Forgotten Battles: Italy's War of Liberation, 1943-1945 (review)

Upcoming battles in the war on cancer.

The vision has been clear for more than a decade: Some day, a cancer patient will have her germline DNA decoded and compared with the genetic material in her tumor cells. Treatment will be based on the molecular make-up of the tumor, not its organ of origin. To that end, researchers around the world have made extraordinary discoveries and scientific advances. They have unmasked oncogenes and tu...

Patriotic War , 1941 to 1945 *

Forgotten Dreams: Recalling the Patient in British Psychotherapy, 1945–60

The forgotten dream proved central to the early development of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic technique in The Interpretation of Dreams (1900). However, little attention has been paid to the shifting uses of forgotten dreams within psychotherapeutic practice over the course of the twentieth century. This paper argues that post-war psychotherapists in London, both Jungian and Freudian, developed...

Typhus fever in Italy, 1943-1945, and its control with louse powder.

A suggestion from the Office of The Surgeon General of the United States Army to the National Research Council led, in 1942, to the development of an effective pyrethrum-containing louse powder, MYL, by a United States Department of Agriculture group working in Orlando, Fla. Field tests of this powder in artificial louse infestations during the summer of 1942 gave such promising results (Davis ...

"I Cannot Get Along without the Books I Find Here": The American Library in Paris during the War, Occupation, and Liberation, 1939-1945

The American Library in Paris remained open to readers throughout World War II, and its history during the darkest period of the occupation is a tribute to the leadership and courage of an American-born countess, Clara Longworth de Chambrun, and her small but dedicated staff. This article presents the drama as it unfolded—-through the phony war, the fall of Paris, and the bleak years following ...