1,471 research outputs found
Connie Corey and Doris Wilson
No full textTwo African American women whose babies Lovie delivered in the 1960s, Connie Corey and Doris Wilson, recount their experiences of having Lovie Shelton as their midwife for their home births. Doris Wilson tells the story of the breech birth of her first child, how Lovie urged her to get birth control, and how a doctor refused to tie her tubes after the birth of her third child, insisting she was too young to make such a decision. Doris Wilson also describes the unsatisfactory hospital birth of her seventh child and how she was finally able to have a tubal ligation. Finally, Mrs. Wilson explains her philosophy of midwives as “God’s chosen” and the difference between seeing with the natural eye and the spiritual eye; the latter is a gift she attributes to Mrs. Shelton. The narrator explores the phenomenon of being prayed over while doing documentary fieldwork.</p
Urban and Regional Technology Planning
No full textPart of the popular Networked Cities series, Urban and Regional Technology Planning focuses on the practice of relational planning and the stimulation of local city-regional scale development planning in the context of the global knowledge economy and network society. Designed to offer scholars, practitioners, and decision makers studies on the ways of cities, technologies, and multiple forms of urban movement intersect and create the contemporary urban environment, Kenneth Corey and Mark Wilson explore the dynamics of technology-induced change that is taking place within the context of the global knowledge economy and network society. Examining first the knowledge economy itself, Wilson and Corey go on to discuss its implications before proposing ways to strategize for future intelligent development, with particular emphasis on the ALERT model for regional and local planning. An important read for those practicing or studying planning in this network society
Notes on Praetors in Spain in the Mid-Second Century B.C.
No full textThis article reassesses the ancient evidence on the praetors who fought in the Spains in the 150s and 140s, and argues against some recent reconstructions of the fasti praetorii for these years. In particular, two new possibilities are offered: L. Mummius, pr. in Hispania Ulterior 155 and prorogued through (at least) 154; and C. Laelius, pr. in a city jurisdiction in 145, and sent ex praetura to Citerior in 144, when his friend Scipio Aemilianus secured the removal of the Spains from the consular sortition for that year. If correct, this example of a city praetor setting out after the year of the magistracy for an overseas province would provide an early precedent for what was later to be a common practice, which Sulla as dictator finally was to institutionalize.Peer reviewe
Review of The edges of the earth in ancient thought: geography, exploration, and fiction, by J. Romm
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Review of A. Momigliano, The Classical foundations of modern Historiography
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