David Morris--a paediatrician remembered.

David G . Morris and Dean Sheppard Pulmonary Emphysema : When More is Less

Child Psychiatrist and Paediatrician

I T is currently fashionable to be in favour of inter-disciplinary coderation, but this attitude is a comParatively recent innovation in the Medical field. Doctors have been very resistant to the notion of working with Flon-medical colleagues on anything lke an equal basis; and the author can ^ember very clearly the solemn a,jning that he received from a senior Queague, in 1939, of possible Gen...

Psychiatry for the Paediatrician

Shirley, M.D., Associate Professor of Paediatrics and Psychiatry and Executive Director of the Child Psychiatry Unit, Stanford University School of Medicine. N.Y. Commonwealth Fund. Oxford University Press. 25s. This is an eminently competent and satisfactory book which should prove very useful to students, paediatricians and practitioners desirous of becoming familiar with the principles of ch...

Margaret Fountaine: a Lepidopterist Remembered.

Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940) was a lepidopterist during a period of transition and professionalization in natural history. Over her lifespan she collected more than 22000 butterflies, published extensively and wrote a diary of more than a million words. Wealthy and independent, Fountaine toured Europe in her early twenties and then, over the next 50 years, travelled the globe collecting butte...

The community paediatrician.

must return to fundamentals, asking such questions as What are the needs ? and How can we best satisfy them ? As the shape of the future services slowly begins to form further questions arise-What kinds of professional worker will be required? and How shall we train them? If we thus considered the 'sixties as the age of analysis of services and their functioning we may well look to the 'seventi...