Central to the concept of occupational therapy are the evaluation, enhancement and use of skilled motor actions. While many central nervous system processes are involved in skilled movement, one aspect of sensorimotor function has come under particular attention lately as a large determinant of fine motor facility. That aspect is perceptualmotor functions, formerly called “eye-hand” coordinatio...

When you think of Christmas gifts you naturally think of Marlboro cigarettes, leading seller in flip-top box in all fifty states—and if we annex Wales, in all fifty-one—and if we annex Lapland—in all fifty-two. This talk about annexing Wales and Lapland is, incidentally, not just idle speculation. Great Britain wants to trade Wales to the United States for a desert. Great Britain needs a desert...

rom March 2011 to June 2012, over three dozen Tibetans set themselves on fire to protest against repression in China. Self-immolation, though exceedingly rare, has been part of the global repertoire of protest for half a century. This article places the Tibetan cases within an international context of suicide protest over several decades. Comparison reveals the Tibetan episode to be one of the ...

to run initially for a three-year period, ending on 30 June 1966, but has been extended for a further three years. A marginal punch card was devised in conjunction with Kalamazoo Limited to record details of cases, and full information regarding each notified case was obtained at special home visits carried out by health visitors or clinic nurses. During the three-year period 961 cases were not...

Repeated censuses of a population of yellow baboons (Pupio ~ynocephalri~s) in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, revealed a decrease from over 2,500 animals in 1963-1964 to 123 individuals in 1979, or from a density of about 73 to 1.8 baboons per kmz over a 15-year period. Median group size decreased from 43 in 1964 to 27 in 1979. The largest and smallest goups declined the most; groups near the me...

Since its creation in 1936, the Wellcome Trust has carried out the wishes of its founder in the promotion ofresearch in medical science and in the history ofmedicine. Its achievements have been recently chronicled by A. R. Hall and B. A. Bembridge in a volume reviewed on pp. 473-475 below, and, more briefly, by Lord Franks in the following retrospect. It would be superfluous here to describe th...