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Backdoor broadcasting company : Tim Thornton : Clinical Judgement and the Med...
[31 Jan 2010 at 6:00pm]
This section of the Backdoor Broadcasting Company website makes recordings of academic lectures available to researchers and members of the public. Here, a lecture delivered by Tim Thornton of the University of Central Lancashire on 25 November 2009 at The Humanities and Arts Research Centre, Royal Holloway University of London is posted as a podcast. The lecture, "Clinical Judgement and the Medical Humanities" deals with areas of ethics and contemporary philosophy and linguistic studies related to mental health care. Applying ideas from Wittgenstein, Thornton is known for his work on "clinical judgement, idiographic and narrative understanding, the interpretation of psychopathology and reductionism and social constructionism in psychiatry." Recorded questions which were posed at the end of the lecture are also available.
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The history education network (THEN/HiER)
[29 Jan 2010 at 6:00pm]
The History Education Network/Histoire et Éducation en Réseau (THEN/HiER) is an award-winning bilingual site dedicated to the study of history at various levels of education in Canada. Produced through a collaboration among professional academics, public museum professionals and educational curriculum policy makers, THEN/HiER has several sections: News and Resources; Research; Practice; Curriculum and Advocacy; and Make your Voice Heard. The news section provides the latest updates on resources in history education, posts a database of history programmes, offers job listings, a newsletter, and notable events such as lectures and conferences. The research subsite allows users to access a database of article, chapter, book and report summaries, and thesis and dissertation abstracts. It also provides tips on how to conduct historical research and lists journals that deal with history education. The section on Practice explains best practices in historical education and provides primary and secondary source bibliographies in that field. Curriculum and Advocacy offers curriculum and education policy documents. Make Your Voice Heard gives users interactive components, such as message boards and sets up forums for collaborative projects. While the site is Canadian, it is worth noting that the site's administrators pick up news from Europe, the USA and further abroad internationally, making this a generally useful resource for anyone teaching history in the secondary or tertiary educational systems. Users can register and log in to access all information available.
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Points of view : capturing the 19th century in photographs
[28 Nov 2009 at 6:00pm]
'Points of View: Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs' is the website and online exhibition of a major exhibition at the British Library in London. The free exhibition ends on 7th Mar 2010. The curators have selected works from the rich and rarely-seen 300,000-item photographic archives of the British Museum (now at the British Library, which has since added to the 19th century collection) to ask of the 19th century: "Who was making the photograph and why?" The website contains an online exhibition grouped around eight themes, with images described in detail and offered either as zoom-able images or as small printable images without watermarks. There are also videos of early photographic techniques, an active and illustrated weblog, and useful external Web links to newspaper and magazine reviews of the show. There are also details of the hardback book published to accompany the exhibition.
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Medical history 1957-2009
[28 Nov 2009 at 6:00pm]
This Web page gives free access to the full-text of the British journal 'Medical History', offering issues from 1957 until 2009. Each issue has a linked table-of-contents, with articles available as a summary, as "page-view", or as a PDF file. Obituaries, book notes, essay-reviews, and book reviews are also regularly available in each issue. Example article titles include: 'Medical aspects of tobacco smoking and the anti-tobacco movement in Britain in the nineteenth century'; 'Design for a medical service: Peter the Great's Admiralty Regulations (1722)'; 'The barber-surgeons of York'; and 'History of opium in Sri Lanka', among a great many others. The journal may be keyword searched via PubMed, and a direct link to the search box has been added to this Intute record.
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Demography of Sri Lanka, 1900-1954
[5 Nov 2009 at 6:00pm]
This is a Web page detailing the context, range and availability of the "Demography of Sri Lanka, 1900-1954 : Trends in Fertility and Mortality in Pre-Demographic Transition Sri Lanka" dataset hosted by the History Data Service (HDS), based at the UK Data Archive University of Essex (formerly part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service - AHDS). The data is available to order from the HDS as a tab delimited texts and DBF databases. From this Web page you may download a PDF of images of the study documentation. To make use of this dataset you must first register with the HDS, and further information is supplied giving instructions. The aims of this study were: to examine trends in fertility, nuptiality and mortality in Sri Lanka (Ceylon became Sri Lanka in 1972) in the period prior to demographic transition, i.e. prior to the 1950s; and to search for the reasons for changes which occurred, by examining how these varied across the approximately 20 administrative districts of the island and considering whether this variation was associated with district characteristics such as literacy, availability of health services, etc. There is a tendency to suppose that, prior to transition, developing world countries had more or less constant fertility and mortality - at high levels - albeit with the fluctuations in both caused by famines and epidemics. There may have been more complex movements in Sri Lanka.
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Great Britain historical database : health and health care data : mortality s...
[28 Oct 2009 at 7:00pm]
This is a Web page detailing the context, range and availability of the 'Great Britain Historical Database : Health and Health Care Data : Mortality Statistics, 1851-1973' dataset hosted by the History Data Service (HDS), based at the UK Data Archive University of Essex (formerly part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service - AHDS). The data is available to order from the HDS as tab delimited text files, UK higher education users may also download the data through the CHCC (Historical Census Collection) system. From this Web page you may download a PDF of images of the study documentation. To make use of this dataset you must first register with the HDS, and further information is supplied giving instructions. The resource includes: annual cause-of-death data for London districts., 1860-1920; birth and death statistics for local government districts 1921-74 taken from the Registrar General's statistical reviews for England and Wales arranged by sex; age-specific mortality data for registration districts in England and Wales; infant mortality statistics for local government districts in 1911; quarterly mortality counts for registration sub-districts; cause-of-death statistics for registration districts, 1851-1920 taken from the Registrar General's annual reports of births, deaths and marriages; decennial cause of death data for Registration Districts in England and Wales arranged by ages; individual cholera deaths in London in summer and autumn 1866 arranged by date and causes of death.
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Decline of infant mortality in England and Wales, 1871-1948 : a medical conun...
[21 Oct 2009 at 7:00pm]
This is a Web page detailing the context, range and availability of the 'Decline of Infant Mortality in England and Wales, 1871-1948: a Medical Conundrum' dataset hosted by the History Data Service (HDS), based at the UK Data Archive University of Essex (formerly part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service - AHDS). The data is available to order from the HDS as an excel file. From this Web page you may download a PDF of images of the study documentation. To make use of this dataset you must first register with the HDS, and further information is supplied giving instructions. This study aimed to provide a more individual, micro-level appreciation of infant mortality data. Previously, the focus of these data had been aggregative, at a fairly high level of aggregation - the country, county registration district. To that end, a team of research students at the Open University has examined vaccination registers at the sub-registration district level for 22 such districts. In 1853 vaccination was made compulsory and in 1871 legislation was introduced requiring all poor law unions to appoint vaccination officers and to set up a system of registration; this system, with only minor alterations, lasted until 1948. Under the 1871 Act, vaccination officers took over all the functions of the local registrars except for giving parents the statutory notice of compulsory vaccination. The vaccination registrar recorded the following: the registration number in the civil birth register; date of birth; place of birth; name of child; sex; name of father, or if illegitimate, mother; occupation of father or if illegitimate, mother; date of notice to vaccinate given to parent; date of successful vaccination, postponement or insusceptibility to vaccination; name of medical man who signed the certificate; date of death of any child who died before vaccination; reference number in vaccination officer's report book on problem cases. From the monthly information on infant deaths, the vaccination officer compiled an infant death register on children dying under the age of one year. Medical historians have begun to recognise the historical importance of the compulsory provisions of Victorian vaccination legislation, which entailed the growth of a complex administrative structure necessary for its implementation. This can been seen as a forerunner of the Welfare State, particularly as regards the development of the public health movement. It is generally agreed that civil registration had reached a high standard of reliability by 1872, and as the vaccination birth registers and infant death registers are copies of the civil registers for the period 1872-1948, they constitute an unrivalled source of information on infant mortality for the period. The data consists of transcriptions from a sample of English vaccination registers, at the sub-registration district level, for selected years within the period 1871-1913. The variables differ slightly due to local custom and the transcribing methods employed but broadly, for each district, they consist of number in birth register; date of birth; address; gender; legitimacy; parents' occupation; date of vaccination; date of exception; date of death.
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Cognition, biology and idealist philosophy
[16 Sep 2009 at 7:00pm]
Cognition, Biology, and Idealist Philosophy is an academic dissertation by philosopher Axel Randrup. The work can be downloaded from the website of the Oxford Text Archive (formerly part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS)) in HTML format. It is freely available, although users are required to agree to a brief terms and condition statement. The work argues that materialist philosophy contains a contradiction (namely that it assumes a material world independent of human observation, but also says that all our thoughts and cognitions, including the assumption of a material world, are dependent on our cognitive apparatus in its present stage of evolution), and offers an alternative account of natural science, biological evolution, and cognition, based on an idealist philosophy.
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Humanimalia : a journal of human/animal interface studies
[28 Aug 2009 at 7:00pm]
Humanimalia is a full-text peer-reviewed ejournal, freely available online and published from DePauw University. Humanimalia aims to publish three times per year, and the first issue was published in August 2009. This online journal publishes HTML papers and reviews on the topic of human-animal encounters, covering fields such as contemporary philosophy, cultural studies, sci-art, and storytelling. Example articles available in the first issue include: 'Animal Farm's Lessons for Literary (and) Animal Studies'; 'Naming names - or, what’s in it for the animals?'; and 'At the Heart of the Home: An Animal Reading of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Heart of a Dog', with reviews of such books as 'What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity' (2008). The website also contains a 'Humanimalifesto', and a Calls for Papers page where one can find the details of the Editorial Board. This unique journal may be of interest to scholars working in a variety of fields.
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Cultures of knowledge : an intellectual geography of the seventeenth-century ...
[22 Aug 2009 at 7:00pm]
Cultures of Knowledge is the website of a project funded by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation. The project website is hosted by the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford, whose partners in the project include institutions in the UK; Wales; Hungary; the Czech Republic; and Poland. The aim of the project is to catalogue and edit the Bodleian Library's archives of correspondence of some of the 17th century's leading men of science, and make these widely available to international scholars. It is ultimately hoped that the project will enable international collaboration and study into the intellectual history of the period. The website provides information on: the aims of the project; the partner institutions; resources held at the Bodleian (including brief biographies of: John Aubrey; John Wallis; Edward Lhwyd; and Martin Lister); events and details of how to get involved in this work; and related links and bibliographies. This site would interest those working in: English; history of science; and history.
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Rutherford journal : the New Zealand journal for the history and philosophy o...
[6 Jul 2009 at 7:00pm]
The Rutherford Journal is an online journal that publishes invited articles, and critical notices, from leading international scholars in the history and philosophy of science and technology. It is edited by Professor Jack Copeland of the Philosophy Department of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. The journal has been published annually since December 2005, and the full texts of the articles of this and subsequent volumes are freely available as HTML files. The articles include original contributions from: Rom Harré; Alan Chalmers; Margaret Boden; and Alan Musgrave. Many of the articles include JPEG images which, although welcome and often instructive, can pose a problem for printing.
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Philosophy of Science Association (PSA)
[2 Jul 2009 at 7:00pm]
The website of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) provides information about this organisation, which exists to promote research, teaching, and discussion of issues in the philosophy of science. The Association was founded in 1934, and holds a major conference every two years, details of which are given on the website. The site also offers: membership information; notices about opportunities in the field for graduate students; announcements; and details of the PSA Women's Caucus. Additionally, there are sections devoted to two PSA publications: an electronic archive of PSA newsletters going back to 1995, and the editorial pages of Philosophy of Science, the official journal of the PSA.
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Chinese science
[1 Jul 2009 at 7:00pm]
This Web page gives free access to 15 full-text back issues of the academic journal Chinese Science (1975-1998). This English-language journal was edited from U.S. universities and published articles examining aspects of the history of science, technology and medicine in China. Issues have tables of contents and articles are freely available as PDF files. Example article titles include: 'Craft and Ritual in Traditional Chinese Carpentry'; 'Not Quite Gentlemen? Doctors in Sung and Yuan'; 'Silk Weaving in Ancient China: From Geometric Figures to Patterns of Pictorial Likeness'; and 'The Evolution and Decline of the Ancient Chinese Practice of Watching for the Ethers', among many others. This will be an interesting collection for anyone interested in Chinese history, and for those interested more generally in the history of science and technology. The journal also had a few articles on science under communist rule in the 20th century.
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Fauna and flora in illustrations : natural history of the Edo era
[29 Jun 2009 at 7:00pm]
Fauna and Flora in Illustrations : Natural History of the Edo Era is an online exhibition from the National Diet Library of Japan, accessible only in Japanese. The site is divided into four broad sections: an introduction to the materials in the exhibition; the development of natural history publications; the evolution of uniquely Japanese horticulture; and rare birds, strange animals and curious fish. Each section has enlargeable thumbnails of illustrations embedded in explanatory text. The introductory section describes some of the features of the illustrations and the books and other texts in which they appear, and each of the other sections is further broken down into various aspects of the topic it covers. Even for non-Japanese readers, the site is a valuable source of images of Japanese illustrations of the natural world during the Edo period (1603-1868).
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DIO : the international journal of scientific history
[29 Jun 2009 at 7:00pm]
'DIO: The International Journal of Scientific History' is a full-text ejournal, edited from Florida State University. The editors are inclined to accept articles by... "astrononomers, physicists, mathematicians, & classicists - not historians". Published three times a year, at June 2009 the journal has 27 issues online. Issues usually offer between two and six articles, freely available as PDF files. Example article titles include: 'The Babylonian Theory of the Planets'; 'The Southern Limit of the Ancient Star Catalog'; 'The Instuments Used by Hipparchos'; and 'Columbus's Landfall at Plana Keys', among others. The journal occasionaly collaborates with the The Journal for Hysterical Astronomy on special issues and articles on historical scientific hoaxes. The journal appears to have a special interest in papers on Hipparchos, ancient planetary observations, the maps of Ptolemy, and the early exploration of the polar regions. Three $1000 prizes are offered by the journal.
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