The American Military: A Concise History

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A Concise History of Immunology

The concept of immunity from disease dates back at least to Greece in the 5th century BC. Thucydides wrote of individuals who recovered from the plague, which was raging in Athens at the time. These individuals, who had already contracted the disease, recovered and became “immune” or “exempt.” However, the earliest recognized attempt to intentionally induce immunity to an infectious disease was...

A Concise History of Dutch River Floods

Based on a brief account of 1,000 years of river floods and flood management in the Dutch Rhine delta, it is argued that vulnerability to river floods depends on the complex interaction of economics, institutions, politics and, to a limited extent, climate. Response functions and thresholds for climate change impacts should take this complexity into account rather than assuming society to be co...

A concise history of the cancer and leukemia group B.

A formal National Cancer Institute Clinical Trials Cooperative Group Program was conceived in 1955 when Dr. Sidney Farber, Mary Lasker, and others approached Congress with a proposal to increase support for studies of chemotherapy of cancer. In response, Congress awarded US $5 million to the National Cancer Institute to establish the Chemotherapy National Service Center. The founders of the Can...

A history of American neurology

speciality, or with neurologists. They cover a remarkable range of topics, a variety that is directly proportional to the diversity of their scholarly quality and the number of Whiggish comments they contain. Only a few of the papers warrant being mentioned by name, but there are others of considerable merit. Among the latter are the biographies, which deal with Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Hors...