A history of health
The Western Medical Tradition 800 BC to 1800 AD
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At home with psychiatric crisis
Emergency Mental Health Services in the Community
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From pen to scalpel
Knowledge and the Medical Traditions
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Healing medieval souls
The English Hospital 1070-1570
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Inference and influence
Quantification and the Quest for Medical Certainty
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Continent of discomfort and agitation
Soldiers in Zimbabwe's Liberation War - Are We Not Also Men?
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A cure for teething problems
Dentist training has not kept pace with the improvement in people's teeth. Aubrey Sheiham argues for radical change. Dental caries have decreased dramatically in most industrialised countries in the...
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A dose of the same medicine
Alternative therapies must be subject to the same standards as orthodox medicine, argues Jack Howell. For nearly 140 years since the introduction of the Medical Act 1858, which introduced the...
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Nursing figures for the patient
Florence Nightingale was the first to research patient care. Margaret Alexander and Jenny Hunt look at her followers. "For we who nurse, our nursing is a thing which, unless in it we are making...
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Medical research and teaching
(Photograph) - Research funding for medical and dental schools follows a radically different pattern from that of higher education research funding in general. The pie charts, based on the latest...
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A healthy body of evidence
Increased pressure on resources has seen the development of health care that is based firmly on scientific proof. Olga Wojtas meets John Swales, the academic charged with carrying forward a...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHUMBRIA. Vince Ramprogus, former director of nursing research at Keele University, has been appointed assistant dean (nursing and midwifery) in the faculty of health, social work...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER. LLD: Mary Hogg, High Court judge and member of the university's court of governors; John MacGregor, former secretary of state for education and science and leader of the...
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Grants
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST. Charities. Dr A. Stitt, Pounds 113,000 from the British Diabetic Association (to finance Dr Stitt's work at the Picower Institute in New York for a year with Dr H....