Anglo-American Relations, 1861-1865

Medical and surgical care during the American Civil War, 1861-1865.

This review describes medical and surgical care during the American Civil War. This era is often referred to in a negative way as the Middle Ages of medicine in the United States. Many misconceptions exist regarding the quality of care during the war. It is commonly believed that surgery was often done without anesthesia, that many unnecessary amputations were done, and that care was not state ...

[Diseases, food, and resistance in the Bahia penitentiary, 1861-1865].

This study on prisoners' diseases and food conditions in the early days of operation of the Casa de Prisão com Trabalho (labor penitentiary) in Salvador, Bahia, analyzes prisoner strategies for obtaining medical treatment and decent food. In their resistance and struggle to achieve more breathing room within the new prison model, which authorities hoped to implement at Bahia's first penitentiar...

An Anglo-American medical lexicon.

As a dual US-EU citizen who grew up in America but underwent foundation and core medical training in London, I learnt to prescribe paracetamol instead of acetaminophen and was brilliant at directing patients to the lift instead of the elevator (or, as I called it my first few weeks in the UK, the “elevator-lift”). What I was not prepared for, however, was that, on returning to the US for a clin...

Anglo-American Jurisprudence and Latin America

This Article attempts to describe certain characteristics of Latin American legal culture that have jurisprudential implications and to inquire into certain themes of jurisprudence in the context of these cultural characteristics. A syncretic approach to jurisprudence may allow Latin American countries to formulate ideas about, and potential solutions to, widely recognized fundamental problems ...

Anglo-American contrasts in general practice.