Historical Perspectives of Healthcare Disparities: Is the Past Prologue?

Abstract Globalization, the decline of Western hegemony, and the rise of new political and economic actors, particularly in East Asia, are concomitant with the emergence of more encompassing historical perspectives, attentive to the achievements and historical trajectories of other regions of the world. Global history provides thus a new framework to understanding our past that challenges former views based on the cultural needs, values, and expectations of the West. This means that humanities and social sciences are subject to intense scrutiny and pressed to adapt themselves to a changing cultural, academic, and intellectual environment. However, this process is hindered by the gradual loss of their former prestige and by the increasing influence of economics in the reorganization of the educational, research, and cultural agenda according to market-oriented criteria. The result is that the mobilization of the past increasingly conforms to new strategies in which connectivity, trading, and diplomatic interests, as well as integration in dynamic flows of wealth, appear of paramount importance. Egyptology is not alien to these challenges, which will in all probability reshape its very foundations in the foreseeable future.

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Memories and Uses of the Past

10.1093/oso/9780198870906.003.0001 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

Youssef Cassis ◽

Catherine R. Schenk

Keyword(s):

Financial Crisis ◽

Financial Institutions ◽

Financial Crises ◽

Academic Disciplines ◽

Conceptual Frameworks ◽

Historical Perspectives ◽

The Past ◽

Past Experiences ◽

The Impact

This chapter establishes the conceptual frameworks for assessing memories of financial crises and the ways that the past is used in periods of financial crisis. We use this framework to address three fundamental questions: first, are financial crises remembered, and if so how? Second, have lessons been drawn from past financial crises? And third, have past experiences been used in order to make practical decisions when confronted with a new crisis? These questions are of course related, yet they have been approached from different historical perspectives, using methodologies borrowed from different academic disciplines. One of the objectives of this book is to explore how these approaches can complement each other in order to better understand the relationships between remembering and learning from financial crises and how the past is used by financial institutions. It thus recognizes financial crisis as a recurring phenomenon and addresses the impact that this has in a range of public and policy contexts.

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Bringing Back the Past: Historical Perspectives on Canadian Archaeology. Pamela Jane Smith , Donald Mitchell

Isis ◽

10.1086/385377 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 92 (4) ◽

pp. 765-766

Author(s):

Douglas R. Givens

Keyword(s):

Historical Perspectives ◽

The Past

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Political history of Farakka Barrage and its effects on environment in Bangladesh

Bandung Journal of the Global South ◽

10.1186/s40728-015-0027-5 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 1-14 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Mohammad Abul Kawser ◽

Md. Abdus Samad

Keyword(s):

Water Governance ◽

The Political ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Health And Wellbeing ◽

Historical Perspectives ◽

The Past ◽

Farakka Barrage ◽

History Of ◽

Historical Developments ◽

The Ganges

Soon after the partition of the subcontinent in 1947, India took initiative to construct a barrage on its side of the Ganges and commissioned it in 1975. In the past few decades, many of the 54 Bangladeshi Rivers that originate in India have either been diverted or dammed upstream, inside India. All of these hydro-developmental initiatives have left a profound impact on Bangladesh as it is at the receiving end of the Himalayan fluvial regime. In particular, Bangladesh’s agriculture, fisheries, and human health and wellbeing are reported to have been significantly affected by the disruption of natural water flow in its rivers. The debate over the water sharing issues between India and Bangladesh dates back as early as their birth but the historical developments of the disputes have never been adequately addressed in settling the issues. This paper analyzes the political developments in Bangladesh and India over Farakka issue from historical perspectives. It also reveals the adverse effects of Farakka Barrage on environment in Bangladesh. The aim is to provide policy makers with the insights into historical developments of disputes centred on Farakka Barrage to contribute towards better water governance.

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Historical Perspectives: Physiology in microgravity

Journal of Applied Physiology ◽

10.1152/jappl.2000.89.1.379 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 89 (1) ◽

pp. 379-384 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

John B. West

Keyword(s):

Orthostatic Intolerance ◽

Cell Mass ◽

Space Station ◽

The United States ◽

Skeletal Muscle Atrophy ◽

Physiological Changes ◽

Historical Perspectives ◽

The Past ◽

Almost All

Studies of physiology in microgravity are remarkably recent, with almost all the data being obtained in the past 40 years. The first human spaceflight did not take place until 1961. Physiological measurements in connection with the early flights were crude, but, in the past 10 years, an enormous amount of new information has been obtained from experiments on Spacelab. The United States and Soviet/Russian programs have pursued different routes. The US has mainly concentrated on relatively short flights but with highly sophisticated equipment such as is available in Spacelab. In contrast, the Soviet/Russian program concentrated on first the Salyut and then the Mir space stations. These had the advantage of providing information about long-term exposure to microgravity, but the degree of sophistication of the measurements in space was less. It is hoped that the International Space Station will combine the best of both approaches. The most important physiological changes caused by microgravity include bone demineralization, skeletal muscle atrophy, vestibular problems causing space motion sickness, cardiovascular problems resulting in postflight orthostatic intolerance, and reductions in plasma volume and red cell mass. Pulmonary function is greatly altered but apparently not seriously impaired. Space exploration is a new frontier with long-term missions to the moon and Mars not far away. Understanding the physiological changes caused by long-duration microgravity remains a daunting challenge.

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Tracing the path, recounting the past: historical perspectives on Timor

Out of the Ashes: Destruction and Reconstruction of East Timor ◽

10.22459/oa.11.2003.01 ◽

2003 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

James J. Fox

Keyword(s):

Historical Perspectives ◽

The Past

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Historical Perspectives on Climate Change

10.1093/oso/9780195078701.001.0001 ◽

1998 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

James R. Fleming

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Climate ◽

Early America ◽

Temperature Changes ◽

Historical Perspectives ◽

The Past ◽

The Enlightenment ◽

Late Twentieth ◽

Late Twentieth Century ◽

Field Of Inquiry

This intriguing volume provides a thorough examination of the historical roots of global climate change as a field of inquiry, from the Enlightenment to the late twentieth century. Based on primary and archival sources, the book is filled with interesting perspectives on what people have understood, experienced, and feared about the climate and its changes in the past. Chapters explore climate and culture in Enlightenment thought; climate debates in early America; the development of international networks of observation; the scientific transformation of climate discourse; and early contributions to understanding terrestrial temperature changes, infrared radiation, and the carbon dioxide theory of climate. But perhaps most important, this book shows what a study of the past has to offer the interdisciplinary investigation of current environmental problems.

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