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The character of early medieval medical manuscripts makes it difficult to generalize about the nature of medical knowledge in this period. In order to reconstitute one field of medical science, namely diagnosis and prognosis, while avoiding the pitfalls o
This essay revisits a debate that took place in the social sciences over the sacred-cow controversy for the purpose of ecological musing. The debate was stimulated largely by Marvin Harris, whose cultural materialist position reduced the symbolism of the
This article takes as its point of departure the publication in Crepuscolo, a Milanese journal edited by Carlo Tenca, of Cattaneo's 1858 essay on the role of cities in Italian history. Among the issues faced by those seeking to forge an Italian nation in
In 1934-35 Ceylon suffered a major malaria epidemic which affected one and a half million people out of a population of five and a half million. This paper will first examine the origins and course of the epidemic but the main focus is on the measures the
When the creationism issue rose to the surface in the late 1970s, an organized opposition to the creationist campaign came from an unexpected source. Local groups of rank and file evolution defenders, led by a retired biology teacher, organized a grassroo
The Liber passionalis is an early and hitherto mostly unexplored example of a composite medical work on diagnosis and therapy, similar to the better-known compilations circulating under the titles Petroncellus and Gariopontus (Passionarius Galieni). It sh
The eighteenth century was a period of development and change in Scottish society, its structures, and institutions. In Edinburgh the Royal College of Physicians, the Incorporation of Surgeons (Royal College from 1778), and the University attempted to imp
This account is all about how young persons of different cultural stripes work to keep. their identities in good repair. Rank-and-file Euro-American adolescents are shown to be steeped in a standard brew of essentialist thought. By contrast, 'First Natio
An assemblage of rocks, such as comprising a fireplace, will acquire a remanent magnetization upon cooling parallel to the ambient geomagnetic field and thus will share a common direction of magnetization. Detailed palaeomagnetic analyses of oriented samp
The foundations of the western image of Islam were laid in the early middle ages, when the Prophet was presented as an instrument of apostates, at whose instigation he created a religion which was the very antithesis of Christianity. However, twelfth- and
A manuscript scroll preserved in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, proves to be the log from the first in a series of flights undertaken by O.G.S. Crawford (1886-1957) in association with Alexander Keiller (1889-1955), which ultimately resulted in publication
Cerebral angiography is nowadays a standard test in neurosurgical treatment. The coupling between such a diagnostic technique and neurosurgical practices is the outcome of a complex story. This paper explores that complexity, it does so by exploring the c
This article provides a critical evaluation of the project 'Tuscan Urban Identities' organized and coordinated by Stuart Woolf and Lucia Carle and financed in cooperation the European University Institute in Florence and the Tuscan regional government.
Unique arboreal-based subsistence economies emerged in Wallacea, New Guinea and Near Oceania. Initial developments have their roots in the Pleistocene. The developmental history of arboreal-based economies (often called arboriculture) in Southeast Asia an
The text discusses Victor Meirelles's painting 'Primeira Missa' as an illustration alluding to Brazil's European discovery and one of the country's most important icons for its role in shaping the imaginary of our national history. A methodological i