<scp>Post‐Impressionism</scp> : Universal, British, Global

The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective

During the past two decades, Robert Allen’s researches into English agriculture have fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the nature and pace of rising agricultural productivity between the late middle ages and the 19th century. More recently, Allen has turned his attention to the study of real wages as a measure of economic development and begun investigating the progress of wages in ot...

Universal health care: lessons from the British experience.

Britain's National Health Service (NHS) was established in the wake of World War II amid a broad consensus that health care should be made available to all. Yet the British only barely succeeded in overcoming professional opposition to form the NHS out of the prewar mixture of limited national insurance, various voluntary insurance schemes, charity care, and public health services. Success stem...

Global Family Medicine: A 'UNIVERSAL' Mnemonic.

In this essay, I borrow the idea of universal precautions from infection control and suggest that family physicians use a set of considerations, based on the mnemonic UNIVERSAL, to nurture cultural humility, enter a metaphoric "space-in-between" in cross-cultural encounters, and foster global fluency. These UNIVERSAL considerations I base on my experiences in global family medicine, attending t...

A Universal and Global Education Infrastructure

The following is a technical contribution to the cause of worldwide education, presented to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on the occasion of a world congress held on the dawn of the 21st Century. The problem of educational infrastructure as the foundation for equity access to educational resources for all the nations and citizens of the world is c...

Global Universal Service and International Settlement Reform