Poland 1980-81: Solidarity versus the Party

The Scottish Society of the History of Medicine Report of Proceedings session 1980–81

THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS LABORATORY: THE EXPERIMENT THAT BECAME ROUTINE From its inception the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh actively pursued an interest in the development of science, both medical and non-medical. In 1887, during the Presidency of Sir Douglas Maclagan (1812-1900) the College decided to establish a laboratory for the prosecution of original research. So came i...

Utilization of analgesic drugs in office-based ambulatory care: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 1980-81.

The purpose of this report is to describe the utilization ‘analgesic drugs in office-based ambulatory care. The report ]bines the 1980 and 1981 findings of the National Ambula­ * y Medical Care Survey, an annual, sample survey of otTice­ based physicians conducted from 1973 through 198I by the National Center for Health Statistics. The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS ) is schedul...

The Concept of Solidarity:

Health care of adolescents by office-based physicians: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 1980-81.

Commitment versus persuasion in the three-party constrained voter model

In the framework of the three-party constrained voter model, where voters of two radical parties (A and B) interact with “centrists” (C and Cζ ), we study the competition between a persuasive majority and a committed minority. In this model, A’s and B’s are incompatible voters that can convince centrists or be swayed by them. Here, radical voters are more persuasive than centrists, whose sub-po...