Results 51 to 60 of about 176,400,693 (224)

“Women of the Happy Life”: Prostitution, Public Morality, and Venereal Disease in US‐Occupied Nicaragua, 1912–33

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
wiley   +1 more source

‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
wiley   +1 more source

Educação e propaganda sanitárias: desdobramentos da formação de um sanitarista brasileiro na Fundação Rockefeller [PDF]

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos
Resumo O artigo discute a influência da formação de jovens sanitaristas na Fundação Rockefeller para as ações que desenvolveram nos cargos de chefia sanitária no Brasil. São apresentados os métodos de educação e propaganda sanitárias da instituição norte-
Ricardo dos Santos Batista
doaj   +2 more sources

A Tribunal Only in Name: Anarchic Sensibilities at the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women, 1976

History, EarlyView.
Abstract In March 1976, around 2000 women from forty countries arrived at the Palais des Congrès in Brussels to participate in the first International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women. Explicitly positioning themselves against the United Nations‐led ‘International Year of the Woman’, the organizers and participants of the tribunal proclaimed a global ...
NIVEDITA JOON
wiley   +1 more source

Ler ciencia no Brasil do seculo XIX: a Revista Popular, 1859-1862

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2013
O objetivo deste texto é analisar como as questões referentes à vulgarização da ciência eram tratadas por um periódico brasileiro do século XIX, a Revista Popular , editada pela Livraria e Casa Editorial Garnier, entre 1859 e 1862.
Giselle Martins Venancio
doaj   +1 more source

Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Hunting occupied an important place in the royal court culture of the Ghaznavid state (963–1186 CE). Ghaznavid hunting culture developed through the interaction of Turkic‐Islamic political traditions, Persianate models of kingship and local ecological settings. Rather than constituting a fully formalized institution, Ghaznavid hunting practice
Arslan Durdu
wiley   +1 more source

Kim Doo-Jong : A Life for the History of Korean Medicine

, 1998
Kim Doo Jong, the founder of the history of medicine in Korea, was born on 2nd March, 1896. After finishing his primary education in his home town, he went to Seoul to receive a higher education. He entered Keijo Medical College in 1918.
여인석
core  

Ser ou não ser consiliente: eis a questão

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2001
Stephen J. Gould e Edward Wilson são autores emblemáticos de duas tendências opostas do darwinismo. A primeira defende a separação entre os duros fatos da natureza, tal como nos são apresentados pela teoria da seleção natural, e as questões de valor e ...
Cruz Eduardo Rodrigues
doaj  

War is hazardous for your health: photographs and testimonies about death, wounds, disease and medical care during the Mexican Revolution Guerra é prejudicial à sua saúde: fotografias e testemunhos sobre morte, ferimentos, doenças e cuidados médicos durante a Revolução Mexicana

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2011
Revolutionary wars have devastating and far-reaching effects on the health of the populations caught up in them. However, the deaths and injuries produced by weaponry are only part of the story, because diseases resulting from malnutrition and ...
John Mraz
doaj   +1 more source

The Ladies’ Alpine Club, Embattled Collaboration and International Communities of Knowledge, 1907–39

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article considers the development of the Ladies’ Alpine Club from its inception until the Second World War through its Yearbooks, articles and lectures, as part of a community of knowledge which was devoted to international mountaineering.
James Watts
wiley   +1 more source