Sense of History: The Place of the Past in American Life (review)

2004 ◽  
Vol 117 (464) ◽  
pp. 229-229
Author(s):  
Barbara Truesdell
Keyword(s):  
Life Review ◽  
American Life ◽  
The Past

scholarly journals The Role of the Agricultural Economist

1983 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Marion Clawson
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Economics ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
American Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Techniques ◽  
Professional Field

In the past 75 years agricultural economics as a professional field has evolved from a relatively small and fragmented group of concerns into a large professional activity, with highly developed theory, sophisticated research techniques, much data, and many outputs. Agricultural economists have developed, during the same time and as part of the same process, from a small number of pioneers, often shrewd and hardheaded men, but typically not well-trained by today's standards, into a large, well-populated, well-trained profession with many subfields. Agricultural economists today have permeated many aspects of modern American life—fact of which we boast, and one which some of our critics may deplore. How this came about, and what our role is or might be today, are the subjects of this paper.

The Life Review: An Unrecognized Bonanza

1981 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert N. Butler
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Life Review ◽  
Human Aging ◽  
Physical Status ◽  
Old People ◽  
The Past ◽  
Growth And Change

Historically, doctors have not entertained a broad enough view of the total human life cycle. While much attention has been focused on infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood as times of growth and change, we have all but ignored the later years and the often marvelous characteristics of “the survivors.” The use of standardized methods for evaluating the mental and physical status of old people has deprived both practitioners and patients of the richness of life-long experiences. By taking the time to attentively listen to their patients' reflections of the past, physicians can help advance our growing understanding of human aging and expand the repertoire of mechanisms that are useful in clinical practice.

scholarly journals The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life

1999 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 709
Author(s):  
Barry Schwartz ◽  
Roy Rosenzweig ◽  
David Thelen
Keyword(s):  
American Life ◽  
The Past

Bioética sin Más: The Past, Present, and Future of a Latin American Bioethics

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 270-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
PABLO RODRÍGUEZ DEL POZO ◽  
JOSÉ A. MAINETTI
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wild Card ◽  
Spanish Colonies ◽  
Life Politics

The most casual conversation about Latin American life, politics, or culture can turn into a shouting match just by innocently asking the table to define what Latin America is. Some will dismiss the term as an American (or French or Jesuit) construct that fails to capture the geographic and cultural complexities of the former Spanish colonies. Others will fervently argue that despite its imprecision—or perhaps because of it—this lexical wild card connotes an aspiration of brotherhood against colonialist threats past and present. When the dust settles, both sides will likely concede that the question is a beguiling one indeed.

Motivating the Twenty-first-Century Student with Oral History

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn Whitman
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Life Review ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
First Century ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Training Method ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
The Past ◽  
Twenty First Century

This article focuses on the teaching of oral history in the twenty-first century. The article discusses the importance of educators when it comes to teaching oral history to students. According to this article educators can bring into the classrooms and programs of the twenty-first century a historical process once used by Thucydides to chronicle the Peloponnesian Wars, and use that process to challenge students with learning opportunities. The student-oral historian has many roles to play like preservation, and publication of the past and present for future generations, a revelation that emerges as they consider the variety of oral history projects being conducted at all levels. Classroom oral history projects generally fall into one of two categories: those that focus on individual biographical/life review interviews, and those that deal with a particular period or place following the oral history training method which allows students to understand the challenges associated with oral history as a methodology.

EVALUATION OF THE ROUTINE PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF INFANTS IN THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE: REVIEW

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 960-962
Author(s):  
Clarence H. Webb
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Life Review ◽  
The Other ◽  
First Year ◽  
Considerable Part ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Past ◽  
Routine Physical Examination ◽  
First Year Of Life

In view of the fact that this reviewer has spent a considerable part of his professional career rendering the type of service which Dr. Anderson decries as unnecessary, it is difficult to review the article without doing what the author found difficult to avoid, which is to be swayed by preconceptions. It is hoped that the author will temper his bias with the reviewer's bias to bring conclusions and recommendations out of the study which the figures justify and which are nearer the middle of the road. There are physicians in pediatrics who consider regular examination of infants and children to be desirable and productive; there are physicians who prefer that a variety of methods be used in pediatrics until it is fully demonstrated that one is superior to the other and do not wish to be forced into a "new pediatrics" unless it is demonstrably better; and, there are parents who bring their babies to pediatricians for reasons other than those mentioned, i.e., for treatment or prevention of abnormal conditions. Their babies are precious commodities and they wish to know that the babies do not have abnormalities but also want reassurance that they are caring for the babies properly, affording them attention and supervision which is not just good but is superior, and being good parents who are helping their babies in every way to develop the best of their potentials. Herein lies an innate difference between public health and private health in pediatrics which seems to have been highly desirable to pediatricians and parents in the past.

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