Sexual behaviour in Britain and France.

Sexual behaviour in Britain: why sexually transmitted infections are common.

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) cause considerable reproductive morbidity and poor health outcomes, including pelvic inflammatory disease, infertility, ectopic pregnancy, cervical cancer, neonatal disorders and death.1 They are often associated with significant social stigma and are a source of psychological stress, with adverse impacts on individuals and their relationships. Early diagn...

Early blood chemistry in Britain and France.

I review here key research in the early years of the field of blood chemistry. The review includes successes and limitations of animal chemistry in the critical period of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Eighteenth century medical theories emphasized the primacy of body solids. Body fluids were governed by the tenets of humoral pathology. After Boerhaave sparked interest in the chemistr...

Sexual function problems and help seeking behaviour in Britain: national probability sample survey.

We thank Josephine Woolf for her collaboration in obtaining funding; Alice Gladwin, Monique Cloherty, and Üta Drescher for their assistance in collecting the data; and Bob Blizard for his statistical advice on the project. Contributors: See bmj.com Funding: health service research project grant provided by the Wellcome Trust (reference 991026); the North and Central Thames Research Network (NoC...

Solving and Industrial Performance: Electronics in Britain and France

Unions and Workplace Performance in Britain and France

Using nationally representative workplace surveys we examine the relationship between unionization and workplace financial performance in Britain and France. We find that union bargaining is detrimental to workplace performance in Britain and that this effect is larger when unionization is endogenized. In France, union bargaining is associated with poorer workplace performance but the effect di...