THE SEASON'S BARLEY, 1951

Current Therapy 1951

some time. The compilation of a book of this type requires that the author have considerable experience in teaching and close contact with current literature. Since Rugh has been active in research and teaching of experimental embryology for some years, it was anticipated that he would produce a text that would be satisfactory to both student and instructor. The author opens with an historical ...

John Newport 1951–2005

The news is so full of lives cut short that one might worry that we have become inured to the experience. But cold reality asserts itself when a premature death strikes within our own community, and the full tragedy and the wasted opportunity are exposed. We then pause to mark the singularity of human existence and the personal nature of science itself. John Newport, distinguished professor of ...

The Seasons of Life

The British Doctors? Study (1951?2001)

From 1951 to 2001, researchers at the University of Oxford [2] in Oxford, England, conducted the British Doctors? Study, a study that examined the smoking habits, disease rates, and mortality rates of physicians in Britain. Two epidemiologists, scientists who study occurrence and distribution of disease, Richard Doll and Austin Bradford Hill, initiated the study, and statistician Richard Peto j...

THE GENESIS OF VALIDITY: MID-1800s–1951