Pacifier habit: history and multidisciplinary view

Pacifier habit: history and multidisciplinary view.

OBJECTIVES To review the history of pacifiers and to compile a multidisciplinary literature review, searching for pros and cons with the purpose of providing health professionals with arguments when parents request guidance. SOURCES History and art books, as well as non-medical literature and museums were used in the historical survey. Multidisciplinary data were collected from MEDLINE, LILAC...

Pacifier-sucking habit duration and frequency on occlusal and myofunctional alterations in preschool children.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the association of pacifier-sucking habit with occlusal and oral myofunctional alterations in preschool children. Eighty-four 2- to 5-year-old children participated in the study. Data on duration and frequency of pacifier use were collected from parents or guardians. Occlusal and oral myofunctional characteristics were examined by a dentist and a spee...

Habit and Affect: Revitalizing a Forgotten History

Habit is an integral concept for body studies, a hybrid concept and one that has provided the bedrock across the humanities for considering the interrelationships between movement and stasis, being and becoming, and process and fixity. Habits are seen to provide relay points between what is taken to be inside and outside, disrupting any clear and distinct boundary between nature and culture, se...

History and Habit in the Mobilisation of ICT Resources

Evidence demonstrates that the digital divide is deepening despite strategies mobilised world wide to reduce it. In disadvantaged communities, beyond training and infrastructural issues, there often lies a range of cultural and historically formed relationships which effect people’s adoption of ICTs. This paper presents an analysis of local resident’s engagement with their council’s pilot proje...

History of the Opium Habit, and Opium-Poppy Culture