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APPEL À CONTRIBUTION LA MEDECINE ET L’HUMANITAIRE Fondation du CICR, 150e anniversaire A l’occasion du 150ème anniversaire de la fondation du CICR et du mouvement de la Croix Rouge Internationale, l’Institut d’histoire de la médecine et de la santé, Université de Genève, en collaboration avec le Centre de recherches historiques - Genève humanitaire, le Département d’histoire contemporain, Université de Genève, et la direction médicale du CICR, organise une série d’activités de recherche et de colloques en 2013 et 2014. Le thème choisi pour ces initiatives est le rôle de la médecine, des médecins et du personnel soignant dans son ensemble dans la création du CICR, du droit international humanitaire et de la diffusion de nouvelles pratiques et d’une nouvelle sensibilité en faveur des victimes de conflits. Une attention particulière sera donnée à l’affirmation du principe de neutralisation du personnel soignant lors de conflits, thème qui est, aujourd’hui encore, d’une grande actualité. V...

The Department of the History of Science at Harvard University is conducting a tenure -track (assistant or associate professorial level) search in the history of medicine, post 1800. A Ph.D. is required by the expected start date, and the Department is especially interested in candidates who show exceptional promise as scholars, teachers and mentors, and who can offer high-impact courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2013. Applications should include a curriculum vitae, a brief outline of present scholarly projects and future plans, a brief statement of teaching experience and approach, and names and contact information for 3-5 references. We also ask candidates to submit a sample of recent scholarly work and copies of external teaching evaluations if available. All materials should be submitted directly to the Harvard academic positions site at http://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/4179 . Harvard is an Affirmativ...

Donald Alexander Downs, Ilia Murtazashvili.   Arms and the University: Military Presence and the Civic Education of Non-Military Students. New York   Cambridge University Press, 2012.   xiii + 441 pp.   $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-19232-3; $34.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-15670-7. Reviewed by Heather Salazar (Norwich University) Published on H-War (September, 2012) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey In _Arms and the University_,_ _Donald Alexander Downs and Ilia Murtazashvili argue that institutionalized interaction in a university setting between nonmilitary students and the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) strengthens civic and liberal education of both groups. The authors contend that current tensions between the two groups stem from three historical phenomena: decreased civilian wartime participation, the American public's rejection of the military following the Vietnam War, and both the implementation and reversal of the Don't Ask, Don'...

Ferenc Morton Szasz.   Atomic Comics: Cartoonists Confront the Nuclear World.   Reno   University of Nevada Press, 2012.   xv + 179 pp.   $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87417-874-6; ISBN 978-0-87417-879-1. Reviewed by Sean Cashbaugh (American Studies, University of Texas Austin) Published on H-War (September, 2012) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey Cashbaugh on Szasz, _Atomic Comics_ As much of the scholarly discourse surrounding the Cold War argues, the terrifying, yet awe-inspiring, reality of atomic power and weapons affected nearly all aspects of American popular culture. In _Atomic Comics: Cartoonists Confront the Nuclear World_, historian Ferenc Morton Szasz demonstrates the ways comic books, comic strips, and cartoonists tackled this reality. He argues that the oft-maligned and sometimes forgotten cultural form created a space for ordinary citizens to wrestle with the complexities of the atomic age in the twentieth century. As he writes, ...

Scott M. Gelber.   The University and the People: Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Populist Protest.   Madison   University of Wisconsin Press, 2011.   264 pp.   $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-299-28464-0. Reviewed by Mark Oromaner Published on H-Education (September, 2012) Commissioned by Jonathan Anuik Academic Populists and the American State University In _The University and the People_, Scott M. Gelber explores the relationship of the nineteenth-century American Populist movement to state universities. This book is an important study, for while Populist support for informal and common schools has been well documented, its "enthusiasm for _higher_ education remains underappreciated" (p. 4, emphasis in original). Gelber is an assistant professor of education and (by courtesy) of history at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. He has done a very good job of turning a Harvard University dissertation ("Academic Populism: The...