Recent scholarship has explored the dynamics between families and colonial lunatic asylums in the late nineteenth century, where families actively participated in the processes of custodial care, committal, treatment and release of their relatives. This paper works in this historical field, but with some methodological and theoretical differences. The Foucauldian study is anchored to a single c...

The empirical study byMargaretNelson, RosannaHertz, andWendyKramer on stakeholder attitudes toward gamete donor anonymity and limits on gamete donation, ‘Gamete Donor Anonymity and Limits on Numbers of Offspring: The Views of Three Stakeholders’ (hereafter Gamete Donor Anonymity),1 is commendably particular on one level yet noticeably vague on another. It approaches the anonymity issue2 at a le...

As defined in the Chemical Genealogy database (Chemical Genealogy Database), ‘‘A professional genealogy (as opposed to a family genealogy) traces a person’s intellectual line of descent via one’s Ph.D. advisor or mentor for one’s highest non-honorary degree.’’ The professional genealogy for Professor Daniel I. C. Wang of the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of T...

Representations of population models in terms of countable systems of particles are constructed, in which each particle has a ‘type’, typically recording both spatial position and genetic type, and a level. For finite intensity models, the levels are distributed on [0, λ], whereas in the infinite intensity limit λ→∞, at each time t, the joint distribution of types and levels is conditionally Po...

In this essay I explore the relationship between research reviews and the fields o f study to which they pertain. Using the curriculum field as an example, ! argue that such reviews are venues where fields of inquiry are constituted, reproduced, and over time changed. This construction occurs, I suggest, as the discursive practices or rules o f reasoning embedded in the language in which these ...

the fundamental role of discourse and its positive and negative effects in personal and social interactions is known to everyone. this is why religions and denominations have always relied on discourse, especially when it is beyond the boundaries of personal concerns and by the expansion of its domain, have stressed on the vital position and particular role of discourse in the fate of humanity....

A family with Becker type muscular dystrophy is described, in which two females were severely affected, giving the family tree the appearance of dominant inheritance.