History, 20th Century

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Clawbacks". 
  • "Opinions differ significantly": Early experiences with meta-analysis and the people who made it possible. 
  • "Take your pill": the role and fantasy of pills in modern medicine. 
  • 'One physical system': Tansley's ecosystem as Earth's critical zone. 
  • 100 years of primate paleontology. 
  • 17^th Century Variola Virus Reveals the Recent History of Smallpox. 
  • 1992 New York-Tidewater chapters History of Military Medicine Essay Award recipient. James Claude Kimbrough: the father of modern U.S. Army urology. 
  • 1995 AUR Gold Medal Awards. David Gordon Bragg, MD. 
  • 50 Years Ago in TheJournal ofPediatrics: Nutritional and Antigenic Effects of 2 Bovine Milk Preparations in Infants. 
  • 50 Years Since the First Plastic Surgery Unit Achieved Department Status: Where Do We Stand and How Do We Compare to Our Close Competition? 
  • A Brief History of the β-Arrestins. 
  • A History of Shoulder Instability in the Military: Where We Have Been and What We Have Learned. 
  • A Scientific Autobiography of an Early Career Physician: At the Intersection of Geriatrics, Psychiatry, Palliative Care and Bluegrass Banjo. 
  • A Stranger in our Camps: Typhus in American History 
  • A birthday for B cells: Lymphopoiesis II, a scientific symposium honoring Max Cooper. 
  • A boy (a bleeder) and a bloody revolution. 
  • A brief history of G-protein coupled receptors (Nobel Lecture). 
  • A brief history of Wegener's granulomatosis: on limited, localized, and generalized forms of the disease: comment on the article by the Wegener's Granulomatosis Etanercept Trial Research Group. 
  • A brief history of psychiatric classification. From the ancients to DSM-IV. 
  • A brief history of research synthesis 
  • A brief history of surgery for peripheral nerve sheath tumors. 
  • A century of comparative biomechanics: emerging and historical perspectives on an interdisciplinary field. 
  • A chronological history of the International Conference on Cryptococcus and Cryptococcosis (ICCC), an invaluable forum for growth of the cryptococcal research field and clinical practice. 
  • A completely efficient life. Francis Henry Williams, MD, pioneer radiologist. 
  • A conversation with Oliver Smithies. 
  • A conversation with Robert Lefkowitz, Joseph Goldstein, and Michael Brown. Interview by Ushma S. Neil and Howard A. Rockman. 
  • A critical reappraisal of aspirin for secondary prevention in patients with ischemic heart disease. 
  • A golden era for understanding enzyme mechanisms. 
  • A groundless hypothesis, megaloblastic madness, and the founding of Duke University. 
  • A historical look at men's involvement in nursing and leadership in GAPNA. 
  • A historical perspective on the discovery of adenyl purines. 
  • A historical review of bone marrow transplantation for immunodeficiencies. 
  • A history of fetal surgery. 
  • A history of orthotopic heart transplantation. 
  • A history of the Department of Radiology at Duke University Medical Center. 
  • A history of the concept of atypical depression. 
  • A history of the concept of atypical depression. 
  • A keystone ecologist: Robert Treat Paine, 1933-2016. 
  • A kingpin of academic inclusive fitness: the history and contributions of Bruce Grant. 
  • A landmark study on treatment strategies for rheumatoid arthritis. 
  • A medical history of Governor John B. Connally and his gunshot wounds. 
  • A modern Cosmas and Damian: Sir Roy Calne and Thomas Starzl receive the 2012 Lasker~Debakey Clinical Medical Research Award. 
  • A pandemic anniversary: 40 years of HIV/AIDS. 
  • A relic or still relevant: the narrowing role for vagotomy in the treatment of peptic ulcer disease. 
  • A remarkable career in science-Joseph G. Gall. 
  • A tale of two callings. 
  • A tribute to Andrew J. Weaver. 
  • A tribute to Jeffery A. Winer. 
  • A tribute to Michael S. Neuberger. 
  • A tribute to Philip Marcus and the development of the clonogenic assay. 
  • A tribute to Robert Machemer, MD, on the occasion of his retirement. 
  • A tribute to professor Panayotis Soucacos "Takis": A great surgeon, teacher and scholar. 
  • AAP Presidential Address: The AAP and the transformation of medicine. 
  • ACR Presidential Address: RethinkingRheumatology: A Brave New World. 
  • Advances in the nontransplant medical and surgical management of intestinal failure. 
  • Agammaglobulinemia, by Col. Ogden C. Bruton, MC, USA, Pediatrics, 1952;9:722-728. 
  • Albert J. ("Mickey") Stunkard, M.D. 
  • Alfred Goodman Gilman (1941-2015). 
  • Allan McLane Hamilton. 
  • Ambition Gone Awry: The Long Term Socioeconomic Consequences of Misaligned and Uncertain Ambitions During Adolescence 
  • American Association for the History of Medicine. Report of the Committee on Ethical Codes. Ethical codes concerning historical research. 
  • American Pediatric Society's 2014 John Howland Award acceptance lecture: saving lives through early diagnosis. 
  • An Eclectic Review of the History of Peripheral Nerve Surgery. 
  • An analysis of the vascular injuries and attempted resuscitation surrounding the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. 
  • An eclectic history of peripheral nerve surgery. 
  • An innovator ahead of her time. 
  • An interview with Dr Blanche Capel. 
  • An interview with Robert J. Lefkowitz. 
  • Analysis of professional competencies for the clinical research data management profession: implications for training and professional certification. 
  • Anarchy and the surgical care of President William McKinley. 
  • Angiokeratoma of Fordyce. 
  • Applications and societal benefits of plastics. 
  • Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the universality of health and human rights. 
  • Are we there yet? Seizing the moment to integrate medicine and public health. 
  • Are we there yet? Seizing the moment to integrate medicine and public health. 
  • Arrestins come of age: a personal historical perspective. 
  • Arrow's concept of the health care consumer: a forty-year retrospective. 
  • Arterial access and arteriotomy site closure devices. 
  • Assault rifles; definitions, evolutionary history and medical consequences. 
  • Assessing the Magnitude of a Surgical Career Through His Trainees: The John L. Cameron Legacy Factor. 
  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests. 
  • Autism at 70--redrawing the boundaries. 
  • Autism in 1959: Joey the mechanical boy. 
  • B lymphocytes: how they develop and function. 
  • Back to the basics: electricity and ECT. 
  • Back to the future: The AMA and religion, 1961-1974. 
  • Bayard Holmes (1852-1924) and Henry Cotton (1869-1933): Surgeon-psychiatrists and their tragic quest to cure schizophrenia. 
  • Becoming a surgeon-scientist: my transition from fellowship to faculty. 
  • Bioavailability of slowly cycling soil phosphorus: major restructuring of soil P fractions over four decades in an aggrading forest. 
  • Bispecific antibodies engage T cells for antitumor immunotherapy. 
  • Bovine thrombin: history, use, and risk in the surgical patient. 
  • Burn Injuries: Prevention, Advocacy, and Legislation. 
  • Byssinosis: a disease or a symptom? 
  • Cancer and leukemia group B gastrointestinal cancer committee. 
  • Cancer immunotherapy innovator James Allison receives the 2015 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award. 
  • Carbamazepine extended-release capsules: a new treatment option for bipolar I disorder. 
  • Cardiology, for what it's worth. 
  • Caring for patients with sickle cell disease in North Carolina. 
  • Carrots and sticks: fertility effects of China's population policies. 
  • Case 23-2005: a man with a mass in the liver. 
  • Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Journal of Genetic Counseling. 
  • Changes in hydrology and salinity accompanying a century of agricultural conversion in Argentina. 
  • Changing times, changing opinions: history informing the family presence debate. 
  • Childhood vaccine development: an overview. 
  • Christian Raetz: scientist and friend extraordinaire. 
  • Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension. The Journey from a Curiosity to a Cure. 
  • Circumstances influencing Otto Loewi's discovery of chemical transmission in the nervous system. 
  • Citation for the 1998 Gerald D. Aurbach Lecture Award of the Endocrine Society to Dr. JoAnne S. Richards. 
  • Classification of Cleft Lip/Palate: Then and Now. 
  • Clinical diagnosis of byssinosis. 
  • Cochlear implants: a remarkable past and a brilliant future. 
  • Commentary on "Positron Emission Tomography in the Lung" 25 years after publication in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Thoracic Imaging. 
  • Commentary: Sir Arthur Mitchell--pioneer of psychiatric epidemiology and of community care. 
  • Committee report: American Pediatrics: milestones at the millennium. 
  • Computed tomographic angiography: historical perspective and new state-of-the-art using multi detector-row helical computed tomography. 
  • Computed tomography: revolutionizing the practice of medicine for 40 years. 
  • Contrast echocardiography: past, present, and...future? 
  • Creating a segregated medical profession: African American physicians and organized medicine, 1846-1910. 
  • Current evidence and clinical implications of aspirin resistance. 
  • Current perspectives on Down syndrome: selected medical and social issues. 
  • Current state of psychiatry in Saudi Arabia. 
  • Daniel Amit (1938-2007). 
  • Dating the emergence of pandemic influenza viruses. 
  • David L. Epstein, MD, MMM (1944-2014). 
  • Dedication of Special Issue on Purinergic Regulation in the Eye to Mortimer M. Civan. 
  • Dermatologic considerations of stoma care. 
  • Developmental psychopathology and public health: past, present, and future. 
  • Diabetes summer camps: history, safety, and outcomes. 
  • Dietary treatment of diabetes mellitus in the pre-insulin era (1914-1922). 
  • Diffusion modulation of the fMRI signal: early investigations on the origin of the BOLD signal. 
  • Discontinuation of the USMLE Step 2 Clinical Skills Examination: Studying the Past to Define the Future. 
  • Discovery of the aquaporins and development of the field. 
  • Disparities in place of death for patients with hematological malignancies, 1999 to 2015. 
  • Distinguished contribution to family nursing research award (2007): Catherine "Kit" Chesla, DNSc, RN, FAAN. 
  • Diverse trajectories of cocaine use through early adulthood among rebellious and socially conforming youth. 
  • Diversity and the Duke BME PhD program: then, now and moving forward. 
  • Do young children instinctively know what to eat? The studies of Clara Davis revisited. 
  • Does Institutional Memory Matter? 
  • Doing molecular biophysics: finding, naming, and picturing signal within complexity. 
  • Dr Robert Loh Choo Kiat, JP, BBM, PJG (1925 - 2017). 
  • Dr. Galen Wagner (1939-2016) as an Academic Writer: An Overview of his Peer-reviewed Scientific Publications. 
  • Dr. Samuel Mudd: justice at last. 
  • Drugs of the psychopharmacological revolution in clinical psychiatry. 
  • Drusilla Rageu Poole 1921-1981. 
  • Dynamic treatment regimes, past, present, and future: A conversation with experts. 
  • E Pluribus Unum: The Fungal Kingdom as a Rosetta Stone for Biology and Medicine. 
  • Early development of near-infrared spectroscopy at Duke University. 
  • Early ribbon drawings of proteins. 
  • Educational differences in health risks and illness over the life course: a test of cumulative disadvantage theory. 
  • Effects of demographic and retirement-age policies on future pension deficits, with an application to China. 
  • Electroconvulsive therapy in the United States. 
  • Electroneuroprostheses: past and present uses in man. 
  • Elizabeth C. Clipp, PhD, RN, FAAN. 
  • Emergence of rheumatic fever in the nineteenth century. 
  • Emerging subspecialties in neurology: neurophysiologic intraoperative monitoring. 
  • Endpoints in Heart Failure Drug Development: History and Future. 
  • Epilepsy: A Disruptive Force in History. 
  • Ergotamine and dihydroergotamine: history, pharmacology, and efficacy. 
  • Eric H. Davidson (1937–2015). 
  • Eugenics and the Origins of Autism. 
  • Evaluation and management of incontinence after implantation of the artificial urinary sphincter. 
  • Evelyn Wiener. 
  • Event-related fMRI in cognition. 
  • Evolution of cranioplasty techniques in neurosurgery: historical review, pediatric considerations, and current trends. 
  • Evolution of critical care cardiology: transformation of the cardiovascular intensive care unit and the emerging need for new medical staffing and training models: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. 
  • Evolution of neocortex. 
  • Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries. 
  • Eye injuries in twentieth century warfare: a historical perspective. 
  • Face Masks: Their History and the Values They Communicate. 
  • Faculty development/mentoring evolution of mentorship in academic medicine. 
  • Fathers of modern coagulation. 
  • Fifty Years of Mechanical Ventilation-1970s to 2020. 
  • First international association of hyperthermic oncology Tsudomu Sugahara award. 
  • Focus on the research journey. An interview with Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD, scientist, mentor, and recipient of the 2007 National Medal of Science by Elaine Musgrave. 
  • Foster Kennedy syndrome. 
  • Fourteen free groin flap transfers. 
  • Frank Lillie's freemartin: illuminating the pathway to 21st century reproductive endocrinology. 
  • From Drosophila to humans: reflections on the roles of the prolyl isomerases and chaperones, cyclophilins, in cell function and disease. 
  • From dietary glucose to liver glycogen: the full circle round. 
  • From embryo to ethics: a career in science and social responsibility. An interview with Anne McLarne [by Brigid Hogan]. 
  • From the editor: The "roaring Twenties" revisited? 
  • George Niederehe, Ph.D.: Tribute and Thanks. 
  • Getting a decent (but sparse) signal to the brain for users of cochlear implants. 
  • Global and regional drivers of land-use emissions in 1961-2017. 
  • Global nitrogen budgets in cereals: A 50-year assessment for maize, rice, and wheat production systems. 
  • Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for 29 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2016: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study. 
  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and mortality of HIV, 1980-2017, and forecasts to 2030, for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017. 
  • Goosey patients: relationship to jumping Frenchmen, Myriachit, Latah and tic convulsif. 
  • HIV-1 and HIV-Associated Nephropathy 25 Years Later. 
  • Happy 50th Birthday, Cardiac Transplantation: Happy 5th Birthday, JACC: Heart Failure. 
  • Happy birthday JCI. 
  • Happy birthday, Society for Investigative Dermatology. 
  • HeartMate® II continuous-flow left ventricular assist system. 
  • Helicopter medical evacuation in the Korean War: Did it matter? 
  • Helmut Drexler, MD, 1951-2009. 
  • Hematoxylin: Mesoamerica's Gift to Histopathology. Palo de Campeche (Logwood Tree), Pirates' Most Desired Treasure, and Irreplaceable Tissue Stain. 
  • Heroic Measures for an American Hero: Attempting to Save the Life of General Douglas MacArthur. 
  • Historical Evolution and Provider Awareness of Inactive Ingredients in Oral Medications. 
  • Historical perspective: surgery for chronic thromboembolic disease. 
  • Historical perspectives of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery: Dr David B. Skinner (1935-2003)--a surgeon and something more. 
  • Historical perspectives of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery: Henry T. Bahnson (1920-2003). 
  • Historical perspectives of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery: Paul A. Ebert (1932-2009). 
  • Historical perspectives of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery: Robert Edward Gross (1905-1988). 
  • Historical review: a brief history and personal retrospective of seven-transmembrane receptors. 
  • History of antibiotics. From salvarsan to cephalosporins. 
  • History of antibiotics: from fluoroquinolones to daptomycin (Part 2). 
  • History of orthopaedic education. 
  • History of the recurrent laryngeal nerve: from Galen to Lahey. 
  • Hospice in North Carolina: background and unanswered questions. 
  • Hospice. Care when there is no cure. 
  • Hostility and heart disease: Williams et al. (1980). 
  • How Four Once Common Diseases Were Eliminated from the American South 
  • How the past teaches the future: ACMI distinguished lecture. 
  • Human biomarker interpretation: the importance of intra-class correlation coefficients (ICC) and their calculations based on mixed models, ANOVA, and variance estimates. 
  • Hyperbaric oxygen therapy: from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. 
  • I Lost a Friend From HFpEF: William Anlyan, MD, Chancellor Emeritus and Duke University Trustee. 
  • Ileal pouch-anal anastomosis for ulcerative colitis and familial adenomatous polyposis: historical development and current status. 
  • Immunization and the American way: 4 childhood vaccines. 
  • Immunology at Duke. 
  • Implementation of Germline Testing for Prostate Cancer: Philadelphia Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference 2019. 
  • Implementation of health risk assessments with family health history: barriers and benefits. 
  • In memoriam Lucien J. Rubinstein, M.D. (1924-1990). 
  • In memoriam. D. Bernard Amos April 16, 1923-May 15, 2003. 
  • In memoriam: Edward L Gillette (1932-2006). 
  • In memoriam: J. Edwin Seegmiller, M.D. (1920-2006). 
  • In memoriam: Joep Lange MD, PhD. 
  • In memory of Professor Galen S. Wagner M.D., Ph.D. (1939-2016): our mentor, colleague and friend. 
  • Inbreeding depression in non-human primates: a historical review of methods used and empirical data. 
  • Increased dry-season length over southern Amazonia in recent decades and its implication for future climate projection 
  • Infection control: past, present, and future issues. 
  • Innovation, diffusion and safety of a medical technology: a review of the literature on injection practices. 
  • Integrative biomechanics: A paradigm for clinical applications of fundamental mechanics 
  • Intensity and frequency of extreme novel epidemics. 
  • Intergenerational fertility among Hispanic women: new evidence of immigrant assimilation. 
  • Introducing the New Editor of Arthritis & Rheumatology, Richard J. Bucala, MD, PhD. 
  • Introduction of Robert J. Lefkowitz. 
  • Introduction to Gedenkschrift for David L. Epstein, MD. 
  • Introduction: peripheral nerve surgery--biology, entrapment, and injuries. 
  • Irwin Freedberg: "grandpa" to generations of dermatologists. 
  • Isolation of polypeptide chains with heme from the extracellular hemoglobin of Amphitrite ornata (Polychaeta, Annelida). 
  • JVIR Celebrates 25 Years of Innovation. Part 2: 1995-2000. 
  • JVIR Celebrates 25 Years of Innovation. Part 3: 2001-2005. 
  • JVIR celebrates 25 years of innovation. Part 1: 1989-1995. 
  • John Foster Dulles, his medical history and its impact on Cold War politics. 
  • Junior Seau: An Illustrative Case of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and Update on Chronic Sports-Related Head Injury. 
  • Kicking a Dying Dog: DDT and the Demise of Malaria in the American South, 1942-1952 
  • Lapicque's 1907 paper: from frogs to integrate-and-fire. 
  • Late life depression: a historical perspective upon a maturing field of inquiry. 
  • Latin America and the challenge of globalizing the history of sexuality. 
  • Leadership case study: Joyce Ann Clayton Thorpe Nichols, PA-C. 
  • Legends in urology. 
  • Leprosy: biblical opprobrium? 
  • Lessons from the past. 
  • Linking the history of radiation biology to the hallmarks of cancer. 
  • Living donor liver transplantation: the historical and cultural basis of policy decisions and ongoing ethical questions. 
  • Lung cancer incidence trends by gender, race and histology in the United States, 1973-2010. 
  • M. Stephen Mahaley, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., 1932-1992. 
  • Making Vascular Surgery Work: Gordon Murray, Heparin, and Anastomoses. 
  • Management of surgical hemostasis: topical agents. 
  • Maps, Mother Goddesses and Martyrdom in Modern India 
  • Marie's disease. 
  • Marijuana Use in the Anesthetized Patient: History, Pharmacology, and Anesthetic Considerations. 
  • Mark D. Rausher. 
  • Mary Bernheim and the discovery of monoamine oxidase. 
  • Medical origins of Duke University? 
  • Medicine, diet and moral regulation: Foucault's impact on medical sociology. 
  • Melanoma trials that defined surgical management: Overview of trials that established NCCN margin guidelines. 
  • Mental illness in U.S. Presidents between 1776 and 1974: a review of biographical sources. 
  • Mercury, vaccines, and autism: one controversy, three histories. 
  • Merel Harmel: Portrait of an Anesthesiology Pioneer. 
  • Methyl-directed repair of DNA base-pair mismatches in vitro. 1983. 
  • Michael Tomasello: Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. 
  • Microsurgery: past, present, and future. 
  • Milestones in thoracic surgery. 
  • Military service, deployments, and exposures in relation to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis survival. 
  • Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery 3.0: Lessons Learned From the History of Lung Cancer Surgery. 
  • Miscarriage: a historical perspective. 
  • Missions, Humanitarianism, and the Evolution of Modern Global Surgery. 
  • Mitochondrial Toxicity. 
  • Modeling Host-Pathogen Interactions in the Context of the Microenvironment: Three-Dimensional Cell Culture Comes of Age. 
  • Modern cataract surgery: unfinished business and unanswered questions. Foreword. 
  • Mycotic diseases. A proposed nomenclature. 
  • Neuroendocrine biomarkers of prolonged exposure treatment response in military-related PTSD. 
  • Neuroscience and the fallacies of functionalism. 
  • Nonoperative treatment of intussusception: historical perspective. 
  • Olevi Kull's lifetime contribution to ecology. 
  • Oliver Smithies: A Remembrance. 
  • On Deep Learning for Medical Image Analysis. 
  • Osler and Ernulf's curse. 
  • Osteoporosis and depression: a historical perspective. 
  • Otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at Johns Hopkins: The first 100 years (1914-2014). 
  • Outdoor air pollution: overview and historical perspective. 
  • PA prototype-the legacy of Buddy Treadwell. 
  • Parasites and Progress: Ethical Decision-Making and the Santee-Cooper Malaria Study, 1944-49 
  • Particle therapy and treatment of cancer. 
  • Patterns of efavirenz use as first-line antiretroviral therapy in the United States: 1999-2015. 
  • Paying Homage to the Power of Proteomics: Insights Into Obesity and Heart Failure From the HOMAGE Trial. 
  • Pediatrics and the unwanted child in history: foundling homes, disease, and the origins of foster care in New York City, 1860 to 1920. 
  • Pediatrics practice at Mayo Clinic - a historical vignette. 
  • Perception as probability. 
  • Phlebitis, pulmonary emboli and presidential politics: Richard M. Nixon's complicated deep vein thrombosis. 
  • Physician assistants. A young profession celebrates the 35th anniversary of its birth in North Carolina. 
  • Pillars Article: A Role for Histone Acetylation in the Developmental Regulation of V(D)J Recombination. Science. 2000. 287: 495-498. 
  • Pillars Article: Identification of a Putative Second T-cell Receptor. Nature. 1986. 322: 145-149. 
  • Pioneering geneticist Mary-Claire King receives the 2014 Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science. 
  • Pioneering paradigms and magnificent manifestos--Leigh Van Valen's priceless contributions to evolutionary biology. 
  • Pioneers in biomedical optics: special section honoring professor Frans F. Jobsis of Duke University. 
  • Plasmapheresis in Rasmussen's encephalitis. 1996. 
  • Powerful ideas driven by simple tools: lessons from experimental embryology. 
  • Presentation of the 1998 Kober Medal to Eugene Braunwald. 
  • Presentation of the Morris F. Collen, M.D. Medal to Dr. Morris F. Collen. 
  • Preserving David C Sabiston Jr's legacy in medical students' surgical education. 
  • President Eisenhower's bowel obstruction: the story of his surgeons and their decision to operate. 
  • Presidential address. Reflections on the 1970s and a look to the future. 
  • Prevalence of major eye diseases among US Civil War veterans, 1890-1910 
  • Primary blast wave protection in combat helmet design: A historical comparison between present day and World War I. 
  • Primary immunodeficiency diseases: dissectors of the immune system. 
  • Progress in medical information management. Systematized nomenclature of medicine (SNOMED). 
  • Progress in the treatment of acute coronary syndromes: a 50-year perspective (1950-2000). 
  • Progress in the understanding of HIV infection: an overview. 
  • Protein nanotechnology: the new frontier in biosciences. 
  • Psychiatry and social values: the American Psychiatric Association and immigration restriction, 1880-1930. 
  • Psychologic factors in the development of complex regional pain syndrome: history, myth, and evidence. 
  • Pulmonary metastasectomy for metastatic malignant melanoma. 
  • Q-Probes studies in anatomic pathology: quality improvement through targeted benchmarking. 
  • Quality improvement in pediatrics: past, present, and future. 
  • Quantitative biological surface science: challenges and recent advances. 
  • Quarantine, isolation, and cohorting: from cholera to Klebsiella. 
  • R. Edward Coleman, MD, 1943-2012. 
  • ROBERT BAKER: THE FIRST DOCTOR IN THE FACTORY DEPARTMENT. II. 1858 ONWARDS. 
  • Race and Health - A Persistent American Dilemma. 
  • Racial disparities in diabetes a century ago: evidence from the pension files of US Civil War veterans. 
  • Radiation exposure and coronary atherothrombosis. 
  • Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-1919): Psychiatric hospitalization and the abduction of an American landscape artist. 
  • Recipient of the 2014 molecular ecology prize: Johanna Schmitt. 
  • Reconstructing Holocene fire history in a southern Appalachian forest using soil charcoal. 
  • Redefining the Gold Standard of Myocardial Infarction Using Troponin T. 
  • Reduction in Mortality after Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation in Children Over a 20-Year Period (1995-2014). 
  • Reinventing a specialty: how Pediatrics survived its own success. 
  • Religion and medicine I: historical background and reasons for separation. 
  • Religiosity, psychological resources, and physical health. 
  • Research Update in Neuroscience for Neurosurgeons: a historical perspective. 
  • Research in action: from AIDS to global health to impact. A symposium in recognition of the scientific contributions of Professor Joep Lange. 
  • Retrospective. Anne McLaren (1927-2007). 
  • Retrospective. Norman L. Letvin (1949-2012). 
  • Review and Analysis of Publication Trends over Three Decades in Three High Impact Medicine Journals. 
  • Richard Dadd and the Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke. 
  • Robotic benign esophageal procedures. 
  • Rodbell and Gilman win 1994 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine. 
  • Ru-Rong Ji, Ph.D., Recipient of the 2020 Excellence in Research Award. 
  • Rudolf A. Raff (1941-2019). 
  • Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). 
  • Sally Kornbluth: Nature's incredible contraptions. 
  • Sarnoff A. Mednick (1928-2015). 
  • Screams, slaps, and love: the strange birth of applied behavior analysis. 
  • Seeing the PDB. 
  • Segregation, civil rights, and health disparities: the legacy of African American physicians and organized medicine, 1910-1968. 
  • Selected as the best paper in the 1990s: Reducing frailty and falls in older persons: an investigation of tai chi and computerized balance training. 
  • Senator Royal Copeland. The medical and political career of a homeopathic physician. 
  • Serafino Zappacosta: An Enlightened Mentor and Educator. 
  • Seven transmembrane receptors: a brief personal retrospective. 
  • Sexual Minority Stress Theory: Remembering and Honoring the Work of Virginia Brooks. 
  • Sister (Mary?) Joseph's node. 
  • Snuff synergy: preparation, use and pharmacology of yopo and Banisteriopsis caapi among the Piaroa of southern Venezuela. 
  • Social consequence of disease in the American South, 1900-World War II. 
  • Social motivation affecting individuals' actions in Japan during World War II: historical review. 
  • Society of Thoracic Radiology: grown and growing. 
  • Speciation genetics: evolving approaches. 
  • Speculation on the naming of Moyamoya disease. 
  • State of the art of liver transplantation in the USA. 
  • Steady thoughts. Reflections of Eugene Stead in action. 
  • Stroke: working toward a prioritized world agenda. 
  • Surgeons, plague, and leadership: A historical mantle to carry forward. 
  • Surgical Treatment of Acute Massive Pulmonary Embolism. 
  • Surgical refinements in liver transplantation. 
  • Susan Nolen-Hoeksema (1959-2013). 
  • Synopsis of history of American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology 1958-2008. 
  • Tailoring nutrition therapy to illness and recovery. 
  • Tales of the tenements: midwifery training in Glasgow. 
  • Taming the wilderness: the lifestyle improvement movement in rural Japan, 1925-1965. 
  • Tapia's syndrome. The erratic evolution of an eponym. 
  • Technological Improvements in Three-Piece Inflatable Penile Prosthesis Design over the Past 40 Years. 
  • Telemedicine: climate change and mosquito-borne disease: a historical perspective. 
  • Telemedicine: recent developments and future applications. 
  • The "jerks": mass hysteria or epilepsy? 
  • The 2013 Novitski Prize: Jonathan Pritchard. 
  • The 2013 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal: Thomas Douglas Petes. 
  • The Assassination of Medgar Evers. 
  • The Biometric Society, the first twenty-five years (1947-1972). 
  • The Challenge of Bipolar Depression in the 21st Century. 
  • The Church Supper: James Baare Turnbull. 
  • The Controversy Over Retrospective Moral Judgment 
  • The Duke Center for the Study of Aging: one of our earliest roots. 
  • The Edgemont Community Clinic: Durham's student-operated free clinic begins its second decade. 
  • The Evolution of the Inflatable Penile Prosthesis Reservoir and Surgical Placement. 
  • The Evolution of the Journal Club: From Osler to Twitter. 
  • The Final Illness of Herbert Hoover. 
  • The Genesis, Maturation, and Future of Critical Care Cardiology. 
  • The HIV-AIDS pandemic at 25--the global response. 
  • The History of Duke Thoracic Surgery. 
  • The Jewish problem in U.S. medical education, 1920-1955. 
  • The John S. Najarian symposium: The past, present, and future of surgery and transplantation, May 20, 2022, Minneapolis, MN. 
  • The Mentor's Mentor: The Life of Galen Wagner. 
  • The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, Dr. Clyde Henry Donnell, and the health education of blacks. 
  • The Oswald injury. 
  • The Physician as Dictator 
  • The Posthuman Body: Inscription and Incorporation in "Galatea 2.2" and "Snow Crash" 
  • The President's gallbladder: a historical account of the cholecystectomy of Lyndon Baines Johnson. 
  • The Research Practicum and International Research Interdisciplinary School (IRIS) initiatives: In memory of Professor Galen S. Wagner M.D., PhD. 
  • The Role of the American Board of Surgery in the Development of Surgical Residencies in Post-World War II America. 
  • The Snail's Charm. 
  • The Three Cs of a Scientific Autobiography: Curiosity, Circumstance, and Colleagues. 
  • The Tuskegee Legacy Project: history, preliminary scientific findings, and unanticipated societal benefits. 
  • The Wesselhoefts: A medical dynasty from the age of Goethe to the era of nuclear medicine. 
  • The annual ASCI meeting: does nostalgia have a future? 
  • The art of observation: William Osler and the method of Zadig. 
  • The assistant medical officer in Sri Lanka: mid-level health worker in decline. 
  • The birth of bioethics. 
  • The cult of Franz Boas and his "conspiracy" to destroy the white race. 
  • The data center of the European Organization for Research on Treatment of Cancer. 
  • The development of training in occupational medicine in the United Kingdom. 
  • The economics of race and eugenic sterilization in North Carolina: 1958-1968. 
  • The effects of China's universal two-child policy. 
  • The evolution of platelet-directed pharmacotherapy. 
  • The evolution of speed, size and shape in modern athletics. 
  • The first measles vaccine. 
  • The history of human composite tissue allotransplantation. 
  • The history of the University of Wisconsin transplant program. 
  • The history of the combined supra- and infratentorial approach to the petroclival region. 
  • The history of the statutory control of mercury poisoning in Great Britain. 
  • The history, evolution, and clinical use of dendritic cell-based immunization strategies in the therapy of brain tumors. 
  • The human pain genetics database: an interview with Luda Diatchenko. 
  • The impact of a physical geographic barrier on the dynamics of measles. 
  • The impairment of Presidents Pierce and Coolidge after traumatic bereavement. 
  • The incubator and the medical discovery of the premature infant. 
  • The incubator controversy: pediatricians and the origins of premature infant technology in the United States, 1890 to 1910. 
  • The jensen symposium; a tribute to a pioneer in the field of nuclear receptor biology. 
  • The last half-century of aging research--and thoughts for the future. 
  • The lemur revolution starts now: the genomic coming of age for a non-model organism. 
  • The life, times, and health care of Harry L Hopkins: Presidential advisor and perpetual patient. 
  • The more the merrier? 
  • The music of war: Seven World War 1 composers and their experience of combat. 
  • The origin and evolution of neuroendoscopy. 
  • The origin of the special issue. 
  • The origins and development of Russian psychoanalysis, 1909-1930. 
  • The other fly room: J. T. Patterson and Texas genetics. 
  • The pertussis vaccine controversy in Great Britain, 1974-1986. 
  • The politics of assessment: water and sanitation MDGs in the Middle East. 
  • The population ecology and social behaviour of taxonomists. 
  • The provision of public goods under Islamic law: origins, impact, and limitations of the waqf system. 
  • The psychiatric use of electrically induced seizures. 
  • The relation of prophylactic inoculations to the onset of poliomyelitis. 1950. 
  • The right place at the wrong time: historical perspective of the relation of the thymus gland and pediatric radiology. 
  • The role of external beam radiotherapy in the treatment of hepatocellular cancer. 
  • The school experience of children with arthritis. Coping in the 1990s and transition into adulthood. 
  • The superfamily of heptahelical receptors. 
  • Therapeutic strategies to combat pneumococcal disease: repeated failure of physicians to adopt pneumococcal vaccine, 1900-1945. 
  • Thirty years of JOPT. 
  • Thomas Lovejoy (1941-2021). 
  • Thoracic Aortic Surgery in the 21st Century. 
  • Thoracolumbar spinal deformity. 
  • Threading the needle: when embroidery was used to treat shell-shock. 
  • Time can make a difference. 
  • To help the sick: an historical and ethical essay concerning the refusal to care for patients with AIDS. 
  • Toward an Emerging Era of Optimization Research for Acupuncture. 
  • Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Comprehensive Review and Present Status. 
  • Transfusion medicine as a profession: evolution over the past 50 years. 
  • Trauma laparoscopy from 1925 to 2017: Publication history and study demographics of an evolving modality. 
  • Trends in environmental lead exposure and troubled youth, 1960-1995: an age-period-cohort-characteristic analysis. 
  • Tribute to Dr. Steve Schwartz. 
  • Uncovering the History of Operating Room Attire through Photographs. 
  • Unlocking mechanisms of development through advances in tools. 
  • Unsung hero Robert C. Gallo. 
  • Use of extracorporeal life support in adults with severe acute respiratory failure. 
  • Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS): utility in neuropsychiatric disorders. 
  • Vein Graft Tympanoplasty: How a Transiently Used Graft Material Transformed Middle Ear Surgery. 
  • Viktor Hamburger 1900-2001. 
  • Violations of human rights: health practitioners as witnesses. 
  • WOMEN IN REPRODUCTIVE SCIENCE: To be or not to be a testis. 
  • Wallace H. Clark, Jr., M.D.: a biography and annotated bibliography. 
  • Walter Kauzmann: an undergraduate perspective. 
  • War and pandemics: Catalysts for medical advancement. 
  • Water won't run uphill: the New Deal and malaria control in the American South, 1933-1940. 
  • What I Know for Sure About the 40 Years of ONS. 
  • What Is a Life Worth?: A Tribute to Dr. William Little, a Pioneer in the Understanding of Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction. 
  • What is generalized anxiety disorder? 
  • What of the past ... what of the future? 
  • When Women and Children Made the Policy Agenda - The Sheppard-Towner Act, 100 Years Later. 
  • Whipple disease research accelerates. 
  • Whose best interest? 
  • William Campbell Little, M.D. In Memoriam. 
  • William Howard Taft and His Complicated Perianal Disease. 
  • William Kaelin, Peter Ratcliffe, and Gregg Semenza receive the 2016 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. 
  • Windows into development: historic, current, and future perspectives on transgenic zebrafish. 
  • Wnt signaling in development, disease and translational medicine. 
  • Women and the invention of well child care. 
  • X-rays at the bar, 1896-1910. 
  • Young Neurosurgeons Committee of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons: Training Ground for Future Leaders in Organized Neurosurgery in the United States of America. 
  • [Historical development and current concepts on B-cell lymphomas of the marginal extraganglionar site of lymphoid tissue associated with MALT lymphoma. A tribute to Dennis H Wright and Peter G Isaacson]. 
  • [Progress in medical information management. Systematized nomenclature of medicine (SNOMED)]. 
  • eHealth interoperability. 
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  • Bennett, Vann, George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Carbrey, Jennifer Mehlman, Assistant Research Professor of Cell Biology, Cell Biology
  • Gold, Deborah T., Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
  • Humphreys, Margaret Ellen, Josiah Charles Trent Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine, in the School of Medicine, Duke Science & Society
  • Preminger, Glenn Michael, James F. Glenn, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Urology, Surgery, Urology
  • Sampson, John Howard, Robert H., M.D. and Gloria Wilkins Professor of Neurosurgery, in the School of Medicine, Biomedical Engineering
  • Shapiro, Karin, Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of African and African American Studies, History
  • Sigal, Peter, Professor of History, History
  • Strand de Oliveira, Justine, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Physician Assistant Program
  • Turner, David Ashley, Consulting Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Critical Care Medicine
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine