11. Conclusion

CHAPTER 11 : Conclusion

This book seeks to determine whether the idea of memes might provide the foundation for a progressive line of research on cultural diversification and evolution. In this, the concluding chapter, I don’t intend to make the definitive statement concerning the future of memetics. Rather, I attempt to make sense of what has gone before, and to find where there might be grounds for coming down on on...

Conclusion

Conclusion

Within half a century hospitals for children had become established features of the British medical landscape. By 1900, the formerly entrenched notion that sick children would not prosper away from home had given way to the other extreme. Now, it would seem, children required to be isolated in institutions entirely dedicated to their care. As Roger Cooter has indicated, there was a 'gradual dis...

Conclusion

Conclusion

Though Walvoord and McCarthy are the authors of this chapter, all team members have had input, and the chapter is based on the entire team's study. Thus "we" in this chapter refers to the team as a whole. We summarized some of our findings in Chapter 1 as a way of helping readers prepare for the classroom chapters. In this chapter, we complete that summary and we discuss implications of our stu...