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I and its aftermath, thousands of U.S. nurses put their domestic careers on hold to work overseas. Many volunteered in the wake of war and disaster. Others worked as instructors in nursing schools and as the staff of fledgling public health agencies. This article charts the international travels of...
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PMID: 21329146
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This article reviews the historiographical elements of the professional identity of nursing, focusing on what historians have denoted as the "history of the present." Professional identity interacts with elements of power, gender, politics, philosophy, and history, and its value is t...
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PMID: 21329157
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Drawing on the relevant literature, this article explores key debates and controversies on child labour in the context of Africa and Asia. It first identifies and analyses three dominant discourses on child labour: 1) the work-free childhoods perspective; 2) the socio-cultural perspe...
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PMID: 21961185
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In this article, the author explains how the support of new technologies has helped historians to develop their research over the last few decades. The author, therefore, summarizes the application of both database and genealogical programs for the southern Europe family studies as a...
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PMID: 21898961
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We describe Canguilhem's attempts at designing a methodological framework for the history of science including the status of kinds of knowledge related to science, like scientific ideologies preceding particular scientific domains (like ideologies about inheritance before Mendel, or Spencer's univer...
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PMID: 20695411
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Postmodernity, a historical era demarcated from modernity by a broad reversal in cultural presuppositions, is distinguished from postmodernism, an intellectual posture adopted by self-identified postmodernists early in postmodernity. Two principal features of postmodernity are addressed: first, the...
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PMID: 20695412
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Knowledge production has an intrinsic political dimension. Starting from this presupposition, it is argued that the systematic integration of and reflection on the political dimension is necessary for an adequate understanding of historical processes of knowledge production in the sciences. The cons...
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PMID: 20695413
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We utilize these tools in fact returns us, instinctively, to European and Eurocentric ways of conceiving how science works....
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PMID: 20575496
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While thinking about the notion of the "global" in the history of the history of science, this essay examines a related but equally basic concept: the idea of "Western science." Tracing its rise in the nineteenth century, it shows how it developed as much outside the Western world as within it. Iron...
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PMID: 20575492
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I hope it will serve as a reminder that the events of the past do echo in the present....
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PMID: 20503916
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In his Histories, Herodotus uses the mule as a symbol of both potential advantages and risks of intermarriage and reproduction between different ethnic groups. Both literal mules and the children of mixed marriages are symbols of revolutions and new dynasties. These revolutions are often marked by a...
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PMID: 20873014
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We invite others to join the effort, both in this particular project and in joining together in digital collection, archiving, and knowledge generation at the borders of biology and history....
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PMID: 20503717
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The article deals with a brief essay of history and actual state of activities of the Confederation of historians of medicine which before Perestroika was named the All-Union history medical society.
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PMID: 20731155
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We understand metahistory as an approach that studies how histories within a particular discipline have been written and focus on insider scientists' reconstructions of twin research. Using the concept of ethical-political affordances we suggest that such histories are based on a management of resou...
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PMID: 20419900
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During the Middle Ages, the prevailing conception of the history of alchemy was that of a genealogical line of descent--both carnal and spiritual--where the original paternal figure was invested with the role of ensuring unity of knowledge. The relationship between this figure and its descendants wa...
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PMID: 20506703
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This paper is concerned with the social organization of collective memory and representations of history in the context of how post-communist democracies reckon with former regimes. It specifically centres on the textual accomplishment of coming to terms with the past in the 'TismÄneanu Report' c...
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PMID: 18817593
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There is little historical knowledge available about nurses' role in anaesthesia in Canada. It appears, from the few sources available, that nurses did administer anaesthesia in the early 20th century in Canada. The limited historiography reveals that nurses who worked in small rural hospitals acros...
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PMID: 19626757
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We present a new way of understanding psychology, which emerges as a result of relating it to the three principles of the theory of fashion of Gilles Lipovetsky: "the principle of the ephemeral," "the principle of the marginal differentiation of individuals," and "the principle of seduction." We rel...
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PMID: 19476249
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"Qianqingtangshumu" (Bibliography of Qianqingtang), compiled by HUANG Yu-ji, the extensively collected works of the Ming dynasty, which included works not recorded in the Mingshi (History of the Ming dynasty) and other biographies. It was an important reference book to study the history of the Ming...
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PMID: 19930929
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This paper aims to explore the evolution of psychiatric nursing from the delayed organization of an asylum mental health system in Greece to the present. The care and custody of mental health patients which was in the hands of police at the first asylum passed to the hands of uneducated staff and gr...
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PMID: 19192082
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We explore the relationship between psychology and history and argue that the psychologist-historian plays a vital role in the discipline of psychology. We provide a brief overview of the emergence of the history of psychology as a professional subdiscipline, describe who psychologist-historians are...
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PMID: 19353936
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This paper discusses how psychoanalytic ideas were brought to bear in the Allied struggle against the Third Reich and explores some of the claims that were made about this endeavour. It shows how a variety of studies of Fascist psychopathology, centered on the concept of superego, were mobilized in...
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PMID: 19791314
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Medical papers on diseases of famous persons, sometimes called pathographies, constitute the by far largest section of publications dealing with historical diagnosis. The procedure of attaching modern diagnostic labels to illustrious personalities of the past, i.e. retrospective diagnosis, has stimu...
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PMID: 19591388
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The book Jeux d'echelles. La microanalyse a l'expérience, which appeard in 1996 under the direction of Jacques Revel, was translated in Italy in 2006 by the Viella editions under the title Giochi di scala. La microstoria alla prova dell'esperienza. This occasion seemed propicious for a historiograp...
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PMID: 20533645
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At the beginning of the 20th century, two known medical historians, Karl Sudhoff and Henry Ernst Sigerist, were among the first persons, who took up thorough investigations of medical manuscripts in Leipzig. Above all, it was Mr. Sudhoff, who developed his own procedure, in order to exploit the unkn...
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PMID: 20336928
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This paper intends to stimulate reflection about the history and historiography of psychoanalysis. Starting from Nietzsche's distinction of "monumental", "antiquarian" and "critical" historiography, the author discusses typical approaches to the history of psychoanalysis and recommends taking the hi...
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PMID: 20506741
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Historiographical production on evolutionism in Spain has given rise to a set of very appreciable original works both in number and quality. Indeed, the diffusion of evolutionist theories offers very attractive materials of study, as much from the point of view of the history of the ideas and the sc...
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PMID: 21032939
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Hillel Friedland Lecture, Adler Museum of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 16 October 2008.
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PMID: 20052804
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