Richard Morris Titmuss

Cxxiii. the Absorption Spectrum of Vitamin A. by Richard Alan Morton and Isidor Morris Heilbron

THE absorption spectrum of cod-liver oil possesses a quite special interest because of the fact that the oil contains three known important substances which are sensitive towards light, namely, vitamin A, ergosterol or provitamin D and vitamin D itself. A number of workers have studied the absorption spectrum of the medicinal oil, and Schlutz and his colleagues [1925, 1926] and Heilbron, Kamm a...

Remembering Richard [Obituary, Richard A.Newton]

Morris Bacon

Decoherence, Control, and Symmetry in Quantum Computers

Morris Fishbein

I have delayed writing this review because I have long admired the ability of Dr. Morris Fishbein to write about medicine, even though I have only rarely shared his political views. His autobiography comes as a great disappointment to me because I can find little in it of interest. I finally rose from my apathy to write this notice because a Yale medical student asked, "Who is Morris Fishbein?"...

Gifts , exchanges and the political economy of health care

Should blood be bought and sold is in crude terms the question ashed and answered by Richard Titmuss in his recent book The Gift Relationship. Dr Raymond Plant, a lecturer in philosophy at Manchester University, analyses Titmuss' argunents in a paper which we are printing in two parts. Titmuss has taken the provision of blood as his example of the gift relationship and by extension that of heal...