Lost Generations in British Surgery

Technique in British Surgery

Mr. Maingot has collected together the contributions from the pen of 29 front ranking British surgeons and each has written on his own specialty. The subjects include the most recent advances in the surgical fields such as congenital heart disease, vagal resection, retropubic prostatectomy, nerve suture, hypospadias, Parkinson's disease, etc., as well as those not so recent such as intestinal o...

Social mobility over three generations: evidence from British cohort studies

We examine social mobility patterns over three generations of family members, using data collected in three British birth cohort studies. For both men and women, absolute mobility rates (i.e. total, upward, downward and outflow mobility rates) in the partial parents– children mobility tables vary substantially by grandparents’ social class. As regards relative mobility patterns, there is a stat...

British Journal of Surgery

The British Journal of Surgery

The British Journal of Surgery

per annum, post free. Issued quarterly. Single numbers 8s. 6rf. net. Bristol : John Wright & Sons, Ltd. The notice of one of the older Surgeons in this number is of one John Halle 1529?1568, whose chief endeavours were devoted to the raising of the status of surgery and the restraint of quacks; unfortunately there is not very much known about him, but what there is makes interesting reading. E....