Royalty, Celebrity, and the Press in Georgian Britain, 1770-1820

Cullen and the study of fevers in Britain, 1760-1820.

Birth-baptism intervals in Whickham Parish, Co. Durham c. 1770-1820.

The orthodox Anglican Church practice of baptism from the sixteenth Century required the parents to bring the child to church, on a day of public worship, where the ceremony would be conducted by an ordained clergyman. An upper limit of 14 days after birth was stipulated for this ceremony from about 1650 onwards. The urgency implicit in this rule related to the theological concern of the church...

Believing One’s Own Press: the Causes and Consequences of Ceo Celebrity

This theoretical article introduces the construct of CEO celebrity in order to explain how the tendency of journalists to attribute a firm’s actions and outcomes to the volition of its CEO affects such firm. In the model developed here, journalists celebrate a CEO whose firm takes strategic actions that are distinctive and consistent by attributing such actions and performance to the firm’s CEO...

Science as public culture: chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760–1820

does indeed discuss the duties of physicians earlier than Percival, but not in the distinctive form of a code. The code format-a numbered compilation of moral rules of conduct-was introduced into English-language medical ethics by Percival. Here, for example, is an excerpt from Percival's Rule I1.3, which deals with the ethics of diagnosing "incurable" conditions: "A physician should not be for...

the relationship between learners critical thinking ability and their performance in the reading sections of the tofel and ielts test

the study reflected in this thesis aims at finding out relationships between critical thinking (ct), and the reading sections of tofel and ielts tests. the study tries to find any relationships between the ct ability of students and their performance on reading tests of tofel and academic ielts. however, no research has ever been conducted to investigate the relationship between ct and the read...