Eisei Kurimoto Primitive and Modern Wars

Proportionality in Modern Asymmetrical Wars

Gastrointestinal problems in modern wars: clinical features and possible mechanisms

Gastrointestinal problems are common during wars, and they have exerted significant adverse effects on the health of service members involved in warfare. The spectrum of digestive diseases has varied during wars of different eras. At the end of the 20th century, new frontiers of military medical research emerged due to the occurrence of high-tech wars such as the Gulf War and the Kosovo War, in...

Are Modern Insurgencies Predictable? New Evidence from the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars

Substate conflict is the source tremendous human suffering and financial burden worldwide. Research recently published in Science claims to have uncovered predictable patterns in insurgent and terrorist attacks: like various unrelated physical phenomena, the rate of learning by insurgents (and thus rate of conflict escalation) follows a predictable power law process. Governments afflicted by in...

The origins of modern anesthesia throughout the American experience spanning the world wars.

s should be submitted by January 31 , 1999 to: George Bause, M.D., P.O. Box 431 00, Cleveland, OH 44143 U.S.A. (440) 446-0120 (voice), (440) 605-9455 (fax), [email protected] Conference Hotel: Swallow Royal Hotel, College Green, Bristol BS 1 5TA, England. 011-441 17-925-5200 (voice), 011-44-1 17-925-1515 (fax). Registration materials for the meeting will be mailed in February, 1999. Anesthesia His...

Wars, disasters and kidneys.

This paper summarizes the impact that wars had on the history of nephrology, both worldwide and in the Ghent Medical Faculty notably on the definition, research and clinical aspects of acute kidney injury. The paper briefly describes the role of 'trench nephritis' as observed both during World War I and II, supporting the hypothesis that many of the clinical cases could have been due to Hantavi...