In the January 2000 issue of Medical History, Bill Bynum paid tribute to Vivian Nutton on his retirement after twenty years as co-editor of the journal. Bill then wrote that he and I intended to take Medical History "some ways at least" into the new millennium. Three years on, Bill also has decided to take his leave as editor, although he too joins our House of Lords, the Editorial Board, where...

In this paper, I examine the spatial politics of Bermudian Black Power movement and its connections to political formations in wider Caribbean North America. This is examined detail through an engagement with First Regional International Conference (BPC) held Bermuda on 10–13 July 1969 subsequent activity island that conference inspired. Through it shown how black population were constitutive t...

This paper discusses the attacks carried out by British Colonial Government in Java with Sultanate of Yogyakarta Hadiningrat which occurred from July 18 to 20, 1812 AD. study uses historical research methods that emphasize heuristic processes, verification, interpretation, and historiography. The results this explain background conflict originated unwillingness Sultan Hamengkubuwono II submit d...

This paper compares economic outcomes across areas in India which were under direct British colonial rule with areas which were under indirect colonial rule. Controlling for selective annexation using a specific policy rule, I find that areas which experienced direct rule have significantly lower levels of access to schools, health centers and roads in the post-colonial period. I find evidence ...

The building of the Civic Hospital in Split was an important event in the life of this city. Although it primarily served as an institution for the care of the poor, its development shows the evolution of the public health care in this territory. In spite of the recent thorough review of the older historiography on this history, incorrect data are permanently published in the literature and lat...

C. A. Bayly is the single most influential scholar in field of Indian history late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His work accessible to Spanish-speaking readers thanks El nacimiento del mundo moderno, 1780‒1914: Conexiones y comparaciones globales (2010), Spanish translation The Birth Modern World, Global Connections Comparisons (2004). This book, his only contribution that has be...

at the same time fundamental public criticism of it and a need for alternative therapies (cf. pp. 31 9f.). Labisch sees two ways out of this situation: a new concentration on medicine as an art that deals with human beings, and permanent ethical self-contemplation. This comprehensive and concise history of health in the modem period can contribute to a better informed and more objective debate ...