Guillermo Furlong Cardiff (1889-1974)

Dr Henry James Paine: medical officer of health for Cardiff 1853-1889.

The historiographical approach taken in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the work of Jesuit doctors and apothecaries in the a Plata region in the eighteenth century.

The positions of Pedro Arata, Moisés Santiago Bertoni, Carlos Leonhardt and Guillermo Furlong in the debate about the role of the Society of Jesus in the introduction and development of science in the La Plata region are investigated. Written between 1890 and the late 1950s, these authors' works not only analyze the medical, pharmaceutical and botanical knowledge of the Jesuit missionaries in t...

Cardiff Univeristy

Guillermo Cortiñas And

We show how methods from K-theory of operator algebras can be applied in a completely algebraic setting to define a bivariant, M∞-stable, homotopy-invariant, excisive Ktheory of algebras over a fixed unital ground ring H, (A, B) 7→ kk∗(A, B), which is universal in the sense that it maps uniquely to any other such theory. It turns out kk is related to C. Weibel’s homotopy algebraic K-theory, KH....

A county and its health, A history of the development of the West Riding health services 1889–1974

need for a detailed study of a fascinating period, aimed at English readers. The present book has a good deal of German, in a text which, in any case, is not always easy to read. However, it should be widely known to medical historians, and can be warmly recommended to them. Moreover, its price is quite modest. Little has been written on the history of medicine in the provinces of Britain, and ...