Rudyard Kipling in New England

Challenges Facing Healthwatch, a New Consumer Champion in England

This article engages with debates about the conceptualisation and practical challenges of patient and public involvement (PPI) in health and social care services. Policy in this area in England has shifted numerous times but increasingly a consumerist discourse seems to override more democratic ideas concerning the relationship between citizens and public services. Recent policy change in Engla...

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I have recently been renewing my acquaintance with Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling the poet, that is, as distinct from Rudyard Kipling the short-story writer and part-time novelist. R.K. the poet is very much out of favour at present, and has been these twenty years. I suppose this disfavour springs from his identification with the spirit of Empire, with the Raj, with the Great White Sahib, wit...

How Kipling Works

The key operational feature that gives Kipling its power is the way that it partitions multivariate space rather than the execution of complex algorithms or computations. The original inspiration for Kipling.xla was the CMAC (Cerebellar Model Arithmetic Computer), originally designed by Albus (1975) for robotic systems and still widely used today. The CMAC design subdivides variable space into ...

Latinos in New England

The Medical Kipling—Syphilis, Tabes Dorsalis, and Romberg's Test

Rudyard Kipling was the first English author to win the Nobel Prize for literature. He received this honor when he was not yet 42 years old. Indeed, Kipling's career is remarkable for its precocious success. His collection of verse Departmental Ditties was published when he was 20 years old. When he first went to England in 1889, he was already a well-known writer. In his short story Love-o'-Wo...