Publications

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…

Pharmaceutical Industry and Society: a Study of the Changing Environment and Economics of the International Industry

1 July 1972

This paper is based on a symposium held at the Imperial College of Science and Technology by the Office of Health Economics in 1972. Our ancestors…

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…

Evaluation in the Health Services

1 May 1972

Proceedings of a symposium HELD AT THE Royal College of General Practitioners on Thursday 21 October 1971 One of the main ideas behind a symposium on…

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…