Retablos neoclásicos sevillanos desaparecidos durante el siglo XX = Sevillian neoclassic altarpieces missing during the twentieth century

El regreso de las epidemias. Salud y sociedad en el Perú del siglo XX

extent the approaches to illness and healing have become "disenchanted" during this period or not. The authors have drawn on a broad range of archival sources, medical literature and field studies (as far as the more recent history is concerned). The studies in this volume show that Max Weber's concept of the "disenchantment of the world" may be perfectly applicable to many phenomena, but lack ...

¿Curar el cáncer? Los orígenes de la radioterapia española en el primer tercio del siglo XX

ethical choices-but it raises challenges that have not been fully solved. The result creates an asymmetry. The earlier chapters include accounts of how each of the four main scientists discussed responded to National Socialism and fared under the Nazi stateWertheimer and Goldstein were prominent members of the intellectual migration. The last chapter, however, attempts to examine "wholeness" as...

Ideas y políticas económicas en Colombia durante el primer siglo republicano

Estimates of Missing Women in Twentieth Century China.

The phenomenon of "missing women" has existed throughout the twentieth century in China. Using data from five censuses, with appropriate adjustments, we estimate the numbers and percentage of missing women from the period 1900-2000. The analysis is broken down into historically important periods, and the consequences of missing women, particularly that of China's "bare branches" are explored. I...

Muslim Intellectuals and the Perennial Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

This paper will examine how Muslim intellectuals, as a result of their attachment to the doctrine of Divine Unity (taw¤hīd), the Quran, Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad, and the doctrines and methods of Sufism, were largely responsible for the restating of the perennial philosophy in the West in the twentieth century. The article consists of four sections: an introduction to the term 'philosophia...