Tom Trier, Hedvig Lohm and David Szakonyi (eds): Under Siege: Inter-Ethnic Relations in Abkhazia. xi, 159 pp. London: Hurst & Company, 2010. £25. ISBN 978 1 84904 020 4.
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Mat Savelli and Sarah Marks (eds), Psychiatry in Communist Europe (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. xi, 222, $90.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-137-49091-9.
that the costs of post-eradication surveillance could dwarf initial expenditures.) If 25% of childhood mortality were attributable to malaria, reasons for caution in intervention dissipate. The concern about harm that might be done to adults whose acquired immunity could be compromised was hardly considered. Malariologists might elect utilitarianism as their chosen professional ethics, their br...
متن کاملJudith Godden, Crown Street Women's Hospital: A History, 1893-1983 (Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, London: Allen & Unwin, 2016), pp. xi, 382, $45.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-74331-840-9.
rhetoric buoyed by the support of violent youth groups, both significant components of the fascist push for national rejuvenation. Negative measures like sterilisation – so popular in other countries at the time – were overlooked in favour of positive racial hygiene that placed ‘physical education on a par with academic training’ and encouraged citizens to start ‘large, “valuable” families’ (p....
متن کاملTom Crook and Mike Esbester (eds), Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents c.1800-2000 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. xiv+315, £63.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-137-46744-7.
empirical study, but faced competition from methadone for public funding and esteem. It seemed therapeutic communities had arrived when the state of Illinois and then the Nixon administration embraced them as part of a mix of solutions to the drug-abuse problem, but the chaos and estrangement of the 1970s produced uneven results. The Reagan administration readily adopted the prohibitive moralis...
متن کاملNathan Sivin, Health Care in Eleventh-Century China (Cham, Heidelberg, New York, Dordrecht, London: Springer, 2015), pp. xvii, 223, $119, e-book, ISBN: 978-3-319-20427-7; $159, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-319-20426-0.
The history of medicine in China is often studied through the lens of a textual approach, grounded on classical manuals or on the accounts of practitioners who, until fairly recently, were mostly involved with curing the ailments of the upper class. As such, the ‘other’ types of response to illness, namely the folk therapy, religious rites and other magical treatments tend to be left outside th...
متن کاملReference Renaissance: Current and Future Trends. Eds. Marie L. Radford and R. David Lankes. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2010. 312p. alk. paper $75 (ISBN 978-1555706807). LC2010-000229
of the two-page definition for the word " abbreviation, " Beal elegantly exhibits the breadth of his knowledge by discussing the origin and use of abbreviations, how often they occurred and when, who used them and why, and alludes to the difficulty of reproducing them in modern, digital transcriptions. Each entry contains a depth of understanding that cannot be easily reproduced with such conci...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0041-977X,1474-0699
DOI: 10.1017/s0041977x10000807