Reporting the findings of clinical trials: a discussion paper D Ghersi, M Clarke, J Berlin, M Gulmezoglu, R Kush, P Lumbiganon, D Moher, F Rockhold, I Sim, E Wager a International Clinical Trials Registry Platform, Department of Research Policy and Cooperation (RPC/IER), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. b UK Cochrane Centre, Oxford, England. c Johnson & Johnson, Titusville NJ, Un...

Research universities are a recent innovation, having emerged in Prussia in the early 19th century, and in the United States only in the aftermath of the Civil War. By 1940, perhaps a dozen American universities could be regarded as firstclass research institutions. However, they received virtually no financial support from the US government. The most farreaching recommendation of Vannevar Bush...

The genus Protochrysis (type species P. succinalis Bischoff, 1916, by monotypy) was established by Bischoff (1916: 139) for distinctive fossil insect remains of Eocene (Lutetian) age from the former Königsberg outskirts of East Prussia (now Kalinigrad, Russian Federation), referred at present to the Chrysididae (Hymenoptera) (Brues 1933; Carpenter 1985, 1992). However, an identical generic name...

Bernhard von Gudden was a psychiatrist in Prussia and he was summoned in March 1886 to examine King Ludwig II for his apparently insane activities like, profligate spending and erratic behaviour. A team of four estimable psychiatrists pronounced that he was not capable ruling. Consequently, he was dethroned and kept in a castle under supervision of von Gudden. Gudden championed the idea of 'no ...

By applying methods of cognitive metaphor theory, Jaworska examines metaphorical scenarios employed in the discourse of anti-Slavism, which featured prominently in radical nationalist propaganda in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century. She does so by analysing metaphorical expressions used to refer to the Polish population living in the eastern provinces of Prussia, in the so-called Ost...

Comparing two public medical affairs which involved disciplinary proceedings and libel actions, one from Bavaria and one from Prussia, this article analyzes the dynamics behind legal conflicts over doctors' professional ethics in Imperial Germany. In both the case of Dr Maurice Hutzler, who committed suicide after conflicts with senior colleagues at the Gisela Children's Hospital and a sentence...

Strategies adopted by the early modern printers vis-à-vis acquisition and use of woodcut blocks depended on various internal external factors. One might assume that former—a printer’s personal ambitions convictions concerning role illustrations in general—were most part dependent latter (i.e., economic, political or legal circumstances). Hans Daubmann, a printer active first Nuremberg 1547–54 t...

This article examines the history of establishment departmental medical statistics in Russian Empire and Kingdom Prussia first half nineteenth century. Starting from M. Foucault’s concepts biopolitics governmentality, historians have studied statistical mechanisms for representing “public health” England, France, other West European countries some detail. The case remains unexplored this respec...