Brezhnev’s FollyChristopher J. WARD

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Ward Rounds

to right heart failure, and is therefore a sign of impending disaster for many patients with common heart and lung diseases. We have known for a long time that hypoxia constricts lung vessels and causes pulmonary hypertension in acute experiments; this response may be important in disease as well. There are many theories about the mechanism of this hypoxic response, none of them generally accep...

Religion and Spirituality: Adam Smith versus J-J Rousseau

Adam Smith and J-J Rousseau share some common ground when it comes to religion, namely that they were born into  and educated in cultural contexts deeply shaped by Reformed Christianity. However, close consideration of their writings on religion reveal marked difference. This paper explores those differences and finds that Rousseau and Smith are radically at odds on this score. Smith has almost...

The Big Ward

Velde. Neville Spearman. 10s. 6d. Life in a home for old people is vividly portrayed in this fine novel translated from the Dutch by Ellen and Roy Hulbert. The author, who knows her scene and subject well enough to be the daughter of her own story, presents a very convincing picture of the gradual decline of a group of elderly women in a large institution. There could be no more compelling stat...

A Ward Adoption Scheme

was attempting to diminish barriers by encouraging patients to visit the town, and townspeople to visit the hospital. (The admission and discharge rate from and to the town, though small, was valuable in this respect.) It seemed too discouraging to ask any person or small group to visit and help 850 hospital patients, but we were thinking of our patients in the institutional mass. By breaking i...