Meeting Marianne

Marianne Winder

The unexpected death of Marianne Winder occurred peacefully in London on 6 April 2001 following a short illness. For over thirty years Marianne Winder had been associated with the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, first as Assistant Librarian then as Curator of Oriental MSS and Printed Books and, finally, as Consultant in Tibetan Medicine. Marianne Winder was born i...

INGE ALFERINK and MARIANNE GULLBERG

Some Evidence on Race , Welfare Reform , and Household Income ∗ Marianne

In 1996, federal welfare reform legislation eliminated Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and replaced it with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Numerous studies have estimated impacts of reform on welfare caseloads, employment, earnings, family structure, income, and poverty. Two principal challenges to identifying TANF’s impact have been discussed in the literature. ...

Meeting the Challenge of Diabetes in China

China’s estimated 114 million people with diabetes pose a massive challenge for China’s health policy-makers who have significantly extended health insurance coverage over the past decade. What China is doing now, what it has achieved, and what remains to be done should be of interest to health policy-makers, worldwide. We identify the challenges posed by China’s two pr...

The Relationship between the Bendergestalt Test and the Marianne Frostig Developmental Test of Visual Perveption