Gary  Wright (Coordinator and English Editor). Ocean Sciences Bridging the Millennia: A Spectrum of Historical Accounts. (Based on papers selected from the Sixth International Congress on the History of Oceanography.) 507 pp., illus., bibls., index. Paris: UNESCO Publishing, 2004. €45 (paper).

Isis ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. 806-807
Author(s):  
Vera Schwach
Keyword(s):  
International Congress ◽  
Ocean Sciences ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
Sixth International

scholarly journals Enhancing the Practitioner's Sense of Time, Place, and Practice: the History of Chinese Medicine for Practitioners Workshop

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-354
Author(s):  
Marta Hanson ◽  
Andy Pham
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
International Congress ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Asian Medicine ◽  
Sense Of Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sixth International

This article reproduces an exchange between academics and practitioners at the Sixth International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicine (ICTAM VI) meeting in Austin about how the history of Chinese medicine could be more meaningful, interesting, and valuable to clinicians. It provides a brief history of exchanges, the panel proposal, the abstracts of the panelists, an edited transcript of the conversation, and some concluding remarks from the participants. As more and more practitioners of Chinese medicine outside of China spend time in China, learn Chinese, become culturally and linguistically bilingual or multilingual, they seek more knowledge about what they practise than they can get in current publications in English or other European languages. The panel and this article are intended to encourage further exchange, conversations, and cooperation that will lead to new histories of Chinese medicine relevant for practitioners as much as for other academics.

Sixth International Congress of Entomology, Madrid (1935): politics and science

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-297
Author(s):  
C. Martín Albaladejo ◽  
F. Carmona Vivar
Keyword(s):  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
Scientific Investigations ◽  
Second Spanish Republic ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Military ◽  
Sixth International

Using the Sixth International Congress of Entomology (Madrid, 1935) as an example, we present a representative case of science as a social construct and its importance to the history of the winning side of a war to construct a memory that supports its own version of events. The Congress was held prior to the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939); however, the proceedings were not published until 1940. An examination of the proceedings and of archival documents show the exclusion of contributions initially intended for publication, particularly those by Spanish entomologists who were politically aligned with the Second Spanish Republic, the losing side, and who, as a result, suffered reprisals after the military conflict. These documents suggest that their contributions were rejected for reasons unrelated to their scientific investigations but due to the political inclinations of the editor.

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