The buccaneers who followed the seventeenth-century "Sweete Trade of Privateering" in the Indies are generally regarded as bold adventurers, impervious to hardship and meeting danger in "Harry Morgan's Way" with amazing nonchalance.' To a certain extent this was true, but a closer examination of their way of life dispels any charge of complete foolhardiness. United in "The Confederacy of the Br...

background: universal precautions are not well understood or implemented by health care practitioners, though crucial in the prevention and transmission of blood-borne pathogens like hiv. objective: to assess knowledge, awareness and compliance of universal precautions among health care workers at the university hospital of the west indies, jamaica. method: a cross-sectional survey was conducte...

Are “Doctors Without Borders” (MSF) doctors without a homeland? Based on fifty interviews, statistical data and participatory observation, this articledescribes humanitarian mission conditions limiting local integration suggests three forms of attachment: home (“break expatriates”), elsewhere (“multi‑homeland expatriates”) or nowhere (“duty‑free expatriates”). For the latter, MSF plays, until t...

OBJECTIVE To assess the knowledge of four groups of individuals regarding who is legally authorised to consent to health care or research involving older patients. DESIGN A provincewide postal survey. SETTING Province of Quebec, Canada. PARTICIPANTS Three hundred older adults, 434 informal caregivers of cognitively impaired individuals, 98 researchers in aging and 136 members of research ...