THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN ENGLAND AND INDIAN MEDICAL REFORM.

The medical profession and social reform, 1885–1945

of Surgeons of England, and Dr. Thomas's catalogue of it was published in 1970. The present work, however, is much more than an expanded and more detailed list of the holdings. It is a history of anaesthetics from the point of view of the pieces of apparatus used and the pioneers who devised them. There are sections on ether, chloroform, and nitrous oxide anaesthesia, on insufflation and endotr...

Greed and the medical profession.

O rganised medicine is not giving proper attention to the disturbing presence in the profession of a universal human trait: greed. Perhaps doctors' greed is less of a problem in Britain where an estimated 70% of the doctors are generalists, and reimbursement in the main is controlled by the national health system. Not so in the United States where 70% of doctors are specialists and an open heal...

Homoeopathy and the medical profession

PHILLIP A. NICHOLLS, Homoeopathy and the medical profession, Beckenham, Croom Helm, 1988, 8vo, pp. 298, £27.50. There are several useful historical accounts of homoeopathy in America, but very little has been published on the British story. Nicholls's book will thus become a stock item for courses on medicine in nineteenthand twentieth-century Britain. After discussing the relation between the ...

Violence against the medical profession

Abortion by Medical Profession