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M W Weir

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PubMed1991

Towards an holistic understanding of health and illness.

Mike Weir locates the current turmoil in the health service in a fundamental shift in the philosophies and values of health care. The existing models of modern medicine are making way for a new holistic understanding of health and illness in which, he argues, health visitors should become the principal practitioners.

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PubMed1966

Open-field behavior in mice: evidence for a major gene effect mediated by the visual system.

In segregating F(2), F(3), and F(4) generations, albino mice had lower activity and higher defecation scores than pigmented animals when tested in a brightly lighted open field. These differences persisted when members of an F(5) generation were tested under white light, but largely disappeared under red light. Thus it was concluded that there is a major gene effect on the quantitative traits of open-field activity and defecation which is mediated by the visual system and that albino mice are more photophobic than pigmented mice under conditions of bright illumination.

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