Linoleum, better Babies, and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930.

Psychological testing and American society 1890-1930

E. H. BURROWS, Pioneers and early years. A history ofBritish radiology, Alderney, Colophon, 1986, 4to, pp. viii, 264, illus., £32.50. E. H. Burrows sets out to describe the history of diagnostic radiology from its birth in the late-nineteenth century to 1930. He begins by documenting the discovery of X-rays and its British reception. Outlining the early history of British experimentation on X-r...

The origins of the English drug "scene" 1890-1930.

The drug subculture which developed as part of the rise in narcotic drug use in the 1960s has received much attention. Academic sociologists and the media found this, as an area of deviant behaviour, a subject ofconsiderable intellectual interest and also of popular fascination. Drug taking as an alternative way of life, where, as Jock Young puts it, "drug use is given a different meaning from ...

Geography, race and nation: remapping "tropical" Australia, 1890-1930.

In March 1885, the government Resident of the Northern Territory of Australia issued a report on the problem of tropical development. "To the ordinary English emigrant", wrote J Langdon Parsons, "the bare mention of 'the tropics' is sufficient to create a scare, and conjure up visions of pasty-faced children, delicate women, and men with bad livers".' But in 1925, Sir James Barrett, a leading f...

[Medical teaching under debate: São Paulo, 1890 through 1930].

The aim of this article is to evaluate the idealizations of medical education institutions and their implementation between 1890 and 1930. The case of the state of São Paulo is particular. Firstly, for the absence of a medical school until the beginning of the 20th century. Besides, for the gap between the law, of 1891, which forsaw the installation of such a school, and the effective creation ...

The American private philanthropic foundation and the public sphere 1890-1930.