Letter from Hermann Goring

Stationery with embossed eagle, titled, Der Reichsmaschall des Grofzdeutschen Reiches. Includes a typewritten message and pink signature. Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Hermann Goring (1893-1946) was a German politician who began his career as an ace in World War I. He rose to become Hitler\u27s right-hand man and head of the Luftwaffe, and after his capture, he committed suicide on the eve of his execution. TLS on his blind-embossed Reichsmarshall\u27s letterhead, Headquarters, to Kurt Daluege (1897-1946), the chief of security police in SD central office who succeeded Heydrich as Deputy protector of Bohemia and Moravia. Daluege was hung by the Czechs in 1946. Goring acknowledges Daluege\u27s wishes for the season and reciprocates.https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/2067/thumbnail.jp

The emergence of new scientific disciplines in Portuguese medicine: Marck Athias's Histophysiology Research School, Lisbon (1897-1946)

This paper discusses the emergence of new medical experimental specialties at the Medical School of Surgery ( Escola Médico-Cirúrgica ) and the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon University ( Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa ) between 1897 and 1946, as a result of the activities of Marck Athias's (1875-1946) histophysiology research school. In 1897, Marck Athias, a Portuguese physician who had graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, founded a research school in Lisbon along the lines of Michael Foster's physiology research school in England and Franz Hofmeister's physiological chemistry school in Germany. His research programme was highly innovative in Portugal. Not only did it bring together many disciples and co-workers, but it branched out and created new medical specialties within Portuguese medical science. These new disciplinary areas grew out of the study of the histology of the nervous system but eventually expanded into normal and pathological histophysiology, physiological chemistry and experimental endocrinology. The esprit de corps that existed between research school members ensured the school's success and influence in various fields social and political as well as scientific. Athias's school was strongly influenced by positivist ideals and promoted a teaching and research style that sought inspiration in Humboldt's university model, thus helping to bring about a change in the dominant scientific ethos and to modernize scientific research in Portugal during the first half of the twentieth century.publishersversionpublishe

Long-term impacts of tropical storms and earthquakes on human population growth in Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Since the 18th century, Haiti and the Dominican Republic have experienced similar natural forces, including earthquakes and tropical storms. These countries are two of the most prone of all Latin American and Caribbean countries to natural hazards events, while Haiti seems to be more vulnerable to natural forces. This article discusses to what extent geohazards have shaped both nation's demographic developments. The data show that neither atmospheric nor seismic forces that directly hit the territory of Haiti have significantly affected the country's population growth rates and spatial population densities. Conversely, since the 1950s more people were exposed to atmospheric hazards, in particular, in regions which historically experienced higher storm frequencies

The development of colonial health care provision in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire:ca. 1900–55

Colonial administrations introduced various social infrastructures in Africa. This paper analyses and compares the development of colonial governments' health care provision and policies in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire from circa 1900 to 1955. Using qualitative and quantitative information from colonial reports, a new dataset captures the development of four factors relevant to these aims: health care expenditures, health care facilities, medical staff, and patients. Deflated health care expenditures per capita were found to be higher in Ghana than in Côte d’Ivoire in almost all years. The number of health care facilities per capita was larger in Côte d’Ivoire than in Ghana, and facilities were more geographically dispersed. Ghana had a lower number of medical staff per capita than Côte d’Ivoire as of the 1920s. Medical staff from Côte d’Ivoire formed the majority of the staff base as early as the mid-1910s. Finally, the analysis shows that the number of patients treated in health care facilities in Ghana was low until the 1920s, and took off as more facilities became available during the 1940s. These findings provide evidence that even two countries that are relatively similar (apart from their colonial history) can have different colonial health care trajectories.</p

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Obra ressenyada: Graeme HAYES y John KARAMICHAS (eds.), Olympic Games, Mega-Events and Civil Societies : Globalization, Environment, Resistance. Houndmills : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011