MATERIAL TURNS IN BRITISH HISTORY: I. LOOT

Osteochondritis dissecans in ancient British skeletal material.

OSTEOCHONDRITIS DISSECANS (which is not to be confused with osteochondritis juvenilis) is a common disease but it is also a somewhat mysterious one. Its essential pathology consists of an avascular necrosis occurring in the sub-chondral bone of a joint followed by degenerative changes in the overlying cartilage. As the disease progresses, a zone of demarcation forms around the avascular area an...

British Society for the History of Medicine Seventh British Congress on the History of Medicine

THE Seventh British Congress on the History of Medicine will be held in Churchill College, Cambridge, from 10-13 September 1969. This will be the third residential congress in the series, and those who attended the sixth congress in the University of Sussex in September 1967 will recall how successful and enjoyable that meeting was. The subject chosen for the Congress theme is an important one,...

Lateral turns in the Lamprey. I. Patterns of motoneuron activity.

The activity of motoneurons during lateral turns was studied in a lower vertebrate, the lamprey, to investigate how a supraspinal command for the change of direction during locomotion is transmitted from the brain stem and integrated with the activity of the spinal locomotor pattern generator. Three types of experiments were performed. 1) The muscular activity during lateral turns in freely swi...

A material history of bits

In both the popular press and scholarly research, digital information is persistently discussed in terms that imply its immateriality. In this characterization, the digital derives its power from its nature as a mere collection of 0s and 1s wholly independent from the particular media on which it is stored—hard drive, network wires, optical disk, etc.— and the particular signal carrier which en...

A History of British Sports Medicine