Presidential Address: Getting science across

1996 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Knight
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
Indirect Evidence ◽  
Human History ◽  
Thomas Henry Huxley ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

‘Read until you hear the voices’; so the maxim goes for those who would engage with the Victorians. Let us try with Thomas Henry Huxley:A great chapter in the history of the world is written in the chalk. Few passages in the history of man can be supported by such an overwhelming mass of direct and indirect evidence as that which testifies to the truth of the fragment of the history of the globe, which I hope to enable you to read, with your own eyes, tonight. Let me add, that few chapters of human history have a more profound significance for ourselves. I weigh my words well when I assert, that the man who should know the true history of the bit of chalk which every carpenter carries about in his breeches-pocket, though ignorant of all other history, is likely, if he will think his knowledge out to its ultimate results, to have a truer, and therefore a better, conception of this wonderful universe, and man's relation to it, than the most learned student who is deep-read in the records of humanity and ignorant of those of Nature.

Who fears to speak of politics? John Kells Ingram and hypothetical nationalism

1998 ◽  
Vol 31 (122) ◽  
pp. 202-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.K. Peatling
Keyword(s):  
Trinity College ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
First Line ◽  
Nationalist Movement ◽  
Trinity College Dublin ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Political Economy ◽  
One Act

John Kells Ingram was born in County Donegal in 1823. His ancestry was Scottish Presbyterian, but his grandparents had converted to Anglicanism. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, the most prestigious academic institution in nineteenth-century Ireland. In a brilliant academic career spanning over fifty years he proceeded to occupy a succession of chairs at the college. His published work included an important History of political economy (1888), and he delivered a significant presidential address to the economics and statistics section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1878). Ingram influenced, and was respected by, many contemporary social and economic thinkers in the British Isles and elsewhere. In an obituary one of Ingram’s friends exaggerated only slightly in describing him as ‘probably the best educated man in the world’. Yet contemporary perspectives on Ingram’s career were warped by one act of his youth which was to create a curious disjunction in his life. In 1843, when only nineteen years old, Ingram was a sympathiser with the nationalist Young Ireland movement. One night, stirred by the lack of regard shown for the Irish rebels of 1798 by the contemporary O’Connellite nationalist movement, he wrote a poem entitled ‘The memory of the dead’, eulogising these ‘patriots’. Apparently without much thought, Ingram submitted the poem anonymously to the Nation newspaper. It appeared in print on 1 April 1843 and, better known by its first line, ‘Who fears to speak of ’Ninety-Eight?’, became a popular Irish nationalist anthem.

scholarly journals The Pandemic and its Impacts

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Qiu ◽  
S. Rutherford ◽  
A. Mao ◽  
C. Chu
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Disease Outbreaks ◽  
Health Economy ◽  
Human History ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
Global Security ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Negative Impacts

The Pandemic has a long history, but the term of “pandemic” is still not been defined by many medical texts. There have been many significant pandemics recorded in human history, and the pandemic related crises have caused enormous negative impacts on health, economies, and even national security in the world. This article will explore the literature for the concept and history of pandemics; summarises the key features of a pandemics, and discusses the negative impacts on health, economy, social and global security of pandemics and disease outbreaks.

scholarly journals “The Vast and Unsolved Enigma of Power”: Business History and Business Power

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 893-920
Author(s):  
NEIL ROLLINGS
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
Business History ◽  
History Of Capitalism ◽  
World Today ◽  
Business Power ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Business is commonly regarded as one of the powerful actors in the world today. However, this position is neither as straightforward as often believed nor particularly new. Nevertheless, business historians have not focused on the topic of business power to date, often leaving it as something lurking in the background of their analyses. There are signs that this may be beginning to change with the growth of studies on the history of capitalism, but this revised presidential address encourages business historians to engage more fully and explicitly with the concept of power and to recognize the different ways in which the concept can be used to enlighten the study of business history.

Conclusions and Future Predictions

2020 ◽  
pp. 399-412
Author(s):  
Michael B. A. Oldstone
Keyword(s):  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
New World ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Human History ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
New Challenges

This concluding chapter explains that as viruses like human immunodeficiency virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome, Zika, and West Nile evolve and emerge, humans are faced with new challenges. Simultaneously, perceptions about new infections and new plagues continue to change. What can and should be done? One must now consider the possible return of smallpox and its use as a weapon of bioterrorism. Meanwhile, even as the march to contain measles and poliomyelitis viruses continues at an impressive pace, bumps and setbacks have been encountered along the way, especially with measles having recurred in 2019 at the time of writing this book. Ultimately, the history of viruses, plagues, and people is an account of the world and the events that shape it. In the end, the splendor of human history is not in wars won, dynasties formed, or financial empires built but in improvement of the human condition. The obliteration of diseases that impinge on people’s health is a regal yardstick of civilization’s success, and those who accomplish that task will be among the true navigators of a brave new world.

History of Nursing

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1948 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 576-577
Author(s):  
BORIE TOTH
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Human History ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
World War ◽  
Nursing Service ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 19Th Century

The keynote of the book is found in the preface where it is stated that "the central thesis of the authors is the inextricable interweaving of nursing service with all other branches of human culture." The development of nursing is traced through the record of human history starting with primitive times and ending with the problems facing the world at the conclusion of World War II. Up to the middle of the 19th century, nursing was under the auspices of religious orders. After the Protestant revolt, nursing as a profession for lay people began to take root.

Human Creation and the Role of the Family

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Isahak Poghosyan ◽  
Tatul Manaseryan ◽  
Laura Aghajanyan
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
Human History ◽  
Single Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Absolute

The purpose of the article is to show that the most honest crystallisation of piety and humanity is creation. At the same time, the history of creation shows that the Creator created the world as a single family, the centre of which is man. The Christianity accepts sin as a reality, as an existing inconsistency between man and God. According to this, sin is as a product of human society's behaviour and morals or as a kind of disease. The enormous references in ecclesiastical bibliography, in addition to their unique goals, are designed to reflect on the need to be aware of the mystery of creation, to rediscover the vital connection between the absolute and the moral, and to guarantee the historical memory. In this article Human creation and the role of the family authors see as aspects of Theological theory in Bioinformatics for Human history

Kosciuszko Alpine Flora

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
AB Costin ◽  
M Gray ◽  
CJ Totterdell ◽  
DJ Wimbush
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Flowering Plants ◽  
Human History ◽  
Alpine Ecosystems ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Educational Publishing ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Reference Section

Around Australia’s highest mountain lies a rare ecosystem, an alpine area of outstanding beauty and diversity, strikingly different from other alpine ecosystems of the world but with common features. Kosciuszko Alpine Flora describes and illustrates the area’s 212 flowering plants and ferns, of which 21 are endemic. It discusses the geological and human history of the area, the life-forms and habitats of the plants, and explores the various plant communities and their environmental relationships. The book contains identification keys, detailed descriptions, and distribution and habitat notes for each species. Superb colour photographs show details of flowers, fruit, foliage, and ecology. Finalist Scholarly Reference section - The Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing 2001

The worst epidemics in human history

2020 ◽  
pp. 66-69
Author(s):  
Natalya Sakhno
Keyword(s):  
Avian Influenza ◽  
Death Rate ◽  
Fatal Outcome ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Human History ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
First Time

Today the world's attention is focused on China, on the epidemic caused by coronavirus infection. As of the end of February, more than 77 thousand people affected with the disease had been registered, fatal outcome had been observed in more than 2500 cases. The Chinese authorities announced the beginning of a new epidemic at the very end of 2019. Moreover, if fatal outcomes were observed a month after the onset of mass incidence only within the country, then, in February, they went beyond its borders and were registered in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Iran, the Philippines, France and Italy. It is noteworthy that China became a source of the spread of the epidemic process not for the first time. So, in 2002 it was in this country, in Guangdong, that an outbreak of SARS was recorded, and in 1997, avian influenza spread from Hong Kong around the world. To tell the truth, the death rate from these diseases did not exceed thousands of people in both cases, and in the case of bird flu (or avian influenza), development of the disease was observed only in people eating chicken meat. It should be noted that in the entire history of the development of mankind, more people died as a result of epidemics and pandemics, than in all wars combined. Let us recall the worst epidemics in the history of mankind, the victims of which were millions of people.

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