The politics of medical expertise and substance control: WHO consultants for addiction rehabilitation and pharmacy education in Thailand and India during the Cold War [0.03%]
冷战时期的医学政治与物质控制：世卫组织顾问在泰国和印度的瘾症治疗与药学教育工作
Reiko Kanazawa
Reiko Kanazawa
This paper explores the role of World Health Organization (WHO) medical experts in ambitious projects for substance control during the Cold War in Thailand and India. The circumstances surrounding opium production in these two nations were ...
Performing national independence through medical diplomacy: tuberculosis control and socialist internationalism in Cold War Vietnam [0.03%]
通过医学外交践行国家独立——冷战时期的越南肺结核控制与社会主义国际主义政策
Michitake Aso
Michitake Aso
This article explores medical diplomacy as a means of navigating distinct but related nation-building and internationalist projects during the Cold War. It examines how medical professionals from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) uti...
Value, knowledge and reputation: zoological exchange by Australian museums, 1870-1900 [0.03%]
价值、知识和声誉：澳大利亚博物馆的动物标本交换（1870—1900）
Henry Reese,Vanessa Finney,Simon Ville
Henry Reese
The burgeoning nineteenth-century public-museum sector built a significant part of its natural-history specimen collections through extensive international trading. The early 2020s has seen an upsurge of scholarly interest in this largely o...
'Like nets or cobwebs': Kenelm Digby, Isaac Newton and the problem of rarefaction [0.03%]
“如同网或蜘蛛网”——肯厄尔姆·迪格比、艾萨克·牛顿与稀化问题
John Henry
John Henry
This article aims to bring out the problematic nature of condensation and rarefaction for early modern natural philosophers by considering two historically significant attempts to deal with it, first by Sir Kenelm Digby in his Treatise on B...
Computing as sugar? The sweet and the bitter of social histories of computing [0.03%]
甜蜜与苦涩：社会视野下的计算历史
Jonnie Penn
Jonnie Penn
Gordon Barrett,Claire Edington,Aya Homei et al.
Gordon Barrett et al.
Horizontal Chemistry [0.03%]
横向化学
Michelle DiMeo,Andrew Gregory,Frank A J L James et al.
Michelle DiMeo et al.
In 1976 Raymond Williams commented, 'Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.' Such implied difficulty has not prevented Bloomsbury Academic, since the 2000s, from publishing around forty series of ...
Gordon Barrett,Aya Homei
Gordon Barrett
This special issue brings together a diverse set of cases from Asia with the aim of decentring established historical narratives about science diplomacy. With a critical perspective bringing together the bodies of literature in the fields o...
'Down pythons' throats we thrust live goats': snakes, zoos and animal welfare in nineteenth-century Britain [0.03%]
“把活山羊塞入蟒蛇的嘴里”：19世纪英国的动物园、蛇和动物保护
Helen Cowie
Helen Cowie
In nineteenth-century Britain, captive snakes in menageries and zoological gardens were routinely fed with live prey - primarily rabbits, pigeons and guinea pigs. From the late 1860s, this practice began to generate opposition on animal wel...
'Who can tell me what potable water means?' The assessment of water quality in debates over hydraulic infrastructure in nineteenth-century Italy [0.03%]
“谁能告诉我什么是饮用水？”意大利19世纪辩论中关于水利基础设施的水质评估
Salvatore Valenti
Salvatore Valenti
How water is perceived and represented has an impact on the relationships between a given society and its water infrastructure. Historians have identified a shift in the perception of water during the nineteenth century, which was connected...