“There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay.” PeopleIdeasCultureResultsIndustryResearchOkayBlindMedicineTrialsSpotsPeculiarAcademicWithholdingBlind SpotsMisconduct Author:Ben Goldacre
“In every culture, [there are those] shamans or medicine men who endured incredible physical pain, because it's a door opening to the subconsciousness. And the way we can actually control the pain -- it's how to control everything. This is the key.” MenWayPainCultureDoorsKeysMedicineIncrediblesOpeningPhysical Pain Author:Marina Abramovic
“In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that conceals the remorselessness of pathology, the intractable fact of human vulnerability, and the inevitable inadequacies of medicine. To many of the participants in the medical drama, aggressive treatment - even when it fails - represents a quasi-religious quest for immortality and meaning.” HumansCharacterFactsCultureReligiousFailingDramaSickMedicineIllnessMedicalInevitableNarrativeImmortalityVulnerabilityTreatmentAggressiveHeroicQuestsParticipantsInadequacyPathology Author:Suzanne Gordon
“Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.” HumansLongFormCultureVoiceSilenceHeardOceanBlueMedicineJazzEdgesApolloWhalesDolphinsHuntedHuman VoiceDelphi Author:Jay Griffiths
“When something needs to be improved, take your medicine - fix it.” NeedsCultureMedicineService Culture Author:Ron Kaufman
“Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with bizarre details and disturbing facts, Andrew Scull's book offers fresh and compelling insights on the way medicine's inability to solve the mystery of madness has both haunted and shaped two thousand years of culture. Required reading for anyone who has ever gone to a shrink!” WayYearsTwoBookFactsCultureReadingGoneMysteryCivilizationOffersThousandMadnessMedicineIllDetailsInsightSolveBrilliantTreatmentEntertainingCompellingThousand YearsBizarreInabilityShrinksDisturbingProvocativeAndrewMentally IllMistreatment Author:Dirk Wittenborn