Review A Manual of Chemistry on the basis of Professor Brande's; containing the principal facts of the Science, arranged in the order in which they are discussed and illustrated in the Lectures at Harvard University, N.E. Compiled from the works of Brande, Henry, Berzelius, Thompson and others. Designed as a Text-Book, for the use of students and persons attending Lectures on Chemistry . By John W. Webster, M.D. Lecturer on Chemistry in Harvard University. 8vo. pp. 603. Boston: Richardson & Lord. 1826.

1826 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-401
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Harvard University ◽  
Text Book

A Tribute to the Late William J. Curran

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-275
Author(s):  
O. Lawrence ◽  
J.D. Gostin
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Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Legal Medicine ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
International Institute ◽  
University Professor

In the summer of 1979, a group of experts on law, medicine, and ethics assembled in Siracusa, Sicily, under the auspices of the International Commission of Jurists and the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Science, to draft guidelines on the rights of persons with mental illness. Sitting across the table from me was a quiet, proud man of distinctive intelligence, William J. Curran, Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Legal Medicine at Harvard University. Professor Curran was one of the principal drafters of those guidelines. Many years later in 1991, after several subsequent re-drafts by United Nations (U.N.) Rapporteur Erica-Irene Daes, the text was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly as the Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and for the Improvement of Mental Health Care. This was the kind of remarkable achievement in the field of law and medicine that Professor Curran repeated throughout his distinguished career.

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