CHADWICK, Owen, Newman

Peter Chester Chadwick

Owen Holland Editorial

In May 2001, the Swartz Foundation sponsored a workshop called ‘Can a machine be conscious?’ at the Banbury Center in Long Island (http://www. swartzneuro.org/banbury_2001.cfm). Around twenty psychologists, computer scientists, philosophers, physicists, neuroscientists, engineers, and industrialists spent three days in a mixture of short presentations and long and lively discussions. At the end...

Newman Neild

The tragically sudden death of Dr. Newman Neild, in the early hours of 4th July, came as a great shock to his patients and friends, as he had been at work less than twelve hours before. There had been, however, certain misgivings in the minds of his professional colleagues during the previous few months, in spite of apparently undiminished energy. Newman Neild was born in Bristol in 1872, and r...

Edwin Chadwick and the poverty of statistics.

In his 1842 Report on the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain, Edwin Chadwick demonstrated the existence of a mass of preventable illness and premature death in the community caused, he argued, by insanitary physical circumstances.' Although much of the evidence for the existence of this preventable mortality was anecdotal, Chadwick included a chapter of differential...

Robert Owen And

HE Co-operative Movement was in its early days described by William Hazlitt as “a slip of Owenism grafted upon a stock of common sense”. This metaphor is not merely more apt, but also more accurate, than to call Owen the “father” of Co-operation. For one thing, there were co-operatives in Britain before Owen enunciated his plan of a new society, and even before he was born. Voluntary associatio...