Community power could boost confidence in vaccination programmes
Published in Nature
Sisters who kicked down the door of the US medical establishment
Published in Nature
Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell fought to be doctors in the mid-nineteenth century, and to train more women as physicians.
Africa’s reforestation: European Union and United States should step up
Published in Nature
The environment as seen through the life of a journal: Ambio 1972-2022.
Published in Ambio
Emerging after World War II "the environment" as a modern concept turned in the years around 1970 into a phase of institutionalization in science, civic society, and politics. Part of this was the foundation of journals. The majority became "environmental specialist journals", typically based in established disciplines. Some became "environmental g...
Disruptions and diversions : the demographic consequences of natural disasters in sparsely populated areas
The Eight Ds model (Carson and Carson 2014) explains the unique characteristics of human and economic geography for sparsely populated areas (SPAs) as disconnected, discontinuous, diverse, detailed, dynamic, distant, dependent and delicate. According to the model, SPAs are subject to dramatic changes in demographic characteristics that result from ...
Blod, kött och tårar : Kroppslig erfarenhet i Sverige, ca 1600–1750 / Blood, Flesh and Tears : The Lived Body in Sweden,...
The study investigates how ordinary people in Sweden understood the body to function between c. 1600-1750, aiming thereby to enhance our understanding of everyday life during this period. Questions of how the body worked was then primarily a topic for the physiological sciences, and previous research has thus largely focused on the dissemination an...
Biopolítica y gubernamentalidad en el Wallmapu (Araucanía) desde el nivel del sujeto. Manuel Manquilef y la “Jimnasia Na...
O presente trabalho explora a perspectiva apresentada por Manuel Manquilef, no início do século XX, sobre os jogos, danças e exercícios domésticos e guerreiros praticados pelos Mapuches. Essa professora normalista de descendência mapuche valorizava o resgate de tais práticas físicas, como fundamentos da alma de um povo que era necessário preservar....
La Société de Biologie de Strasbourg : 100 ans au service de la science et de la société
...Published in Biologie Aujourd’hui
Filiale de la Société de Biologie, la Société de Biologie de Strasbourg (SBS) est une société savante qui a pour objet la diffusion et la promotion du savoir scientifique en biologie et en médecine. Fondée en 1919, La SBS a célébré son Centenaire le mercredi 16 octobre 2019. Cette journée a permis de retracer les différents jalons de la SBS, à trav...
The pandemic bookshelf grows
Published in Nature
Outbreaks have long wrought fear, lies, intolerance, inequality and ruin — will we ever learn?
What are COVID archivists keeping for tomorrow’s historians?
Published in Nature
Records of past pandemics are patchy. This one has seen a global frenzy of collecting.
