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ReviewClinical rheumatology2016

Politics, culture, and the legitimacy of disease: the case of Buerger's disease.

Stephen J Lockwood, Scott C Bresler, Scott R Granter

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Review in Clinical rheumatology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Stephen J LockwoodDepartment of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis St., Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Scott C BreslerDepartment of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis St., Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Scott R GranterDepartment of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis St., Boston, MA, 02115, USA. sgranter@partners.org.
Brigham and Women's Hospital · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thromboangiitis obliterans (TAO) or Buerger's disease is a rare form of vasculitis with distinctive clinical and pathological features that carries significant morbidity, often leading to amputation, and is strongly associated with tobacco smoking. Despite its distinctive clinicopathological characteristics, the existence of TAO as an entity sui generis was challenged for many years as it languished in relative obscurity. Then, as societal attitudes towards smoking changed, TAO not only became accepted as a disease entity, it quite literally became a poster child to illustrate the ills of smoking. Herein, we examine the history of TAO to illustrate the power of societal attitudes and politics in shaping medicine.

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PoliticsPublic HealthSocial NormsHumansSmokingThromboangiitis ObliteransBuerger’s diseaseCultureDiagnosisPoliticsPublic healthThromboangiitis ObliteransVasculitis

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PMID27188859
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