A Brief History of British Drug Policy, 1950-2001

A History of British Regional Policy in the 1970s

Ian Miller, A Modern History of the Stomach: Gastric Illness, Medicine and British Society, 1800–1950

ters written by botanists and physicians, whose arguments are often structured using the very same modernist dichotomies deconstructed by Hsu at the outset. Overall, however, this is an important volume containing several sophisticated and original contributions and case studies, with many interesting and lively accounts of the role of plants in health and health care. As such, the volume will ...

a brief history of zero

it is generally recognised that ‘zero’ as we understand the concept today originated in two geographically separated cultures: the maya and indian. however, if zero merely signified a magnitude or a direction separator (i.e. separating those above the zero level from those below the zero level), the egyptian zero, nfr, dating back at least four thousand years, amply served these purposes. if ze...

Research into Policy: A Brief History of Mitochondrial Donation

Mitochondrial DNA disorders are a group of common genetic diseases which affect both children and adults. They lead to progressive multisystem disease for which there is no curative treatment. Inherited mitochondrial DNA mutations are transmitted maternally, and preventing transmission of these diseases is a priority for families. An important new approach is a novel in vitro fertilisation (IVF...

Drug Evaluation and Classification Program (Policy Brief)

Amendments to Canada’s drug-impaired driving laws were implemented in 2008 to assist police in the detection of drug-impaired drivers. A key feature of these amendments was the introduction of the Drug Evaluation and Classification (DEC) program. This brief provides information about the DEC program, its role in the enforcement of drug-impaired driving, and some of the issues that require atten...