"One of the Grand Works of the World": Walt Whitman's Advocacy for the Brooklyn Waterworks, 1856-59.

When the Brooklyn Waterworks opened in 1859, it was one of America's most advanced water and sewer systems. Yet after Brooklyn was annexed by New York City, the waterworks' history slipped into obscurity, despite having a now-famous champion: the "poet of America," Walt Whitman, whose brother worked on the project. This article shows the Brooklyn poet's fierce, multiyear lobbying effort for the waterworks in various newspapers and introduces a wealth of newly recovered Whitman writings on the issue. As a journalist, Whitman exemplifies the nineteenth-century press as an intermediary between expert engineers and popular readers. The poet brought precise expertise, translated engineers' technical arguments into everyday language for his readers, and fought the resulting day-to-day political battles over construction in print. Whitman, then, is an underappreciated case study of the confluence of technology, public health, and local journalism.

Militância profissional de enfermeiras no campo da formação em Enfermagem: versões e interpretações do Jornalismo / Militancia profesional de las enfermeras en el campo de la educación en Enfermería: versiones e interpretaciones del Periodismo / Professional militancy of nurses in the field of nursing education: versions and interpretations of journalism

RESUMO Objetivo analisar as versões e interpretações do Jornalismo sobre a militância profissional de enfermeiras no campo da formação em Enfermagem. Método estudo histórico, documental, de abordagem qualitativa, embasado na teoria da História Social e com tipificação argumentativa compreensivista. Os dados foram coletados entre setembro e outubro de 2017, em Salvador, Bahia, por meio do levantamento das notícias publicadas no jornal A Tarde, no período de 01/01/1970 a 31/12/1989. Foram identificadas 1.666 reportagens que versavam sobre as enfermeiras e, destas, foram utilizadas 16 reportagens, as quais abordavam a militância profissional no campo da formação em Enfermagem. A análise e a interpretação do material seguiram a proposta da Análise de Conteúdo, na modalidade Temática. Resultados os achados apontam para a militância profissional das enfermeiras em prol da formação universitária; para a formação técnica, compreendendo o pessoal técnico e auxiliar e para a qualificação profissional, abordando a formação complementar para além do ensino curricular da graduação. Conclusão e implicações para a prática as publicações evidenciaram o engajamento das enfermeiras contra o ensino universitário descontextualizado e com metodologias ultrapassadas, a luta pela qualificação dos trabalhadores de nível médio e a atuação militante das instituições representativas, que se utilizaram da mídia para comunicar a necessidade de mobilização da categoria em prol do desenvolvimento profissional.

RESUMEN Objetivo analizar las versiones e interpretaciones del periodismo sobre la militancia profesional del enfermero en el campo de la formación en Enfermería. Método estudio histórico, documental, con enfoque cualitativo, basado en la teoría de la Historia Social y con una tipificación argumentativa integral. Los datos fueron recolectados entre septiembre y octubre de 2017, en Salvador, Bahía, a través de una encuesta de noticias publicadas en Jornal A Tarde, del 01/01/1970 al 31/12/1989. Se identificaron 1.666 informes relacionados con enfermeras y, de estos, se utilizaron 16 informes que abordan la militancia profesional en el campo de la formación en Enfermería. El análisis e interpretación del material siguió la propuesta de Análisis de Contenido, en la modalidad Temática. Resultados los hallazgos apuntan a la militancia profesional de las enfermeras a favor de la formación universitaria; para la formación técnica, incluido el personal técnico y auxiliar, y para la cualificación profesional, abordando la formación complementaria más allá del plan de estudios de pregrado. Conclusión e implicaciones para la práctica las publicaciones evidenciaron el compromiso de las enfermeras frente a la educación universitaria descontextualizada y metodologías obsoletas, la lucha por la calificación de los trabajadores de nivel secundario y la acción militante de las instituciones representativas, que utilizaron los medios de comunicación para comunicar la necesidad de movilización de la categoría a favor del desarrollo profesional.

ABSTRACT Objective to analyze the versions and interpretations of journalism on the professional militancy of nurses in the field of nursing education. Method a historical and documental study, of qualitative approach, based on the Social History theory and with comprehensive argumentative typification. The data was collected between September and October 2017, in Salvador, Bahia, through a survey of the news published in the newspaper A Tarde, in the period from 01/01/1970 to 31/12/1989. A total of 1,666 reports were identified that dealt with nurses and, of these, 16 reports were used, which dealt with professional militancy in the field of Nursing education. The analysis and interpretation of the material followed the proposal of Content Analysis, in the Thematic modality. Results the findings point to the nurses' professional militancy in favor of university education; to technical education, including technical and auxiliary staff; and to professional qualification, addressing complementary education beyond the undergraduate curriculum. Conclusion and implications for practice the publications showed the engagement of nurses against decontextualized university teaching and outdated methodologies, the fight for the qualification of middle-level workers and the militant action of the representative institutions, which used the media to communicate the need for mobilization of the category in favor of professional development.

[Amédée Latour (1805-1882) Physician, journalist, mutualist]. / Amédée Latour (1805-1882) Médecin, journaliste, mutualiste.

AmedéeLatour (1805-1882), native Toulousain and grand-son of a professor of medicine, came to Paris to study, prior to support his doctoral thesis in 1834, bringing his "Proposals on art cure ". He has not practiced much medicine in Paris, but quickly focused toward medical journalism, writing articles in various scientific publications, particularly L'Union médicale from 1847 to 1882. He acquainted with several prominent medical doctors of the nineteenth century, especially Professor Andral. General Secretary of the French medical Congress in 1845, he was also the initiator and founder of the Social Security Association provident and mutual aid doctors in France. Member of the Public Health Advisory Committee, he was elected partner of the Academy of Medicine in 1870. Furthermore, from March to May 1870 AmedéeLatour became a refugee in his modest country house in Châtillon-sous-Bagneux and wrote a personal journal called "Journal of the bombing from April 4 to May 28", published in L'Unionmédicale the next July. He was able to describe the consequences of the bombing in his city of adoption during the Parisian insurrection, and his role as doctor and member of the city council during this period. He was buried in the cemetery of the city.

Narratives of Public Health in Dickens's Journalism: The Trouble with Sanitary Reform.

Although Dickens is still known as having been a highly visible supporter of England's well-known nineteenth-century sanitary movement, he became, in fact, deeply troubled by many of this movement's fundamental tenets, as evidenced by journal narratives on fever that he edited and wrote in the mid-nineteenth century. Rather than water and sewer engineering works and a sanitary regime policed by government agencies as envisaged by Edwin Chadwick and other sanitary reformers, Dickens's view by 1855 was that only a massive erasure of the existing social and political systems and their replacement by an utterly new infrastructure would suffice.

[Vladimir Zederbaum" (1883-1942): Physician, journalist, contributor to the Russian "Jewish, Encyclopedia". A research report]. / Vladimir Zederbaum (1883-1942): Arzt, Journalist, Mitarbeiter der russischen "Jüdischen Enzyklopädie". Ein Forschungsbericht.

Vol. 15 o f the "Jewish Encyclopedia" (St. Petersburg 1908-1913) contains an article on Freud, signed by Vladimir Zederbaum. The data for the article were provided by Max Eitingon. This paper addresses the question of whether Zederbaum himself was Eitingon's contact. Several archives produced a lot of information about Zederbaum's medical and journalistic activities in St. Petersburg. However, to date no connection between the two men could be established.

[At the Grundlsee. Alfons Paquet's note on his visit to Sigmund Freud in September 1930]. / Am Grundlsee. Eine Aufzeichnung Alfons Paquets über seinen Besuch bei Sigmund Freud im September 1930.

1930. This hitherto unknown account by A. Paquet, a writer from Frankfurt and at that time secretary of the Goethe-Prize, revolves around Freud's self-description as a "conscious Jew" who nevertheless eschewed categorization, as well as around psychoanalysis as an invidious, though necessary form of creative destruction.

So you want to be a science writer.

The Internet destroyed the ecology of traditional science journalism, drying up ad revenues and pushing "old school" mass media toward extinction. But the new technology opened a wider landscape for digital science writers, online "content curators," and scientists to chronicle the wonders and worries of modern science. For those thinking of a career in science writing, here is a flash history, a quick overview, some advice, and a few cautions.

[Navy physician, poet, journalist ( the 80th anniversary of the birth of V.V.Belozerov)].

There are biographical details about V. V. Belozyorov (16.02.1932-8.07.1999)--surgeon, talanted seascape poet, former editor-in-chef *Military-medical magazines (1978-1992), about his official and labour activity, poetic creativity and also about various employees of the magazine.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) and epilepsy.

To coincide with the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens (1812-1870), accounts of epilepsy found in his novels and journalism have been collated and analyzed. From these, it may be inferred that Dickens was clearly aware of the difference between epilepsy and syncope and recognized different types of epilepsy and that seizures could be fatal. Speculations that Dickens himself suffered from epilepsy are not corroborated. Dickens's novelistic construction of epilepsy as a marker of criminality, as in the characters of Monks in Oliver Twist and Bradley Headstone in Our Mutual Friend, and perhaps of mental abnormality, was in keeping with conventional contemporary views of epilepsy, but his journalistic descriptions of individuals with epilepsy confined in the workhouse system indicate an awareness of the inadequacy of their care.