Esta necrológica rinde homenaje a James Whiston, fallecido en 2017. Fue un gran hispanista y excelente galdosista. Su vida académica estuvo siempre ligada al Trinity College de Dublín. Allí cursó sus dos licenciaturas Filología Inglesa e Hispánica, allí obtuvo 1969 la Medalla Oro estudiantil; se doctoró 1975 fue director del Departamento Español. Mostró trabajos interés histórico-textual estudi...

This study investigated the association between prostate cancer risk and energy restriction during childhood. The authors examined the hypothesis among 58,279 men aged 55-69 years enrolled in the Netherlands Cohort Study on Diet and Cancer. Information on diet and risk factors was collected by questionnaire in 1986. Additional information was collected on residence during the Dutch Hunger Winte...

Historical accounts of colonial science and medicine have failed to engage with the Colonial Office’s shift in focus towards the support of research after 1940. A large new fund was created in 1940 to expand activities in the colonies described as fundamental research. With this new funding came a qualitative shift in the type of personnel and activity sought for colonial development and, as a ...

Beginning in the 1940s, a wave of health innovations and more effective international public health measures led to a rapid and large improvement in health; for example, in some relatively poor countries, life expectancy at birth quickly rose from around 40 years to over 60 years. In Acemoglu and Johnson ð2006, 2007Þ, we constructed an instrument for these changes in life expectancy: “predicted...