Some 600,000 refugees have settled in Australia since the end of World War II. Of the 12,000 people who receive humanitarian visas each year to migrate to or stay in Australia, 40 per cent settle in NSW. NSW is also home to over 2000 people released from immigration detention centres on Temporary Protection Visas, and to an uncertain number of asylum seekers who are living in the community whil...

FRCPE Harrison’s early career was in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Here, he undertook general duties (general practice), clinical venereology, and laboratory work in which he demonstrated a flair for research and development. In the first world war he showed enormous organisational and administrative ability by setting up a venereology service for the British Army in north west Europe based on ...

It has always appeared to me a source of regret that we have not some short printed notes 011 the above subject in each copy of our Indian Medical Regulations. I think they would prove useful, at least to those who are entering on their first campaign. Shortly after the siege of Delhi I made out a short series of queries relating to what had been seen and done professionally by the Surgeons of ...

Th e historical era following World War II is often referred to as the era of decolonization, the time when the former European powers, as well as America and Japan, gave up their overseas empires and dozens of new sovereign countries came into being. However, it could just as easily be called the era of nationalist separatism, as the sheer number of ethnic and pan-ethnic movements seeking inde...

Many political scientists and policymakers argue that unmediated events—the successes and failures on the battlefield—determine whether the mass public will support military excursions. The public supports war, the story goes, if the benefits of action outweigh the costs of conflict. Other scholars contend that the balance of elite discourse influences public support for war. I draw upon survey...

In 1944, during the World War II, many doctors and many medical students participated in the Warsaw Uprising. This group also comprised future nephrologists, professors of medicine, founders of Polish nephrology, dialysis and transplantology centers. We presented 3 of great polish nephrologists who participated in medical services in the Warsaw Uprising: Zygmunt Hanicki, Andrzej Manitius and Ta...

A 2014 American-German war movie directed by and starring George Clooney (Actor, Screenwriter, Film Director, and Producer; Los Angeles, California and Laglio, Italy) (1961-current) popularized the work of a special United States Army unit devoted to the rescue of art treasures stolen or hidden by the Nazis during World War II. A similar story occurred in Paris to a curious little monument clos...

This paper analyses the trends in within-country inequality during the postWorld War II period, with particular attention to the last 20 years, on the basis of a review of the relevant literature and of an econometric analysis of inequality trends in 73 countries accounting for 80 per cent of the world’s population and 91 per cent of world GDP-PPP. The paper suggests that the last two decades h...

In Greece gold searchers and lost treasures, are very common because there are too many gold deposits, too many lost gold coins, from the World War II, and generally too many lost treasures dating from the Byzantine period, the Ottoman Empire as well as treasures regarding pirates, Venetians etc. Gold searchers, despite the strenuous efforts they make to detect some of the lost treasures, very ...

MARGA VICEDO teaches history of biology at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. She holds a PhD in philosophy of science from the University of Valencia, and a PhD in history of science from Harvard University. She is interested in the history and philosophy of biology in the twentieth century, especially the history of genetics, e...