In Britain, sociology was introduced into the medical curriculum following the Goodenough report in 1944: In medicine, âsocial explanationsâ of the etiology of disease meant for some doctors a redirection of medical thought from the purely clinical and psychological criteria of illness.
English: The Gobi Desert â a huge desert steppe region located in southern Mongolia and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of northern China.
The Gobi measures over 1,600 km (1,000 mi) from southwest to northeast and 800 km (500 mi) from north to south. The desert is widest in the west, along the line joining the Lake Bosten and the Lop Nor (87Â°â89Â° east).It occupies an arc of land 1,295,000 km 2 (500,000 sq mi) in area as of 2007; it is the fifth-largest desert in the world and Asia's largest. Much of the Gobi is not sandy but has exposed bare rock. Eastern Gobi desert steppe, the easternmost of the Gobi ecoregions, covering an area of 281,800 km 2 (108,804 sq mi). 2  It extends from the Inner Mongolian Plateau in China northward into Mongolia.