enter the notorious Japanese Prisoner of War "camp" at Changi Gaol after the liberation. On demobilisation he returned to UCH and then moved to Bristol as a surgical registrar. In 1952 he travelled the USA in company with his wife, visiting gynaecological and surgical centres. Having passed the PRCS in 1953 he decided to enter general practice and joined the practice in Keynsham where he contin...

Two men (whom we will call A and B) are captured and held in separate cells where they cannot communicate. The warden visits both cells and explains the rules to each of them the same way: If neither prisoner gives evidence against the other, then the warden can only hold the prisoners for a year each. If both prisoners give evidence against the other, then the warden will hold both in prison f...

This study examined sleep histories associated with resilience after trauma defined as a continuous lack of psychiatric illness across 37 years. Data were drawn from a 37-year follow-up examination of the effects of the Vietnam prisoner of war (POW) experience. The Robert E. Mitchell Center for POW Studies is a unique institution holding the only longitudinal study of the effects of the America...

At the end of May, 1945, we were seconded from Mill Hill Emergency Hospital to start a neurosis centre for repatriated prisoners of war at Dartford, Kent. During the following eight months 811 repatriates from the North-west Europe sector passed through the unit. This paper describes the clinical characteristics of these men, their treatment and rehabilitation, and the results of a short-term f...

The Paterson Lectureship was created by Associated Medical Services some years ago to support the annual program of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, and to recognize the contributions made by G. R. Paterson to the CSHM while he was Executive Director of the Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine. I thank the selection committee ; I am honored to be invited to be the AMS/P...

INTRODUCTION The accompanying article, written by John Murphy, a retired lawyer and lifelong outdoorsman from his beloved Colorado Rockies, draws the striking parallel between his experiences as a mountain climber and as a patient with metastatic melanoma facing the hope and uncertainty of experimental therapy. Both are life-threatening circumstances, demanding courage and hope, and challenging...

Resilience, exhibiting intact psychological functioning despite exposure to trauma, is one perspective as to why some people who are exposed to trauma do not develop symptoms. This study examines the prisoner of war experience to expand our understanding of this phenomenon in extreme cases of trauma such as prolonged captivity, malnourishment, and physical and psychological torture. The study e...

Under the premise that an embryo is a full person, the argument against using spare IVF embryos for stem cell research is the prisoner analogy. Namely, the analogy contends that just as we may not ravage a prisoner on death row for his body parts, likewise we may not harvest the embryo for its stem cells simply because it is destined for destruction. Here, I show that this comparison does not h...

Several large evaluations of correctional programs across the United States have found that offender assessment is one of the most poorly implemented principles of effective offender intervention. Correctional programs have relied too much on subjective, clinical assessments of offenders’ likelihood of re-offending or risk, and specific risk factors. Corrections programs have neglected one of t...