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05 January 2009 03:55

The lights are going out all over Europe

Any blogger could fill reams with posts exposing inaccuracies. I spotted the other day, but see that rogueclassicism got there first, some very odd dating of Herodotus on UK Tech Cruch, in an articles about demotix.So I shall have to... Read More...
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20 October 2008 08:35

Lessons not learnt

“What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.” (Georg Wilhem Freidrich Hegel, Lectures On The Philosophy Of History, Read More...
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20 September 2008 09:00

A Brief History of Blame

We tend to think of vicarious liability as a modern product of a society we believe is becoming more and more litigious. However, continuing my reading around case studies and their historical use, I’ve come across a portrait of how blame and fear Read More...
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16 September 2008 19:55

Everyday Miracles: Medial Imagery in Ex-Votos

The US National Library of Medicine has a new online (and physical) exhibition of ex-votos religious paintings commissioned to celebrate recovery from illness: From its beginnings in 15th century Italy through its spread to the New World in the 16th century, Read More...
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15 September 2008 13:39

Case Studies in the Late 17th Century

Alan Lovell’s post on the uses of case studies really got me thinking and fishing around on the web - so often in health information we deal only in the higher levels of evidence that it’s easy not to think about the lower-level stuff, especially Read More...
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