Medical Service Within the Commonwealth and Other Countries Overseas

heterogeneity within the orientalist discourse: representation of the orient in womens travelogues and mens paintings

from 1950s onward, new theories and critical approaches burgeoned across humanities. these theories were context-oriented; as a result, the analysis of discursive practices gained significance. thus, social, political, historical and cultural discourses that have been hitherto marginalized and considered inferior to literary texts, were introduced as important texts to be analyzed by critics. o...

Teaching medical ethics in other countries.

In the past 20 years, around the world, there has been an explosion in the teaching of medical ethics. As the dust begins to settle, it would appear that such teaching is likely to have its most effective impact not during the undergraduate period but at the immediate postgraduate level and in continuing education. Whilst important contributions can be made by teachers of religion, philosophy a...

The Commonwealth Foundation Medical Electives Bursary--1999.

Multiple sclerosis in British Commonwealth countries in the Southern Hemisphere.

In the United States of America, which extend from approximately 260 to 490 North, the suggestion that a four-fold increase in the frequency of multiple sclerosis occurred between 300 and 400 was originally based on crude mortality data (Limburg, 1950). Recent detailed field studies have confirmed this impression (Kurland, 1952; Alter, Allison, Talbert, and Kurland, 1960; Kurland, Mulder, and W...

HIV/AIDS: a commonwealth emergency; the challenge to medical education.

Between 33 and 35 million people are infected with HIV worldwide. Nine of the most heavily infected countries are in the Commonwealth, with other countries in the Caribbean and Asia following suit. The heads of state are at last showing a growing awareness of the problem. At the Durban AIDS conference the Commonwealth states issued a joint statement expressing grave concern at the devastating s...