This paper is a personal journey through nurse training and perioperative practice. Nurse education is also explored alongside some of the social, academic and political changes that have influenced healthcare in the United Kingdom between 1966 and 2008. The views expressed are those of the author only, and the anecdotal descriptions are anonymous.

We compared the pattern of cerebrovascular disease (stroke) mortality in men and women aged 40-69 years in 27 countries during 1970-1985 with the decline in coronary heart disease mortality during the same period. Stroke mortality rates declined in 21 and 25 countries for men and women, respectively. In 23 countries the decline in stroke mortality in women was greater than that in men. Countrie...

the discerning of spirits, different kinds of tongues and the interpretation of tongues. Buddhist and Hindhu philosophy testify also that such manifestations are, in every age and culture, the by-products of spiritual maturity. They cannot be curtly diagnosed and dismissed as archaism. If the author is implying that it is undesirable that we should be preoccupied with visionary experience at th...

■ Abstract This review discusses research on the urban street gang after the 1960s, the period in which social scientists began to conceptualize the gang outside of the social-problems framework. Street-gang research has changed dramatically in the past three decades in accordance with general shifts in sociological research, including developments in gender studies, economic sociology, and rac...

1-. . This document is a partially annotated bibliography of publications of the Learning Research and Development Center of the University of Pittsburgh. The sections of the bibliography are: Publications: 1972 (annotated); Publications: 1971 (annotated); Reprints: 1964-1970 (partially annotated); Working Papers: 1965-1970 (partially annotated); Te6hoical Reports: 1966-1970; Monographs: 1970 (...

are: improvements in microsurgical technique; advances in drug therapy including antivirals, and in particular anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive drugs; improved diagnosis and case selection aided by tissue typing of the potential recipient who has a vascularised cornea. The use of eye banks is commonplace in America3, but in this country fresh donor material is used, usually within 24 hou...

An examination of the recent decline in perinatal mortality in Scotland during the 1970s showed that despite substantial changes in fertility and the demographic pattern of births, differences in the age, parity, and social class composition of the obstetric population in this decade accounted for just 7% of the overall improvement in perinatal mortality between 1970 and 1979. The general patte...