The article discusses Sylwia Chutnik’s book Miasto zgruzowstałe. Codzienność Warszawy w latach 1954–1955[The city rising from ruins. Daily life inWarsaw in the years 1954–1955] (Warsaw 2020). Analysing selection of source materials, methodology and structure work, theauthor review points to a clear link between field interest as cultural studies scholar, her writing social activism. In reviewer...

In May of 1991, thirty-five alumni of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program gathered at Commonweal for one of our regular reunions. We sat together in a large circle for introductions. Each person gave his name, hometown, type of cancer, and a short list of resources that had proved particularly helpful. Participants described compassionate surgeons and oncologists, high-quality cancer support gro...

A 62-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital because of unconsciousness and hypoglycaemia. She had a history of weakness and fatigue after postpartum haemorrhage in 1983. Unfortunately, she was not diagnosed with Sheehan's syndrome and did not receive sufficient professional treatment due to the limited medical resources in her hometown. A laboratory examination at the local hospital reveal...

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/journals/dsu The name Theodor Kocher (fig. 1) is obviously known to surgeons working not only in his hometown Bern, Switzerland, but also in the rest of the world. Outside Bern, probably, his name today is usually connected to ‘the Kocher maneuver’, or to some instrument, rather than to the 1909 Nobel laureate. Bern’s doctors and surgeons are proud of Theodo...

This paper examines the role played by local identity, or the attachment to a hometown, in restricting occupational choice and mobility. Providing economic foundations at the community level for this deviation from individual self-interest, the analysis links competition between ethnic networks in the Midwest when it was first developing, and the in-group identity that emerged endogenously to s...

JEL Classification: I120, Z130 Twenty-seven percent of the Union Army prisoners captured July 1863 or later died in captivity. At Andersonville the death rate may have been as high as 40 percent. How did men survive such horrific conditions? Using two independent data sets we find that friends had a statistically significant positive effect on survival probabilities and that the closer the ties...

Studying in a university outside hometown is one of the common way for high school graduates to get access better quality higher education. These new students settle down surroundings much different from their respective homes. They adapt adjust situation. This research aims understand dynamics self adjustment during study Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta (Special Province Yogyakarta). The method use...