Essays into history

Essays in English population history

runs the risk of presenting an unsatisfactory overall picture, but an editorial introduction which specifically formulates a general European model of the development of food policies since the nineteenth century combined with a thematic organization of the individual contributions, succeeds in producing a sense of cohesion. It helps too, that the papers fall into geographical groups: Italy. Th...

The History of Renaissance Cartography: Interpretive Essays

Essays on the history of the microscope

phical thought begins in Chapter IV and culminates in Chapters VII and VIII, where Staum is at his best with an analysis of Cabanis's Rapports du physique et du moral de l'homme. Two later chapters (IX and XI) complete the argument for Staum's first thesis with comments on the works of some of Cabanis' § contemporaries who pursued themes similar to those treated in the Rapports, and finally wit...

Essays in the History of Canadian Medicine

whippings. The South had the highest infant mortality rates in the country, and also the highest rates of hypertension, heart disease, and venereal disease. Even tuberculosis, often termed the disease of industrialization, was more prevalent in the southern states than in the North. Disease rates thus provided considerable justification for northern views of the South as benighted and backward....

Essays in the history of eugenics

like morphine, heroin and cocaine. Cocaine industry syndicates operated in the pre-World War One period in order to keep raw material prices down. But the crucial regulation was that put into place through international narcotics control, in particular the 1912 Hague Convention, made fully operational and applicable worldwide through the Versailles peace treaty. From this arose the narcotic con...