In the context of the continuing debate about how ethics committees in Italy should be structured (see Bulletin 160) Professor Incorvati, from the Comitato Nazionale per la Bioetica in Rome, considers four theoretical models of how such committees may be arranged, and why one in particular looks better placed to ...

The rising interest in formalized premedical courses preparatory to professional courses in medicine and the problem of selecting applicants to such courses have led to the formulation of a scoring technique to evaluate applicants to the first year of the premedical course offered by the Faculty of Medicine, University of ...

With changing patterns of pediatric practice, the practising physician needs to acquire a deeper understanding of the emotional and intellectual development of the child. Skill is also required in the techniques of interviewing and counselling parents, and, with a knowledge of the origin of behavioural disorders, in treating these disorders. ...

On Decemrber 30, 1947 the AAAS Council passed a resolution instructing the President of the Association to appoint a Special Committee on Civil Liberties for Scientists. Maurice B. Visscher was named chairman, and with Philip Bard, Robert E. Cushman, Richard L. MVeier, and James R. Ncwmen as members, and Walter ...

Article from the 1907 September 16 edition of the Riverside Press reports that California senator Frank P. Flint visited Idyllwild to see the work accomplished by the Tri-counties Forestation Committee.