Belfast, Boston Massachusetts, Oswestry Shropshire and Oxford were the sites of publications on the regionalisation of Orthopaedic Surgery centres which have led to our present trauma centres. Professors Andrew Fullerton and Thomas Sinclair of Queen’s Belfast were under the Allied Command of Sir Alfred Keough, head of the RAMC who appointed Robert Jones of Oswestry as Commander of Allied Orthop...

Investigators found evidence that Waldheim “participated in persecutions for reasons of race or religion under the Nazi regim e," Attorney General Ed­ win Meese said Tuesday in Brussels. A U.S. official a t the United Nations in New York said that, if Waldheim sought to attend a U.N. session, “ a policy decision would have to be made on whe­ ther to adm it him .” Waldheim, who is 68 and was ele...

Relatively little is known about the course of PTSD symptoms over time following trauma exposure. Accordingly, this study utilized a specialized structural equation modeling approach, growth mixture modeling, to examine the trajectory of PTSD symptoms across three time points in a sample of Gulf War veterans (n at Time 1 = 2,949, n at Time 2 = 2,313, and n at Time 3 = 1,327). Results were most ...

With Yale committing $1 billion to the development of science and technology there is much curiosity about how Yale will spend its money and why Yale is deciding to spend it now. Biotechnology in New Haven, in part, explains Yale?s move towards the sciences. With the decline in the New Haven economy since World War II, Yale stands to benefit greatly if the New Haven economy is revived, in part ...

For many hundred of years, military forces have included chaplains of various faiths. Although these personnel mainly concentrate on providing for the religious and spiritual needs of the armed forces, they also contribute to the mental health of service personnel. This article provides a historical overview of military chaplains, examines their contributions to the psychological health of alli...

This lecture commemorates Arthur Tudor Edwards, one of the very small group of surgeons who, in the decade following the first world war, established the surgery of intrathoracic organs as a practicable procedure. For one year, 1932-3, I was house officer at the Brompton Hospital to him and his colleague, J. E. H. Roberts, the two leading thoracic surgeons in London. Seeking a possible link bet...

sir,?uenius is the grip upon first principles. Surprise, therefore, is not awakened, when the modern methods of treating war wounds throw a fresh light upon the genius of the greatest of surgeons and a man with every element of genius, Lord Lister. Lister won his first success with his antiseptic system in 1868 and in 1870 the Franco-German war broke out. Preceding this war there had been the C...

Historians of science have participated actively in debates over American science policy in the post-World War II period in a variety of ways, but their impact has been more to elucidate general concepts than to effect specific policy changes. Personal experiences, in the case of the debate over global warming, have demonstrated both the value and the limits of such involvement for the making o...

The term 'transcultural psychiatry' has encompassed changing notions of race, culture and psychiatry and, as a result, it is a difficult concept to define. For a long time psychiatrists and social scientists have been commenting on how the psyches and psychiatric illnesses differ in non-White populations. However, transcultural psychiatry was not created as a distinct discipline until after Wor...

Although the Nazi genocide of Jews during World War II is well known, the concurrent Nazi genocide of psychiatric patients is much less widely known. An attempt was made to estimate the number of individuals with schizophrenia who were sterilized and murdered by the Nazis and to assess the effect on the subsequent prevalence and incidence of this disease. It is estimated that between 220,000 an...