Who was ''Doctor Death''?

Enlightenment was the choice: Doctor Who and the Democratisation of Science

Who was Elizabeth Okeover?

Modem notions of medical authority being essentially embodied in the figure of the professionally trained and registered practitioner and his corporate representatives, and in the medical textbook or official pharmacopoeia, are comparatively recent developments. Much work has been done by historians of medicine to show that, far from being merely an underdeveloped version of modem medicine, the...

Who Was Miss Mullikin?

1. INTRODUCTION. In 1946 R. L. Moore, responding to a prospective student's request for information about graduate study, closed his letter with a personal note: " Please remember me to Miss Mullikin " [18, p. 295]. Who was Miss Mullikin? And why did someone of Moore's stature wish to convey his best wishes to her? Anna Margaret Mullikin (1893–1975) was Moore's third Ph.D. student, one of the f...

50 Years of Doctor Who

a BBC 2013. Doctor Who chronicles the adventures of an extraterrestrial Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. Although humanoid, the Doctor differs from you or me in many ways, not the least of which is the ability to navigate through space and time (using the TARDIS, an acronym for time and relative dimension in space, an erstwhile British police box). He also has two hearts and the capacity fo...

Who Was That Masked Man?

Each year more than 1,400 children die as motor vehicle passengers, and an additional 280,000 are injured. Despite these horrifying figures, parents are still allowing their children to ride unrestrained. More disturbing is the fact that of children who are buckled up, roughly half are restrained incorrectly—increasing the risk of serious or fatal injuries. Tragically, most of these injuries co...