Florence and forward

Florence Nightingale

MARCEL FLORKIN, A history ofbiochemistry. Part III. History ofthe identification ofthe sources offree energy in organisms, Amsterdam, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., 1975, 8vo, pp. [xxi], 475, illus., Dfl. 130.00. ($54.25). Professor Florkin and Professor Elmer H. Stotz are editors of Comprehensive biochemistry, a 33-volume work still being published. This is volume 31 and the second of fou...

Florence Nightingale. Reputation and power

extent growth was predicated by public demand, the growth of medical knowledge, and changes in education; to what extent nursing was affected by two world wars; and then by opportunities for women elsewhere. What is needed is a pulling-together of the best of the micro-histories and an updating of Professor Abel Smith's work. It is hoped that at reprinting an opportunity will be taken to correc...

The Florence Declaration

Over 1,650 participants from 94 countries came together in Florence from 9-14 November 2014 for the 18 General Assembly of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). 1300 technical proposals and the exchange between heritage specialists have culminated in the following Declaration of principles and recommendations on the value of cultural heritage and landscapes for promoting pe...

Florence R. Sabin, 1915

European University Institute, Florence

How do highly independent and inflation-averse central banks like the German Bundesbank affect the ability of partisan governments to generate preand postelectoral monetary and fiscal cycles? Following the explosion of research on independent central banks (ICBs), recent rational-partisan theories of political business cycles predict that ICBs simply weaken the ability of governments to generat...