Sublime

She had the impulse to ask her professor “whether women were somehow always already dead,

Hippocrates and Osler: It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has.

The answer derives from the fact that what is good for groups is not always good for the individuals comprising them. For example, both multicellular organisms and social insect colonies are functionally specialized and hierarchically organized collectives that are highly successful in maintaining and transmitting accumulated knowledge, in the form

When a fluorescent dye is dropped into a single cell in a cluster of healthy cells, where the healthy cells share a boundary with a cluster of

someone was saying, “I was born a girl, so yeah I definitely want to have a baby of my own eventually.” Where does that come from, though? Does blood coming out of your body make you a woman? A potential mother?

As my colleague Jim predicted, I found my initially rigid standards nearly impossible to meet over time. After all, a doctor is not simply a repository of information but a human being with a personality, a sense of humor, and a point of view.

Foi necessário o surgimento de uma mente precisa e analítica como a de Aristóteles para desmontar de forma sistemática a teoria da hereditariedade de Pitágoras. Aristóteles não era um defensor particularmente ardoroso das mulheres, porém defendia o uso de evidências como base da construção de uma teoria.