Medicine and Mankind

“For the welfare of mankind”. The Commonwealth Fund and American medicine

A. McGEHEE HARVEY ans SUSAN L. ABRAMS, "For the welfare of mankind". The Commonwealth Fund and American medicine, Baltimore, Md., and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. xiii, 696, £26.50. Histories of philanthropic bodies are notoriously difficult to produce without being boring to all those not directly concerned, such as trustees, staffs, advisers, and, ofcourse, recipient...

The History of Mankind

The birth of mankind.

To cite: Smith L. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2014;40:69–70. BACKGROUND For over a century, between 1540 and 1654, one piece of medical literature, The Byrth of Mankynde, was what would now be described as a bestseller and a huge commercial success. This is hardly surprising, as its contents offered information on some of the secrets of the human body that could transform the fortunes of the...

MANKIND: A General Description

In this paper we present an outline of the MANKIND project: MANKIND is an acronym for Multimedia Applied to Networked Knowledge-transfer Introduces New Dimensions. It is an ambitious undertaking that combines know-how obtained through extensive research and efforts in network based training and education with work on digital libraries and the development of the advanced WWW server system Hyperw...

“For the Welfare of Mankind”: The Commonwealth Fund and American Medicine

everyone there is a rational, informed, and sensitive presentation of the history, current status, and prospects regarding AIDS. There is even an excellent, well-illustrated introduction to the immunology of AIDS. Also provided are summaries of the pathology and clinical presentation of AIDS and of its cousin and sometime precursor, AIDS-related complex (ARC). Last, policy issues related to AID...