J. N. "Ding" Darling: the Formative Years

The Formative Years

RI is a rule-based program that configures VAX-I 1 computer systems. Given a customer’s purchase order, it determines what, if any, substitutions and additions have to be made to the order to make it consistent and complete and produces a numnber of diagrams showing the spatial and logical relationships among the 90 or so components that typically constitute a system. The program has been used ...

Origins and formative years

Over the past two decades, many issues concerning Black and minority ethnic (BME) communities’ access to equitable, culturally sensitive services and interventions in the UK have been highlighted (Littlewood 1982; Fernando 1988, 1991; Bhui 1999, 2002; Bhugra 2001a; National Institute for Mental Health in England 2003; Department of Health 2005a,b). Frantz Fanon was one of the earliest Black psy...

William Beaumont's Formative Years

Two of the note-books of William Beaumont, now in the possession of Washington University College of Medicine, have been reproduced, misspellings and all, in their entirety. The first of these note-books is Beaumont's medical note-book containing excerpts from medical authors, case histories, comments on Army medicine, prescriptions, and descriptions of methods for treating diseases. This note-...

Darling , A . , Rayman , M . P . , Steer , C . , Golding , J . ,

The formative years of the American Osler Society.

• The American Osler Society held its first formal meeting in 1971, an event that will represent not the beginning of this essay but, rather, almost the end. Though some portion of the founding story has been told by Alfred Henderson, and again by Henderson and McGovern, I believe that there is a duty for any society – particularly an historical society – to record its own origins as thoroughly...