History, 20th Century
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Sunday, November 08, 2009

Care and meaning in war zone nursing.

29 Nov 2009 During the past century, nurses have served as caregivers for United States military personnel in every major theater of war. Military nurses in the war zone deliver patient care while working in austere conditions, and are under constant threat of ... Read more...

"Cholera forcing". The myth of the good epidemic and the coming of good water.

30 Oct 2009 It has been frequently claimed that cholera epidemics, both in the 19th century and today, were and can be the key stimulus for procurement of safe water and sanitation, an idea that I call "cholera forcing." "Technology forcing" refers to ... Read more...

The biology of memory: a forty-year perspective.

12 Oct 2009 In the forty years since the Society for Neuroscience was founded, our understanding of the biology of memory has progressed dramatically. From a historical perspective, one can discern four distinct periods of growth in neurobiological research ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'History, 20th Century'

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• Care and meaning in war zone nursing. 29 Nov 2009
• "Cholera forcing". The myth of the good epidemic and the coming of good water. 30 Oct 2009
• Governor James J. Florio a fighter for environmental issues. 30 Oct 2009
• When diseases disappear--the case of familial dysautonomia. 20 Oct 2009
• Group Health Cooperative--one coverage-and-delivery model for accountable care. 20 Oct 2009
• Eppendorf Winner. 2009 grand prize winner. 14 Oct 2009
• Retroscpective. Norman Ernest Borlaug (1914-2009). 14 Oct 2009
• Profile: Veerabhadran Ramanathan. From burning dung to global warming and back again. 14 Oct 2009
• Newsmaker interview: M. S. Swaminathan. A guru of the green revolution reflects on Borlaug's legacy. Interview by Pallava Bagla. 14 Oct 2009
• Chemistry Nobel. Honors to researchers who probed atomic structure of ribosomes. 14 Oct 2009
• The biology of memory: a forty-year perspective. 12 Oct 2009
• The development of developmental neuroscience. 12 Oct 2009
• A paradigm shift in functional brain imaging. 12 Oct 2009
• Four decades of neurodegenerative disease research: how far we have come! 12 Oct 2009
• Neurotransmitters, receptors, and second messengers galore in 40 years. 12 Oct 2009
• Memory and brain systems: 1969-2009. 12 Oct 2009
• The cover. Spatial concept: expectations. 12 Oct 2009
• Rosenow's rabbits and postencephalitic parkinsonism. 11 Oct 2009
• [The Nobel Prize for Medicine 2009: the cap with shrinking protection] 11 Oct 2009
• Physiology Nobel. U.S. Researchers recognized for work on telomeres. 7 Oct 2009

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Technical information about 'History, 20th Century'

Definition: Time period from 1901 through 2000 of the common era.

Descriptor UI: D049673

Alternative terms: History, 20th Century; 20th Century Histories; Century Histories, 20th; Century History, 20th; Histories, 20th Century; History, Twentieth Century; Century Histories, Twentieth; Century History, Twentieth; Histories, Twentieth Century; Twentieth Century Histories; Twentieth Century History; 20th Century History; Medicine, 20th Cent.; 20th Cent. Medicine; Historical Events, 20th Century; History of Medicine, 20th Cent.; Medical History, 20th Cent.; 20th Cent. History of Medicine; 20th Cent. History (Medicine); 20th Cent. Histories (Medicine); Cent. Histories, 20th (Medicine); Cent. History, 20th (Medicine); Histories, 20th Cent. (Medicine); History, 20th Cent. (Medicine);

Tree Number: K01.400.504.968;

History Note: 2005

Technical Notes: IM general only; NIM as check tag