Puritan Martyrs in Island Prisons

Martyrs, Martyrdom, and the Comedia

Control and choice in English prisons: developing health-promoting prisons.

The 'health-promoting prison' has been informed by a broader settings-based philosophy to health promotion which conceptualizes health as the responsibility for all social settings. Though in its relative infancy, the notion of a health-promoting prison has gained political backing from international organizations like the World Health Organization, but the implementation of the policy rhetoric...

Heroes & Martyrs of Quality and Safety

WASTE NOT William Edwards Deming, the first child of William Albert Deming and Pluma Irene Edwards, was born on 14 October 1900 in Sioux City, Iowa. His father worked mainly in freelance legal work and his mother gave music lessons on their grand Kimball piano. As a child, Deming grew up in meagre conditions. He and his family lived for years in a tarpaper shack. As a boy he worked at a hotel f...

The Greenock medical martyrs of 1864-65.

In the nineteenth century it was not uncommon for doctors to die from infectious diseases, but the death of five young physicians in Greenock--one third of the medical profession in a medium-sized Scottish town--from epidemic typhus, during four consecutive months in 1864-65, was an unusual event. This paper describes the lives and backgrounds of these five doctors, whose deaths in the line of ...

TB Control in Prisons

According to WHO, in 2010, there were 8.8 million (range, 8.5-9.2 million) incident cases of TB and 1.1 million (range, 8.5-9.2 million) deaths from TB among HIV-negative cases and an additional 0.35 million (range, 0.32-0.39) deaths from HIV-associated TB (WHO 2011). An examination of the map of estimated incidence rates by country and the breakdown of national figures in social strata rapidly...