French jubilant but British equivocal after Ariane success

Indirect Rule: French and British Style

ARIANE 5 Flight 501 Failure

FOREWORD On 4 June 1996, the maiden flight of the Ariane 5 launcher ended in a failure. Only about 40 seconds after initiation of the flight sequence, at an altitude of about 3700 m, the launcher veered off its flight path, broke up and exploded. Engineers from the Ariane 5 project teams of CNES and Industry immediately started to investigate the failure. Over the following days, the Director G...

Two British naval surgeons of the French wars.

AMONG THE exclusive rights held by the London Surgeons in the eighteenth century none was more stubbornly maintained than that which related to the Royal Navy. Every candidate for appointment as surgeon or surgeon's matehad to pass aqualifying examination at Surgeons' Hall before he could be accepted into the service. During those hundred years, British naval craft were continually active in ma...

A comparison of French and British mental health legislation.

French psychiatry is known to be using quite different operational definitions of psychiatric syndromes (Kellam, 1989) from those used by English speaking doctors. Another way in which French psychiatry differs greatly in everyday practice is in its legal framework. In contrast with the intense activity in mental health legislation since World War II in Great Britain, the French psychiatrists c...

Comparison of British and French expatriate doctors’ characteristics and motivations

BACKGROUND Migration of medical practitioners is rarely studied despite its importance in medical demography: the objective of this study was to analyze the characteristics and motivations of the French doctors settled in the United Kingdom and of the British doctors settled in France. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted using a self-completed questionnaire sent to all French doc...