Nurses are modern Angels

Are Angels Preferred Venture Investors?

We examine the impact of business angels on 182 Series A financings and subsequent company outcomes. Our studied rounds have a varied mix of business angel and formal venture capital investors (VCs). We find that when only angels participate in a financing round and VCs are absent, control rights are more entrepreneur-friendly, legal expenses are lower, and investors are more geographically pro...

Angels or aliens? Refugee nurses in Britain, 1938 to 1942.

In spring 1940 Annie Altschul, an Austrian probationer nurse at Ealing Voluntary Hospital in London, was forced to leave her employment. Altschul was later to become a pioneer in psychiatric nursing and in 1976 was appointed Professor of Nursing at Edinburgh University, the first from her specialism to attain this rank. In 1940, however, Altschul, a socialist and former Viennese mathematics stu...

Angels and citizens: British women as military nurses 1854–1914

they served. At an intermediate level, pharmacologists at the University of Wisconsin did good by contributing to new products for the many firms which they advised, and by bringing money and technical resources from the industry to their university. At the most specific level, the harrowing tale is recounted of the difficulties between Eli Lilly and the University of Toronto about insulin, and...

Modern Mental Treatment. A Handbook for Nurses

We are all angels: acting, reclaiming and moving beyond survivorship

This article aspires to an embodiment of dynamic living versus mere survival. The term cancer survivor, including a survivor who is in remission, has been legitimated (Berger and Luckmann, The social construction of reality, p. 94 1967) by language which creates knowledge of what a cancer survivor is and does. Because we act under descriptions (Hacking, The social construction of what?, p. 103 ...