Perspectives

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The online journal publishes provocative, less formal pieces related to the Rachel Carson Center's environment and society research themes.
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Strata and Three Stories
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RCC Perspectives
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The online journal publishes provocative, less formal pieces related to the Rachel Carson Center's environment and society research themes
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Hypothyroidism in Switzerland

The aim of this study is to present the theme from three different but complementary perspectives. The medical perspective lays the groundwork regarding the pathophysiology, the clinical picture, and the differential diagnosis of the condition. The historical perspective presents contemporary scientific studies on conscription and published data on goiter and cretinism as endemic manifestations of hypothyroidism (since 1900), and the archaeoanthropological perspective reports one of the first documentations of the condition in an archaeological population from Switzerland (11th–15th century AD).