Medical science, so this argument goes, brings tremendous benefits but tremendous losses
too. Somehow one senses that this tarnished view of science is seeping into the public …

Abstract The Academy of Medical Sciences has matured quickly and found a distinctive
niche amongst leading opinion formers and policy makers in healthcare and biomedical …

Abstract The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is a British professional membership body
dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of …

Background The decision made by the Royal College of Physicians to form a working party
to define the 'nature and role of medical professionalism in modern society'was undoubtedly …

interest in and knowledge of the 18th century is well known. He has a genuine'feel'for the
period and in nine essays he portrays the lives and thoughts of some medical worthies of …

Clinical research is essential for patients to benefit from the advances of medical science.
Particularly needed are thorough and imaginative investigations into applied physiology …

Medicine? or, as Lewis Thomas called it,'die youngest science'? has many scientific
contributions to its cred-it, so it is important every now and then to reflect on how it is we are …

President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address found inspirational words to extol the twin
virtues of self-help and toil for the common good. Although many academic clinicians are …

During the six years that I have had the privilege of serving as the journal's editor, I have
focused a number of my editorials on major challenges facing academic medicine. Given …

In a world dominated by science and technology, every citizen requires some grasp of the
principles of science. How, otherwise, are non-scientists to assess the information that …