Report of the nations: Belgium
Belgium is probably the most productive holographic nation, insofar the production of silver halide material is concerned, and silver halide is still the workhorse for a very large number of holographic applications, both in display and technical fields.
Holographic Portraiture of Humans, Plants and Ghosts in Belgium
The author describes his efforts to bring holography and its artistic applications out of the realm of mystery or curiosity. Three areas of the author’s involvement are treated: first, how holographic portraits were successfully made in situ during a convention (it is believed that this was a world’s first); second, how holograms of simple vegetal objects, viewable under normal lighting conditions, are being used to bring holography to a larger audience; finally, how collaboration between technicians and artists can lead to results that are satisfying and enriching for both parties.
Bodies Politic : Disease , Death and Doctors in Britain , 1650-1900
In spite of its intellectual, literary and comic brilliance, this book contains a dark and disturbing, but revealing, message. In some ways, my melancholy reading of Bodies Politic has inevitably been shaped by Roy's recent untimely death. Roy Porter was without doubt the finest social historian of medicine this country, or indeed the world, has produced. Expansive, humorous, intelligent, and incisive, his broad range of historical works has excited and educated several generations of students of history over the past thirty years. His death leaves an unfillable void within the global history of medicine. At the same time, however, this book itself, completed well before his death, is haunted by elements of despair and uncertainty that should make us carefully reconsider not only the purpose and direction of our professional inquiries but also our own mortality.