Seventy years after the end of World War II

[Controlling occupational diseases during the years of World War II].

The beginning of scientific research in biochemistry in Gdańsk after the end of World War II.

In the first number of the first volume of Acta Biochimica Polonica 50 years ago two papers from Gdañsk were published from the academic biochemical center which was set up by professor W3odzimierz Mozo3owski — the first editor of Acta Biochimica Polonica. It would be of interest to review the reasons which led to the fact that in Gdañsk, shortly after it was taken over by the Soviet army, afte...

Revival of biochemistry in Poland in the first years after World War II.

Until the outbreak of the war in 1939 biochemistry in Poland had a beautiful tradition. The history of this discipline began in the second half of the 19 th century through setting up the Laboratory of Medical Chemistry at Warsaw University (1865) and in following year of the Chair of Pathological Chemistry of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Those were the first units dealing with bioche...

The NLRA After Seventy Years: What Next?

This paper asks whether the NLRA can remain relevant in a competitive economy where nonunion employer discretion is the low-cost workplace governance form. We explore changes that would enhance worker participation and individual and collective voice in the nonunion (and possibly union) private sector. Examined are changing the labor law default to some form of a nonunion works council and narr...

Environment and Health: Seventy Years After

When Doctor Payne honored me with an invitation to deliver the CharlesEdward Amory Winslow Lecture, I realized that I would be able to choose a subject from "an embarrassment of riches" in the contributions of Professor Winslow to the health of Man. I use here the title with which his students of a generation ago still revere his memory and signify the affection he inspired in them. He was to t...