Series on Health
Series on Health is a series of monographs authored by external or in-house experts on the subject of health.
Mental Handicap: ways forward
1 April 1978
This paper analyses the occurrence and causes of reduced mental ability and its handicapping consequences with the objective of highlighting those areas where there is most…
Renal Failure a priority in health?
4 January 1978
The incidence of treatable chronic renal failure in Britain and other Western countries is very small indeed. The most commonly quoted figure is forty people (under…
Physical Impairment: Social Handicap
1 November 1977
Britain’s one and a half million physically handicapped people do not form a homogeneous group. It is wrong to regard them as a discrete section of…
Preventing Bronchitis
1 April 1977
In 1808 Charles Badham adopted the term ‘bronchitis’ to define collectively ’chronic pectoral (chest) complaints, especially those of people advanced in life . . . ‘…
The Reorganised NHS
1 March 1977
This study of the reorganised National Health Service is divided into two papers. The first describes the new structure and the management concepts on which it…
Asthma
1 October 1976
Asthma, a term derived from the Greek meaning to pant, was first clearly described by Aretaeus, a physician who practised in the second and third centuries…
Rabies
1 April 1976
Rabies, which is traditionally regarded as a mortal condition in humans once the symptoms have developed, is the best known and most feared of all the…
Anaesthesia
1 February 1976
Anaesthesia is the art or science of rendering the patient unaware, thereby providing an indispensable foundation for surgery. Although man had unsuccessfully been attempting to eliminate…
Medicines Which Affect the Mind
10 January 1975
Mankind has used mind affecting drugs throughout and probably for many thousands of years before recorded history. In European culture alcohol, tobacco, caffeine and to a…