chorographia de Laudelino Freire (1898)

Paulo Freire pedagogy of oppresed

C1py00484k 1890..1898

End-functionalized polyethylene oxides containing cleavable acetal and clickable azide terminal groups (PEO-acetal-N3 and N3-acetal-PEO-acetal-N3) were obtained by the reaction between commercially available PEOs and 2-chloroethyl vinyl ether using pyridinium p-toluenesulfonate. This results in acetal-linkages which can be further functionalized by nucleophilic displacement with sodium azide. B...

Hilde Mangold-Pröscholdt (1898 – 1924)

In the history of medicine, few women were awarded an eponym. One can assume that this doesn’t have anything to do with their second X-chromosome or the weight of their brains. Most probably, it was the era that was not on their side. In the time period wherein most eponyms were given, women had almost no access to higher education. There are a few exceptions of course, such as Marie Curie or V...

HIV/AIDS counseling: analysis based on Paulo Freire.

The study aimed to investigate the strategies health professionals use in HIV/AIDS counseling. This study is a qualitative research, based on Paulo Freire's theory and practice. Bardin's content analysis was used as the analysis technique. For the studied group, the counseling is focused on cognition, although new concepts permeating this subject are emerging. The main difficulties in counselin...

Helen B. Taussig (1898-1986)

Together with Alfred Blalock, Helen Taussig rose to fame because of the Blalock-Taussig shunt. This is a surgical procedure in children who suffer from hypoxia because of a congenital cardiac malformation. Because of this affliction, they are blue. Less known is the fact that dr. Taussig also played a crucial role in the prohibition of thalidomide in the USA, the drug that had been responsible ...