Back to the Future? History, Material Culture and New Materialism

New dreams: back to the future.

guinal hernias are less likely to have other anesthetics (i.e., children with hernia are otherwise healthier than the background population, which would be difficult to argue for biologically). For clarity, as requested by Flick and Warner, we included all children in Denmark born from 1986 to 1990 who underwent surgery for inguinal hernia before the age of 1 yr (n 2,689); of those had 2,445 (9...

New Zealand's new health sector reforms: back to the future?

A and Mays, N (2001) New Zealand's new health sector reforms: back to the future? British medical journal.

To the Dogs: Companion speciesism and the new feminist materialism

Back to the future: a new ‘old’ lead for tuberculosis

» The result is a great need for new therapies and a renewed effort to find new anti-TB antibiotics. « to drug therapy, is gradually being eliminated. . . Streptomycin pointed a way. Later supplemented with PAS (para-amino salicylic acid) and more recently with isoniazid, it has brought the control of this disease within sight’. Selman A. Waksman, Noble Prize Banquet Speech 1952. Despite the br...

Back to the future: the history and development of the clinical linear accelerator.

The linear accelerator (linac) is the accepted workhorse in radiotherapy in 2006. The first medical linac treated its first patient, in London, in 1953, so the use of these machines in clinical practice has been almost co-existent with the lifetime of Physics in Medicine and Biology. This review is a personal selection of things the authors feel are interesting in the history, particularly the ...