scholarly journals The role of ethnicity in psychopharmacology

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 55-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Ruiz

The association between ethnicity and pharmacology has been reported in the medical literature for several decades. However, the relationship between ethnicity and psychopharmacology has become widely recognised only in the last two or three decades. The large-scale migration which started after the Second World War, at first to the USA and more recently to other higher-income countries, as a result of globalisation, has greatly contributed to the attention and focus given to these migrant groups. In this context, these migrant groups primarily comprise ethnic and racial minority groups. This article briefly reviews the relationship between ethnicity and psychopharmacological agents.

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 281-297
Author(s):  
Alexander Anievas

Adam Tooze’sThe Wages of Destructionhas received a fair amount of scholarly attention since its publication in 2006, particularly among historians. What has received much less attention, however, are the many theoretical insights to be gleaned from Tooze’s history of the inner-workings of the Nazi war economy in the lead-up to the Second World War. This is particularly true of the numerous theoretical subjects and themes covered by Tooze of direct relevance to Marxist theories and understandings of Nazism. From his analysis of the relationship between Nazi economic policies and Hitler’s geopolitical objectives to the relations between capital and state to the specificities of Nazism as a distinct ideological and cultural apparatus to the role of the Nazi regime in triggering the 1939 cataclysm – in all these ways, Tooze’s work speaks to a number of core issues at the heart of Marxist debates on Nazism, fascism, and the causes of the Second World War. This introduction outlines a number of these themes and more in Tooze’s work, contextualising them within extant Marxist debates on Nazism, before then going on to highlight some of the main arguments and criticisms advanced in the symposium.


2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (10) ◽  
pp. 1311-1337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald T. Rowland

Changes in the rates of childlessness over time are explored using European, Australian, American, and Japanese data from censuses, national registers, and large-scale surveys. The trends are remarkably similar across the countries for which data are available: a peak in childlessness rates for the 1880-1910 birth cohorts, a more or less continuous drop across the 1910-1945 birth cohorts, and a steady rise across the cohorts born after the Second World War. Thus, contemporary older adults (particularly the “young old”) belong to generations for which the proportions childless are near the minimum ever recorded. The article examines the factors associated with the changes in rates of childlessness, and more particularly trends in marriage (e.g., median age at marriage and the proportions marrying), trends in family formation (e.g., median age at the first birth and average family size), and the role of voluntary and involuntary factors.


Author(s):  
Yang Liu

Nationalism is not closing the door to other nations. On the contrary, sometimes it exhibits as crazy expansion. For example, during the Second World War, both Adolf Hitler and Emperor of Japan claimed that they are helping their citizens. However, that is not the truth. Both German and Japanese people suffered something that they wouldn't have suffered without this war. Meanwhile, nationalism is one reason that the other countries keep fighting the war. By observing the relationship among nationalism, government policies and intervention, and FDI, this chapter attempts to offer an understanding of how FDI is impacted by the nationalism and government policies and intervention by providing two cases: the Brexit of the UK and the “American First” of the USA.


2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 251-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunnar Take

Abstract This paper analyses the relationship between the German Kiel Institute of World Economics and the Rockefeller Foundation in the years 1925-1950. It focuses on the role of politics in the promotion of science and shows the great difficulties the foundation had in developing a strategy to react to the Nazi’s seizure of power in 1933. The Kiel Institute disguised itself as an unpolitical and “objective” institute and managed to regain support after 1934. During the Second World War, the Rockefeller Foundation abandoned the idea of science as an area detached from politics by definition. In the late 1940s, it carefully reassessed the German academic landscape and, in the case of the Kiel Institute, came to the conclusion not to resume a significant amount of support.


2018 ◽  
pp. 118-123
Author(s):  
Serhiy Denysiuk

In article is investigated role of famous Ukrainian scientist Yu. Shevelоv in the creation and activities of the unification of Ukrainian writers on emigration after the Second World War – Ukrainian Art Movement (1945-1948). The focus is on those events that Yu. Shevelоv together with his associates conducted for the organization of diverse forces of the Ukrainian creative intelligentsia in difficult conditions of separation from the Motherland.It is proved that the researcher pledged special hopes on the national-organic style as a consolidating factor of Ukrainian literary and artistic life. His main provisions are Yu. Shevelоv as one of the leading ideologues of UAM developed during the existence of this association. The idea of a national-organic style triggered a heated discussion in the Ukrainian emigration environment. The essence is highlighted differences in views on the national-organic style between Yu. Shevelov and his opponents is highlighted, the most famous of which was Volodymyr Derzhavin. It is noted large extent thanks to the efforts of Yu. Shevelov, the Ukrainian Art Movement activity in a relatively short time launched a large-scale literary, publishing and scientific activity and became an important milestone in the history of Ukrainian culture. Y. Shevelov had no doubt, that Ukraine have been always recognized as a part of Europe. But primitive mechanical imitation of foreign samples leads only to provinciality, because the main point of the province is, that it doesn’t create, but follows the capital. It is important, that, in searching internal unity of Ukrainian art and Ukrainian nation, Y. Shevelov suggested his own conception of national-organic style and tried to convince others of his truth. All activity of Y. Shevelov during the period of existence of Ukrainian Art Movement have been directed on uniting of different literary currents, trends and writers to create modern Ukrainian literature, which could satisfy with the modern requirements.


Author(s):  
Oksana Stetsyuk

After the Second World War, many Ukrainian intellectuals were forced to leave their native land, but they still remained as true patriots of their land and had carried out Ukrainian research studies. The article is devoted to the activity of famous Ukrainian researcher who lived in the USA – Petro Oryshkevych (1909–1982) – a doctor of geography, a teacher, a public figure, director of the Taras Shevchenko School of Ukrainian Studies of Greater Washington, a correspondent member and secretary of the Branch of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Washington. The main achievements of the scientist in publishing activities were illuminated. The article describes Peter Oryshkevych as a teacher in many educational institutions of different countries: gymnasiums, seminary, trade and high schools in Peremyshl, Lviv, Zolochiv, Dillingen (Germany), Washington (USA). The contribution of Petro Oryshkevych in the creation (in 1957) and development of the Branch of the Scientific Society of Taras Shevchenko in Washington, where he was a Corresponding Member and Secretary of the Branch, is highlighted. The role of Petro Oryshkevych in the development of the Taras Shevchenko School of Ukrainian Studies of Greater Washington is described. The description of the most important researcher’s works, which concern the learning of geography of Ukraine, and his scientific activity in emigration in the USA were given. In particular, the main works of the scientist were considered. Among them are Ukrainians of Zasyannya (1962), Introductory Geography of Ukraine and Ukrainian Settlements (1974), Geography of Ukrainians (Rusyny) of Great Washington (1981). Petro Oryshkevych had left a remarkable trace in Ukrainian geography. His scientific research is widely known both among Ukrainians abroad and in Ukraine. Key words: Petro Oryshkevych, Ukrainian studies, Schools of Ukrainian studies, Shevchenko Scientific Society, schooling, Foreign Ukrainians, diaspora.


2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-407
Author(s):  
Jorge Marco

This article analyses how military institutions incorporated innovations in their tactics using the intermediary role of transnational soldiers in the Spanish Civil War. The Soviet experience of guerrilla warfare during the Russian Civil War was transferred to foreign volunteers during the war in Spain thanks to the collaboration of Soviet experts advising the Spanish Republican Army. After the war, these soldiers’ knowledge and experience of guerrilla warfare were invaluable to the Allied Armies during the Second World War. This article analyses the role of International Brigaders in the OSS in the USA, North Africa, and Europe during the Second World War.


2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
S.E. Wilmer

Fluxus was the brain-child of a Lithuanian-born artist named George Maciunas whose family fled to Germany in the Second World War, where they eventually became displaced persons and later emigrated to the USA. Maciunas studied art and architecture in Pittsburgh and New York before working as an architect and graphic artist and founded the Fluxus movement at the beginning of the 1960s. During his student years, he became fascinated by nomadic art in Asia and Eastern Europe that would later influence his life’s work. This essay considers the relationship between his interest in nomadism and the nature of the Fluxus movement that spread across the world, breaking down barriers between art and life, privileging concrete and conceptual art, and staging unusual events. It applies Braidotti’s notion of the nomadic subject to Maciunas’ encouragement of radical styles of performance art, such as Yoko Ono’s minimalist conceptual work and Joseph Beuys’s Tatar-influenced use of fat and felt.


Author(s):  
René Côté

SummaryThe author explores the relationship between technological change and the lawmaking process in the reorganization of international space since the Second World War. He points out three types of technological inputs that have been significant in the process: exploitation of resources technologies, of communication and transport technologies, and of military technologies. Those technological inputs each have had a different impact on the creation of new norms in international law. The author examines particularly the first two types, the latter being more ambiguous in its effects. First, he stresses that exploitation of resources technologies tends to set new rules that reattribute international space previously considered as res communis or res nullius into the jurisdiction of states or within the scope of the common heritage of mankind. The sharing of the new resources therefore withholds spatialism. Communication and transport technologies, on the contrary, support freedom in international space and therefore prefer functionalism to spatialism. Confusion may occur when a technology is considered either as a means of communication or of the exploitation of resources, as is the case in the spectrum/orbit issue. The author examines the conflicting role of different technological inputs and their effects on the emerging regime which has reattributed international space within the scope of state jurisdiction or consolidated the international status of other space.


Author(s):  
David Hardiman

Much of the recent surge in writing about the practice of nonviolent forms of resistance has focused on movements that occurred after the end of the Second World War, many of which have been extremely successful. Although the fact that such a method of civil resistance was developed in its modern form by Indians is acknowledged in this writing, there has not until now been an authoritative history of the role of Indians in the evolution of the phenomenon.The book argues that while nonviolence is associated above all with the towering figure of Mahatma Gandhi, 'passive resistance' was already being practiced as a form of civil protest by nationalists in British-ruled India, though there was no principled commitment to nonviolence as such. The emphasis was on efficacy, rather than the ethics of such protest. It was Gandhi, first in South Africa and then in India, who evolved a technique that he called 'satyagraha'. He envisaged this as primarily a moral stance, though it had a highly practical impact. From 1915 onwards, he sought to root his practice in terms of the concept of ahimsa, a Sanskrit term that he translated as ‘nonviolence’. His endeavors saw 'nonviolence' forged as both a new word in the English language, and as a new political concept. This book conveys in vivid detail exactly what such nonviolence entailed, and the formidable difficulties that the pioneers of such resistance encountered in the years 1905-19.


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