John Hutchinson, the inventor of the spirometer--hisnorthcountrybackground, life in London, and scientific achievements.

Overview of the epidemiologic research: Editorial Guidelines

Epidemiology can be considered as a very old science. For example, John Graunt, a statistician, published Natural and Political Observations. In the Bills of Mortality in 1662, he analyzed the mortality rolls in London before the Great Plague, presented one of the first life tables, and reported time trends for many diseases. He provided statist...

Beyond Talking: We Need Effective Measures to Tackle Systemic Corruption and the Power That Allows It to Persist in Health Systems; A Response to Recent Commentaries

Educational and Scientific Achievements of Islamic Revolution during Its Forty Years Life

Assessing the activities and effects of a political system after a broad and fundamental revolution, despite the long periods of war and the crises caused by long-term sanctions etc, is clearly not an easy task. After passing four decades from the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran, it is now the time for scholars, performing reasonable scientific and statistic researches, to assess ...

We Need to Talk About Corruption in Health Systems

The health sector consistently appears prominently in surveys of perceived corruption, with considerable evidence that this has serious adverse consequences for patients. Yet this issue is far from prominent in the international health policy discourse. We identify five reasons why the health policy community has been reluctant to talk about it. These are the problem of defining corruption, the...

A bibliography of John Hutchinson.

1. Society of Arts. 29 May 1844.-W. H. Bodkin, Esq., M.P., V.P., in the chair. Lancet, 1844, i: 390-391 (15 June). Notes: "The Secretary read a paper by Mr. Hutchinson on his Pneumatic Apparatus for Valuing the Respiratory Powers, which was illustrated by about twenty large diagrams and tables. The apparatus was also placed on the table." At first sight it would appear that Hutchinson himself w...