Random recollections of World War II.

RENAL INJURIES IN MASHHAD UNIVERSITY DURING THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR. A COMPARISON WITH WORLD WARS I AND II, AND VIETNAM

Missile injuries of the kidney are rare even in wartime. Of 4500 patients admitted to the Ghaem Medical Center in the first two years of the Iran-Iraq war, only 96 had injuries of the genitourinary tract (2.1 %) and only 35 involved the kidney usually with multiple injuries to other viscera. The mortality for those with urogenital injuries was 8.3% (compared with World War I, 60% and World...

Commentary on Typhus Control in World War II

This article for the volume to be published on the occasion of the retirement of Dr. Winternitz as Professor of Pathology is one of the final entries of a journal that was opened under his instruction about thirty-five years ago. Although the writer, as a medical student and resident, had received unforgettably vivid teaching from Dr. Winternitz during the period from 1911 to 1915, the associat...

American Self-Identification: A Strategy of Maintenance

Use of medical and mental health care by World War II survivors in The Netherlands.

This study examined the mental and medical health care utilization of World War II (WW II) survivors and the characteristics of survivors seeking professional health care. Forty seven years after the end of WW II, a random sample of 4,057 Dutch WW II survivors answered a four-page questionnaire; 1,461 persons subsequently answered an extensive follow-up questionnaire. Twenty-two percent had sou...

دولت ملت‌سازی در جهان اسلام و سیاست جهانی آمریکا در دوران معاصر

After World War II, United States became a global superpower in the world. Although with having little experience in the war with other countries and the emergence of new states in these countries, the US entered the realm of nation-building with the change of government in Germany and Japan. The establishment of the United Nations at this time did not contribute much to the issue of nation-sta...