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Explorations in the social history of medicine [PDF]
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2009 Essays in Honour of Michael Bliss: Figuring the Social E.A. Heaman, Alison Li and Shelley McKellar, Editors University of Toronto Press; 2007. 464 pp $75.00 This solid collection is a testament to the fact that Michael Bliss, the distinguished Canadian historian and a professor at ...
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Physics of complex systems: Discovery in age of Goedel [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 From the perspective of the physics of complex systems (1) we deal with the current state of modern physics including the crisis in physics demonstrated through its epistemological, psychological, economical as well as the social context; (2) considering the strength of the Goedel Incompleteness Theorems we point out the following open questions in ...
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An empirical study of the per capita yield of science Nobel prizes: Is the US era coming to an end? [PDF]
Royal Society Open Sciencce 5, 180167 (2018), 2018 We point out that the Nobel prize production of the USA, the UK, Germany and France has been in numbers that are large enough to allow for a reliable analysis or the long-term historical developments. Nobel prizes are often split, such that up to three awardees receive a corresponding fractional prize. The historical trends for the fractional number of
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A debate over the link between Salvador Allende, Max Westenhöfer, and Rudolf Virchow: contributions to the history of social medicine in Chile and internationally [PDF]
História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2020 In the history of Latin American social medicine, numerous works have presented a harmonious link between Rudolf Virchow, Max Westenhöfer, and Salvador Allende, which establishes the origin of ideas of Latin American social medicine in a prestigious ...
Eric D. Carter, Marcelo Sánchez Delgado
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European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health, 2021 Specific developments in reproductive health occurred in Eastern Europe, especially in the second half of the twentieth century. During state socialism, it was experts, not social movements, who furthered the agenda of women’s health and sexuality.
K. Líšková
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Mobilizing Health Metrics for the Human Right to Water in Flint and Detroit, Michigan [PDF]
Health and Human Rights, 2019 The ongoing water crises in Detroit and Flint, Michigan, offer dramatic cases of retrogression in realizing the human right to water—particularly striking in a region that enjoys access to one-fifth of the world’s freshwater and a country that has ...
Nadia Gaber
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Physicians of colonial India (1757-1900)
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2016 The period of British rule from 1757 to 1900 is marked by major sociopolitical changes and scientific breakthroughs that impacted medical systems, institutions, and practitioners in India.
Anu Saini
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BMC Public HealthBackground While solidarity practices were important in mitigating the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, their limits became evident as the pandemic progressed.
Franziska B. Schönweitz +6 more
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Research and Science Today Supplement No. 1/2014 [PDF]
Research and Science Today, 2014 RESEARCH AND SCIENCE TODAY is a biannual science journal established in 2011. The journal is an informational platform that publishes assessment articles and the results of various scientific research carried out by academics.
Elena-Steluţa DINU +18 more
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Community concepts in plant ecology: from Humboldtian plant geography to the superorganism and beyond [PDF]
Web Ecology, 2013 The paper seeks to provide an introduction to, and review of, the history of concepts of the plant community. Eighteenth-century naturalists recognised that vegetation was distributed geographically and that different species of plants and animals were ...
M. Nicolson
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