The audience of one: making professional communication personal

The Coastal Challenge

“…A classic example is the erosion of the village of Halisands which occurred in 1894 after 500,000 tons of gravel had been removed from a bank just offshore from the village (37).…”

Methotrexate Treatment for Advanced Bladder Cancer

“…Careful monitoring of renal function is essential in all patients before and during methotrexate therapy. In this respect it is important to realise that in a patient with reduced renal clearance a single injection of methotrexate may produce plasma levels of the drug comparable to a 24-hour infusion (Price, 1973). Administration of methotrexate itself may lead to renal tubular damage and impaired renal function (Condit, Chanes and Joel, 1969).…”

“…(h) Inadequate treatment of tumours that were potentially responsive. Toxicity prevented regular treatment in many patients and often necessitated reduction of the methotrexate dosage to less than 100 mg per month which is probably sub-optimal (Price, 1973). It is interesting that only 4 of 1 I patients showing an initial response relapsed while continuing treatment.…”

Anthony Crosland: intellectual and politician

“…His somewhat sniffy approach to universities as elitist and stuffy sat oddly with his own golden career at Oxford, although those close to him (e.g. Price, 2004) felt that he had not been impressed by his experience as a don; he had a positive disdain for the self-regard displayed by the ancient universities, and his own college, socially exclusive Trinity, was probably not at all to his taste. Susan Crosland recounts how he found one of his days 'interminable.…”