The autobiography of medical education : anatomy of a genre

With the publication of Intern by Doctor X [Alan E. Nourse] in 1965, physicians began recounting their passage through medical school, internship, and residency in unprecedented numbers. Coinciding with the emergence of the youth culture, the autobiography of medical education became an established genre during the next three decades. Specifically, ten books appeared in the 1970s, fourteen in the 19803, and six in the 19905. As insider reports, they have the potential to shape the general public’s perception of the health—care system. All of them meet the following criteria: (1) nonfiction full-length books (2) by American physicians writing about their own medical education (3) issued by reputable publishers for the general public (4) from 1965 to the present. Of the thirty-one books examined, nearly one half of the authors graduated from three medical schools: Harvard, Yale, and Tufts. Moreover, nearly one third of the authors are women, all of whom exhibit conflict between gender and occupation. Various specialties are represented, including psychiatry, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and internal medicine. Some of the authors are diarists, some are essayists, and some are nonfiction novelists. Developed here is an original typology based on how the authors portray themselves—as observers, outsiders, activists, malcontents, and apologists—with the members of each category sharing a characteristic approach toward medical education

On-chip Maxwell's demon as an information-powered refrigerator

We present an experimental realization of an autonomous Maxwell's Demon, which extracts microscopic information from a System and reduces its entropy by applying feedback. It is based on two capacitively coupled single electron devices, both integrated on the same electronic circuit. This setup allows a detailed analysis of the thermodynamics of both the Demon and the System as well as their mutual information exchange. The operation of the Demon is directly observed as a temperature drop in the System. We also observe a simultaneous temperature rise in the Demon arising from the thermodynamic cost of generating the mutual information.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figure

Thermal conductance of a proximity superconductor

We study heat transport in hybrid normal metal - superconductor - normal metal (NSN) structures. We find the thermal conductance of a short superconducting wire to be strongly enhanced beyond the BCS value due to inverse proximity effect. The measurements agree with a model based on the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity in the diffusive limit. We determine a crossover temperature below which quasiparticle heat conduction dominates over the electron-phonon relaxation.Comment: 4+ pages, 3 figure

Studies of ethyl radical reactions and the pyrolysis of diethylzinc.

Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1974 .K85. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, page: . Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1974