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  • Vesalius and the Achievement of the Fabrica
  • Why History of Medicine Matters
  • Art and the Science of Appearance
  • Minds Wide Open: Art Meets Science


  • The Aging Issue: Editorial
  • Will We Ever Know What Causes Aging?
  • Why Does Aging Stop?
  • Silent Alarm: The Quiet Epidemic of Alzheimer's Disease
  • The Digital World's Silver Lining
  • In conversation with: Brian Kennedy, CEO, Buck Institute for Research on Aging


  • Friedrich Miescher and the Discovery of DNA
  • Albrecht von Haller
  • The Impact of Swiss Psychiatry
  • Ita Wegman and Anthroposophical Medicine
  • Maximilian Bircher-Benner and the Creation of Muesli
  • The Eminent Swiss Surgeon Theodor Kocher
  • Tadeus Reichstein: The First Industrial Synthesis of Vitamin C
  • Albert Hofmann: The Unlikely Birth of LSD


  • Editorial
  • The Musical Brain – An Artful Biological Necessity
  • Music as Therapy
  • Apollo's Gift and Curse: Brain Plasticitiy in Musicians
  • In the End was Music: The Cases of George Gershwin and Vissarion Shebalin




This special edition is based on the symposium 'GenEthics and Religion' held in Basel, Switzerland in May 2008. It examines the role religion can play in establishing ethical guidelines to protect human life in the face of rapid advances in biology and especially gene technology.
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  • Partners and Strangers: The Mind-Body Relationship in History
  • The Emerging Role of Psychosomatic Medicine in Today’s Medical Care
  • The Placebo and Nocebo Effect: How the Therapist’s Words Act on the Patient’s Brain
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Mind-Body Response to Life-Threatening Events


  • From Aphrodisiac to Health Food: A Cultural History of Chocolate
  • Chocolate: Good for the Heart?
  • Eating Your Way to Happiness: Chocolate, Brain Metabolism, and Mood
  • Camille Bloch – A Story Made in Switzerland


  • Textiles and the Skin
  • Skin Substitutes in Burn Care
  • Atopic Eczema
  • The Importance of Touch
  • The History and Biology of Parchment


  • The Changing Face of Endocrinology
  • Doping in Sport – A Challenge to Endocrinology
  • Hormonal Contraception for Women
  • Progress for Men: Development of Male Hormonal Contraception



  • The Bone and Joint Decade 2000–2010
  • Osteoporosis: An Underdiagnosed and Undertreated Public Health Issue
  • Back Pain Matters
  • Bone Substitutes



  • The Evolution of Eyes
  • Ocular Immune Privilege – Protection That Preserves Sight!
  • Face to Face with an Untreatable Disease: Retina International
  • Lasers in Eye Surgery

Infection


  • Helicobacter pylori Infection
  • Sleeping Sickness in Africa - On the Rise Again
  • Prions: A Threat for the Next Century?
  • Aspergillus and Aspergillosis

Children


  • Feeling Happy, Feeling Sad
  • Health, and Quiet Breathing: How Children Live with Asthma
  • Epilepsy in Children
  • Childhood Cancer

Sleep


  • Sleep
  • Sleep and Immune Function
  • Desperately Seeking Sleep
  • Snoring

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