The Heinz fellowships 1960-80.

The Heinz fellowships 1960-80.

This paper celebrates a 25th birthday, a record of learning and teaching across the Commonwealth. It began in 1959, when Philip Evans (secretary, British Paediatric Association 1954-59) and Reginald Lightwood (Head of University Department of Paediatrics, St Mary's Medical School, London), convinced that paediatric teaching exchanges would improve child health within the Commonwealth, sought th...

Two decades of change: Glenside Hospital population surveys 1960-80.

Results of the fifth quinquennial survey of the patients of Glenside Hospital, Bristol, when compared with five yearly surveys over the past 20 years, show that the "run-down" of the hospital continues. There is still an accumulation of long-stay patients, mainly for non-medical reasons. They remain in hospital because of the failure to provide community facilities adequate to their needs. It i...

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The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, 1960–80: the pursuit of unity

such statements as "Disease does not exist. What does exist is not disease but practices". (Practices are contrasted with "the subjective intentions of the actors".) As the work progresses, however, it is clear that models derived from Foucault are, perhaps mercifully, a veneer on what is a traditional, complex but interesting and worthwhile analysis of medical thought in the France of the Just...

Metropolitan redistribution of the US elderly : 1960 - 70 , 1970 - 80 , 1980 - 90 *

• The data for this analysis were compiled at the Population Studies Center, The University of Michigan, from US Decennial Censuses: 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990. The author acknowledges Cathy Sun for her computing and research assistance, and Kerry Brooks for preparing maps and graphics . From Elderly Migration and Population Redistribution, Andrei Rogers, ed. London: Belhaven Press, 1992 Metropolit...