“…Having a variety of perspectives and keeping their disciplinary boundaries porous, historians of Western medical history have examined issues of health, disease, and medicine. …”
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“…This paper, drawing on insights from a series of witness seminars attended by historians, clinicians and policymakers, proposes a programme of research to place modern mental health services in England and Wales in a richer historical context. …”
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“…Second, it encourages historians to rethink the ways we look for and make sense of cohesive international reform communities more broadly in this period. …”
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“…This unique insight into the history of the field includes also some perspectives on modern developments and will benefit everyone working in the field, as well as historians of science.…”
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“…A monumental tribute to a towering figure in the history of mathematics, this book will appeal to mathematicians and historians alike.…”
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“…This article examines a drugs trade in Asia that has been largely forgotten by historians and policy-makers, that in cocaine. It will briefly trace some of the contours of this commerce and the efforts to control it. …”
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“…By analysing RNA biology in more detail, philosophers and historians of science could gain new and powerful tools to assess the current pandemic, and the biological sciences more generally.…”
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“…The reflections on mathematical cultures collected in this book are of interest to mathematicians, philosophers, historians, sociologists, cognitive scientists and mathematics educators.…”
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“…Archivists, researchers and historians are collaborating in the project to preserve the documentary inheritance and make the medical science useful to the public. …”
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“…In recent decades, social demographers, historians, and economic historians have compiled and made available a large number of micro-level data sets of historical populations for North America and Europe. …”
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“…The general public relies on experts (scientists, historians, and government officials) to provide credible information, but uncertainties during an outbreak can make it difficult to provide definitive answers quickly. …”
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“…Furthermore, regarding the reverse glass, they can be divided into different typologies based on composition differences, providing a further discrimination criterion for historians involved in the study of the collection to determine the provenance and dating of the items.…”
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“…Despite its uniqueness, Calcolo Geometrico has been strangely neglected by historians of mathematics, and even by scholars of Peano. …”
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“…Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory is quite an interesting place for historians: several changes of nationality between France and Germany, high-profile scientists having been based there, big projects born or installed in its walls, and so on. …”
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“…Students, researchers, historians, specialists - in short, everyone with an interest in mathematics - will find it engrossing and stimulating.Beginning with the ancient Near East, the author traces the ideas and techniques developed in Egypt, Babylonia, China, and Arabia, looking into such manuscripts as the Egyptian Papyrus Rhind, the Ten Classics of C…”
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“…Not only was EP Wigner one of the most active creators of 20th century physics, he was also always interested in expressing his opinion in philosophical, political or sociological matters This volume of his collected works covers a wide selection of his essays about science and society, about himself and his colleagues Annotated by J Mehra, this volume will become an important source of reference for historians of science, and it will be pleasant reading for every physicist interested in forming ideas in modern physics…”
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“…Some of these calendars were based upon observations or calculations of regular astronomical phenomena, such as the first sighting of the new moon crescent that defined the beginning of the month in many calendars, while others incorporated schematic simplifications of these phenomena, such as the 360-day year used in early Mesopotamian administrative practices in order to simplify accounting procedures. Historians frequently use handbooks and tables for conv…”
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“… Historians of science have long been intrigued by the impact of disparate cultural styles on the science of a given country and time period. …”
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“…Secondly, I use Miller’s studies, and the considerable legacy they created, to reflect on how historians of trauma construct historical narratives, asking whether there is sufficient appreciation of the ways in which events seem to leak into or retroactively animate one another.…”
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“…More than any other medical discipline, perhaps, epidemiology has triggered responses by cultural theorists and cultural historians, and it has done so on two levels and on account of two, mutually interrelated reasons. …”
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