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Articles by Are Brean
Drunks and lamp-posts
- Are Brean
19.04.2016:
Research exists to shed light on the world. Politics is to use this light to set a direction. Therefore, political abuse of research is dangerous. «Research shows that quite often, parents and families are the ones who send their children out on hazardous journeys. Documentation from the UN High...
Seductive research narratives
- Are Brean
23.02.2016:
The good and seductive narrative belongs around the lunch table, in the popular press and the anecdotal evidence presented by alternative medicine. But does it belong in science as well? «Research is not truth, but narratives.» This statement was made by Christine Laine, Editor-in-Chief of Annals of...
It’s only mental
- Are Brean
15.12.2015:
The distinction between «mental» and «physical» is an impediment to an integrated understanding of the human. We are not a mind and a body, but both, inseparably and at the same time I decide to raise my arm. It moves. So simple. Yet, this embodies the entire enigma: how can an apparently immaterial...
When the Earth is our patient
- Are Brean
01.12.2015:
The health of the Earth and of its people are closely intertwined. This ought to call for commitment on our part as doctors. On 30 November 2015, the United Nation’s 21st Climate Summit started in Paris. There, representatives from more than 190 countries convened for what is one of the world’s...
She, he, s/he and all the others
- Are Brean
17.11.2015:
Our notions of gender identity are changing. Do we need to categorise the population according to legal gender at all? Suddenly, they seem to be appearing everywhere: strong, self-aware transgender persons in TV series such as Sense8, Transparent and Orange is the new black. Even Barack Obama has...
Where the sun never shines
- Are Brean
30.06.2015:
Trust in authors and journals depends on openness about financial conflicts of interest When the editors of two of the world’s leading general medical journals come to blows in what may seem like an academic dogfight, there is reason to pay attention. It all started when the New England Journal of...
To sort and to order
- Are Brean
16.06.2015:
The digital age changes the role of journals, but much remain the same. «In this journal there will be writing for common learning and benefit; here, as the proverb says, the manifold small streams will gather to form a mighty river. We therefore find comfort in seeing that our effort as editors...
The quest for the diagnosis
- Are Brean
10.03.2015:
The more advanced the diagnostic methods at our disposal, the more difficult it can be to delimit the diagnosis The young patient had undergone a comprehensive assessment. Clinical, biochemical and radiological findings showed that something was wrong, but the condition did not fit into any medical...