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The Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) is an independent public body based on the principle of self-government.
It is constituted by the members of the Academy - ordinary and corresponding as well as external and honorary members - and by those active representatives of science who hold a scientific degree (Ph.D. or D.Sc.).
At present the number of the ordinary members is 214, while the number of the corresponding members is 86. Academicians are elected by ordinary and corresponding members. The number of public body-members at present - with academicians - is 7030. They - other than academicians - exercise their rights through representation, electing 200 non-academician representatives to the General Assembly, the main organ of the Academy, for three years.

New Harmony was established in 1814 by a group of German extraction led by a man named George Rapp. They had moved from a colony named Harmonie in Pennsylvania, and numerous letters written by them from the new Indiana settlement were datelined Harmonie, Ind. It has been reported that Robert Owen changed the name to New Harmony when he acquired it, but a letter of 1815 from George Rapp to his son Frederick was datelined "Neu Harmony" and used the German spelling "Neu" and ended the word "Harmony" with a "y" instead of "ie" (Arndt, 1975, facing p.7). The Harmonists, during their 10 years, made no geologic contribution, but they built a physical base of operations in a wilderness, which their successors probably could not and surely would not have done. When Robert Owen, who was a successful industrialist and progressive thinker in New Lanark, Scotland, sought a site in America to test his ideas for social reform, the ready made community of New Harmony was for sale and was purchased.

In the 1820s, Rochester's mortality rate was high; nearly three out of every 100 people died of disease each year, and almost half the deaths were children under three years old. The patient’s family met early community healthcare needs; treatment was in the home, and if the family was too poor the city physician was called to attend the sick.
In 1822 a concerned group of women, the Rochester Female Charitable Society, began visiting the poor and sick.

Welcome to the National Library of Medicine's Profiles in Science site!
This site celebrates twentieth-century leaders in biomedical research and public health. It makes the archival collections of prominent scientists, physicians, and others who have advanced the scientific enterprise available to the public through modern digital technology.

El origen de la Sociedad Mexicana de Historia de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (SMHCT) se encuentra asociado al Primer Coloquio Mexicano de Historia de la Ciencia (1963), organizado por el doctor Enrique Beltrán. Después de esta reunión, un grupo de historiadores de la ciencia encabezados por el doctor Beltrán y el doctor José Joaquín Izquierdo fundaron la SMHCT en 1964. De sus labores destaca la publicación de cinco volúmenes de la revista Anales de la SMHCT entre 1965 y 1979, y dos de la Memoria del Primer Coloquio.

It's practically the refrain of modern life: "Everything's relative." The claim that nothing can be known for sure or in common--that truth is a construct or a fiction--is an idea that contributes to many of our contemporary discontents, from debates sparked by multiculturalism to disagreements over the state of the environment. It's also the idea behind the postmodern doctrines that now hold sway in many parts of the intellectual and academic worlds. Might it also be wrong? This special WQ debate takes that question as its starting point.

Street, W. R. (1994). A Chronology of Noteworthy Events in American Psychology. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
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23 Oct 1247 The priory of St. Mary of Bethlehem, later to become Bethlehem Hospital, was founded on land donated by Simon FitzMary at Bishopsgate Without, London. This original site is now located under the the Liverpool Street railway station. Bethlehem Hospital, or "Bedlam," later became notorious for its neglectful care of people with mental illness. The priory was first used to house "distracted persons" in around the year 1377.
15 Oct 1346 The impoverished priory and order of St. Mary of Bethlehem, later to become Bethlehem Hospital ("Bedlam"), was taken under the patronage and protection of Richard Lacer, mayor of London, and the citizens of London. The act brought to an end a century of "disaster, poverty, and failure."

The scholarly journal History of Psychology began quarterly publication in February 1998. It is published by the American Psychological Association for the Society for the History of Psychology (APA Division 26), and is edited (through the year 2005) by Michael M. Sokal, Professor of History at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. History of Psychology's editorial office operates under the direction of Gina M. Patterson, Editorial Coordinator, with support from WPI, the American Psychological Association, and the Society for the History of Psychology.

Cheiron, named after the wise centaur of Greek myth, was formed in October 1968 to promote international cooperation and multidisciplinary studies in the history of the social and behavioral sciences. The society's aims are to:
(a) provide a broad perspective on contemporary scientific activities in order to counteract the narrow views of various disciplines and their interactions.
(b) broaden scientific perspective by close cooperation with scholars in other countries.
(c) strengthen and increase professionalism of scholarly research in the history of the behavioral and social sciences.

ESHHS is the successor organization to Cheiron-Europe, which was founded in 1982, and aims to provide a forum for international and cross-disciplinary study of the history of the human sciences.