British University System: Historical and Pedagogic Aspects

Historical Review of British Obstetrics and Cynæcology

Historical Review of British Obstetrics and Gynaecology

of knowledge, such as Colles' fracture, which every medical student is eventually called upon to recite. The dissecting guide is illustrated with 79 plates, which might well be somewhat larger, in black and white. The type is large and clear with major points emphasized in black, heavy type, thus facilitating review and minimizing the need for underlining. The book is bound so that it lies flat...

Malaria and ecosystems: historical aspects

The history of malaria has been dominated by the discoveries of Ronald Ross and Giovanni Battista Grassi, and the malaria eradication campaign of the World Health Organization. Much of this has tended towards the hagiographic or celebratory, although reviews of the malaria eradication programme have become increasingly critical. Recent literature on the history of malaria has been set within a ...

Historical aspects of anxiety

"Anxiety" is a key term for behavioral, psychoanalytic, neuroendocrine, and psychopharmacological observations and theories. Commenting on its historical aspects is difficult, since history is properly a study of primary data. Unfortunately, much clinical anecdote does not correspond to factual records of a long time ago. Even reports of objective studies may suffer from allegiance effects. Thi...

Historical aspects of migraine.

The student of medicine first encountering the migraine literature will immediately perceive the extraordinary amount written, and will sense an unspoken frustrated fascination-a sort of blighted curiosity which pervades many accounts and descriptions. Enlightened self interest may explain some of the attention shown by physicians, since the incidence in our profession is as high as 30%. It is ...