British Wildlife Law before the American Revolution: Lessons from the Past

Lessons from the past ?

During the years following the Second World War, members of the English teaching community in London, often within the London Association for the Teaching of English, conducted work which led to a “new” English for the emerging comprehensive school system. Such work was rooted in the belief that English teaching should be responsive to the culture, class, language and experience of children. Co...

Lessons from the past.

This article considers errors of care in neonatology. In the 19th century errors that resulted in high infant mortality were shaped by the social environment, and in this setting the development of the incubator failed. In the early 20th century, with the emergence of the modern hospital as a technological, science-driven system, physicians had more control of patients' environments, and thus m...

The British Industrial Revolution

Lessons from before Roe: will past be prologue?

8 M a r c h 2 0 0 3 The Supreme Court did not “invent” legal abortion, much less abortion itself, when it handed down its historic Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. Abortion, both legal and illegal, had long been part of life in America. Indeed, the legal status of abortion has passed through several distinct phases in American history. Generally permitted at the nation’s founding and for several d...

Childbirth, Lessons from the past

The late Sir Robert Hutchison used the following words as he gave his Harveian oration in 1931. "Look round this room in which we meet. Is it not a noble library indeed, but is it not also a mausoleaum? And how many facts which men are at present hunting for, and theories which are even now being put forward as new, lie already buried in these shelves?" This observation is particularly apposite...