DR. LANKESTER AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.

Greed and the medical profession.

O rganised medicine is not giving proper attention to the disturbing presence in the profession of a universal human trait: greed. Perhaps doctors' greed is less of a problem in Britain where an estimated 70% of the doctors are generalists, and reimbursement in the main is controlled by the national health system. Not so in the United States where 70% of doctors are specialists and an open heal...

Homoeopathy and the medical profession

PHILLIP A. NICHOLLS, Homoeopathy and the medical profession, Beckenham, Croom Helm, 1988, 8vo, pp. 298, £27.50. There are several useful historical accounts of homoeopathy in America, but very little has been published on the British story. Nicholls's book will thus become a stock item for courses on medicine in nineteenthand twentieth-century Britain. After discussing the relation between the ...

Victorian values: the life and times of Dr. Edwin Lankester, M.D., F.R.S

MARY P. ENGLISH, Victorian values: the life and times of Dr. Edwin Lankester, M.D., F.R.S., Bristol, Biopress Ltd (The Orchard, Clanage Road, Bristol BS3 2JX, Avon), 1990, pp. xvi, 187, illus., £29.50 (0-948737-14-X). Edwin Lankester was born into a lower middle-class family in Suffolk in 1814 and died of the complications of diabetes in London in 1874. As a young man, he embarked on a medical ...

Evidence, the law and the medical profession.

Violence against the medical profession