USC Historian Sifts World's Oldest Printed Medical Books For Clues To Riddle Of Gender
...tional treasure. But the Cold War had kept Western scholars largely unaware ofthe material, and even had they known, the subject was far from the interests ofmost researchers in the field during those years. Not so for Furth, who in 1982 was already interested in the then-emerging fieldof gender studies, as w...Komen Foundation Announces Application Deadline For 1999 National Grants
... screeningor treatment. The intent is to recognize scholars for a specific contribution, aconsistent pattern of contributions or leadership in the field that has had asubstantial impact on breast cancer. Each award includes a $10,000 honorarium, acitation and an inscribed, limited-edition crystal statuette de...DFG To Fund Four New Research Units
...gists, computer scientists, linguists and literary scholars will study the fundamental cultural change spawned by the everyday use of the new media. The scientists also intend to identify user-oriented ways of providing information in the Internet and study empirically which methods of working with the new m...Hospitals Discourage Consumer Questioning Of Bills, Study Suggests
...S). The study, part of a broader analysis of what scholars call anticipatoryimpression management, is based on data collected at three non-profit hospitalsin a single urban area. The hospitals asked that their names not be disclosed.The researchers' conclusions are based on bills, letters, observations, andi...