A History ofParasitology, by W. D. FOSTER, Edinburgh and London, E. & S. Livingstone, 1965, pp. vii, 202, 15 plates, 35s. Medical historians and parasitologists will welcome the appearance at last of a work devoted to the history of parasitology. Hitherto no modern study of this subject has been available with the exception of R. Hoeppli's Parasites and Parasitic Infections in early Medicine an...

recognition is made also of Bright's discoveries in liver disease and neurology. But the reader gains little understanding of Bright's work in the context of changing ideas of disease, chemistry, and medical investigation of the first half of the nineteenth century. We do not learn enough about what, if any, skills and ideas Bright brought back from his European excursions. It is when discussin...

My research is an investigation into the mathematical foundations of supersymmetry, especially the theories of superstrings and supergravity. Over the past 30 years, string theory and related ideas have proven to be connected to many beautiful notions in differential geometry, such as mirror symmetry [Kontsevich] and gerbes [Brylinski, Freed and Witten]. The overarching goal of my work is to ex...

I should warn readers that some of Trivers’ description of interactions with women do not comport with contemporary ideas about political correctness. On the other hand, he rails against Jamaican treatment of homosexuals and has been an outspoken proponent of gay rights on the island. Robert Trivers is a complex individual who, as the book reveals, has lived a much more turbulent life than most...

Professor Goodhart has written a thoughtful and interesting paper on the conduct of monetary policy at the Bank of England. He uses a unique database, containing the inflation and output forecasts of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), to examine the Committee’s behaviour over the past five years and to test a number of intriguing hypotheses. The descriptive nature of the paper provides a usef...

Until 1997, the subject of bioterrorism was not discussed within the medical community and deliberately ignored in national planning efforts. Biological weapons were regarded as "morally repulsive." This complacency stemmed from a 1972 Biological Weapons Convention where all countries agreed to cease offensive biological weapons research. In the 1990s, however, the Soviet Union was discovered t...

Several lines of evidence indicate that animals in the wild may be limited in their maximal rates of energy intake by their intrinsic physiology rather than food availability. Understanding the limits to sustained energy intake is important because this defines an envelope within which animals must trade-off competing activities. In the first part of this review, we consider the initial ideas t...

care, the panacea of the 1960s and '70s, have recently begun to attract scholarly attention. Levine documents many of the more egregious failures the revolving-door syndrome; the rise of a profit-making "trade in lunacy" centring around nursing homes, board and care facilities, and welfare hotels and analyses quite well the role of the state and federal bureaucracy in promoting and covering up ...

This Classic article is a reprint of the original work by John Hilton, On Rest and Pain: Lecture XIV. An accompanying biographical sketch on John Hilton, MD, is available at DOI 10.1007/s11999-009-0927-2 . The Classic Article is reprinted with courtesy from Hilton J. On The Influence of Mechanical and Physiological Rest in the Treatment of Accidents and Surgical Diseases, and the Diagnostic Val...