The Lancaster Medical Museum

Sir James Lancaster the Explorer.

The developing role of the naval surgeon has been studied extensively throughout time and many characters and events are well known in popular history. Commodore George Anson’s scurvy riddled voyage in 1740, the unprecedented health amongst Captain Cook’s South Sea Crews and Lord Admiral Nelson’s variety of war injuries to name but a few. One character has been largely overlooked to date. His r...

The Place of Clinical Pathological Museum in Medical Education

Lancaster University Management School

Business failure represents a significant outcome of entrepreneurial activity and yet remains an underdeveloped area of research. This article focuses on the attitudes of VC investors towards entrepreneurs with a previous failure experience. It illustrates that VCs recognise the complex, contextual nature of failure and do not necessarily perceive the entrepreneur to be the primary cause of the...

Lancaster University, U

The Medical and Pharmaceutical Statistics Research Unit (MPS) (www.mps-research.com) is directed by Professor Anne Whitehead and undertakes collaborative research with the pharmaceutical industry and medical research institutes. The post is offered for a two year period in the first instance. MPS is funded by grants from the MRC North West Hub for Trials Methodology Research (NWHTMR), the US Na...

Museum as Text An Introduction to the Relationship between Semiotics and the Museum as an Institution

The Reading of Museum is the title of a book by Reza Dabirinezhad that has just been published and is available to the Iranian academic and cultural community. The author is a museum specialist and one of the renowned executives of the country's museums, who uses the methodology of semiotics to analyze the mechanism of the interpretation of museum objects and the Semantic System in museums. Sin...