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Journeying through centuries of placebo usage, the first essay of the book aims to determine whether or not the placebo is "much ado about nothing"; co-authors Arthur Shapiro and his wife Elaine present the reader with a flurry of esoteric yet entertaining historical tidbits. Though the knowledge that the...
Second- and third-degree burns, the kind treated by the New York team, call for much more care and, often, extended hospital stays. Penetrating below the epidermis, second-degree burns reach into the upper layer of the dermis, a thin layer of cells 1 to 3 mm thick that contains...
But it is really the work with patients that captures her. This summer she set up a camp in Manajang, Sudan, where the airstrip was so overgrown that the pilot was terrified of landing. In control once again, she seemed back in her element. There was no one to hold...
It was an important lesson in the corporate philosophy of the aptly named firm. Shaman is a South San Francisco company founded in 1989 on the concept that traditional healing methods of shamans, or indigenous medicine men, can serve as the basis for modern-day drug development.
That may, however, be a matter of cultural interpretation. Shaman's ethnobotanists have found that many rainforest healers actually live with their patients to witness firsthand the full range of medical symptoms. "That," says Conte, "is much more sophisticated healing than what we do here."