What’s in a word? modelling British history for a ‘multi-racial’ society

A short history of the British Society for Developmental Biology.

The British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB) today is a very vigorous scientific society which holds two meetings per year. The Spring Symposium, normally held concurrently with a meeting of the British Society for Cell Biology, is a major international meeting of high scientific quality with an attendance of 5001000. The Autumn meeting is a smaller affair with a limited number of forei...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

British Society for the History of Medicine Seventh British Congress on the History of Medicine

THE Seventh British Congress on the History of Medicine will be held in Churchill College, Cambridge, from 10-13 September 1969. This will be the third residential congress in the series, and those who attended the sixth congress in the University of Sussex in September 1967 will recall how successful and enjoyable that meeting was. The subject chosen for the Congress theme is an important one,...

Transactions of the British Society for the History of Pharmacy

Rene Marie and fIuchard's lengthy review were regarded as no more than contributions to this seemingly endless dispute. Physicians at this period were preoccupied with physical diagnosis by means of percussion and auscultation in which respect coronary disease was a sterile field. Herrick's paper of 1918 at last supplied the missing link, namely a physical sign in the form of an abnormal electr...

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