Radically different consequences flowed from China's interaction with the global economy during two periods, from 1860 to 1949, and from 1949 to the present. From 1860 to 1949, China's economy stagnated. From 1949 to the present, China's economy grew annually from 4 to 10 percent. 'These different rates resulted from a combination of the levels of Chinese sovereignty and the nature of the globa...

Paula Suárez López*, Hiroyuki Tsuji and George Coupland 1 Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics, CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Campus UAB, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), 08193 Barcelona, Spain 2 Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan 3 Max Planck Institute for Plant Br...

incorporates the experience of 29 workers in the field of mental health. It covers all aspects of prevention and treatment and lays welcome stress on the frontiers common to sociology, genetics and education. All schools of thought are represented. There are contributions from the right and left wings of the field. Nature and nurture is dealt with. Children, adolescents and adults are comprehen...

The foundations for a Department of Dermatology were, however, laid earlier. Addison came to London in 1815 having graduated M.D. at Edinburgh, to become first a pupil of Thomas Bateman and later Physician at the Public Dispensary in Carey Street where Willan had done most of his work. In 1820 he entered Guy's Hospital as a pupil and in 1824, against vigorous opposition in the Court of Committe...

In 1949, Priscilla White published "Pregnancy Complicating Diabetes," which described the results and implications of a fifteen-year study about pregnant diabetic women. Published in the American Journal of Medicine, the article details possible causes of and ways to prevent the high fetal mortality rate associated with pregnant diabetic women. Diabetes is a disease in which the body's ability ...