Michael Alderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3880032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Alderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Alderson |
| SIGNATURE | ALDERSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Cancer Research |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Obituary
The War of the Fatties and Other Stories from Aztec History
War of the Fatties, a campy, tongue-in-cheek retelling of an episode from the Mexican Trojan War, naked fat women from Tlatelolco discombobulate Tenochtitlan's invading army by squirting them with breast milk. Told with satiric allusions to the policies and tactics used by Mexico's current ruling party, PRI, to consolidate its power, the play unfolds a history of vain rivalry and decadence, intricate political maneuvers, corruption, and unchecked…
Radiocarbon Dates for Beeswax Figures in the Prehistoric Rock Art of Northern Australia
Accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon ages have been taken for a test suite of small samples of material removed from some of the ‘beeswax’art figures found in rock shelters in northern Australia. The results indicate that we can reliably date this unique form of rock art with no noticeable damage. We had not expected to find figures of any great antiquity, and so we were surprised to find that the ages obtained spanned the time period from t…
La Longue Traque de la Variole
Risks of lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, ischaemic heart disease, and stroke in relation to type of cigarette smoked
In a case control study of over 12 000 inpatients aged 35-74, risk of lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, and, particularly in those aged 35-54, ischaemic heart disease was positively associated with the number of manufactured cigarettes smoked daily and was negatively associated with long term giving up. Risk of stroke was not clearly related to smoking. Among manufactured cigarette smokers, lung cancer risk tended to be lowest in those who had alw…
Biological and Social Aspects of Mortality and the Length of Life
Cancer mortality in male hairdressers
Although hair dyes have been shown to be highly mutagenic the literature on possible human cancer risk is confused. A variety of studies using different methods in different countries have provided a range of positive and negative findings. In the present study the observed and expected mortality among a sample of hairdressers identified in the 1961 census was examined and followed until 1978; attention was focused on five malignancies reported t…
A review of the National Health Service's computing policy in the 1970s
The health service computer policy is reviewed in this paper particularly the potential contribution of some systems to information gathering. The paper begins with a brief description of the computer applications thought suitable for the medical field in the late 1960s, and two views of the future that were published in 1968. Two reports on computing and information systems in Scotland are then described; the general philosophy and specific prop…
Relationship between month of birth and month of death in the elderly
A special analysis of mortality data for England and Wales fof 1972 has been used to examine the relationship between month of birth and month of death. For persons 75 and over in eight subgroups (by sex and marital status) there was a consistent trend in deaths with an excess in the birth month and the following three months. This excess was of the order of only 1% of all deaths in the year but statistically significant for each subgroup. The me…
A study of space-time clustering in Hodgkin's disease in the Manchester region
MacMahon (1966), in a comprehensive review of the epidemiology of Hodgkin's disease, provided evi dence for the hypothesis that Hodgkin's disease may consist of several separate entities. Cole, MacMahon, and Aisenberg (1968) supported this hypothesis by analysis of regional and age variation in mortality within the United States. Smithers (1970) has reviewed the epidemiological and clinical evidence and he concludes that it is unlikely that Hodgk…
Terminal care of cancer patients
SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL MEDICINE (4.O41) with the medical staffing ratio, but hospital utilization factors together accounted for a higher proportion of the variance in mean stay after operation.Overall only 38 % of the variance was 'explained' by the factors in the equation
Terminal care in malignant disease
PATIENTS may be referred to hospital in the terminal stages of cancer for specific medical needs or because home circumstances are unsuitable. Other patients may be cared for in difficult conditions at home, because of the wishes of the patients or their rela- tives. The aim of the present study was to categorize the terminal needs of patients dying from cancer in the city of Manchester, which has a population of over six hundred thousand
Assessment of Habitual Physical Activity apart from Occupation
The hypothesis that habitual physical activity protects against coronary (ischaemic) heart disease is derived from statistical comparisons which show that incidence, prevalence, and mortality rates vary inversely with the average levels of exercise involved in different occupations (Morris, Heady, Raffle, Roberts, and Parks, 1953). Similar findings were subsequently made in a variety of studies of occupa- tional groups in several countries (Brown…
Data on sickness absence in some recent publications of the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance
Accuracy of diagnosis on death certificates compared with that in hospital records
Mortality statistics have been available in Great Britain
Radiocarbon Dates for Beeswax Figures in the Prehistoric Rock Art of Northern Australia
Accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon ages have been taken for a test suite of small samples of material removed from some of the ‘beeswax’art figures found in rock shelters in northern Australia. The results indicate that we can reliably date this unique form of rock art with no noticeable damage. We had not expected to find figures of any great antiquity, and so we were surprised to find that the ages obtained spanned the time period from t…
Risks of lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, ischaemic heart disease, and stroke in relation to type of cigarette smoked
In a case control study of over 12 000 inpatients aged 35-74, risk of lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, and, particularly in those aged 35-54, ischaemic heart disease was positively associated with the number of manufactured cigarettes smoked daily and was negatively associated with long term giving up. Risk of stroke was not clearly related to smoking. Among manufactured cigarette smokers, lung cancer risk tended to be lowest in those who had alw…
Accuracy of diagnosis on death certificates compared with that in hospital records
Mortality statistics have been available in Great Britain
Assessment of Habitual Physical Activity apart from Occupation
The hypothesis that habitual physical activity protects against coronary (ischaemic) heart disease is derived from statistical comparisons which show that incidence, prevalence, and mortality rates vary inversely with the average levels of exercise involved in different occupations (Morris, Heady, Raffle, Roberts, and Parks, 1953). Similar findings were subsequently made in a variety of studies of occupa- tional groups in several countries (Brown…
Data on sickness absence in some recent publications of the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance
Accuracy of diagnosis on death certificates compared with that in hospital records
Mortality statistics have been available in Great Britain
Terminal care of cancer patients
SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL MEDICINE (4.O41) with the medical staffing ratio, but hospital utilization factors together accounted for a higher proportion of the variance in mean stay after operation.Overall only 38 % of the variance was 'explained' by the factors in the equation
Terminal care in malignant disease
PATIENTS may be referred to hospital in the terminal stages of cancer for specific medical needs or because home circumstances are unsuitable. Other patients may be cared for in difficult conditions at home, because of the wishes of the patients or their rela- tives. The aim of the present study was to categorize the terminal needs of patients dying from cancer in the city of Manchester, which has a population of over six hundred thousand
A study of space-time clustering in Hodgkin's disease in the Manchester region
MacMahon (1966), in a comprehensive review of the epidemiology of Hodgkin's disease, provided evi dence for the hypothesis that Hodgkin's disease may consist of several separate entities. Cole, MacMahon, and Aisenberg (1968) supported this hypothesis by analysis of regional and age variation in mortality within the United States. Smithers (1970) has reviewed the epidemiological and clinical evidence and he concludes that it is unlikely that Hodgk…
Relationship between month of birth and month of death in the elderly
A special analysis of mortality data for England and Wales fof 1972 has been used to examine the relationship between month of birth and month of death. For persons 75 and over in eight subgroups (by sex and marital status) there was a consistent trend in deaths with an excess in the birth month and the following three months. This excess was of the order of only 1% of all deaths in the year but statistically significant for each subgroup. The me…
A review of the National Health Service's computing policy in the 1970s
The health service computer policy is reviewed in this paper particularly the potential contribution of some systems to information gathering. The paper begins with a brief description of the computer applications thought suitable for the medical field in the late 1960s, and two views of the future that were published in 1968. Two reports on computing and information systems in Scotland are then described; the general philosophy and specific prop…
Cancer mortality in male hairdressers
Although hair dyes have been shown to be highly mutagenic the literature on possible human cancer risk is confused. A variety of studies using different methods in different countries have provided a range of positive and negative findings. In the present study the observed and expected mortality among a sample of hairdressers identified in the 1961 census was examined and followed until 1978; attention was focused on five malignancies reported t…
Biological and Social Aspects of Mortality and the Length of Life
Risks of lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, ischaemic heart disease, and stroke in relation to type of cigarette smoked
In a case control study of over 12 000 inpatients aged 35-74, risk of lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, and, particularly in those aged 35-54, ischaemic heart disease was positively associated with the number of manufactured cigarettes smoked daily and was negatively associated with long term giving up. Risk of stroke was not clearly related to smoking. Among manufactured cigarette smokers, lung cancer risk tended to be lowest in those who had alw…
La Longue Traque de la Variole
The War of the Fatties and Other Stories from Aztec History
War of the Fatties, a campy, tongue-in-cheek retelling of an episode from the Mexican Trojan War, naked fat women from Tlatelolco discombobulate Tenochtitlan's invading army by squirting them with breast milk. Told with satiric allusions to the policies and tactics used by Mexico's current ruling party, PRI, to consolidate its power, the play unfolds a history of vain rivalry and decadence, intricate political maneuvers, corruption, and unchecked…
Radiocarbon Dates for Beeswax Figures in the Prehistoric Rock Art of Northern Australia
Accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon ages have been taken for a test suite of small samples of material removed from some of the ‘beeswax’art figures found in rock shelters in northern Australia. The results indicate that we can reliably date this unique form of rock art with no noticeable damage. We had not expected to find figures of any great antiquity, and so we were surprised to find that the ages obtained spanned the time period from t…
Obituary
Medicine (9 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Population (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Disease (3 works) · Gerontology (3 works) · Gerontology (3 works) · Internal Medicine (3 works) · Internal Medicine (3 works) · Pathology (3 works)