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Lunatic asylums: A business of profit during the colonial empire in India

open access: yesIndian Journal of Psychiatry, 2021
The knowledge about “maladies of the mind” was in the early stages of development and far from being considered as medical conditions till the mid-19th century.
R. C. Jiloha
doaj   +1 more source

Master narratives as “colonial propaganda” and counternarratives as “refusal”: How African Australians reimagine racial dignity in Australia

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper utilizes the concept of “colonial master narratives” to examine how racial propaganda is mobilized in the Australian imaginary to “flatten” the stories of Blac/k people and how African Australians deploy counternarratives to reject these racialized projections.
Kathomi Gatwiri, Samara Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Periodicals, the Empire and the City in Victorian Culture

open access: yesThe Grove
This contribution investigates the representation of cities of the British Empire in Victorian periodicals, a mass medium in the second half of the 19th century. Articles on all aspects of Empire were then a staple of the British periodical press.
Barbara Korte
doaj   +1 more source

Giovanni Antonio Scopoli's De Hydrargyro Idriensi Tentamina (1761): Mercury Mining, Mercurialism, and Preventive Reasoning in Eighteenth‐Century Occupational Medicine

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723–1788), a physician‐naturalist of the Enlightenment, is primarily remembered for his contributions to botany and entomology. Less attention has been paid to his medical work De hydrargyro Idriensi Tentamina physico‐chymico‐medica (1761), written during his fifteen years of service as physician at the mercury mines
Alberto Zanatta   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The expansion of England? Scotland, architectural history, and the wider British world [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Art Historiography, 2018
This article makes a case for both recognizing and understanding the unique Scottish contribution to the history of architecture in the British colonial world.
G.A. Bremner
doaj  

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN AND HIS CONCEPT OF IMPERIAL DEFENSE

open access: yesВестник Брянского государственного университета, 2022
The paper studies the main provisions of the concept of Imperial defense formulated by the British Colonial Secretary J. Chamberlain during the Colonial conference of 1897.
Simonenko E.S.
doaj   +1 more source

Origin, evolution and biogeographic dynamics of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in Southwestern Europe

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The Pleistocene is a key period for understanding the evolutionary history and palaeobiogeography of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). The species was first documented in southeastern Iberia at the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene and appears to have rapidly spread throughout Southwestern Europe, where it was found in numerous ...
Maxime Pelletier
wiley   +1 more source

(REHABILITATING HERITAGE PLACES) STRUCTURAL REPAIRS AND CONSERVATION WORKS FOR ASTOR KOLKATA, INDIA [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2017
Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta in English, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal and is located in eastern India on the east bank of the River Hooghly.
S. Dasgupta, L. Fournier
doaj   +1 more source

Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of the pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT) shortage on prescribing in England: Analysis of national data

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aim Pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT) is essential for the management of pancreatic exocrine insufficiency. Since June 2023, the United Kingdom has been affected by a global shortage of PERT. We investigated the impact of this shortage on national prescribing trends for Creon, Nutrizym, Pancrex and Pangrol.
Teena S. Varghese   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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