15th November: 24th Sunday after Pentecost

Telling the Public about Medicine *B.M.A. Popular Lecture: Bristol, Wednesday, 24th November, 1954.

Ever since there were doctors they have had to consider the problem of telling public about medicine. For many centuries it was not really a big problem. Medicine was mostly magic. It was a mixture of Babylonian numerology, Arabian chemy, medieval horoscopy and inspired water-divining, or uromancy. Ihe profession disagreed about a lot of things. Whether seven was a better dumber than fourteen. ...

Sunday Holidays

. Sir, Will you please find .1 little space for my proposal 111 your valuable paper and oblige. It is rather curious that the medical department should have no holiday unlike other departments, and it is sometimes a matter which causes great inconvenience to its employs. Some years back the work of the Indian dispensaries was light as most of the people were used to the eastern methods of treat...

Pentecost: Paul the Pastor in 2 Corinthians

Explaining Sunday shop policies

Dutch municipalities have the right to decide on Sunday shop opening hours since 1996. Despite positive effects on economic growth and employment, many municipalities restrict Sunday trading in one way or another. Based on 2003 data we show that especially religious and political affiliation, regional differences and the size of the municipalities explain the variation between municipalities. T...

The Sunday Times: News

IN A finding that sheds new light on the ageing process, scientists have discovered that men who father children later in life are more likely to produce daughters who have a shorter lifespan. A study of European royal families, including the House of Windsor, discovered that men who have children in late middle age are more likely to have daughters who die earlier in life than the daughters of...