Researching Black women and film history

Researching cells: much history, many frontiers.

THE COMMUNICATION OF RESEARCH results through peer review and publication is an intrinsic and essential part of scientific research. It is a great privilege to be starting the position of Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology. My predecessor, Paul Insel, has effected major advances for the Journal, including reducing the time to first decision on manuscripts and ...

Development of prenatal event history calendar for Black women.

OBJECTIVES To identify psychosocial factors that Black women think should be addressed in prenatal care assessment and develop a Prenatal Event History Calendar to assess these factors. DESIGN A qualitative descriptive study. SETTING Two inner city hospital prenatal care clinics in Southeastern Michigan. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-two Black women who had attended at least 2 prenatal care visits....

[Researching documents on the history of hansen's disease in Brazil].

This article corresponds to part of the results of a research on leprosy-related sources developed in several institutions in the city of Rio de Janeiro. At Real Gabinete Português de Leitura, Arquivo Nacional and Biblioteca Nacional, banks, indexes, official documents and photos on the administration of leprosaria and articles on the treatment of the disease have been investigated. At Centro d...

The New Film History as Media Archaeology

The article assesses the impact of digital technologies on our understanding of film history. While the “New Film History” has revitalized the study of the cinema’s “origins,” it has not yet proven itself equally successful in analyzing the subsequent turn-of-the-century multimedia conjuncture. Faced with this challenge, the essay makes a case for a new historiographical model, “Media Archaeolo...

From the Lucky Sweatshirt to the Blogosphere: Adventures in Writing and Researching History