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A study which casts doubts on the present arrangements for correlating cost-benefit assessments with technological advances. It argues that some technologies in the future will be so costly in relation to benefits that society will be forced to renounce them.
Volume 4 examines the way in which the Royal College of Physicians has adapted to far-reaching changes in medical knowledge, social attitudes and the organization of health. At the same time it illuminates the history of the NHS and examines controversial public issues such as smoking.
John P. Horder, President, 1980-82 The first 30 years of the College have been an exciting experience for those most closely involved. Some have already passed on, but this account has been written soon enough for many of the actors to be historians. Future members of the College will be grateful to them for what they have written, as well as for what they did as a remarkably determined and harmonious team. Students of twentieth century medicine in this country will also be grateful for a first-hand account of the development of an institution which has been closely associated with, and partly responsible for, important changes in medical care and education. Those who read these pages may wo...
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
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This investigation of the political in Europe since the 1960s newly illuminates advanced industrial economies.