Hommage à Barbara DELCOURT (1967-2017)

Barbara Epstein, AHIP, FMLA, Medical Library Association President, 2017–2018

Meeting Barbara Epstein, AHIP, FMLA, for the first time at the 2010 Medical Library Association (MLA) annual meeting in Washington, DC, was very memorable. That was the meeting that cardboard cutouts of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greeted everyone at the top of the Hilton Washington escalator. It was also the meeting that Earvin “Magic” Johnson Jr. made an appearance at...

Hommage to reactive psychosis.

When looking back in the history of psychiatry, the concept of reactivity had very variable impact on ethiological considerations. If classification of mental disorders is taken as a proxy, it seems that this impact is presently at the lowest that it has been in the last hundred years. The author gives a short historical overview of concept of reactive psychosis, followed by a description of th...

Percolation Theory Authors : Michelle Delcourt

Santa Barbara

Distributed boundary estimation and monitoring

Barbara Duncum

Barbara Mary Pycraft was born on 22 February 1910. Her father, William Pycraft, was an ornithologist on the staff of the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, and the author of several books. After reading history at London University she was appointed research assistant at the Wellcome Medical History Museum, still in Wigmore Street, in the spring of 1931. Her first work involved the class...