various (156)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Mon, 24 Apr 89 21:19:51 EDT


Humanist Mailing List, Vol. 2, No. 881. Monday, 24 Apr 1989.


(1) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 05:01:47 EDT (13 lines)
From: FRI001@IBM.SOUTHAMPTON.AC.UK
Subject: Cold fusion

(2) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 08:13:38 PDT (11 lines)
From: Hanna Kassis <USERHEK@UBCMTSG.BITNET>
Subject: queries; e-style (51)

(3) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 05:16:14 EDT (7 lines)
From: "stephen r.l.clark" <AP01@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Jerome; Yugoslavia (53)

(4) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 07:34:28 EDT (11 lines)
From: Leslie <LZMORGAN@SBCCVM.bitnet>
Subject: Re: women in medicine, cont. (40)

(5) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 09:44 EST (48 lines)
From: <DECNET@CRNLGSM>
Subject: Women, medicine, "USING"

(6) Date: 24 Apr 89 18:01:54 EDT (Mon) (10 lines)
From: Gunhild Viden <viden@hum.gu.se>
Subject: Re "women in medicine"

(7) Date: 24 Apr 89 12:00:50 EDT (Mon) (11 lines)
From: Jan-Gunnar Tingsell <tingsell@hum.gu.se>
Subject: BITNET to Turkey

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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 05:01:47 EDT
From: FRI001@IBM.SOUTHAMPTON.AC.UK


From: Sean O'Cathasaigh, FRI001@UK.AC.SOTON.IBM
Department of French, The University, Southampton SO9 5NH

Hey! The cold-fusion in a test-tube experiments were originally
done in Utah, but the leader of the first team to claim success
is Prof M. Fleischmann of Southampton (unless it's SPQR in
disguise).

Sean O'Casey, FRI001@uk.ac.soton.ibm
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 08:13:38 PDT
From: Hanna Kassis <USERHEK@UBCMTSG.BITNET>
Subject: queries; e-style (51)

The following information about *Serials* may be of use to your
correspondent. The British Library Lending Division (British Library,
London, UK) publishes DOTIC (Directory of title pages, indexes and
contents pages) on behalf of the UK Serials Group (Boston Spa, UK).
Unless mistaken, I think the earliest issue appeared in 1981. DOTIC
appears irregularly.
Hanna Kassis
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 05:16:14 EDT
From: "stephen r.l.clark" <AP01@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Jerome; Yugoslavia (53)

Further on Jerome: Anne Yarbrough, in Church History 45.1976, pp.149ff
(reference courtesy of my wife).
Stephen Clark
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 07:34:28 EDT
From: Leslie <LZMORGAN@SBCCVM.bitnet>
Subject: Re: women in medicine, cont. (40)

Perhaps this is obvious, but
the New York Times Index should also be consulted; I remember reading a
review in the Book Review section (I don't know how long ago) on women
in medicine, the history of midwifery, etc. Sorry I can't be more specific;
but I remember it only because I thought it might be interesting to look
up someday.
Leslie Morgan
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 09:44 EST
From: <DECNET@CRNLGSM>
Subject: Women, medicine, "USING"

Add more more name to the list of those somewhat offended by use of the
phrase "use of women in medicine..."; however, with E-mail, one can't repent
at the first sign of trouble, so more than one complaint is probably unfair.

My wife has been heavily involved with the administrative/policy side of
health care in the US for many years, so I have some bias on the subject.

This may be somewhat tangential to the original request (1500-1700?), but
I have observed (in a completely unscientific sample) that women, or those
heavily involved with raising children, seem to be more personally concerned
about the long-term issues which come back to affect the "health" of their
children and grandchildren than many of today's single, childless males who
dominate much of the political process, and perhaps did in 1600 as well.

I'm only proposing that Mr. Flannigan explore a retrospective look in
light of the increasingly wholistic view of "health" and "health care" that
recognizes the long-term impact of everything from bonding, nurturing,
stability, economic realities, environmental pollution, and other ways of
passing off the problems of today on the children of tomorrow. There was
(1976?) a fascinating article in the Journal of Philosophy and Medicine
(by a Stanford professor, B......, it escapes me now, it was the issue
on ethical issues of use of computers in diagnostic medicine) on the
hierarchical nature of actual medical problems: to overstate, this patient
has an acid/base imbalance due to kidney malfunction due to overdrinking
brought on by family troubles related to unemployment caused by the
national import ban resulting from US trade policy on etc. The point
of that is that, in any serious discussion of reducing the cost of
health care in the country, one has to be realistic about the bounds
of the problem: saving money on pollution control and then spending it
on resultant cancer treatment downstream (literally) 5 years later is
a stupid (but not unheard of) way to proceed.

I'll just state a highly controversial hypothesis that many of our
"health care" problems are brought about by short-sighted, effectively
childless, white males who are into confrontational politics, and that
some measure of remedy might be found in the longer perspective of
those (male or female) who have been deeply involved in raising children
and who care, on a primal level, what the world will look like for
their own offspring 100 years from now.

Well, there. That should generate some response!

Wade Schuette @ Cornell.

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Date: 24 Apr 89 18:01:54 EDT (Mon)
From: Gunhild Viden <viden@hum.gu.se>
Subject: Re "women in medicine"

Re Roy Flannagan's request: There may be something of interest in
Margaret Hallissy, Venomous Woman: Fear of the Female in Literature
(Contributions in Women's Studies 87, 1987).

Gunhild Viden

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Date: 24 Apr 89 12:00:50 EDT (Mon)
From: Jan-Gunnar Tingsell <tingsell@hum.gu.se>
Subject: BITNET to Turkey

As far as I know Turkey has been connected for some years now.
The EARN board member is Oguz Manas, manas@trearn.bitnet, and his
deputy is Sitki Aytac, aytac@trearn.bitnet.
A very active systems programmer who could probably also help you,
is Turgut Kalfaoglu, turgut@trearn.bitnet.

Jan-Gunnar.