Medical Training in Wartime Britain

Medical ethics and human rights in wartime.

Rosie the Riveter's Wartime Medical Records.

On October 24, 2000, the Rosie the Riveter World War II/Home Front National Historical Park was established in Richmond, CA to commemorate in a substantial way the wartime women workers in the shipyards. A review of the 1942-1945 published case reports from the medical records of women who worked in the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, found that the women who helped build ships for the war effort...

The oldest medical societies in Great Britain.

IN 1949 Thornton published the most complete list that is available of the years of formation of the medical societies in Great Britain. The list also included other medical institutions in Britain and the more important societies and institutions of other countries. Thornton acknowledged that his list was incomplete in 1949, and since then further information has become available concerning so...

The history of medical education in Britain

quite so different as readers of Pour une histoire des sciences might suppose. In his well-known paper on the role of Cuvier in the history of science, Foucault also sought to show the intellectual conditions necessary for the emergence of (Darwinian) transformism, with Cuvier the pivotal figure "making possible" the reconstruction of eighteenth-century natural history so as to yield nineteenth...

Medical "publishing societies" in eighteenth-century Britain.

This article reviews the relationship between medical journals and publishing societies in eighteenth-century Great Britain. The importance of the perception that these journals were being issued under the auspices of societies is revealed by the number of times this kind of sponsorship was invoked by new medical journals. This kind of endorsement was projected even when a society so designated...