“A Place to Work Like Any Other?” Sheltered Workshops in Canada, 1970-1985

Redefining The Purpose of Sheltered Workshops

Tobacco: a product like any other?

Legislation in most countries regulates trade in poisons and highly addictive products, such as narcotics. The statements that (1) tobacco harms health and (2) causes addiction are established as facts in international and national law. Yet in Russia, and in many other countries, there is a contradiction between the open sale of this addictive poison and basic laws, such as those on product saf...

International trends in stroke mortality: 1970-1985.

We compared the pattern of cerebrovascular disease (stroke) mortality in men and women aged 40-69 years in 27 countries during 1970-1985 with the decline in coronary heart disease mortality during the same period. Stroke mortality rates declined in 21 and 25 countries for men and women, respectively. In 23 countries the decline in stroke mortality in women was greater than that in men. Countrie...

International trends in asthma mortality: 1970 to 1985.

Recent international trends in asthma mortality among people aged five to 34 years were examined as a follow-up to an epidemic of asthma deaths in the late 1970s which appeared to be confined to New Zealand. Mortality rates were compared in 14 countries with suitable statistics; Australia, Canada, England and Wales, Finland, France, Japan, Israel, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Sweden...

The Visual Callosal Connection: A Connection Like Any Other?

Recent work about the role of visual callosal connections in ferrets and cats is reviewed, and morphological and functional homologies between the lateral intrinsic and callosal network in early visual areas are discussed. Both networks selectively link distributed neuronal groups with similar response properties, and the actions exerted by callosal input reflect the functional topography of th...