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The political economy of liberation

Ralph Bunche Journal of Public Affairs hTe p Lerone Bennett Jr. 0 0 Part of the Environmental Policy Commons, Other Political Science Commons, Public Affairs Commons, Urban Studies Commons, and the

Underrepresented: Descriptive Representation and Political Interest of African Americans and Women in the 2008 Election

- 83 - Representing the Underrepresented: Descriptive Representation and Political Interest of African Americans and Women in the 2008 Election Kristine Coulter University of California, Irvine ... , Other Political Science Commons, Public Affairs Commons, Urban Studies Commons, and the Urban Studies and Planning Commons Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalscholarship.bjmlspa.tsu.edu

L'assimilació dels llibres sobre els animals d'Aristòtil en la medicina d'Arnau de Vilanova (c. 1240-1311)

culture. From the second half of the 13th century, this group of books contributed to the development of a new medical practice based on the recovery of classical authorities and natural philosophy. On ... within the framework of discussions between natural philosophy and medicine in Montpellier; this took place at the end of the 13th century and early 14h century. Key words: Arnau de Vilanova, Aristotle

The function of law in political and social conditions of pluralism in the reception of Hannah Arendt

. In o th er words, th e political space, u n lik e in th e philosophy, th e m in d only is not enough for som ething to be considered for th e tru th . We need also some social conditions, am ong w hich ... re tu rn in g in th e A re n d t’s d e lib era­ tions. It is philosophy political p ractice of a n c ie n t Greece. T he a u th o r trie s to find th e re a still u n co n ta m in a te d source of

Shaping biomedical objects across history and philosophy: a conversation with Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

Historical epistemology, according to the historian of science Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, is a space through which "to take experimental laboratory work into the realm of philosophy". This key concept ... HUM2006-04939) and the regional research network CREP (S2007/ HUM 0501). For contributions to the Festschrift, see the special issue of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 2013; 35 (1

Constitutionalisation of political changes in Poland during the years 1989-2011

r in g th e y e a r s 1989-1992 The year 1989 was distinctive for a political transform ation in Poland and other countries of E a ste rn and C entral Europe. It was in th is year th a t the first

Radioisotopes as political instruments, 1946-1953

peacetime dividends of atomic energy. The numerous requests from scientists outside the United States, however, sparked a political debate about whether the Commission should or even could export ... the desire to safeguard the country's atomic monopoly at all costs, linked to American anti-Communism. This essay examines the various ways in which radioisotopes were used as political instruments

Radioisotopes as political instruments, 1946-1953

peacetime dividends of atomic energy. The numerous requests from scientists outside the United States, however, sparked a political debate about whether the Commission should or even could export ... the desire to safeguard the country's atomic monopoly at all costs, linked to American anti-Communism. This essay examines the various ways in which radioisotopes were used as political instruments

Un análisis de la primera ley sobre anticoncepción en Argentina: El Programa de Procreación Responsable en la provincia de La Pampa

agents are confronted by political parties, by institutions and by their own political and subjective identities. This article analyses the development of the "1363 Law", which was passed in November 1991

La asociación europea contra la poliomielitis y los programas europeos de vacunación

Association against Poliomyelitis. The internal working mechanisms and the international connections of this Association, in particular with the WHO, were subsidiaries of a specific socio-political context that

"Air, sun, water": Ideology and activities of OZE (Society for the preservation of the health of the Jewish population) during the interwar period

This paper follows the social and political history of OZE, the Society for the Preservation of the Health of the Jewish Population, in the interwar period. We focus on two campaigns against typhus ... 3. These offices became soon after the head-quarter of the organization. This paper aims to follow the social and political history of OZE in the interwar period. We focus on the period from 1918 to

The Place and Position of Political Parties under the Slovak Legal System

nowadays, has its origin in the second half of the 19th century which was significantly influen? ced by the development of the parliam entary movement and the spread of the right to vote. Political parties

La higiene mental durante el primer franquismo: de la higiene racial a la prevención de la enfermedad mental (1939-1960)

Psychiatric Care, which took on mental hygiene as one of its functions. This paper shows the close relationship of mental hygiene during the early years of Francoism with the political principles of the ... (moral and spiritual) education of the Spanish people in the political principles of the "New State", pathologizing political dissent and ideologically purifying the country. In the 1950s, Francoist mental

Lino Camprubí Bueno. Los ingenieros de Franco. Ciencia, catolicismo y Guerra Fría en el Estado franquista. Barcelona: Crítica; 2017, 320 p. ISBN 9788416771752. €21,90.

scientific practices and technologies became constitutive elements of Franco's regime from the first moments of the civil war until its latest stages in the 1970s. Camprubí doesn't take the political regime ... block during the Cold War years. The historical actor through which Camprubí weaves his story is the «political engineer», the expert who was able to place his «discipline at the center of the new state

Designs of devices: The vacuum aspirator and American abortion technology

suction became American physicians' abortion technology of choice. It focuses on factors such as political and professional feasibility (the technology was able to complement the decriminalization of ... infection and uterine perforation, provided D&C opponents with a safe and feasible political and technological alternative, and eventually became one of the most frequently used medical technologies in the

Regulation and the circulation of knowledge: Penicillin patents in Spain

. They gained special prominence by allowing the creation of a network in which political, economic and business, industrial power, public health and international cooperation fields came together. The ... interests of the political, economic and industrial powers. Patents and their regulation became key elements in this process. All this material, taken together, contributes to a better understanding of the

Reforma urbana e higiene social en Santiago de Chile: La tecno-utopía liberal de Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna (1872-1875)

to the political agenda of Latin American elites to create an urban culture (civilization). We also analyze the strategies of social defence that these reforms implied. The influence of French

En los inicios de la psiquiatría franquista: el Congreso Nacional de Neurología y Psiquiatría (Barcelona, 1942)

context of both the psychiatrists' professional and scientific interests and their ideological and political concerns. Conference papers tackled issues such as neurology and psychiatry in wartime, vitamin

Una perspectiva heterodoxa de la historia de los medicamentos: Dinámicas de inclusión-exclusión de los sueros antituberculosos Ravetllat-Pla en la España del primer tercio del siglo XX

theory of tuberculosis, which upheld the drugs produced by the Institute and was considered heterodox by the official science of the time. The Catalan medical and political network established a space of