The Early Days at Yale

“Winter” at Yale

The history of the Yale School of Medicine is illuminated by the names of many great men. A distinguished school is a living organism and the soul which inspires and guides it has been created by the dreams and the visions which have gone before. In the Yale School of Medicine, no one of our distinguished leaders has played a greater role in this creative process than Milton Winternitz. When "W...

Biotechnology at Yale.

With Yale committing $1 billion to the development of science and technology there is much curiosity about how Yale will spend its money and why Yale is deciding to spend it now. Biotechnology in New Haven, in part, explains Yale?s move towards the sciences. With the decline in the New Haven economy since World War II, Yale stands to benefit greatly if the New Haven economy is revived, in part ...

ALIMD: the early days.

R I reviewed the minutes for the Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors (ALIMD) for 1889. These recorded the original organizational meeting of the group. Life insurance or assurance had started in this country in the early 1840s. Initially, the companies were mutual companies, owned by the policy holders and often dedicated to serving a specific clientele. The major risk in insuring t...

A Look at Aircraft Accident Analysis in the Early Days

In the early years of powered flight, the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics in the United States produced three reports describing a “method of analysis of aircraft accidents.” The first report was published in 1928; the second, which was a revision of the first, was published in 1930; and the third, which was a revision and update of the second, was published in 1936. This paper descr...

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