Editorial: An investigative legacy

Guest Editorial: The Legacy of Conflicts

rooms the misery of human suffering. When conflicts are over, the news usually concentrates on reconstruction issues. However, the legacy of conflicts might also include longer-term security threats, such as environmental degradation, damaged infrastructure, and conflict related risks to human health. Because of poor environmental administration in postconflict countries, environmental and heal...

Editorial: Neurotechnology: An Engineering Perspective

Guest Editorial: Norton Nelson’s Legacy: The Science of Environmental Health

The field of environmental health science is now a recognized and respected branch of science in American and worldwide academia. One of the pioneers who had a major role in the establishment of environmental health as a true scientific discipline was Norton Nelson, the founder and first chair of the Department and the Institute of Environmental Medicine at New York University (NYU), which now ...

Eighteenth-century chemistry as an investigative enterprise

14 articles, the most reflective is that of an outsider, Jane Lewis of the London School of Economics, who in an overview of the literature suggests, somewhat at odds with the other contributors, that "it is a mistake to see women as passive recipients [of obstetrical care] or as victims of these changes". Essays in the volume edited by Valerie Fildes continue this celebratory note of women's e...

The graphics calculator as an investigative tool

Introduction The graphics calculator seems to be frequently misunderstood, especially by those who are unaccustomed to using it. (Kissane, 1997a) For example, it is sometimes regarded as a device to assist students to pass examinations, perhaps understandably in places where its use has become widespread because of changes to examination rules. Similarly, it is also interpreted sometimes as a d...