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ARTICLES & PAPERS An honors recipient from Phi Alpha Theta and Sigma Tau Delta, Hinkley-Thompson enjoys history assignments, and believes that "great literature, like classical music, lives on representing the history of the time it was written. And, just as classical music, it is applicable today." The titles of articles and papers I have written will gradually be entered on this URL. I am attempting to obtain clips, at this time, and those will go under that URL. HISTORY OF SCIENCE William Withering, M.D., F.R.S. (~March 17, 1741-October 6, 1799). Member of the infamous Lunar Society. Referred to as "The Flower of English Medicine." "An exceptional account of the life of Withering. Hinkley-Thompson presents the reader with the student, scientist, friend, spouse, father, and the physician, in an in-depth account carrying the reader to the end of her paper where she presents quotations on many aspects of 'life according to Withering.' " How the Foxglove Was Kept From Withering (Or, Digitalis Is Withering). A 15-page review of the life of William Withering, MD who discovered the use of the plant, Foxglove (Digitalis) to augment cardiac output, then referred to as "dropsy." Excerpts "In 1821, the son and namesake of Dr. William Withering wrote, "to trace a remote genealogy in reference to him who disliked ostentation, or the show of adventitious merit, would be irreverent (Withering 2)." After researching Dr. Withering's life, one would be remiss to not include aspects of his family, but to do so in a manner befitting this scientist accurately, or not at all." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Withering writes, "I was told that it had long been kept a secret by an old woman in Shropshire, who had sometimes made cures after the more regular practitioners had failed. I was informed also, that the effects produced were violent vomiting and purging; for the diuretic effects seem to have been overlooked. This medicine was composed of twenty or more different herbs; but it was not difficult for one conversant in these subjects, to perceive, that the active herb could be no other than the Foxglove." (Aronson 268). ASIAN STUDIES History of China: Sun Yat-Sen And The Koumintang Excerpts "...to be able to understand the first united front of the Koumintang (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) one must review the historical aspects of both, as well as the man, Sun Yat-Sen." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "The end of the Manchu dynasty projected the image of a discredited reign clinging to its prerogatives while the people were oppressed and any shred of pride or independence was rapidly dwindling. T'zu Hsi, the Manchu Empress Dowager (1861-1908) was referred to as the "old Buddha." The Manchu of a dominating will and sharp intellect, she controlled the Peking administration with an iron fist by manipulating the emperors." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ". . . Sun Yat-Sen (1866-1925) was coming on the scene as a revolutionary dedicated to nationalism—a tabula rasa waiting to modeled his life after his hero, Hong Xiuquan, leader of the Taiping Rebellion." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Moseley writes that Sun believed Japan's geographic closeness, coupled with their Asiatic ties, would be to China's benefit. He therefore ignored their actions in exchange for what he perceived as support for this own political ambitions (Moseley:26). Sun was mistaken. In the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05, Japan annexed Taiwan and gained positions in Korea to have access to southern Manchuria." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "A question builds around the degree of participation the KMT had in the communist Party and awareness of its influence in their organizational efforts, but "...in their minds the ideas of Rousseau, and Marx had already existed. . . (they) did no more harm than articulate these ideas (Cambridge 12:505)." review "Your excellent paper has the strength of sources, being interpretive rather than just reportorial, having an appropriate style of citation and handling a topic in a workable fashion (L. Kreps, PhD. Harvard).
The People's Republic of China. . . Target: Peasants Excerpts "Peasants pleaded for food and order but were ignored, and rebellions occurred with large areas joining forces to riot against the cadres. Political controls increased to get agricultural surpluses required to pay China's capital equipment costs and feed workers moving into the cities for industrial work." "This paralleled the cry of the Gilded Age farmers about whom a famous American once said to a developing nation, "Burn down our cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country (William Jennings Bryan, 1986 Convention)." review "An excellent analytical paper. Its interesting that you close with the Wittfogel's water-control theory, an important emphasis in the area studies program in which I participated in 1947-49 (L. Kreps, PhD. Asian Studies, Harvard)." More to come. . .Thank you
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