Series on Health
Series on Health is a series of monographs authored by external or in-house experts on the subject of health.
Hospital Purchasing
1 September 1972
Out of £868 minion spent on the revenue account of the hospital service in England and Wales in 1970, £242 million, or a little over one…
Migraine
1 June 1972
Migraine is typical of the sort of ill-defined self-limiting condition which takes up much of the time of general practitioners. It involves no risk of mortality…
Family Planning in Britain
1 April 1972
Arguments in favour of family planning or ‘birth control’ can be advanced on the basis of one (or both) of two major premises. First, it may…
Hypertension: a Suitable Case for Treatment?
1 October 1971
Ever since the discovery of the circulation of the blood it has been known that blood is forced around the body under pressure from the contractions…
Epilepsy and Society
1 July 1971
As early as 2080 BC reference can be found to epilepsy in the code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon. Special laws affecting the marriage of people…
Prospects in Health
1 June 1971
In advanced countries, the majority of medical care is no longer concerned with prevention of death. Better social conditions, modern scientific medicine and in particular immunisation…
Off Sick
1 January 1971
In the first six months of 1970, 5 million working days were lost because of industrial disputes. This has been exceeded in only 2 years since…
Alcohol Abuse
1 July 1970
Alcoholism has been a problem for many hundreds of years although the word itself is comparatively modem. Like schizophrenia it has, at various times, been described…
Building for Health
1 July 1970
In 1948 the newly created National Health Service inherited a stock of buildings which varied very widely in both quality and quantity from area to area.…