The article reviews the impact of Charles Dickens’ descriptions on medicine and the society. It reviews what Kryger is currently best known for by the medical profession, a description of his first novel titled “Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club” where he used the character, Joe, the fat boy who is obese, sleepy, difficult to arouse, snores and has peripheral edema and how this description played a role several years later in our understanding of a disease that affects at least five percent of the population, the sleep breathing disorder which wasn’t known at that time 1836 when he published the novel.
2. Lu, W. I., & Lu, D. P. (2014). Impact of Chinese herbal medicine on American society and health care system: perspective and concern. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2014.
This article provides insight into the basic differences in how herbs are prepared before administration to the patients in China versus a single unprepared herb sold in the USA and Europe. The article evaluates the impact of the Chinese herbal medicine on the American society and the healthcare system in general. This after the growing trend by the Americans seeking for herbal products and the Chinese herbal medicine as an alternative or complementary medicine to the traditional western medicine. This may be attributed to the lack of the government regulation and the increasing advertisements by the manufacturers of the herbal medicine creasing an impression to the public that herbal medicine is cheaper and safer than the conventional one. The article also addresses the interdisciplinary issues with health professionals, the proper regulations for better quality control of imported herbs and the proper warning on the labels of the herbs.
3. Shanks, N., & Pyles, R. A. (2007). Evolution and medicine: the long reach of" Dr. Darwin". Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 2(1), 4.
The article considers the new science of Darwinian medicine as it clearly explains how the evolutionary theory is relevant to medicine. It also explains how the biomedical sciences have enriched our understanding of the evolutionary processes. It addresses the common saying that evolutionary theory is the glue that holds the disparate branches of biological inquiry together giving them direction and purpose. The authors conclude by reviewing some observations of the philosophical significance of this interplay between evolutionary theory and the biomedical sciences.