This Article  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

By Maurice Davidson, MA, MD, Oxon, FRCP. Price, $3.50. Pp 201, with many illustrations. The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimple St, London, 1955.

William B. Bean, MD, Reviewer

Arch Intern Med. 1966;118(6):611.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Man's institutions often reflect in an illuminating way the interrelations between the well-recognized emotional and intellectual drives of man, the social animal, and the customs of a particular time. In fact, institutions are caused by and cause change which some have called progress. Institutions are history's way of doing things. Institutions have a way of surviving adolescence and reaching a longer or shorter plateau of maturity. Eventually they decline. Sometimes they are destroyed. Some are assimilated or combine with others. The carefully recorded and perceptively related histories of medical societies give an unique view of a corporate expression of society and of medicine which may throw floods of light on matters which have either been mysterious or obscure, and perhaps some not even recognized. The institutions of a society reflect its state of corporate health or illness. The degree to which a society is able to manage its institutions, without . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Footnotes
Communications to this Department may be sent directly to Daniel B. Stone, MB, Department of Medicine, University Hospitals, State University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52241, or to the Chief Editor for transmittal to him.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?