The Poor Historian

Language-Based Inequity in Health Care: Who Is the "Poor Historian"?

Patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) are among the most vulnerable populations. They experience high rates of medical errors with worse clinical outcomes than English-proficient patients and receive lower quality of care by other metrics. However, we have yet to take the issue of linguistic inequities seriously in the medical system and in medical education, tacitly accepting that su...

Technologist-Historian: Data Visualization Meets the Archive.

The Historian and Archival Finding Aids

Charles Raven. Naturalist, historian, theologian

centuries (C.B. Schmitt); science in the early Royal Society (M.D. Hall); science and religion in the seventeenth century (P.M. Rattansi); the growth of Netherlands science in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries (W. D. Hackmann); the rise and fall of Scottish science (J. R. R. Christie); scientific careers in eighteenth-century France (R. Hahn); the development of a professional care...

Andrew Malcolm of Belfast: Physician and Historian

THIS book is in two parts: a biography of Malcolm (134 pages) and a facsimile reproduction of his History of the Belfast General Hospital and the Principal Medical Institutions of the Town, first published in 1851 (by S. & G. Agnew) but long out of print and now rare. Both are wvelcome; their publication in one well-produced and comparatively inexpensive volume is particularly appropriate. Thos...