A Medical Professor’s Reading List
Annotated reviews of classic and contemporary readings by a professor of medicine
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Seeing What Cannot Be Seen
How anatomy forms intellectual virtues in the student beyond mere content
The Vertebral Theory of the Skull
A tribute to Renato Locchi and Goethe’s theory of the skull as modified vertebrae
The Egometric Test
A witty acceptance speech on the “ego’s resistance to massage”
The Law of the Third
From Cold War strategy to the roar of airways over São Paulo neighborhoods
Professor Doctor César Timo-Iaria (07/25/1924 – 06/27/2005)
A tribute to a classmate, founder of Brazilian neuroscience
Dr. Vital Brasil Mineiro da Campanha
The scientist who created the first antivenoms and founded the Butantan Institute
The School of the Golden Years
Memories of 1950s Sorocaba and the birth of its Faculty of Medicine
Politeia
A passage from Plato on the decay of authority and the coming of tyranny
Medical Ethics in Human Reproduction
Ethical dilemmas of donor anonymity in assisted human reproduction