Medical Eschatologies: The Christian Spirit of Hospital Protocol

ABSTRACT

If much has been written of the forms of bodiliness reinforced by hospitals, less attention has been paid to the medicalization of the soul. The medical management of death institutionalizes divisions between body and soul, and matter and spirit, infusing end-of-life care with latent Christian theological presumptions. The invisibility of these presumptions is partly sustained by projecting religiosity on those who endorse other cosmologies, while retaining for medicine a mask of secular science. Stories of conflict with non-Christian patients force these presumptions into visibility, suggesting alternative ethics of care and mourning rooted in other understandings. In this article, I explore one such story. Considering the story as an allegory for how matter and spirit figure in contemporary postmortem disciplines, I suggest that it exposes both the operation of a taboo against mixing material and spiritual agendas, and an assumption that appropriate mourning is oriented toward symbolic homage, rather than concern for the material welfare of the dead.     

国外图书馆生物医学科研数据管理服务及启示

通过调研印第安纳大学图书馆和马萨诸塞大学图书馆的科研数据管理的服务模式,对比分析了科研数据管理服务工作的内容、方法、工具等提出了我国图书馆科研数据管理服务模式的设想。     

广东省转化医学研究发展现状

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The ‘Morbid Anatomy’ of the Human Genome: Tracing the Observational and Representational Approaches of Postwar Genetics and Biomedicine The William Bynum Prize Essay

This paper explores evolving conceptions and depictions of the human genome among human and medical geneticists during the postwar period. Historians of science and medicine have shown significant interest in the use of informational approaches in postwar genetics, which treat the genome as an expansive digital data set composed of three billion DNA nucleotides. Since the 1950s, however, geneticists have largely interacted with the human genome at the microscopically visible level of chromosomes. Mindful of this, I examine the observational and representational approaches of postwar human and medical genetics. During the 1970s and 1980s, the genome increasingly came to be understood as, at once, a discrete part of the human anatomy and a standardised scientific object. This paper explores the role of influential medical geneticists in recasting the human genome as being a visible, tangible, and legible entity, which was highly relevant to traditional medical thinking and practice. I demonstrate how the human genome was established as an object amenable to laboratory and clinical research, and argue that the observational and representational approaches of postwar medical genetics reflect, more broadly, the interdisciplinary efforts underlying the development of contemporary biomedicine.     

生物医学研究中的动物福利立法问题探讨

生物医学研究中伤害、虐待实验动物的问题日益突出。我国实验动物福利立法的现状显示,我国动物保护立法的范围窄,数量少;针对实验动物保护的立法层次较低,受地域限制;实验动物管理标准与国际公认的动物福利标准还有很大差距。因此,从理论研究上、观念转变上、立法实践上均应加强研究,推动动物福利立法的进程。     

磁性微球在生物医学领域中的应用进展

磁性微球（Magnetic microspheres，MMS）是近年发展起来并已广泛应用于生物医学领域的一种新型多功能试剂。     

美国医学图书馆3D打印服务及其启示

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