Behind Barbed Wire: Chinese New Villages During the Malayan Emergency, 1948–1960, written by Teng Phee Tan

Gift in barbed wire?

Work-life balance and work-life harmony are concepts that elude so many of us, despite the fact that, as physicians, we are always telling our patients how important a healthy lifestyle is and how valuable it is in keeping us well. Every day I discuss with patients what modifiable lifestyle factors are and how they can be changed. Perhaps the most difficult challenge for most people is finding ...

The ABCs of survival behind barbed wire: experience in the Far East, 1941-45.

The Paterson Lectureship was created by Associated Medical Services some years ago to support the annual program of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, and to recognize the contributions made by G. R. Paterson to the CSHM while he was Executive Director of the Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine. I thank the selection committee ; I am honored to be invited to be the AMS/P...

Genetics behind barbed wire: Masuo Kodani, émigré geneticists, and wartime genetics research at Manzanar relocation center.

This article explores the sociopolitical backdrop of genetics research during the politically turbulent decades of the mid-20th century that saw the persecution, displacement, and relocation of unpopular minorities in both the United States and Europe. It explores how geneticists in the United States accommodated these disruptions through formal and informal émigré networks and how the subseque...

Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire

We develop a calculus for lazy functional programming based on recursion operators associated with data type definitions. For these operators we derive various algebraic laws that are useful in deriving and manipulating programs. We shall show that all example Functions in Bird and Wadler's "Introduction to Functional Programming" can be expressed using these operators.

Emergency contraception moves behind the counter.