A Social History of Student Volunteering
A Social History of Student Volunteering

Author: G. Brewis

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-07-23

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 1137363770

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Using a wide range of student testimony and oral history, Georgina Brewis sets in international, comparative context a one-hundred year history of student voluntarism and social action at UK colleges and universities, including such causes as relief for victims of fascism in the 1930s and international development in the 1960s.

The International Medical Relief Corps in Wartime China, 1937-1945
The International Medical Relief Corps in Wartime China, 1937-1945

Author: Robert Mamlok, M.D.

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2018-09-21

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1476634262

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Both before and during World War II, the Nazis restricted the rights of Jewish and communist doctors. Some fought back, first by fighting against Fascism in the Spanish Civil War and then by helping the Chinese in their struggle against Japan. There were, however, two rival factions in China. One favored Chiang Kai-shek (the nationalists) and the other, the communists--and 27 foreign medical personnel were caught between them. Amidst poverty, war and corruption, living conditions were poor and traveling was hazardous. This book follows members of the Chinese Red Cross Medical Relief Corps through the war as they became enemy aliens and pursued their work despite the perils. These doctors had a keen sense of public health needs and contributed to the recognition and management of infectious diseases and nutritional disorders, all the while denouncing corruption, inhumanity and inequality.

The History of Neuroscience In Autobiography
The History of Neuroscience In Autobiography

Author: Larry R. Squire

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2006-04-11

Total Pages: 772

ISBN-13: 0080461913

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This fifth book of autobiographical essays by distinguished senior neuroscientists includes contributions by Samuel H. Barondes, Joseph E. Bogen, Alan Cowey, David R. Curtis, Ennio De Renzi, John S. Edwards, Mitchell Glickstein, Carlton C. Hunt, Lynn T. Landmesser, Rodolfo Llinas, Alan Peters, Martin Raff, Wilfred Rall, Mark R. Rosenzweig, Arnold Bernard Scheibel, and Gerald Westheimer. This collection of fascinating essays should inform and inspire students and working scientists alike. The general reader interested in science may also find the essays absorbing, as they are essentially human stories about commitment and the pursuit of knowledge.