Browsing by Author "Jones, David"
Now showing items 1-20 of 20
-
The Burden of Disease and the Changing Task of Medicine
Jones, David Shumway; Podolsky, Scott Harris; Greene, Jeremy Alan (New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS), 2012) -
A Complete Medical Education Includes the Arts and Humanities
Jones, David Shumway (American Medical Association, 2014) -
Coronary artery disease and the contours of pharmaceuticalization
Pollock, Anne; Jones, David Shumway (Elsevier BV, 2015)Coronary artery disease (CAD) has dominated mortality for most of the past century, not just in Europe and North America but worldwide. Treatments for CAD, both pharmaceutical and surgical, have become leading sectors of ... -
The Decline and Rise of Coronary Heart Disease: Understanding Public Health Catastrophism
Jones, David Shumway; Greene, Jeremy Alan (American Public Health Association, 2013)The decline of coronary heart disease mortality in the United States and Western Europe is one of the great accomplishments of modern public health and medicine. Cardiologists and cardiovascular epidemiologists have devoted ... -
Detection and characterization of translational research in cancer and cardiovascular medicine
Jones, David Shumway; Cambrosio, Alberto; Mogoutov, Andrei (BioMed Central, 2011)Background Scientists and experts in science policy have become increasingly interested in strengthening translational research. Efforts to understand the nature of translational research and monitor policy interventions ... -
Doctors and the Dangers of Driving
Jones, David Shumway (New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS), 2014) -
The Evolving Roles of the Medical Journal
Podolsky, Scott Harris; Greene, Jeremy Alan; Jones, David Shumway (New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS), 2012) -
Global health education in U.S. Medical schools
Khan, Omar A; Guerrant, Richard; Sanders, James; Carpenter, Charles; Spottswood, Margaret Elise Pullin; Jones, David Shumway; O’Callahan, Cliff; Brewer, Timothy F; Markuns, Jeffrey F; Gillam, Stephen; O’Neill, Joseph; Nathanson, Neal; Wright, Stephen (BioMed Central, 2013)Interest in global health (GH) among medical students worldwide is measurably increasing. There is a concomitant emphasis on emphasizing globally-relevant health professions education. Through a structured literature review, ... -
The history and fate of the gold standard
Jones, David Shumway; Podolsky, Scott Harris (Elsevier BV, 2015)For the past half-century, physicians and clinical researchers have remained confident that randomised controlled trials (RCTs) provide the most rigorous test of preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic interventions. They ... -
How much CABG is good for us?
Jones, David Shumway (Elsevier, 2012) -
How Personalized Medicine Became Genetic, and Racial: Werner Kalow and the Formations of Pharmacogenetics
Jones, David Shumway (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013)Physicians have long puzzled over a well-known phenomenon: different patients respond differently to the same treatment. Although many explanations exist, pharmacogenetics has now captured the medical imagination. While ... -
Is an Ounce of Prevention Worth an Ounce of Cure? Explaining the Decline in Cardiovascular Mortality, 1964-2010
Greene, Jeremy Alan; Jones, David Shumway (2011)Mortality from coronary heart disease in the United States has fallen 60% from its peak. Cardiologists and epidemiologists have debated whether this decline reflects risk factor control or the power of medical therapeutics. ... -
Languages of the Heart: The Biomedical and the Metaphorical in American Fiction
Oldfield, Benjamin J.; Jones, David Shumway (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014)The role of heart disease in American fiction has received less attention from scholars of literature, history, and medicine than have portrayals of tuberculosis, cancer, or HIV/AIDS, despite the fact that heart disease ... -
Making the Case for History in Medical Education
Jones, David Shumway; Greene, Jeremy Alan; Duffin, Jacalyn; Warner, John (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014)Historians of medicine have struggled for centuries to make the case for history in medical education. They have developed many arguments about the value of historical perspective, but their efforts have faced persistent ... -
Medicine as Storytelling: Emplotment Strategies in the Definition of Illness and Healing (1870-1930)
Fratto, Elena (2016-04-11)This dissertation analyzes medical and literary sources from Russia, Italy, and France in the years 1870-1930. By tracking imagery, rhetorical devices and, above all, emplotment strategies that are employed in medical texts ... -
Olympic Medicine
Jones, David Shumway (New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS), 2012) -
The Puzzle of Positive Results — Myocardial Revascularization
Jones, David Shumway (New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS), 2015)The coronary-sinus reduction described by Verheye et al. revives an old therapeutic concept. For many decades, physicians have been designing surgical interventions against coronary artery disease and trying them in patients ... -
Still Delirious after All These Years
Jones, David Shumway (New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS), 2014)With the emergence of intensive care in the 1950s and 1960s, delirium became more prominent. Doctors quickly set out to understand and prevent it, but delirium results from so many sources that decisive understanding remains ... -
Therapeutic Evolution and the Challenge of Rational Medicine
Greene, Jeremy Alan; Jones, David Shumway; Podolsky, Scott Harris (New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS), 2012) -
Therapeutic Evolution or Revolution? Metaphors and Their Consequences
Jones, David Shumway (University of Chicago Press, 2016)Evolution and revolution are both models of change over time. It is easy to see the appeal of a claim of revolution for scientists and for their historians: it pronounces a radical break from the past, confident and ...