Britain: Waiting for summer

Waiting list and waiting time statistics in Britain: a critical review.

OBJECTIVES The measurement of access to health care in the National Health Service is dominated by waiting list and waiting time targets which depend on the collection and publication of a range of government statistics. The aim of this study was to describe the purposes for which waiting statistics are collected, and the different methods of data collection in the countries of Britain, in orde...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

the search for the self in becketts theatre: waiting for godot and endgame

this thesis is based upon the works of samuel beckett. one of the greatest writers of contemporary literature. here, i have tried to focus on one of the main themes in becketts works: the search for the real "me" or the real self, which is not only a problem to be solved for beckett man but also for each of us. i have tried to show becketts techniques in approaching this unattainable goal, base...

Emergency hospital admissions for respiratory disorders attributable to summer time ozone episodes in Great Britain.

BACKGROUND There is accumulating evidence from various countries, including the UK, that ground level ozone concentrations are associated with increased daily hospital admissions for respiratory diseases. This paper estimates the impact of ozone episodes on daily hospital admissions for respiratory disease in Great Britain by combining locally based exposure-response relationships with mapped e...

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