Contemporary Past

Contemporary history Child health in Nigeria : past , present , and future *

I looked at the list of former Windermere lecturers and realised the great honour conferred on me by being invited to give this lecture. It is also a tribute to the vigour of Nigerian paediatrics and paediatricians, whose frustrations and achievements form the major part of this lecture, and to those paediatricians, mostly your members, who set us on our path-Dick Jelliffe, the late Bob Collis,...

Frederick Breyer : Contemporary Theory and Method in a Distant Past ?

A review of two key texts by Ralph Breyer in the 1930s reveals a view of the structure and functioning of the marketing system that resonates well with modern theories of business ecology and complexity. I use the review to raise a number of issues regarding the nature of marketing systems, how marketing should be taught and the nature of the strategic problems confronting managers operating in...

Contemporary and past challenges of prostate cancer diagnostics.

Archaeo-ethnography, auto-archaeology: Introducing archaeologies of the contemporary past

Abstract After significant research effort and publications over the course of a decade, a new generation of writings and research into archaeologies of the contemporary past is beginning to emerge, with a social and political awareness that appears more acute and more focused than before. Perhaps it is not too much of an exaggeration to say that this new generation of contemporary archaeologie...

Syracuse Limestone: From the Past a Prospect for Contemporary Buildings

The conservation of the historic stone heritage has great importance when this material characterizes the image of a city, as it happens in Syracuse (Sicily). Its historical buildings are afflicted by a heavy state of deterioration due to the particular microclimate, to pollution and to neglect endured over time. This article reports the investigations made on limestone samples from historic fa...