Engineering History in Latin America: A Review of Spanish-Language Books.

This review essay examines five Spanish-language books published in Latin America on the emergence of engineering in the region. Focusing on a period from roughly 1850 to 1970, these works share themes of foreigners and foreign education, nation-state construction, and social conceptions of prestige. This research suggests that throughout Latin America foreign educators and models were prominent in early engineering programs and enterprises. However, many historians associate the growth of engineering, especially civil engineering, with increasing state consolidation and economic intervention. As social perceptions of the value of professional engineering changed, domestic engineers increasingly became important planners and mediators. Some engineers became state leaders. By contextualizing these works with other scholarship on the history of engineering, this review essay highlights new insights while suggesting the need for greater attention to gender, race, and labor; comparisons between developments in Latin America, Africa, and Asia; and more research on private-sector engineers.

Using full-text content to characterize and identify best seller books: A study of early 20th-century literature.

Artistic pieces can be studied from several perspectives, one example being their reception among readers over time. In the present work, we approach this interesting topic from the standpoint of literary works, particularly assessing the task of predicting whether a book will become a best seller. Unlike previous approaches, we focused on the full content of books and considered visualization and classification tasks. We employed visualization for the preliminary exploration of the data structure and properties, involving SemAxis and linear discriminant analyses. To obtain quantitative and more objective results, we employed various classifiers. Such approaches were used along with a dataset containing (i) books published from 1895 to 1923 and consecrated as best sellers by the Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lists and (ii) literary works published in the same period but not being mentioned in that list. Our comparison of methods revealed that the best-achieved result-combining a bag-of-words representation with a logistic regression classifier-led to an average accuracy of 0.75 both for the leave-one-out and 10-fold cross-validations. Such an outcome enhances the difficulty in predicting the success of books with high accuracy, even using the full content of the texts. Nevertheless, our findings provide insights into the factors leading to the relative success of a literary work.

Semantic-enhanced graph neural network for named entity recognition in ancient Chinese books.

Named entity recognition (NER) plays a crucial role in the extraction and utilization of knowledge of ancient Chinese books. However, the challenges of ancient Chinese NER not only originate from linguistic features such as the use of single characters and short sentences but are also exacerbated by the scarcity of training data. These factors together limit the capability of deep learning models, like BERT-CRF, in capturing the semantic representation of ancient Chinese characters. In this paper, we explore the semantic enhancement of NER in ancient Chinese books through the utilization of external knowledge. We propose a novel model based on Graph Neural Networks that integrates two different forms of external knowledge: dictionary-level and chapter-level information. Through the Graph Attention Mechanism (GAT), these external knowledge are effectively incorporated into the model's input context. Our model is evaluated on the C_CLUE dataset, showing an improvement of 3.82% over the baseline BAC-CRF model. It also achieves the best score compared to several state-of-the-art dictionary-augmented models.

Prominent Neurosurgery Books of the Western World: How They Defined the Era of Modern Neurosurgery in the 19th Century.

The aim of this article is to introduce the 19th century neurosurgery books to reveal their contributions to modern neurosurgery. Methods In this study, 29 books were accessed, and reviewed, and the resources from the late 18th century and early 20th century were included. However, neurology or general surgery books that included neurosurgical subjects or chapter were excluded unless there were revolutionary ideas in their relevant chapters. The books of this period observed to have some common differences from the books that were written in the previous century. Parallel to the concept of cerebral localization, which started to develop in this period, neurosurgery evolved from skull surgery to brain surgery. Due to the advancements in patient care, anesthesia and sterile techniques, surgical medical branches showed rapid development in the 1800s. During this period, cerebral localization concept changed the comprehension and approach in neurosurgery and opened the gate of a new era in the field of neurological surgery unlike other branches and helped to establish modern neurosurgery. 19th century surgeons became able to operate on more complex cases with more advanced techniques. Knowledge of published pioneer papers and books help understanding of emergence of neurological surgery as a separate discipline.

[Xuezheng Quanji, the earliest monograph on blood disorder].

Xuezheng Quanji(«¼) written by Sun Guangyu, a doctor in the Ming Dynasty, is the first known book on blood disorders in China. The book mainly deals with bleeding. The book begins with a collection of the Neijing and the treatises of the sages, focusing on systematically summarizing the theories and experiences of the past dynasties in the treatment of bleeding, interspersed with Sun's own opinions.The main part discusses four types of bleeding, summarizing Sun's profound experience in clinical practice, and many of his personal creative opinions.In terms of causes,Sun believed that there are three causes of bleeding and more due to heat. In terms of treatment,he opposed the abuse of bitter cold and attached great importance to nourishing yin and strengthening kidney and proposed four treatment methods of dispelling stasis, nourishing Yin and suppressing Yang, regulating Qi and blood, and tonifying deficiency. He advocated that bleeding should not be treated quickly, and emphasized that the disease should be judged according to the bleeding location and bleeding color to use herbs flexibly.Special attention should be paid to daily life care during and after illness as well.

[The annotation and compilation of Shennong Classic of Materia Medica in the period of the Republic of China].

A variety of books on the annotation and compilation of Shennong Classic of Materia Medica (Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing) appeared in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the period of the Republic of China at the beginning of the last century, a total of eight annotated and compiled books on Shennong Classic of Materia Medica were published. This paper discusses the authors of these books, their contents and their academic features. It was found that the research on Shennong Classic of Materia Medica in the period of the Republic of China was basically divided into two main sections: the continuation of reverence for classical texts with extensive commentary and the 'scientific' transformation of traditional materia medica in the context of Sino-Western medicine integration.

[Study on completion and academic thought of Dou Ke Jian(The Key of Smallpox)].

Dou Ke Jian(The Key of Smallpox) was written by Zhu Xun in the late Ming dynasty,collated and published by Zhu Fengtai in the Qing dynasty.It was rarely studied in China ,but have a far-reaching influence in Japan.By comparing with other works about smallpox and refering to the Japanese Ikeda family's Doukejian Huitong, Doukejian Siheng, Doukejian Shanzhengbuzhu completed on the basis of Dou Ke Jian,this paper systematically reviews the author's life, compilation and publication background, main content, academic characteristics and value, and influence on later generations.The views advocated in this book, such as "toxin hidden in the spleen meridians, attaching importance to qi and blood", "distinguishing between the exterior and interior, deficiency and excess, and take the lips and tongue as the key" have important reference value for the treatment of infectious diseases in later generations.

[A Bibliophile in Shandong Province in the Republic of China Zhuang Enze and His Handwritten Copy of Shang Han Lun Xuan Zhu(Annotation of Treatise on Febrile Diseases)].

Shang Han Lun Xuan Zhu(«¼,Annotation of Treatise on Febrile Diseases) is a representative work of Zang Yingzhan, a famous physician in Zhucheng of Shandong who was as famous as Huang Yuanyu during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.The book was not published, but has been preserved only in manuscripts, of which 5 copies are now preserved.By comparing the five manuscripts seen, it is found that the Zhuang Enze version is unique in the existing version of this book, exquisite and generous, beautifully copied, with important documentary value. Zhuang Enze adopts the theories of various schools, supplements prescriptions, analyze medical theory with his unique insights.The reason may be related to his family's practice of medicine for generations, its philosophy of loving reading, copying books, and collecting books, and also related to its protection of local and state documents and the dissemination of lost culture.

[A comparative study of the Ganzheng Jingyi Yuebian and Yizong jirenbian].

Ganzheng Jingyi Yuebian(Essence Compendium of Cold Symptoms) is collected in the Library of Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine,which is not included in the Zhongguo Zhongyi Guji Zongmu (Catalogue of Ancient Chinese Medicine Books). After comparing with the current Xitang Ganzheng Volume of Yizong jirenbian, it is found that Ganzheng Jingyi Yuebian inherits the academic thought of Xitang Ganzheng with special emphasis on Yangming, taking care of the stomach and the jin, and comprehensively referring to the pulse, symptoms and tongue images. In the clinical treatment of diseases, Ganzheng Jingyi Yuebian comprehensively considered constitution and followed the law of time. it has also carried out rich expansion in attaching importance to the application of meridian transmission and emphasizing the leading ideology of healthy qi.In terms of the style and content of the compilation, on the basis of simplifying some of the text discussions and supplementary notes in Xitang Ganzheng,Ganzheng Jingyi Yuebian added the classification, as well as 15 diseases, 14 statements, memos, experience, Feng Shinong's verification and reflection, etc, so as to make its category clearer and content more detailed.

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life: biografia de um livro / The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life: biography of a book

Resumo Na marca dos 60 anos de sua publicação, este artigo reconstrói a biografia do livro The presentation of self in everyday life , de Erving Goffman, de 1959. Utiliza-se, de forma adaptada, a perspectiva de Robert Darnton, original e revisitada pelo autor em seus estudos sobre a história dos livros. Além desse referencial, o artigo faz uso de textos originais de Goffman, da tradução brasileira, de estudos bibliográficos, artigos críticos, resenhas, coletâneas, e de entrevistas e informações que fazem parte do Erving Goffman Archives. Na análise da obra, procura-se acompanhar a trajetória do autor, enfatizando a importância e o impacto do texto, com dados quantitativos e qualitativos, cuja importância estende-se além da academia.

Abstract Sixty years after Erving Goffman's book The Presentation of Self In Everyday Life was published (1959), this article reconstructs its biography by adapting the perspective of Robert Darnton (the original, as well as the revisited one on the history of books). Original texts by Goffman in Brazilian translations are used, along with bibliographical studies, critical articles, reviews, collections, and interviews and information that are part of the Erving Goffman Archives. The goal is to follow this author's trajectory, emphasizing the importance and impact of his text, with quantitative and qualitative data that extend beyond academia in terms of importance.

Entre São Paulo e Paris: o Cálculo vetorial do engenheiro Theodoro Ramos / Between São Paulo and Paris: the Vector calculus of the engineer Theodoro Ramos

Resumo Em 1930, o engenheiro Theodoro Ramos publicou pela livraria francesa Albert Blanchard seu livro sobre cálculo vetorial. Este artigo apresenta o contexto de edição da obra, a casa editorial onde foi impressa, o mercado para livros desse tipo na França e o aparecimento desse tema na história do cálculo. Compara conteúdos e aspectos materiais de várias obras similares editadas no período com o livro aqui estudado de maneira a evidenciar tanto suas inovações quanto adesões em relação a esse corpus de livros. Além de seus aspectos intrinsecamente matemáticos, procura capturar as representações, às vezes conflituosas, que a obra recebeu em seu percurso entre São Paulo e a Europa, seja em meio a especialistas ou a seus alunos.

Abstract In 1930, the engineer Theodoro Ramos published a book on vector calculus through the French publisher Albert Blanchard. The context of is publication, the publishing house where it was printed, the market for books of this kind in France, and the appearance of this topic in the history of calculus are discussed. Some of the contents and material aspects of several works of a similar nature published in the same period are compared with a view to bringing to light the innovations and consistencies of the book in question vis-à-vis this bibliographic corpus. Alongside its intrinsically mathematical aspects, the sometimes conflicting representations of the book by specialists and students in its trajectory between São Paulo and Europe are observed.

Hitupmã'ax: educação intercultural e atendimento diferenciado à saúde do povo maxakali / Hitupmã'ax: intercultural education and specific health care for the Maxakali people

Resumo Este trabalho analisou um artefato (um livro de saúde) concebido pelo povo maxakali, denominado Hitupmã'ax: curar (2008). Tangenciado o projeto de produção do livro, o objetivo foi entender o processo de negociação da saúde pública no Brasil, dentro de uma perspectiva histórica e intercultural das epistemologias não ocidentais. Constatamos que a construção da obra maxakali representa um esforço para diminuir a distância da percepção e dos cuidados de saúde entre indígenas e não indígenas, e por essa via demonstramos a importância desse projeto intercultural para a efetivação de políticas públicas voltadas para o público indígena em geral e, especificamenete, para a promoção da história, dos saberes e da cultura maxakali.

Abstract This study analyzed an artifact (a book on health) conceived by the Maxakali people, called Hitupmã'ax: curar (2008). Parallel to the project for the production of this book, the aim was to understand the negotiation of public health in Brazil from a historical and intercultural perspective of non-Western epistemologies. It was found that the construction of the Maxakali work represented an effort to bridge the gap in the perception of health and health care between indigenous and non-indigenous people. This was then used to demonstrate the importance of this intercultural project for the shaping of public policies for indigenous people in general and particularly for the promotion of the history, knowledge, and culture of the Maxakali people.

Sobre el origen y desarrollo del libro Semiologia Médica / Origin and development of the book Medical Semiology

Semiotics and Semiology share a similar etymology and meaning: the study of signs. In Medicine, signs are objective manifestations of disease, as opposed to the subjective nature of symptoms. Medical semiology comprises the study of symptoms, somatic signs and laboratory signs, history taking and physical examination (in English-speaking countries is known as Bedside diagnostic examination or Physical diagnosis). The first edition of Medical Semiology dates from 1987, and new editions appeared in 1999, 2010, and 2017. The book is devoted to semiology proper with clinical orientation. Its origin, however, dates back to 1937, when the University of Chile appointed Dr. Hernán Alessandri (1900-1981), the eminent Chilean medical educator, Professor in Semiology at the Internal Medicine Section of the Hospital del Salvador in Santiago. The authors of the present book served as Dr. Alessandri's teaching assistants for decades. The two-semester course in semiology had a tutorial character: each teaching assistant was assigned five students whom engaged daily in practical activities in the hospital wards for a total of four hours, in addition to a 45- minute lecture on the theoretical aspects of the subject. The 720-page fourth edition of the book brings together teaching method and clinical experience of more than 50 years. The book consists of six Sections: "Cardinal manifestations of disease", "Major clinical syndromes", "History taking and Physical examination", "Clinical diagnosis and the patient-physician relationship", "Laboratory clinical tests and Instrumental exploration of the body," and "Glossary of diseases." In its forty Chapters, a total of 207 issues are described in detail.

Tradutores médicos e a ideia de tradução em Portugal em fins do século XVIII: o caso dos livros de medicina / Medical translators and the idea of translation in Portugal in the late eighteenth century: the case of books on medicine

Resumo O estudo demonstra como as traduções para a língua portuguesa influenciaram o mercado editorial, além de tentar compreender o estabelecimento da norma culta da língua portuguesa em fins do século XVIII. Fazendo um recorte temático sobre os textos de medicina, no universo de obras traduzidas, publicadas ou não, para o português no período 1770-1810, recorre aos paratextos dos tradutores - e, eventualmente, editores - dos livros médicos ou farmacêuticos, cruzando-os com as censuras dessas obras, feitas por médicos especialmente designados pelos órgãos de censura, ou por médicos/censores, a fim de buscar respostas, ainda que parciais, às perguntas sobre a circulação da palavra impressa, à difusão do conhecimento científico e aos debates relativos à definição da língua portuguesa.

Abstract This study demonstrates how translations into Portuguese influenced the publishing market in the late eighteenth century and sheds light on the establishment of standard Portuguese. Focusing specifically on medical texts translated into Portuguese from published works or manuscripts between 1770 and 1810, the translators' - and occasionally the editors' - paratexts in the translated books on medicine and pharmacy are investigated and cross-referenced against reports written by the censors on the same works, themselves physicians appointed by the censorship bodies or physicians/censors, in a bid to seek out answers, however incomplete they may be, to questions about the circulation of the printed word, the spread of scientific knowledge, and the debates concerning the definition of the Portuguese language.

Andrew Lees, a visionary mentored by a madman / Andrew Lees, um visionário orientado por um louco

ABSTRACT Andrew Lees, Professor of Neurology at the National Hospital Queen Square (London, UK), has been recognized as the world’s most highly-cited researcher over the 200-year history of Parkinson’s Disease. Although he remains actively involved in the investigation of movement disorders, Prof. Lees embarked on a literary career that started in 2011 with the publication of a social history of his native Liverpool. His last work is Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment, which is reviewed here.

RESUMO Andrew Lees, Professor Titular de Neurologia no National Hospital Queen Square (Londres, Reino Unido), é reconhecido como o mais citado pesquisador em 200 anos de história de doença de Parkinson. Embora permaneça ativamente envolvido em investigação em distúrbios do movimento, o Prof. Lees iniciou carreira literária em 2011 com a publicação de uma história social de sua native Liverpool. Seu último trabalho nesta área é Mentored by a Madman. The William Burroughs Experiment que revisado neste artigo.

O primeiro livro em Portugal escrito por enfermeiro (1741): contribuição para a formação de enfermeiros religiosos / The first book written by a nurse in Portugal (1741): contributions to religious nurses education

Este estudo teve por objetivo analisar os conceitos do metaparadigma de enfermagem inscritos nos saberes e nas práticas dos enfermeiros religiosos portugueses que assistiam os enfermos no século XVIIII. Realizou-se uma pesquisa documental, recorrendo ao método histórico. Utilizou-se, como fonte principal de pesquisa, a obra “Postilla Religiosa”, de Frei Diogo de Santiago, publicada em 1741. Este é o primeiro livro conhecido até o momento, e escrito em português por um enfermeiro, para a formação de enfermeiros. A análise do conteúdo da obra permitiu identificar quatro categorias com vocábulos de valor semântico aproximado às categorias definidas a priori. Pessoa, cuidados, ambiente, e saúde/doença, sendo estes os termos que, após a análise da obra, sofreram ajustamento às designações em uso à época: Homem/Enfermo; Assistir/Cuidado; Elementos dos humores; e Enfermidade. Concluiu-se que os principais conceitos inscritos nas práticas dos enfermeiros têm similaridades com os pressupostos teóricos de Kèrouac. Esses resultados vêm contribuir para a identificação dos saberes e práticas dos primórdios da enfermagem portuguesa.

A neurological bias in the history of hysteria: from the womb to the nervous system and Charcot / Um viés neurológico na história da histeria: desde o útero até o sistema nervoso e Charcot

Hysteria conceptions, from ancient Egypt until the 19th century Parisian hospital based studies, are presented from gynaecological and demonological theories to neurological ones. The hysteria protean behavioral disorders based on nervous origin was proposed at the beginning, mainly in Great Britain, by the “enlightenment nerve doctors”. The following personages are highlighted: Galen, William, Sydenham, Cullen, Briquet, and Charcot with his School. Charcot who had hysteria and hypnotism probably as his most important long term work, developed his conceptions, initially, based on the same methodology he applied to studies of other neurological disorder. Some of his associates followed him in his hysteria theories, mainly Paul Richer and Gilles de La Tourette who produced, with the master's support, expressive books on Salpêtrière School view on hysteria.

As concepções da histeria, desde o antigo Egito até os estudos baseados nos hospitais parisienses do século 19 são apresentados, a partir de teorias ginecológicas e demonológicas até às neurológicos. A ideia dos transtornos comportamentais multiformes com base na origem nervosa foi proposta no início, principalmente na Grã-Bretanha, pelos “médicos dos nervos do iluminismo”. Os seguintes personagens se destacam: Galeno, William, Sydenham, Cullen, Briquet e Charcot com a sua escola. Charcot tinha a histeria e hipnose provavelmente como o seu trabalho mais importante a longo prazo. Ele desenvolveu suas concepções inicialmente com base na mesma metodologia aplicada a estudos sobre outros transtornos neurológicos. Alguns de seus associados seguiram-no em suas teorias, principalmente Paul Richer e Gilles de La Tourette, que produziram, com o apoio do mestre, livros significativos da Escola da Salpêtrière sobre a histeria.

A hundred-year of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology (Allgemeine Psychopathologie) - 1913-2013: a pivotal book in the history of Psychiatry / Cem anos de Psicopatologia Geral (Allgemeine Psychopathologie) de Karl Jaspers - 1913-2013: um livro decisivo na historia da Psiquiatria

After a hundred-years of its publication, the Karl Jaspers' book, General Psychopathology, is still an indispensable book to psychiatrists and for all those who study psychopathology. It's a clear delineation of the phenomenological method for describing the symptoms of mental disorders that remains unmatched until nowadays. The book focuses on the relevance of phenomenological and hermeneutical methods in psychopathology. Although this work is grounded in the clinical thought and practices of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jaspers' delineation of psychiatric methods in this work is still evaluated as unmatched to this day, a work that is indispensable to contemporary psychiatry. Jaspers also contributed with important articles and book reviews to psychiatric periodicals during the first two decades of the twentieth century.

Após cem anos de sua publicação, o livro de Karl Jaspers, Psicopatologia Geral, continua sendo uma obra indispensável para psiquiatras e para todos que se dedicam ao estudo de psicopatologia. Seu claro delineamento do método fenomenológico para a descrição dos sintomas dos transtornos mentais permanece intocável até hoje. O livro foca a relevância dos métodos fenomenológico e hermenêutico em psicopatologia. Apesar do trabalho ter sido baseado no pensamento e na prática clínica do final do século XIX e do início do século XX, a delineação dos métodos em psiquiatria de Jaspers é avaliado como ímpar até hoje, um trabalho indispensável para a psiquiatria atual. Jaspers também contribuiu com importantes artigos e revisões de livros para revistas psiquiátricas durante as primeiras duas décadas do século XX.

Neuronosology: historical remarks / Neuronosologia: observações históricas

Classifications for neurological disorders have evolved from following the theory of the humors to modern anatomical pathology and, recently, to the germ theory that stared the etiological era, as seen in book content lists. The symptomatic approach towards neuronosology was widely used until the middle of the 19th century. The following books are representatives of this: "De Cerebri Morbis (1549)"; "De anima brutorum (1672)"; and "A Treatise on Nervous Disease (1820-1823)". During the Enlightenment, "Synopsis Nosologiae Methodicae (1769)" had a great repercussion subsequently on neuronosology. "Lehrbuch der Nerven-Krankheiten des Menschen (1840-1846)" was the first systematic treatise in neurology, and "A Treatise on the Diseases of the Nervous System (1871)" was the first American textbook of neurology, and probably the first comprehensive one. The first Brazilian textbook was "Lições sobre as moléstias do sistema nervoso, feitas na Faculdade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro (1878)". A presentation going from causes of death to the International Classification of Diseases and their importance for neurology is also made.

A evolução da classificação de transtornos neurológicos seguiu desde a teoria dos humores até à anatomia patológica moderna e, recentemente, à teoria do germe, que iniciou a era etiológica, tendo em vista o sumário dos livros. A abordagem sintomática na neuronosologia foi extensamente usada até meados do século XIX. Os livros seguintes são representativos disso: "De Cerebri Morbis (1549)"; "De anima brutorum (1672)"; "A Treatise on Nervous Disease (1820-1823)". Durante o Iluminismo, "Synopsis Nosologiae Methodicae (1769)" teve grande repercussão posterior na neuronosologia. "Lehrbuch der Nerven-Krankheiten des Menschen (1840-1846)" é o primeiro tratado sistemático em neurologia e "A Treatise on the Diseases of the Nervous System (1871)" é o primeiro livro americano de neurologia, provavelmente o primeiro livro de neurologia abrangente. O primeiro brasileiro foi "Lições sobre as Moléstias do Sistema Nervoso, feitas na Faculdade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro (1878)". São apresentadas desde Listas de mortalidade até as Classificações Internacionais de Doenças e a sua importância na neurologia.

Acervo raro da Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia: considerações sobre sua preservação histórica / Rare Collection of Brazilian Society of Dermatology: considerations about its historical preservation

O artigo descreve a formação da coleção de obras raras da Biblioteca Professor Francisco Eduardo Rabello da Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia.

The article describes the creation of the rare books’ collection of Professor Francisco Eduardo Rabello Library at Brazilian Society of Dermatology.