James R Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 5405992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James R Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | James R |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | English Heritage |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8601-925X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tattershall Castle and the Newly-Built Personality of Ralph Lord Cromwell
Tattershall Castle (Lincolnshire, UK) was built for the Lord Treasurer of England, Ralph Cromwell, in the mid-fifteenth century. Cromwell was a skilled politician who rose from relative obscurity via royal service; however, he never attained high social rank and made significant enemies in the royal council. He is noted to have been a prickly and self-righteous individual who wore his new-found status in society with towering pride. The architect…
The Radicalization of Breast Cancer Surgery
Johns Hopkins's surgeon William Stewart Halsted is renowned for popularizing the radical mastectomy, a disfiguring procedure that was overutilized during the 1900s. Cancer historians have questioned why Halsted, a meticulous surgical investigator, became more aggressive in his approach to breast cancer surgery when his own data failed to show prolonged patient survival. Joseph Colt Bloodgood, one of Halsted's early surgical residents, Hopkins's h…
The Pennsylvania Anatomy Act of 1883
Effective Anatomical Acts transformed medical education and curtailed grave-robbing. William S. Forbes, Demonstrator of Anatomy at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, authored the Pennsylvania Anatomy Act of 1867, but it was ineffective. In December of 1882, Forbes and accomplices were charged with grave-robbing. Forbes was acquitted in early 1883, but his accomplices were all convicted; nevertheless, these events precipitated a strengthen…
Imaging Shaka
Psychoendocrine interaction in anorexia nervosa, and the retreat from puberty
Seventeen young women suffering from anorexia nervosa underwent LHRF infusion, and repertory grid psychometric measures, soon after they had regained ideal body weight. Those who had regained normal LH responsiveness showed repertory grid evidence of increased adolescent conflict compared to those who failed to respond to LHRF. Certain other clinical variables which might account for this finding were excluded, and the hypothesis that amenorrhoea…
Davis H. Waite
Journal Article Davis H. Waite: The Ideology of a Western Populist. By John R. Morris. (Washington: University Press of America, 1982. ix + 228 pp. Illustration, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $21.50; paper, $10.25.) Get access James Wright James Wright Dartmouth College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 2, September 1983, Pages 432–433, https…
The Pennsylvania Anatomy Act of 1883
Effective Anatomical Acts transformed medical education and curtailed grave-robbing. William S. Forbes, Demonstrator of Anatomy at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, authored the Pennsylvania Anatomy Act of 1867, but it was ineffective. In December of 1882, Forbes and accomplices were charged with grave-robbing. Forbes was acquitted in early 1883, but his accomplices were all convicted; nevertheless, these events precipitated a strengthen…
Davis H. Waite
Journal Article Davis H. Waite: The Ideology of a Western Populist. By John R. Morris. (Washington: University Press of America, 1982. ix + 228 pp. Illustration, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $21.50; paper, $10.25.) Get access James Wright James Wright Dartmouth College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 2, September 1983, Pages 432–433, https…
Davis H. Waite
Journal Article Davis H. Waite: The Ideology of a Western Populist. By John R. Morris. (Washington: University Press of America, 1982. ix + 228 pp. Illustration, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $21.50; paper, $10.25.) Get access James Wright James Wright Dartmouth College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 2, September 1983, Pages 432–433, https…
Psychoendocrine interaction in anorexia nervosa, and the retreat from puberty
Seventeen young women suffering from anorexia nervosa underwent LHRF infusion, and repertory grid psychometric measures, soon after they had regained ideal body weight. Those who had regained normal LH responsiveness showed repertory grid evidence of increased adolescent conflict compared to those who failed to respond to LHRF. Certain other clinical variables which might account for this finding were excluded, and the hypothesis that amenorrhoea…
Imaging Shaka
The Pennsylvania Anatomy Act of 1883
Effective Anatomical Acts transformed medical education and curtailed grave-robbing. William S. Forbes, Demonstrator of Anatomy at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, authored the Pennsylvania Anatomy Act of 1867, but it was ineffective. In December of 1882, Forbes and accomplices were charged with grave-robbing. Forbes was acquitted in early 1883, but his accomplices were all convicted; nevertheless, these events precipitated a strengthen…
The Radicalization of Breast Cancer Surgery
Johns Hopkins's surgeon William Stewart Halsted is renowned for popularizing the radical mastectomy, a disfiguring procedure that was overutilized during the 1900s. Cancer historians have questioned why Halsted, a meticulous surgical investigator, became more aggressive in his approach to breast cancer surgery when his own data failed to show prolonged patient survival. Joseph Colt Bloodgood, one of Halsted's early surgical residents, Hopkins's h…
Tattershall Castle and the Newly-Built Personality of Ralph Lord Cromwell
Tattershall Castle (Lincolnshire, UK) was built for the Lord Treasurer of England, Ralph Cromwell, in the mid-fifteenth century. Cromwell was a skilled politician who rose from relative obscurity via royal service; however, he never attained high social rank and made significant enemies in the royal council. He is noted to have been a prickly and self-righteous individual who wore his new-found status in society with towering pride. The architect…
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