American Medicine and the Public Interest, by ROSEMARY STEVENS, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1971, pp. xiii, 572, £9.00. Rosemary Stevens has delineated the effect on medicine of the formation of professional societies representing the specialties into which it became divided in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its introductory section, an examination of professionalizato...

Since the onset of theWesternmedical practitioner in the late 14th century, medicine has depended on rhetoric to persuade a skeptical audience of the legitimacy of its claims. Initially, the very status of the practitioner depended on his or her abilities to persuade the clientele. However, during the rise of the 17th century Galilean scientific revolution, the authority of medicine was increas...

The authors point out that today it is necessary to reconsider the political, philosophical and legal opinion of leading theorist Ukrainian constitutionalism second half 19th century. Mykhailo Drahomanov current strengthening progressivism movement in USA, Latin America Europe, which, probably, can lead similar trends Ukraine revival new circumstances. That why article devoted study constitutio...

The transformation of politics in contemporary democracies has led to the emergence a new ideological conflict, alongside traditional left-right scheme, described as liberal–authoritarian or cosmopolitan–nationalist cleavage (Norris and Inglehart 2018; Kriesi 2008; 2012; Hooge Marks 2009; 2018). This brought redefinition linkages between issue voting preferences, many voters decide support part...

American Medicine and the Public Interest, by ROSEMARY STEVENS, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1971, pp. xiii, 572, £9.00. Rosemary Stevens has delineated the effect on medicine of the formation of professional societies representing the specialties into which it became divided in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its introductory section, an examination of professionalizato...

The paper confronts two views on historical trends and the selfperception of their leading subjects - that modern progressivism, whose contemporary bearer is USA with preconceived notion its "exceptionalism", Russian role a "restraining power" Katechon. first part Paper explains secular, progressive worldview as core "American exceptionalism" conviction it "right side history." phrase "being ri...

If sexuality is as much a product of what goes on behind the eyes (in the brain) as between the legs, as modern theorization of the erotic suggests, then what our forebears knew, and what we as contemporary sexual actors know, or think we know, matters. This is the starting point for Roy Porter and Lesley Hall's lively and compendious study. Their subject is "sexual knowledge", but a simple phr...

The common viewof history assumes that complexity and resource consumption have emerged through innovation facilitated by surplus energy. This view leads to the supposition that complexity and consumption are voluntary, and that we can therefore achieve a sustainable future through conservation. Such an assumption is substantially incorrect. History suggests that complexity most commonly increa...