall Tales in Science and Medicine BOOK REVIEWS: Recombinant DNA, 2nd ed. by James D. Watson, Michael Gilman,Ja n Witowski, and Mark Zoller; Titles That May Interest You, selected by Ronald Singer Franklin G. Miller The Case for Legalized Euthanasia and John C. Fletcher Adam L. Hartman The Role of Military Strategies in Medical Thinking Howard Gest Microbes, Fleas, and the “Vast Chain of Being” Edward H. Ahrens, Jr. Institutional Obstacles to Clinical Research Brian Williams, editor It Has Been Said Eugene D. Weinberg The Development of Awareness of Iron- Withholding Defense Jack L. Segal Spinal Cord Injury: Are Interleukins a Molecu- lar Link between Neuronal Damage and Ensuing Pathobiology? Gregory M. Anstead Thursh’s Diner Alfred I. Tauber Goethe’s Philosophy of Science: Modern Reso- nances Joseph Herman Anomaly and Paradigm Ryan J. Huxtable On the Nature of Shakespeare’s Cursed Hebona Fred D. Ledley Evolution and the Biologist’s Daughter Stephen G. Post The Emergence of Species Impartiality: A Medi- cal Critique of Biocentrism Scott Freeman What For Art Thou, Ph.D.? Francesco Pansera Form and Cause in Multiple Sclerosis BOOK REVIEW: The Code of Codes, by Daniel J. Kevles and LeRoy Hood MISCELLANY by John H. Felts, Thomas R. Platt, Eric L. Dyer, and Elliott Perlin James McCormick The Contribution of Science to Medicine Frank W. Putnam Alpha-, Beta-, Gamma-Globulin—Arne Tiselius and the Advent of Electrophoresis James Parker With New Eyes: The Animal Rights Movement and Religion Nicola Perone The History of Steroidal Contraceptive Develop- ment: The Progestins Joseph W. Gold- The History of Steroidal Contraceptive Develop- zieher ment: The Estrogens Thomas J. Riley Ascarids, American Indians, and the Modern World: Parasites and the Prehistoric Record ofa Pharmacological Tradition Robert C. Noble Physicians and the Pharmaceutical Industry: An Alliance with Unhealthy Aspects John R. Preer, Jr. Nonconventional Genetic Systems E. A. Serafetinides Is There a Cerebral Dominance for Con- sciousness? Charles J. Bussey Julius B. Richmond and Head Start: The Dream Become Reality John B. Stanbury The Specialty Unit within a Teaching Hospital Bruce Wallace Toward a_ Resolution of the Neutralist- Selectionist Controversy Mark W. Ravera, It Has Been Said editor John L. Dusseau Just Words BOOK REVIEWS: Medicine in Society, ed. by Andrew Wear; Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinven- tion of Nature, by Donna J. Haraway LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Ronald Bentley and Craig H. Steffee MISCELLANY by Thomas R. Platt, Ronald Singer, and J. A. Jackson SUPPLEMENT Pamela J. Parker, Introduction George B. Rabb, and Ronald Singer Robert C. Lacy Impacts of Inbreeding in Natural and Captive Populations of Vertebrates: Implications for Conservation Tim W. Clark Creating and Using Knowledge for Species and Ecosystem Conservation: Science, Organizations, and Policy Terence Turner The Role of Indigenous Peoples in the Environ- mental Crisis: The Example of the Kayapo of the Brazilian Amazon EDITORIAL: The Medical Lecture—A Ma- ligned Art Form Thomas Huddle Basic Science and the Undergraduate Medical Curriculum Frank W. Putnam Henry Bence Jones: The Best Chemical Doctor in London Wim J. van der Steen Toward a Practicable Methodology for Medicine: The Impact of Conceptual Analysis Joseph Herman Reflections on Playing God Engendered by a Chat with L. Fred Allison, Jr. Public Hospitals—Past, Present, and Future Irving Kushner Regulation of the Acute Phase Response by Cy- tokines Brian Williams, It Has Been Said editor David A. Landis Physician Distinguish Thyself: Conflict and Cov- enant in a Physician’s Moral Development Darrell W. Brann Progesterone: The Forgotten Hormone? Phoebe Lloyd and Arsenic, an Old Case: The Chronic Heavy Metal Gordon Bendersky Poisoning of Raphaelle Peale (1774—1825) Harold M. Malkin The Trials and Tribulations of George Miller Sternberg (1838—1915)—America’s First Bacte- riologist BOOK REVIEWS: Autoimmune Endocrine Diseases, by Anthony P. Weetman; Titles That May Interest You, selected by Ronald Singer LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: W. Bruce Fye; Walter Ehrlich; Joel D. Howell; and Plinio Prioreschi MISCELLANY by Thomas Peter Bennett, Okay Harold Odocha, Lee Frank, and Evelyn Tiffany- Castiglioni