William Clark, Indian Diplomat

Two doctors Harvey: William (1578-1657); Samuel Clark (1886-1953).

Preparations for this contribution to the 1979 History of Surgery Lecture at the Yale University School of Medicine were begun in the autumn of 1978, the year which marked the four hundredth anniversary of William Harvey's birth. It was the present writer's original intention to honor the memory of that great medical scientist with a brief biographical note and critique. However, as the researc...

Creating a Diplomat

Many programs have been written to play two-player games, but few for multiplayer games in which negotiation becomes important. Diplomacy is a popular board game in which players assume the roles of the major protagonists of world war one. It is a game of negotiations; alliances, promises kept and promises broken. In order to survive a player needs help from others. Knowing whom to trust, when ...

Quarreling geneticists and a diplomat.

I N the 1950s the hydrogen bomb was new; it was also fearsome. Some of the test explosions produced debris that was dispersed by high-altitude winds, dropping radioactive fallout over an entire hemisphere. Some geneticists feared that mutations induced by the radiation would constitute a significant genetic hazard to future generations. Other people argued that the tests were a necessary part o...

The Business Failures Project: A Problem in Methodology (with William Clark and Dorothy S. Thomas)

Peter Parker: Missionary and Diplomat *

In the centenary celebration for Peter Parker the date chosen is that of the opening of his hospital in Canton. This is as it should be. It was as a physician that Doctor Parker made his best known and most distinctive contribution. It is appropriate that his memory should be kept green in connection with the work of physical healing and with the rise of the modern medical profession in China. ...