The first significant fact about the Medical Institution of Yale College is that from its beginning it was part of a collegiate institution. Though for three quarters of a century it was neglected by the Corporation, ignored by its alumni, and misunderstood by the president and faculty of Yale College (for a time a part of its faculty), the connection between it and the College was never broken...

Charles A. Morgan III*, Gary Hazlett, Anthony Doran, Stephan Garrett, Gary Hoyt, Paul Thomas, Madelon Baranoski, Steven M. Southwick Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut Mental Health Center, Law and Psychiatry Division, 34 Park Street, New Haven, CT 06519-1187, USA Major, JFK Special Warfare Training Center and School, Uni...

Anthony F. Aveni, Creation Stories: Landscapes and the Human ImaginationNew Haven, CT London: Yale University Press, 2021. Hardback, 220 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-25124-1. £20.00.

In September 1977, the National Institutes of Health sponsored the first of a planned series of "consensus" conferences designed to develop recommendations on a series ofpressing public health issues. This conference concerned the problem of what constitutes proper screening methods for the detection of breast cancer, permitting both efficiency in detection and safety to the individual. It was ...

We studied the distributional preferences of an elite cadre of Yale Law School students, a group that will assume positions of power in U.S. society. Our experimental design allows us to test whether redistributive decisions are consistent with utility maximization and to decompose underlying preferences into two qualitatively different tradeoffs: fair-mindedness versus self-interest, and equal...

Abraham Flexner first toured the Yale University School of Medicine in preparation for his report of 1910, but it was just the beginning of his relationship with the school. While his review of Yale in his report was generally favorable, he mentioned several shortfalls that needed to be improved to make the school acceptable. Throughout the next twenty-five years, Flexner worked with Deans Geor...

This study was initiated in order to estimate and compare the occurrence of nutritional anemia in three groups of adolescents and young adults. The first group comprised 159 individuals aged 14-21, who had been previously screened for thalassemia in three Connecticut cities. The second group was made up of 163 Derby High School students, aged 14-18, who had also been previously screened for tha...