Earlier this year, the Court of Justice of the European Union, in Oliver Brüstle v Greenpeace e.V, cast a decision that has wide-ranging implications for research on human embryonic stem cells and subsequent commercial development. The court revoked a patent previously granted to German stem cell researcher Oliver Brüstle for a method to generate nerve cells from human embryonic stem cells. The...

We develop a model describing how certain American men, those men who have been described as emasculated by recent socioeconomic changes, construct themselves as masculine through their everyday consumption. We find that American mass culture idealizes the man-of-action hero—an idealized model of manhood that resolves the inherent weaknesses in two other prominent models (the breadwinner and th...