W.L. Miller Chris Allen Department of Politics University of Edinburgh No Gods and Precious Few Heroes: Scotland 191480. London: Edward Arnold, 1981, 182pp The End of British Politics? Scots and English Political Behaviour in the Seventies. Oxford: Clarendon, 1981, 28lpp J. Bochel,D. Denver, The Referendum Experience: Scotland 1979. & A. Macartney (eds.)Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 198!...

It is just over 50 years since the government circulars in Scotland, England and Wales which signalled an intention to abolish selection and reform secondary schooling along comprehensive lines. Each country’s policy trajectories since then have been quite different. In this article the authors reflect on more than 50 years of comprehensive education in Scotland and assess its achievements and ...

ATR Human Information Processing Laboratory, Japan ERATO Kawato Dynamic Brain Project, Japan Science and Technology Corporation College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Computational Learning and Motor Control Lab, University of Southern California, USA Psychology Department, University of Glasgow, Scotland Computer Science Department, University of Glasgow, Scotland Laborator...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the risk of cancer and potential gender effects in persons hospitalised with burn injury. DESIGN Population-based retrospective cohort study using record-linkage systems in Scotland and Western Australia. PARTICIPANTS Records of 37 890 and 23 450 persons admitted with a burn injury in Scotland and Western Australia, respectively, from 1983 to 2008. Deidentified extr...

THmE are many well documented forms of non-venereal treponemal (formerly spirochaetal) diseases resembling syphilis. The most widespread is yaws which occurs in the humid tropical areas of the world. Other forms occasionally still seen today are bejel of the swamp bedouins dwelling along the banks of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, njoreva in Southern Rhodesia and dichuchwa in Bechuanaland. Un...

Registry-office of Scotland, is able to present a good report ? the operation of the Vaccination Act in that country. returns relating to children born in 1868 show the num e whose births were registered in that year, and who survived the age when they could be vaccinated ; and it is stated that o that number, 106,181 in all, no fewer than 96-194 per cent were successfully vaccinated; 0861 perc...

hygienic and prevented our children eating each other's or their own faeces we began to nurture them more carefully and to reduce family size so that we had two or three children instead of 15 or 16. Poliomyelitis was then called 'infantile paralysis', because it was never seen except in young children. But as the years passed, so the age group of the persons affected advanced. I think we may b...

Change is part of life. Some changes are much discussed or even feared, with predictions that they will bring an end to the world as we know it. They seldom do. Contrary to these generalizations, however, there have been two major changes in Scotland in the past couple of years, arriving at the same time only by chance, as they are not linked in any way. They are both likely to have significant...

This article looks at three primary Head Teachers’ experience of working in COVID-19 lockdown Scotland. The theoretical framework this paper builds on Nel Noddings’ ethics care, with a particular focus reciprocity, empathy, communication, and community. Teachers were interviewed during the pandemic lockdown. These interviews are part larger study that teachers Scotland, asking how challenged in...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of introduction of supervision of methadone dosing on deaths related to overdose of methadone in Scotland and England between 1993 and 2008 while controlling for increased prescribing of methadone. DESIGN Analysis of annual trends in deaths related to overdose of methadone in relation to defined daily doses of methadone prescribed. SETTING Scotland and Engla...