J. A. L. SINGH and ROBERT M. ZINGG, Wolf-children andferal man, Hamden, Conn., Archon Books, 1966, 8vo, pp. xli, 379, illus., $16.00. Despite the age of this book, a reprint of the first edition of 1942, its existence should be noted in view of the recent works on this interesting topic (Med. Hist., 1975, 19: 407-408). There are two parts: the Reverend Singh on 'The wolf-children of Midnapore',...

AIMS AND METHODS A comparative study of abandoned street children and formerly abandoned street children was conducted in La Paz, Bolivia, representing the first such comparative assessment. Between August and December 1997, all abandoned street children in La Paz, Bolivia, who were willing to participate (n = 124) were interviewed repeatedly at night using standardised questionnaires to collec...

Relatively little is known about neurobiological changes attributable to early-life stressors (e.g., orphanage rearing), even though they have been associated with a heightened risk for later psychopathology. Human neuroimaging and animal studies provide complementary insights into the neural basis of problem behaviors following stress, but too often are limited by dissimilar experimental desig...

In a society that supports universal public education and allows a high degree of social and occupational mobility, a positive correlation is inevitable between socioeconomic status (SES) and intelligence. (The term intelligence is used here to mean those abilities primarily associated with scholastic aptitude.) Also, because there is a high correlation (of the order of 0.8-0.9) between phenoty...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate a long-term on-going international academic service-learning (I-ASL) intervention. Its goal was to improve swallowing, feeding and oral care technique of medical staff in an orphanage in Guatemala to children who are medically complex and have special needs. METHOD The PRECEDE-PROCEED model was used as the conceptual framework of the program. ...

Ctlrolyn Thompson Is an assistant professor In the College of Architecture and Design, Kansas State University. In 1990, she was sent with three other faculty members of the college on a fact-finding tourof Central Europe to explore opponunities for exchange, professional development, and research. This paper offers some of the observations from that tour. She has a Bachelor ofAns in the Histor...

Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu banned birth control and abortion in 1966 to increase Romania’s population. Overwhelmed, parents left children by the thousands in state institutions. Romanian officials, in trying later to make up for these abuses, agreed to a study by U.S. investigators to determine the inimical effects of early life in an orphanage on the still large numbers of instituti...

INTRODUCTION Orphans like other vulnerable children face a number of challenges including limited or no access to basic health care including oral health care, which is one of their unmet health care needs. Neglected oral health care is associated with the development and progression of periodontal diseases among others. OBJECTIVE To determine the oral hygiene status of institution dwelling o...

Editorial Consolidating Strengths I remember receiving a wonderful message from Cambridge University Press around three years ago – an invitation to take over as Editor of Medical History. I accepted almost instantaneously, but remember being nervous about the task at hand. At least as nervous as I had been whilst walking into a cage containing around fifty teenaged lions and lionesses with a g...