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World Illusions 10.11-13.08
http://warofillusions.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 10/ 13/ world-illusions-1011-1308/October 13, 2008 — Stefan Fobes Pursuit Of Peace Could Push Afghan Government, Taliban To The Table Study: Vitamin D Insufficiency Often Accompanies Parkinson’s Disease Oy Vey! Israeli-Jewish historian breaks cultural taboo by publishing book saying most of today’s Jews have no connection to Holy
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Collecting medical artefacts as a public-private enterprise
http://www.corporeality.net/ museion/ 2008/ 10/ 13/ collecting-medical-artefacts…During the medical garbage collecting day in late May, we brought in a number of wonderful and interesting medical artefacts to our collections, including this plastic mannequin from the Department of Odontology (it’s Camilla to the left). Now Vanessa tells us that Steve Erenburg (a.k.a.
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Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison: Allen Hornblum
http://makemoneymyself.com/ acres-of-skin-human-experiments-at-holmesburg-prison…Editorial Reviews From Library Journal Relying on prisoners’ firsthand reports, Hornblum (urban studies, Temple Univ.) has written a thorough account of the questionable medical experimentation carried out in Philadelphia’s Holmesburg Prison from the mid-1940s to 1974.
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A Captivating Chronicle: If I Die Before I Wake (The Flu Epidemic Diary of Fiona Macgregor)
http://www.justonemorebook.com/ 2008/ 10/ 10/ a-captivating-chronicle-if-i-die-b…Author: Jean Little Published: 2007 Scholastic (on JOMB) ISBN: 0439988373 Chapters.ca Amazon.com Beautifully bound in a soft unevenly edged journal and told with humour, innocence, intimacy and affection, the daily entries of a fictional twelve year old disclose the spellbinding details of life during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-19.
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Can historians trust scientists as sources for auto/biographical stories?
http://www.corporeality.net/ museion/ 2008/ 10/ 08/ can-historians-trust-scienti…A recent announcement for a lecture by Tim Hunt, joint winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, at the Royal Institution of Great Britain tomorrow, Thursday 9 October, reminded me of the problems with using scientists as sources for biographical stories.
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The History Of Herbal Medicine
http://www.anxietydisorderpro.com/ the-history-of-herbal-medicine/The history of herbal medicine literally goes back to the beginning of civilization. and although it is really impossible to know exactly when herbal medicine history first began, archaeological remains from early civilizations have revealed that plants were used in burials as well as in various other types of rituals.
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Trail of Tears Commemorative Day to kick off 11th Annual Inter-Tribal PowWow
http://www.clarksvilleonline.com/ 2008/ 10/ 07/ trail-of-tears-commemorative-day…The Trail of Tears Commemorative Day will lead off the Native Cultural Circle’s annual Inter-Tribal PowWow. The Port Royal site is the only remaining uncovered segment of the original trail in Tennessee. October 11 and 12th. Mark your calendars. The second weekend of October is just around the corner.
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Has the emergence of the life sciences reconfigured C. P. Snow’s two-cultures thesis?
http://www.corporeality.net/ museion/ 2008/ 10/ 07/ has-the-emergence-of-the-lif…Next year is 50 years since C. P. Snow delivered his famous lecture ‘The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution’, suggesting that as cultured citizens we need to know as much about the second law of thermodynamics as the plays of Shakespeare.
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Today in Science History
http://thedispersalofdarwin.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 09/ today-in-science-history_28.…From Today in Science History: Adam Sedgwick (Born 28 Sep 1854; died 27 Feb 1913). English zoologist, a grandnephew of the geologist Adam Sedgwick, who is best known for his researches on the wormlike organism Peripatus, which he recognized as the zoologically important connecting link between the Annelida, or segmented worms, and the Arthropoda, such as crabs, spiders, and insects.
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Civil War Odds & Ends: September 28, 2008
http://www.brettschulte.net/ CWBlog/ 2008/ 09/ 28/ civil-war-odds-ends-september…I haven’t done an Odds & Ends entry in several weeks, so let’s see what’s happening in the Civil War blogosphere and beyond. TOCWOC recently made it onto a list of “100 Awesome Blogs for History Junkies” listed in an unusual place. It’s nice to be recognized from time to time! I tried to
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