During the past several weeks, I, like many of my predecessors, have read many speeches previously delivered at the annual meeting of the American Society of Parasitologists (ASP). These are wonderful, exciting papers, and I recommend them to you. The history of our Society and much of parasitological research and ...

"Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past".--Thomas Steams Eliot (1888-1965), Noble Literature Laureate, 1948. History and evolution of the concept of Medical Ethics is the classical example of this poetic expression. Virtually, every human society has some forces ...

Standard bioethics textbooks present the field to students and non-experts as a form of "applied ethics." This ahistoric and rationalistic presentation is similar to that used in philosophy of science textbooks until three decades ago. Thomas Kuhn famously critiqued this self-conception of the philosophy of science, persuading the field that ...

This article describes the professional lives of the founders of neurological surgery in Brazil as well as the Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery. The pioneers were Augusto Brandão Filho, the first general surgeon to perform brain surgery in Brazil, and José Ribe Portugal and Elyseu Paglioli, the founders of the first ...

The archives and minutes of the Ophthalmological Society have now been donated to the Medical History Museum of the University of Copenhagen. The first two minutes in the archives are hand-written and cover the period 1900-52. The third minute, mainly typewritten, goes up to 1971. The rest consists of papers, ...

This paper, co-authored by Dr. Rosemary Beresford, the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programmes in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Otago, in New Zealand was presented by Mr Geoffrey Miller to the 75th Anniversary Congress of the International Society for the History of Pharmacy, held in Lucern Switzerland ...

The American Academy of Dental Science was founded in 1986 as a society to promote professionalism and high ideals in the emerging discipline of dentistry. Throughout its history it has welcomed fellows who have been seminal figures in the field and has taken positions on the important issues of the ...

The foundation and history of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Hypnose (Netherlands Society of Hypnosis or Nvvh) is described. The year 2001 marks the 70th anniversary of the Nvvh's creation. The article describes the accomplishments, leadership, and philosophy of the Society across the decades. Current professional and training directions are discussed.

At the 140th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America here last week, a psychologist demonstrated that an auditory illusion based on the tritone--two notes a half-octave apart played together--is perceived differently by listeners with different linguistic histories. And those perceptions might help psychologists understand how the brain rewires itself ...

Europe's largest environmental organization is hard at work ensuring that the European Union keeps a high profile on environmental issues.

A history of the early years (1965-1985) of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) is presented. Themes than run through these years--such as the need for an organizational structure, attempts to make the Society truly international, and the involvement of the membership, especially, the "younger" members, in governance--are clearly evident. After ...

This paper is a brief history of The Journal of Hand Surgery from its founding in July 1976 through the third issue published in July 1999. An analysis of the 3,713 scientific articles published is done relative to type, content, and country of origin. The persons responsible for the journal ...

The American Society for Microbiology was originally founded in 1899 as the Society of American Bacteriologists. The transition from "bacteriology" to "microbiology" and from an emphasis on the identity of the membership (bacteriologists) to an emphasis on the discipline (microbiology) was a contentious one that occurred in several steps. This ...

The International Neuropsychological Symposium is the name of a group which, since 1951, meets every year for the purpose of promoting knowledge and understanding of brain functions and cognate issues on the borderland of neurology, psychology and psychiatry. This paper summarizes the history of the International Neuropsychological Symposium and is ...

Freud claimed he broke with Stekel not because of 'scientific differences' but because of 'exclusively ... personal qualities'. The author offers an alternative version of this significant fragment of psychoanalytic history by suggesting that Freud acted out of revenge for the humiliation that he believed Stekel and Adler inflicted upon ...

The American Epidemiological Society (AES) was founded in 1927. A history of the first 45 years of the Society was written in the early 1970s by Dr. John Rodman Paul (Yale J Biol Med 1973;46:1-84). The past 25 years have seen the AES continue as a small, relatively elite organization ...

Based on presentations given at the International Conference on Advances in Forest and Woodland History held at the University of Nottingham in September 1996. Includes bibliographies

The Japanese Society of Gastroenterology (JSGE) will celebrate the centenary of its foundation in 1998. A variety of plans and projects are being prepared by the JSGE centennial celebration committee. In this article, the history of the JSGE is briefly described, and several projects, including the international symposium currently being ...

This paper analyses the shift in the Society for the Social History of Medicine from public health professionals to full-blooded approaches drawn from social history. The Bulletin of the Society reflected its vigorous interdisciplinary meetings programme: during the 1980s this matured into a fully fledged Journal and a monographs series ...

Our society evinces a high tolerance for violence. This acceptance of certain forms of violent behavior is ingrained in the American value system, established through our history in the simple struggle to survive. Beginning with the colonial era, through the settlement of the western frontier, and during the wave of ...

Thucydides' description of the plague at Athens stands as a paradigm that influenced eyewitness accounts throughout Greek and Byzantine history. Christian authors in Late Antiquity use his dark picture as heathen background against which they highlight Christian virtues of charity and mercy. The descriptions of the Justinianic plague of AD ...

Communitarian critics have derided case-based reasoning for ignoring the need to arrive at a shared hierarchy of goods prior to case resolution. They claim that such a failure means that casuistry depends on either a naive metaphysical realism or an ethical conventionalism. Casuistry does embrace a certain unobjectionable moral realism ...

The National Society for Epilepsy is the largest epilepsy charity in the United Kingdom, and administers the Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy. The Society was founded in London in 1892 and its first task was to establish an agricultural colony where people with epilepsy could live and work; and this was ...

There is no shortage of histories of the beginnings of anaesthesia in the 19th century. However, the real roots of present-day anaesthesia lie in the period 1930-1970. This article is a summary of the nearly complete history, Five Decades, launched in March 1993, and pays homage to those who did ...

This article deals with the importance of paederasty in political life of Archaic Greece. It shows that paederasty was present since the beginning of Greek history, in many cities, and at the highest levels of society. This study allows one to say that paederasty is not an "historical accident," late ...

"Proceedings of a conference sponsored by The Forest History Society an IUFRO Forest History Group. Conference held in San José, Costa Rica"

Using as a vehicle the history of "Speculative Excursions into the Everyday Lives of Old People" (or some variant of that title) sessions at the Gerontological Society of America's Annual Scientific Meetings, this article is a semi-serious discussion of the place of humor in gerontology. The article describes the purposes ...

The history and antecedents of the Japanese Neurochemical Society (JSN) are described. Particulars of the founding in 1958, and of the formal establishment in 1962, are given, together with an outline and description of the JSN's recent activities, including its contributions to the 4th International Meeting of the International Society ...

For as long as it has existed, our Australian society has been attempting to deal with addiction and criminal behaviour. Both crime and the taking of illicit drugs are reflections of the divisions, hatreds and wretchedness that have long existed within our society and within the individuals that comprise it. ...

With a history of 39 years, Verhoeff Society is one of the oldest subspecialty groups in ophthalmology. The society was formed to establish a forum to discuss ophthalmic pathology. This paper details the original inception of the Society, its current activities and its influence in the development of ophthalmic pathology ...

Sixty years after their Royal Charter was granted by King George V, physiotherapists are proud to acknowledge their heritage and traditions. Bob Bryant, secretary of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy takes us through its history to the present, to a vigorous and expanding profession already looking forward to its centenary.

The role of forests in the American society and economy has changed greatly over the past 200 years, as is evidenced by data on acreage in forests, on volume of standing timber, on amount of annual wood growth, on amounts and form of wood utilization, and on prices for forest ...

Previous verdicts on Hickman set the scene. The genealogy of Hickman and his wife is explored, disclosing the identities of "Poor Mrs Dudley of Shut End" and "Thomas Dudley of Kingswinford". Some previous evidence is explained by the bankruptcy of Hickman's father-in-law. The dubious means whereby Hickman qualified prematurely are ...

Interview conducted by Dale Treleven of the Historical Society staff with Elizabeth Sullivan, former executive director of the Dairy Council of Milwaukee, an organization sponsored by farmers and dairies for the purpose of promoting health and good nutrition through the use of dairy products. Sullivan also discusses her work for ...

Mercury has been used medically in the Middle East since time immemorial. Organomercury compounds were first used as seed dressings in Iraq in 1955. During the years 1955-59, 200 cases of poisoning occurred. A more clearly defined outbreak occurred in 1960, involving approximately 1000 hospital admissions. Twelve patients from two ...

This article traces the legislative history of statues prescribing the death penalty for sodomy in 17th-century New England and in the other American colonies. New England and some middle colonies broke with English legal tradition by adopting explicitly biblical language. After the Revolution, Pennsylvania took the lead, in 1786, in ...

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Georgia, 2002.

The Institute of the North American West (INAW) Records (1870-1993) consist of manuscripts, research materials and notes, maps, interviews, court exhibits, correspondence, and publications. This non-profit educational institution was established in 1984 by E. Richard Hart, Matthew J. Cullen, and Barry Sadler for the purpose of providing historical background, documentation, ...

The British Society of Interventional Radiology (BSIR) was founded in 1988 as a charitable society promoting interventional radiology and supporting education and research within this field. Interventional radiology or "pinhole surgery" treats patients using invasive techniques usually as an alternative to traditional surgery. The website provides information about the organisation, ...

Texas Parks and Wildlife provides a series of Fact Sheets on the wildlife of Texas, USA. Each fact sheet gives the scientific name of the species, a description, life history, habitat and distribution.