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The controversy over the Smithsonian Enola Gay exhibition implies that it is still taboo to question the United States' use of the atomic bomb. Veterans' groups and conservatives succeeded in using the exhibit to justify... more
Primero de Mayo de 1937, un grupo de voluntarias procedentes de la Europa del Este se hacen un retrato en Barcelona antes de salir con destino a un hospital militar internacional situado en Onteniente. A todas les une la misma causa,... more
Chapter 6 of Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Societies, edited by David Arnold, Manchester University Press, 1988
In the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, the Ottoman Empire encountered difficulties in transporting the wounded and sick soldiers. The difficulties were generally due to the insufficient transportation infrastructure, the lack of an... more
BRITISH HOSPITALS IN ISTANBUL, SMYRNA AND DARDANELLES IN THE CRIMEAN WAR The British, ally of the Ottoman Empire during the Crimean War, opened many hospitals in the East, primarily in Istanbul. Both the wounded soldiers from the front... more
1. Med War. 1987 Jan-Mar;3(1):11-22. A psychosocial view of the nuclear arms race. Middleton H. PMID: 3561325 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]. MeSH Terms: Humans; International Cooperation*; Models, Psychological*; Nuclear Warfare*;... more
The symbolic meanings of the Balkans overcome the space of political and include associative strings such as liminaliy, incompatibility with the cultural trends of the Occident; narrative of ignorance; discourse on the ethnic and cultural... more
Article on eye doctor and future art collector Antonio Anastacio Gonçalves and his annotated copy of post-WWI besteseller memoir of the trenches by André Brun 'Malta das Trincheiras'. His annotations not only display his command of the... more
В статье на примере архивов Урала рассказывается о перспективах использования документов партийных и профсоюзных учреждений для дальнейшего осмысления исторического опыта работы эвакуационных госпиталей в период Второй мировой войны в... more
La storia dell'impegno di Camillo Golgi per la sanità militare durante la Prima Guerra Mondiale.
Eduard Miloslavić (Oakland/SAD, 1884 – St. Louis/SAD, 1952.) is known as forensic expert and the founder and the head of the first Department of Forensic Medicine of the Zagreb School of Medicine. Moreover he is well known as a member of... more
This article examines the development of the Swedish Red Cross Hospital in Busan during 1950–1958, investigating how principal secondary actors affected the hospital’s transition from a military to a civilian hospital. Shortly after the... more
To analyse the pre-and post-Gulf War changes in the outcome of pregnancy and to explore the possible causes that could have affected these changes, a retrospective analysis of medical records of patients delivering in Maternity Hospital... more
Thematic Issue: "Science, Technology and the Close Encounters in War" Call for articles Close Encounters in War Journal (www.closeencountersinwar.org) is a peer-reviewed journal aiming to study war as a human experience through... more
The Earth Summit is criticized for failing to address the key issues of land distribution, rights and security. Examples are given of the gross maldistribution of land ownership, and of agricultural and forestry policies which hazard the... more
2-4pm, 27 February 2016 AV Room, The Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, B3 3DH [Free but registration required:... more