Research on Internet of Things (IoT) has been booming for past couple of years due to technological advances and its potential for application. Nonetheless, the rapid growth of IoT articles as well as the heterogeneous nature of IoT pose challenges in synthesizing prior research on the phenomenon. Based on quantitative citation analysis, this Research-in-Progress (RIP) study seeks to tackle the...

the chapters in this part deal with Spain, Portugal and Brazil. Finally the essays contained in the third part, ‘Interpreting the Epidemic: Sociocultural Dynamics and Perspectives’, explore the sociocultural resonances of the political reactions as well as general aspects of the pandemic. It shifts the focus from a preoccupation with social questions to an emphasis on cultural issues. In sum, T...

seen as having declined. In the field of medical thinking and medical practice, man was thought to have freed himself from the chains of superstition. Gradually, he had learned to relate to the world in rational terms; in the event of illness, academic doctors were the logical engineers of his body. However, the times of the grand stories are over, in general as well as in medical history. With...

History is typically presented as historiography, where historians communicate via the written word. However, some historians have suggested alternative formats for communicating and thinking about historical information. One such format is known as historiophoty, which involves using a variety of visual images to represent history. The current article proposes that a particular type of graph, ...

Purpose – Felicitous writing is enormously important. However, the art of writing well is rarely addressed by marketing scholars. This paper seeks to argue that the marketing academy has much to learn from historiography, a sub-discipline devoted to the explication of historical writing. Design/methodology/approach – Although it is primarily predicated on published works, this paper is not a co...

Plans provide information about how multiple decisions are structured over time, and what the intentions of a particular actor are. As and when these decisions get made, or not made, some parts of plans become irrelevant, while some other new relationships are discovered and considered. Recognising this provides a useful way to interpret the changes in plans by tracking the decisions and vice v...

As historians confront the geographic and epistemic changes of climate change and other environmental catastrophes, the historical forces seen to condition the developments of modern architecture will be reconceived. Much of the early historiography of the modern movement was already concerned with climate, resource and comfort issues that are not far from contemporary tropes of sustainable des...

The critical themes that have emerged in medical history over the last 25 years reflect the development of a "new social history of medicine." The earlier focus on the evolution of medical knowledge has been replaced by work that emphasizes the nature of the social responses to disease, their sociocultural meanings and historical epidemiology. Because medical historiography reflects debates and...

From the perspective of historiography, the article analyzes the construction of scientific medicine's major landmark: the small-pox vaccine. When this vaccine was created and widely distributed, the medical field demonstrated how technology controls life on a planetary scale. The great victory of scientific medicine rests on the fact that today the life of the small-pox virus depends upon labo...