Henry James, George Eliot, and the "Old-fashioned English Novel"

The George Eliot/George Henry Lewes Library. An annotated catalogue of their books at Dr. Williams's Library, London

together with a consideration of the important similarities and common ground it shares with medical sociology, its sister discipline. They argue cogently for the data and models of the latter to be taken into account by anthropologists interested in the social and cultural dimensions of health and disease. Their basic anthropological tenets are first the "adaptive" nature of health-related beh...

George Henry Temple

James George Davey

We have once more to record the death of one of the former Presidents of our Society. Dr. J. G. Davey died on February 20th, at the advanced age of 82. He began his professional life as a general practitioner, but circumstances soon transferred him to the special branch of medical work which he continued to the end, viz., the treatment of lunacy and the care of the insane; and it will be seen f...

Old-fashioned or Trendy?

Spectroscopic analyses with the intention of the interpretation of the UV-spectra of the brightest stars as individuals – supernovae – or as components of starforming regions – massive O stars – provide a powerful tool with great astrophysical potential for the determination of extragalactic distances and of the chemical composition of star-forming galaxies even at high redshifts. The perspecti...

Old-fashioned Dualities Revisited

In the lectures given at ’96 Kashikojima Summer Institute, Amagi-Highland Seminars, and Yukawa Institute Workshop, the old-fashioned dualities and the theory of extended objects are reviewed, starting from ’t Hooft-Mandelstam duality and following the author’s old works. Application of the old-fashioned dualities to new issues are also given on the D-branes, on the phase transition of B-F theor...