American political opinion.?Politicians of America are opposed to socialized medicine. We reproduce selected points from the address by Congressman Otto Passman given at the annual meeting of the Louisiana State Medical Society (Passman, 1951) : (1) Certainly the doctors are numbered among the most learned and outstanding citizens. (2) It is stated without reservation that the nation is in grav...

Honey bees are attacked by numerous parasites and pathogens toward which they present a variety of individual and group-level defenses. In this review, we briefly introduce the many pathogens and parasites afflicting honey bees, highlighting the biology of specific taxonomic groups mainly as they relate to virulence and possible defenses. Second, we describe physiological, immunological, and be...

To discover historical developments that have shaped the nature of s the US health care delivery system To evaluate why the system has been resistant to national health s insurance reforms To explore developments associated with the corporatization of s health care To speculate on whether the era of socialized medicine has dawned s in the United States " Where's the market? "