Dr Alison Bigrigg

Alison Cawsey

Alison Cawsey passed away in June 2009. She was a remarkable person and her death is a profound professional and personal loss. Born in 1963, Alison grew up in the south of England and, from 1981 to 1984, studied Natural Sciences at Jesus College Cambridge. During this period she met her life partner Richard. Alison always excelled academically but not always in the sporting arena; however, at ...

Wccmt Case Study – Alison Ritchie

THE FUTURE OF THE PAST by Alison

When AnthroNotes began publishing in 1979, what we knew about human evolution and how we studied it differed significantly from today. Field research among wild populations of great apes by Jane Goodall (chimpanzees), Dian Fossey (mountain gorillas), and Birute Galdikas (orangutans) had provided exciting new data for modeling the likely capabilities of our earliest ancestors. Ecologically focus...

1 CHANGING SEX AND BENDING GENDER : AN INTRODUCTION Alison

Dr Google or Dr Lazy?

Sir, I was recently on call for nephrology, and something happened. I was rung by a first year junior doctor at 1 am, saying that a patient's 'MEWS score was 6'. The patient had had a renal transplant that day. A score of 6 is very high. It should trigger a rapid senior review, and possible intensive care re-ferral. Modified early warning score (MEWS) is an electronic early warning score based ...