Thomas F. Glick

• PhD
• Professor (Full) at Boston University

PeláezRaquel Alvarez and García-AlejoRafael Huertas, ¿Criminales o locos? Dos peritajes psiquatricos del Dr Gonzalo R. Lafora, Cuadernos Galileo del Historia de la Ciencia, No. 6, Madrid, Centro de Estudios Hist6ricos, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 1987, 12mo, pp. 331, [no price stated]. - Volume 32 Issue 3 - Thomas F. Glick

The author presents a finely honed analysis of women's property rights in the medieval Islamic world based on a series of unique documents originating in the Islamic court of Granada in the late fifteenth century, depicting the transactions of female members of Granadan families over several generations. Some of Shatzmiller's findings are extraordi...

ShatzmillerMaya. Her Day in Court: Women's Property Rights in Fifteenth-Century Granada. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. 230 pp. ISBN 978-06-7402-501-1, $28.95 (cloth). - Volume 12 Issue 3 - Thomas F. Glick

The subfield of Darwin studies devoted to comparative reception coalesced around 1971 with the planning of a conference on the subject, at the University of Texas at Austin held in April 1972. The original focus was western Europe, Russia and the United States. Subsequently a spate of studies on the Italian reception added to the Eurocentric focus....

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From an American perspective, the ‘Gayangos phenomenon’ was the result of the intersection of four historical processes. The first was the arrival of a distinctive generation of so-called ‘Romantic historians’, whose goal was to adumbrate the roots of American history. That their leading lights – Washington Irving, George Ticknor, and William Hickl...

In the 1940s and 50s the Rockefeller Foundation established a program for the development of population genetics at the Universidade de São Paulo under the direction of the Russian/North American geneticist Theodosius Dob- zhansky. The great success of this pro- gram was said to have been the result of the kind of research organization, in teams, t...

In the 1940s and 50s the Rockefeller Foundation established a program for the development of population genetics at the Universidade de São Paulo under the direction of the Russian/North American geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky. The great success of this program was said to have been the result of the kind of research organization, in teams, that...

In April 1933, Albert Einstein was offered an ‘Extraordinary’ Chair of Physics at the University of Madrid. Einstein first accepted, then sought to withdraw without causing damage to the anti-Fascist Republican government. However, this proved an opportunity for the Spanish press to harness Einstein’s notoriety to their own programmes. This article...

JANET BROWNE, Charles Darwin: The Power of Place. Volume 2 of a Biography. London: Jonathan Cape, 2002. Pp. 591. ISBN 0-679-42932-8. £25.00 (hardback). - - Volume 39 Issue 2 - THOMAS F. GLICK

Drawing on primary sources made available to scholars only after the archives of the Holy Office were unsealed in 1998, Negotiating Darwin chronicles how the Vatican reacted when six Catholics-five clerics and one layman-tried to integrate evolution and Christianity in the decades following the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species. As Mariano...

During the mid 1920s, the Spanish Government, prompted by the Rockefeller Foundation, began for the first time to support fundamental research in physics. The negotiations leading to this outcome are instructive, in reflecting key differences between the Foundation’s vision and the practices of scientists accustomed to a ‘culture of scarcity’. This...

Journal of the History of Sexuality 12.1 (2003) 68-97 THE SEXUAL REFORM MOVEMENT in Spain before the Spanish civil war was the product of a loose coalition of physicians and lawyers influenced by Freudian psychology. These individuals shared concerns about gender inequality and sexual dysfunction, which they viewed as obsolete features of tradition...

The reception of scientific ideas, especially fundamental ones such as those proposed by Darwin, Freud, and Einstein—when analyzed via an affective and comparative taxonomy—can be seen to take place within a field of certain obvious variables. These variables can be categorized along the following demarcations (some will apply more to scientific th...

The reception of Darwinism in Uruguay followed the familiar Latin pattern of a debate between positivist and religionist intellectuals in the late 1870s and 1880s, with a significant and interesting exception. Before the intellectual debate began, another debate over Darwin’s merits had already taken place among the cattle breeders who were members...

I Twenty-five years ago, at the Conference on the Comparative Reception of Darwinism held at the University of Texas in 1972, only two countries of the Iberian world-Spain and Mexico-were represented.' At the time, it was apparent that the topic had attracted interest only as regarded the "mainstream" science countries of Western Europe, plus the U...

Francesc Duran-Reynals (1899-1958) was a Catalan doctor who developped a highly significant career as researcher in the USA. He was trained at the Laboratori Municipal de Barcelona under the supervision of Ramon Turró. Afterwards, with a grant from the Spanish goverment, he went to the Institut Pasteur in Paris and, subsequently, he went to the Roc...

Francesc Duran Reynals (1899-1958) was a Catalan researcher who developed most of his career in the US. He studied medicine in Barcelona, but he was trained as a biomedical researcher in the Laboratori Municipal supervised by Ramon Turró. Willing to go-in-depth on viruses, he got an Spanish grant to go to the Institut Pasteur in Paris and, the foll...

Journal of Interdisciplinary History 30.2 (1999) 325-326 Netanyahu is known for his two seminal works on Jews, conversos, and the Spanish Inquisition, the first (1966) based on Hebrew sources, the more recent (1995) on mainly Christian materials. The present book is a collection of historiographical essays illuminating different approaches to Jewis...

Journal of Interdisciplinary History 30.3 (1999) 507-508 Squatriti considers the public control of water from norms of Roman law and administration to mainly private control in early medieval Italy from a variety of perspectives. The provision of water to cities, the raison d'être of Roman aqueducts, fell mainly into the hands of bishops and abbots...

Este trabajo forma parte de una serie de estudios en los cuales intento explorar un concepto de Juan Marichal referente a la tonalidad científica de la generación política de la Segunda República \ En el primero, intenté definir un grupo de médicos y abogados (todos futuros diputados en las Cortes Constituyentes de 1931) que intervinieron en el deb...

Castrodeza begins the first volume with two flamboyant statements. The first is that, in contradistinction to his predecessors, he will offer a "total" history of the origins of Darwin's theory. The overworked Braudelism does not describe what he is about, except to the extent that Castrodeza believes Darwin to be a recorder of his cultural ambienc...

The review of recent trends in research focusses on the retheorization of spatiality, the geography of knowledge, French geography, and the question as to whether any kind of unity can be achieved. -J.Sheail

The objective of an enterprise of comparative scholarship, such as the present volume, is to set out parallel cases of the reception of a single set of ideas, in order to get an overall picture of the balance between general and culture-specific processes. The unit of analysis is the nation and there is no presumption that any one case is more norm...

The present volume grew out of a double session of the Boston Collo­ quium for the Philosophy of Science held in Boston on March 25, 1983. The papers presented there (by Biezunski, Glick, Goldberg, and Judith Goodstein!) offered both sufficient comparability to establish regulari­ ties in the reception of relativity and Einstein's impact in France,...