A recent report of the Italian NGO COSV (Coordinamento delle Organizzazioni per il Servizio Volontario) suggests that “it was not until the 1995 Euro-Mediterranean Conference that Italy began to take on a prominent role ...

This chapter explores the nature and function of obituaries and death notices in nineteenth-century Irish provincial newspapers. Employing a sample from a database of newspaper entries, it is argued that the use of obituaries ...

Antonio de la Cierva y Lewita, Conde de Ballobar, served as consul in Jerusalem from 1914 to 1918 leaving behind a diary which has proved to an invaluable source of information on war-time Jerusalem, its population, ...

I edited the 71 Issue of the Jerusalem Quarterly discussing diplomacy in Jerusalem through the late 19th century to the contemporary era.

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In a country where traditional or ethno-medical practices prevailed well into the twentieth century, the interface between the wider populace and ‘modern medicine’1 was complicated by undercurrents of class, cultural ...

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In nomenclatural terms Medical Humanities is a relatively new discipline. Originating in the United States and Australia almost simultaneously, Medical Humanities is seen by many as a means of ‘making better doctors’ by ...