Rosie the Riveter's Wartime Medical Records.

First-year student diary.

Rosie Perrett has finished her first year of studies at Liverpool and is awaiting her exam results. In the meantime, EMS placements will give her the chance to consolidate what she has learnt.

Neutral Caregivers or Military Support? The British Red Cross, the Friends’ Ambulance Unit, and the Problems of Voluntary Medical Aid in Wartime

During the First World War the British Red Cross Society (BRCS) served as the coordinating body for voluntary medical aid giving in Britain. Among the many units which came within its purview was the Friends' Ambulance Unit (FAU), formed by a group of young men whose desire to serve their nation in wartime conflicted with their pacifist principles. Both the BRCS and the FAU were wracked by ideo...

Using Linkage to Electronic Primary Care Records to Evaluate Recruitment and Nonresponse Bias in The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children

Medical ethics and human rights in wartime.

Social medicine studies based on civilian medical board records. IV. Occupational and physical characteristics of men with certain digestive disorders.

In a large sample of wartime Civilian Medical Board (C.M.B. passim) records it was found that I 2 per cent. of the men examined were unfit for military service because of a peptic ulcer, and a fur0'25 per cent. because of other digestive disorders (Stewart, Webb, and Hewitt, 1955a). In addition to this loss of manpower at the screening stage there was a further heavy loss from the same causes a...