Johnathan Nightingale on Scaling Engineering Management

Florence Nightingale on hospital reform

chapter on "men, honour and crimes of passion" neatly sets off stereotypes of male behaviour against those of female. These pages contain the main finding of the book, that psychiatric testimony was usually "based on determinist theories of neurophysiology, disinhibition and hereditarian degeneration, which almost always stressed some aspect of the hysterical disorder and linked a portrait of i...

Florence Nightingale

MARCEL FLORKIN, A history ofbiochemistry. Part III. History ofthe identification ofthe sources offree energy in organisms, Amsterdam, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., 1975, 8vo, pp. [xxi], 475, illus., Dfl. 130.00. ($54.25). Professor Florkin and Professor Elmer H. Stotz are editors of Comprehensive biochemistry, a 33-volume work still being published. This is volume 31 and the second of fou...

Dear Miss Nightingale

concept of "monomania"-the name psychiatrists used to denote an otherwise rational mind which was obsessively preoccupied with a single idea-captured the imagination of the liberal press during the 1815-1848 period. However, the book is not without problems. In accounting for the decline of monomania in the early 1850s, Goldstein contends that the greater professional security French psychiatri...

06 Nightingale 1671

IT is with some hesitation that any historian would dispute the conclusions of so distinguished a numismatist as Dr Stewart Lyon on the subject of medieval weight-standards. However, in his recent article ‘Silver weight and minted weight in England, c.1000–1320’1 he challenged the views I myself published more than twenty years ago, and so, despite leaving that particular field of research in t...

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