For more information on the US trauma system, trauma facilities in your area, and traumatic injuries please refer to the following websites. 1  American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. 2  Florida Department of Health Trauma Program.
With his wife Jane, Stanford founded Leland Stanford Junior University as a memorial for their only child, Leland Stanford, Jr. , who died as a teenager of typhoid fever in Florence, Italy, in 1884 while on a trip to Europe.
They were willing participants in the Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most controversial studies in the history of social psychology. (Itâs the subject of a new film of the same nameâa drama, not a documentaryâstarring Billy Crudup, of âAlmost Famous,â as the lead investigator, Philip Zimbardo.he Stanford Prison Experiment is cited as evidence of the atavistic impulses that lurk within us all; itâs said to show that, with a little nudge, we could all become tyrants. And yet the lessons of the Stanford Prison Experiment arenât so clear-cut. From the beginning, the study has been haunted by ambiguity.