Anglo-American Understanding, 1898-1903

Informed speculation on the cause of sleeping sickness 1898-1903.

THE incrimination of the trypanosome as the cause of sleeping sickness and the discovery of the transmission of the parasite by the tsetse fly was the result of studies carried out in Uganda by Castellani, Bruce, Nabarro and others.' While there is no question of the importance of their elucidation of the relation between the disease, the parasite and the vector, by clinical, laboratory, and fi...

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.

Atlantic Conjunctures in Anglo-American Neurology:

The emergence of neurology at Johns Hopkins presents a case study for reconsidering the international and institutional contexts of neurology generally. Using a variety of sources, Hopkins's interwar plans for neurology are presented and contextualized in the international environment of neurology, medical research, and philanthropy. During this period, neurology across the world, especially in...