The Life and Doctrine of Sir Edwin Chadwick

Edwin Chadwick and the poverty of statistics.

In his 1842 Report on the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain, Edwin Chadwick demonstrated the existence of a mass of preventable illness and premature death in the community caused, he argued, by insanitary physical circumstances.' Although much of the evidence for the existence of this preventable mortality was anecdotal, Chadwick included a chapter of differential...

Channelling Edwin Chadwick: beyond utopian thinking in urban planning policy and health.

Health impact assessment is advanced as a formal means to assess the direct and indirect health impacts of urban planning decisions and processes. It is, however, an intrinsically passive policy device. A more comprehensive and practical policy framework or architecture, reminiscent of that devised by Edwin Chadwick and the sanitary reform movement in 19th Century England, will be necessary to ...

Medicine and Community in Victorian Britain

The Doctrine of Khudi in Iqbālُs Philosophical Thought Ehsan Ghodratollahi

Muhammad Iqbāl of Lahore(1877-1938) is undoubtedly the greatest Muslim poet-thinker of the twentieth century. Iqbāls philosophical writings and poetical works had a noteable impression on the religio-cultural and social revival of the East particularly subcontinent Muslim. The central theme of Iqbāls philosophical thought throughout his works, prose and poetry, especially in Asrar-i-Khudi ...

Use of Intrathecal Fluorescein in Recurrent Meningitis after Cochlear Implantation-A Case Report

Introduction: Congenital anomalies of the cochlea and labyrinth can be associated with meningitis and varying degrees of hearing loss or deafness. Despite antibiotics, meningitis remains a life threatening complication.   Case Report: We report a case of recurrent meningitis following episodes of otitis media in a cochlear implantee child with bilateral vestibulocochlear malformation, due to f...