Some Historical Reflections on Cancer

Historical reflections on medical travel.

The terms ‘medical tourism’ and ‘health tourism’ cover many phenomena. Individuals able to afford the costs have frequently traveled great distances to consult with healers considered especially competent in their field. A reputation for expertise has, for the past century, been linked to technological capacity and those who can do so may prefer to travel to places such as the Mayo Clinic rathe...

The Theory and Practice of Wage Subsidisation: Some Historical Reflections

Economists explain welfare dependency of the unemployed and in-work poverty by the low labour market quality of the poor. Work can be made to pay by working family tax credits. But these might lower wages and price nonrecipients out of the market, widening the eligibility for the wage supplementation and raising social welfare bills. This was precisely the effect of the Speenhamland system of w...

Enclosure Landscapes: Historical Reflections on Palestinian Geography

In a series of engaging observations on colonialism and territorial conquest, Edward Said crafted the notion of “imaginative geography” to describe the ideological impulses of dominant groups seeking control of places and people.1 According to Said, imagined geography is a process initiated by groups with territorial ambitions who reinvent meanings about the landscapes they covet, and frame dis...

Historical reflections on American legal psychiatry.

Some reflections on talc poudrage.

We read with interest the well researched article of Stefani et al. [1] about the different techniques of intrapleural talc. This technical paper really filled the gap in our knowledge following established evidences of superiority of the talc itself [2,3] over other products. We have a question and two comments. Could we be provided with data on the size of the talc particles? This intriguing ...