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🔗 Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

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Medical scholar Harriet Washington joins us to talk about her new book, "Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present." The book reveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and the roots of the African American health deficit. It also examines less well-known abuses and looks at unethical practices and mistreatment of blacks that are still taking place in the medical establishment today.

🔗 Carl Heneghan: Why autism can't be diagnosed with brain scans | Science | guardian.co.uk

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How the brain scans results are portrayed is one of the simplest mistakes in interpreting diagnostic test accuracy to make. What has happened is, the sensitivity1 has been taken to be the positive predictive value2, which is what you want to know: if I have a positive test do I have the disease? Not, if I have the disease, do I have a positive test? It would help if the results included a measure called the likelihood ratio (LR), which is the likelihood that a given test result would be expected in a patient with the target disorder compared to the likelihood that the same result would be expected in a patient without that disorder. In this case the LR is 4.5. We've put up an article …

🔗 Diagnosing Clapham Junction syndrome

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It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone. It seems to me there's hardly one family in this country that is not touched by the disease somehow. But people don't talk about it because it is so frightening. I swear that people think that if they say the word they're summoning the demon. It used to be the same with cancer.

🔗 Notes on Deontology

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Kant's theory is an example of a deontological or duty-based ethics : it judges morality by examining the nature of actions and the will of agents rather than goals achieved. (Roughly, a deontological theory looks at inputs rather than outcomes.) The end can never justify the means

🔗 Cognitive behavioural therapy for obsessive compulsive disorder -- Veale 13 (6): 438 -- Advances in Psychiatric Treatment

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An important cognitive process in OCD is the way thoughts or images become fused with reality. This process is called ‘thought–action fusion’ or ‘magical thinking'. Thus, if a person thinks of harming someone, they think that they will act on the thought or might have acted on it in the past. A related process is ‘moral thought–action fusion’, which is the belief that thinking about a bad action is morally equivalent to doing it. Lastly, there is ‘thought–object fusion’, which is a belief that objects can become contaminated by ‘catching’ memories or other people’s experiences.

🔗 Academic Phrasebank

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The Academic Phrasebank is a general resource for academic writers. It aims to provide you with examples of some of the phraseological "nuts and bolts" of writing organised under the headings to the left. It was designed primarily with international students whose first language is not English in mind. However, if you are a native speaker writer, you may still find parts of the material helpful.