Progress of Psychiatry in 1901

1902 ◽  
Vol 48 (200) ◽  
pp. 124-126
Author(s):  
H. M. Bannister
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
University Professors ◽  
State Hospitals ◽  
The Past ◽  
American Psychiatry ◽  
Special Instruction ◽  
The Subject

The record of American psychiatry for the past year is not an eventful one so far as matters of interest to trans-Atlantic readers are concerned. At the beginning of the year the subject of interest was the New York Pathological Institute and the difficulties that involved its management. For a number of months it has been in a state of suspended activity—not dead but sleeping—and now appears to be about to start again on a fresh career of usefulness. A new organisation has been planned, an advisory board appointed, consisting of recognised authorities in their departments, and including representatives of the related specialties of psychology and general biology, as well as those of pathology, neurology, and psychiatry. The gentlemen who have accepted positions on the board are well known, and their interest in the Institute and its aims undoubted. Their names will carry weight; Professor McKeen Cattell holds the chair of psychology in Columbia University, Professors Ewing and Herter represent the two great medical schools of Bellevue and Cornell, Dr. H. A. Hern, of Albany, a well-known neurologist, Dr. Bumpus, of the American Museum of Natural History, Drs. Pilgrim and Macdonald, representing the State Hospitals, and Dr. Frederick Peterson, ex officio, as commissioner of lunacy, complete the board. These gentlemen will exercise a general oversight over the work, and when a new working staff has been appointed, we may look for good work, carried on under more favourable conditions than was formerly the case. It is the intention in their reorganisation not only to carry on original research as in the past, but to utilize the Institute for special instruction of the members of the different asylum staffs in psychiatry and special research work. It will be located in one of the departments of the Manhattan Hospital until such time as a special reception hospital for the insane can be provided.

Psychosocial Aspects of Terminal Care, edited by B. Schoenberg, A. C. Carr, D. Peretz, and A. H. Kutscher. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-129
Author(s):  
Richard Galdston
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Terminal Care ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Medical Specialty ◽  
Psychosocial Aspects ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Public Discussion ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Establishment

Thanatology, the study of death and dying, is a medical specialty of recent establishment. Over the past two or three decades, there has been a marked increased interest in this topic and in the number of articles and books devoted to its discussion. It has been said that this development is due to a lifting of earlier taboos against public discussion and that the medical profession had been remiss in its failure to provide a more open, forthright airing of its experience with death.

Introduction: Immigration and Incorporation

1997 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rubén G. Rumbaut
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Past ◽  
Immigrant Settlement ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Subject ◽  
American Society

In at least one sense the “American century” is ending much as it had begun: the United States has again become a nation of immigrants, and it is again being transformed in the process. But the diversity of the “new immigration” to the United States over the past three decades differs in many respects from that of the last period of mass immigration in the first three decades of the century. The immigrants themselves differ greatly in their social class and national origins, and so does the American society, polity, and economy that receives them—raising questions about their modes of incorporation, and challenging conventional accounts of assimilation processes that were framed during that previous epoch. The dynamics and future course of their adaptation are open empirical questions—as well as major questions for public policy, since the outcome will shape the future contours of American society. Indeed, as the United States undergoes its most profound demographic transformation in a century; as inexorable processes of globalization, especially international migrations from Asia, Africa, and the Americas, diversify still further the polyethnic composition of its population; and as issues of immigration, race and ethnicity become the subject of heated public debate, the question of incorporation, and its serious study, becomes all the more exigent. The essays in this special issue of Sociological Perspectives tackle that subject from a variety of analytical vantages and innovative approaches, covering a wide range of groups in major areas of immigrant settlement. Several of the papers focus specifically on Los Angeles and New York City, where, remarkably, fully a quarter of the total U.S. immigrant population resides.

The Nature of Childhood Autism, ed. 2, by Gerald O'Gorman, F.R.C.P., D.P.M. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1970, 163 pp., $7.75

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 505-506
Author(s):  
Alexander R. Lucas
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Effective Treatment ◽  
Infantile Autism ◽  
Childhood Autism ◽  
Childhood Schizophrenia ◽  
Childhood Psychosis ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Subject

Several books on childhood psychosis have been published in the past decade bearing the encompassing titles Childhood Schizophrenia (Goldfarb), Infantile Autism (Rimland), and Childhood Autism (Kugelmass). Each title tantalizingly holds out the promise that this is the book we have been waiting for, but all fall short in one way or another of being the definitive volume on the subject. Until the cause is clarified and an effective treatment found, it may be premature to hope that such a work can be written.

Rodolfo Jacobson (ed.), Codeswitching worldwide II. (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs, 126.) Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001. Pp. ii, 371. Hb DM 178/EUR 91.01.

2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 772-775
Author(s):  
Rudolph C. Troike
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Major Topic ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Present Volume ◽  
The Subject

Widely impugned by an uninformed public – and even by many of those who practice it – with such derogatory terms as “Spanglish” or “Chinglish,” or “Pocho” in Spanish, codeswitching (CS) has emerged from marginal obscurity to become a major topic of interest among linguists of a wide variety of persuasions in the past 30 years. Weinreich (1953) famously denied that a switch between languages within a sentence was possible; the MLA bibliography now lists 900 titles on the subject, half of which have appeared since 1995. The present volume – the third edited by the indefatigable Rodolfo Jacobson, a pioneer in the field since the 1970s – reflects both this growth and the increasing breadth of interest that has occurred along with increasing attention to bilingualism generally in its many aspects and implications.

Theoretical Morphology: State of the Art - Theoretical Morphology: The Concept and Its Applications. George R. McGhee Jr. Columbia University Press, New York. 1999. 316 pages. Cloth $60.00, paper $26.50.

Paleobiology ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 520-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunther J. Eble
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Morphological Diversity ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Developmental Morphology ◽  
Theoretical Morphology ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Diversity Of Life ◽  
Organic Change

The morphological diversity of life has captivated systematists in the construction of classifications, embryologists in the study of development, and evolutionists in the formulation of theories of organic change. In a century marked by the advances of molecular biology, has the discipline of morphology produced anything … new? Yes. The solidification of paleontology and systematics and the emergence of macroevolution as a legitimate field owe much to an increased rigor in the analysis of morphological data. At the same time, the discipline of morphology has achieved an unprecedented sophistication through another development, the very expression of its maturity: theoretical morphology. Theoretical morphology forms the subject of McGhee's landmark book, an elegant combination of compendium and manifesto. Its richness and scope provide an opportunity for a critical appraisal of the discipline of morphology, particularly quantitative and developmental morphology.

Crystallization of Natural Rubber

1967 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman Bekkedahl
Keyword(s):  
Glass Transition ◽  
Natural Rubber ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Melting Transition ◽  
National Bureau ◽  
Great Honor ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Published Paper

Abstract It is, indeed, a very great honor to have been chosen as the Charles Goodyear Medalist for 1967, and I very much appreciate the opportunity of coming here to tell you about some of the research work in the field of rubber with which I have been associated for a number of years. The bylaws of the Division of Rubber Chemistry, A.C.S., require that the recipient of this award deliver a lecture before the Division on a subject that is related to the elastomer field and presented in accordance with the contribution for which the medal is awarded. It should, therefore, be quite appropriate for me to discuss one of my favorite subjects, the crystallization of natural rubber. My first thought was to talk on a broader subject, transitions in rubber, which would have included the glass transition, but such a paper was found to be much too long. Even the subject of the crystallization and melting transition is so broad that only a very condensed version can be given here today. In fact, the references for a proper review would run into the hundreds, so therefore I decided to restrict the paper to cover only the research work that has taken place in our own laboratories of the National Bureau of Standards. I should like to consider this award as one given not to me alone but rather to the group of us at the National Bureau of Standards who have been conducting scientific research on rubber during the past few decades. The names of most of these investigators who have made contributions in the area of rubber crystallization will appear in the bibliography of the published paper, but I should like at this time to name a few of the senior scientists whose work we shall discuss here.

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