The dial-services are an excellent connection between classical forms of collective and private transport; they are the answer to the development of transport demand from homogeneous travels (homeloffice, homelfactory, home/school in limited areas and periods) to not homogeneous travels (short continuous travels toward many different destinations); they are also the answer to the growing need o...

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James Colgrove, State of immunity: the politics of vaccination in twentieth-century America, Berkeley, University of California Press, and New York, Milbank Memorial Fund, 2006, pp. xiii, 332, illus., £29.00, $39.95 (hardback 0-520-24749-3; 978-0-52024749-3). Gordon C Cook, The Incurables Movement: an illustrated history of The British Home, Oxford, Radcliffe Publishing, 2006, pp. vii, 219, ill...

Development costs For the purpose of this article we will assume that development costs (equipment, instruments, vehicles, and training staff) will be financed by one-time investments from the government, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), local philanthropists or hospital savings. These development investments are very important; however, they are occasional and once made they are no longe...