Beyond ‘the Stepford Wives Syndrome’

Self-respect and the Stepford wives

Cityness and African Urban Development

This paper explores one possible argument for how to respond to the epistemic troubles in the production of knowledge about urban Africa. The problem I have in mind is the preponderance of policy-oriented research on the development challenges and absences of African cities, as opposed to a more rounded theorization of urban life (urbanism), or cityness. The paper starts by recounting the chall...

Ignoring the obvious: doctors' wives as patients.

There is a widely held belief among doctors and nurses that when a colleague is in hospital, if anything can go wrong during the course of his illness it invariably will. To investigate this belief, we studied prospectively a group of pregnant doctors and doctors' wives, comparing the number of obstetric, paediatric, and psychiatric complications with those in two control groups of similar soci...

Correction for “ Neighbor of Brca 1 gene ( Nbr 1 ) functions as a negative regulator of postnatal osteoblastic bone formation and p 38 MAPK activity

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY Correction for “Neighbor of Brca1 gene (Nbr1) functions as a negative regulator of postnatal osteoblastic bone formation and p38 MAPK activity,” by Caroline A. Whitehouse, Sarah Waters, Katie Marchbank, Alan Horner, Neil W. A. McGowan, Jelena V. Jovanovic, Guilherme M. Xavier, Takeshi G. Kashima, Martyn T. Cobourne, Gareth O. Richards, Paul T. Sharpe, Tim M. Skerry, Agamem...

Correction for “ Neighbor of Brca 1 gene ( Nbr 1 ) functions as a negative regulator of postnatal osteoblastic bone formation and p 38 MAPK activity , ” by Caroline

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY Correction for “Neighbor of Brca1 gene (Nbr1) functions as a negative regulator of postnatal osteoblastic bone formation and p38 MAPK activity,” by Caroline A. Whitehouse, Sarah Waters, Katie Marchbank, Alan Horner, Neil W. A. McGowan, Jelena V. Jovanovic, Guilherme M. Xavier, Takeshi G. Kashima, Martyn T. Cobourne, Gareth O. Richards, Paul T. Sharpe, Tim M. Skerry, Agamem...