Language and Travel: Spanish Vocabulary in British Travel Books

Travel and professional networks in the origins of Spanish psychiatry.

This article examines the importance of travel and professional networks in the origins of Spanish psychiatry. After reviewing the early alienists' Enlightenment predecessors and their therapeutic and professional trajectories, it describes the trips to foreign psychiatric institutions made during the second third of the nineteenth century by a group of exiled Spanish doctors, commissioners and...

Travel cost and time measurement in travel cost models TRAVEL COST AND TIME MEASUREMENT IN TRAVEL COST MODELS

In this paper we use the results of a recent on-site recreation survey to know whether it matters to use perceived rather than calculated travel costs. The calculated travel costs (time and money) are derived from detailed GIS computations. The perceived travel times and costs are taken directly from the survey responses. We first find that there is a high non-response rate for the perceived co...

Travel counsellors and travel health advice.

BACKGROUND Travel Counsellors may be a source of health advice to travellers and might influence travellers' decisions to seek consultation from health professionals. We examined the travel health advice that Alberta travel counsellors currently provide their clients and assessed their health knowledge and practices. METHODS Cross-sectional postal survey of travel counsellors who book interna...

Toilet in Transportation Vehicles: A Topic for Consideration on Travel Sanitation in Travel Medicine

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In this report we describe a case of typhoid fever in a Czech patient with history of travel to India and discuss antibiotic treatment failure which led to the relapse of fever. Case report Travel history A previously healthy 31-year-old man from the Czech Republic visited India from 2 October to 28 November 2008. Before leaving the Czech Republic he had received neither vaccination (travellers...