Rockefeller Philanthropy and Mathematical Emigration between World Wars

Italian Mathematics between the Two World Wars

The Maudsley Hospital and the Rockefeller Foundation: the impact of philanthropy on research and training.

Opened in February 1923 to raise the status of academic psychiatry in the UK, the Maudsley Hospital struggled to secure grant income. Without a track record of published research and lacking internationally recognized clinicians, it failed to impress the British Medical Research Council. To challenge leading U.S. and German departments of neuropsychiatry, Edward Mapother, the medical superinten...

Colonialism, tropical disease and imperial medicine: Rockefeller philanthropy in Sri Lanka

century New Zealand by Natasha Glaisyer. The two nursing sections are more substantial, at least empirically, and contain several wellcrafted studies of nursing theory and practice both in "old" and "new" countries. Of particular note is Michael Barfoot's study of nursing reforms at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, which revisits some of the debates over Florence Nightingale's "motivation", en...

Democratic Capitalism and Philanthropy in a Globalizing World

Democratic capitalism has become the popular paradigm in the modern world, and it is spreading further through globalization. It is a model based on growth, expansion and constant innovation. However, it is accompanied by social problems which may worsen despite overall gains in wealth. In this paper, we suggest that democratic capitalist societies may benefit from the application of what has b...

Popular health education and venereal diseases in Croatia between two World Wars.

The article presents the research of popular health education on venereal diseases in Croatia between the World Wars. In the inter-war period, the traditional plain approach to popular health education was replaced with new, complex meth-ods, which became the basis for the modem work in this field. New social medicine ideas and new health politics, as well as the new founded institutions such a...