Vienna Lying-in and Foundling Hospitals

Language barriers in Vienna hospitals.

As part of a wider investigation of cross-cultural communication practices in health care and social service institutions of Vienna, a survey among hospital staff was conducted to establish the need for mediated communication between service providers and non-German-speaking patients. The responses of 508 doctors, nurses and therapists demonstrate a substantial need for interpreting services, w...

Handbook for Use of Compounders in Civil Hospitals and Sub-Assistant Surgeons in Out-Lying Dispensaries

Metagenomics: A foundling finds its feet.

When Jo Handelsman first coined the term Metagenomics in 1998 [1], who would of foreseen the rapid progression of a clonal-based research technology handling hundreds of thousands of base pairs to the goliath sequencing efforts that are routinely applied today? Metagenomics, or community-based genome sequencing and analysis, has come of age. In Greek, 'meta' refers (in this context) to 'being b...

Lying and Deception Lying and Self-deception

Questions about truthfulness occur in many contexts—when parents ask their children if they are using recreational drugs, when an employer ask applicants about the reasons they left their last job, when international leaders consider each others’ threats or promises, when voters evaluate candidates’ promises, when physicians consider a patient’s complaint, when at the start of a romantic encoun...

John Wilkes and the Foundling Hospital at Aylesbury

improved: expectation of life at twenty rose, age at marriage for women fell, more land was available. But plague had left a middle-aged and elderly population, and by 1400 Halesowen was doomed to demographic stagnation for a generation or more. This general picture had been suggested by much previous work on medieval agrarian society, but it had not been established in such overwhelming and co...