Leprosy is a chronic disease of the skin and peripheral nerves that afflicts more than 5 million
persons worldwide and more than 7,000 persons in the United States. Although leprosy is …

General practitioners use the hypothetico-deductive method of scientific reasoning to solve
problems. In the first few minutes of their consultations physicians form initial hypotheses …

… Style is associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University
of Massachusetts Medical Center (UMMC), Worcester. Dr. Quirk also is director of …

Family medicine as a specialty has now “come of age.” To maintain its new status, the
specialty must be able to survive the vigorous assessment that is given other specialties by the …

Scientific knowledge does not grow by slow evolution, but by revolutionary transformation of
its major paradigms. This paper describes the development of modem medical knowledge, …

… of Alec's graphic style, which is typically loose, sketchy, spontaneous-seeming, and akin to
handwriting. In this style, … his many shifts in style: it unites the earliest Alec stories, with their …

Reviews the book, Children of depressed parents: Risk, identification and intervention, edited
by Helen L. Morrison (1983). The reviewer commends the editor for compiling a book that …

… When I was at a loss for words in praising Alec, I looked … : "Alec has the rare talent of being
a mentor without ever telling you what to do". The most remarkable fact about Alec's style is …

… Through analysis of these storied life narratives that were influenced by Sir Alec Clegg’s
leadership style, using a Labovian approach to determine what aspects of his leadership style …

… A study of the biographical and philosophical underpinnings of musical style is especially
appropriate in the case of Alec Wilder's music for two reasons. First, his music is intensely …