Recently, popular magazines and newspapers broadcast skeptical headlines, such as, “Desperately Seeking Cures”1; “A Decade Later, Genetic Map Yields Few Cures”2; “Faltering Cancer Trials”3; and “Grant System Leads Cancer Researchers to Play It Safe.”4 Some patients, physicians, advocacy groups, journalists, scholars, and policymakers openly wonder about the value of billions of dollars in gover...

The aim of this comparative quantitative content analysis was to investigate how US and Dutch teen girl magazines cover sexual desire (i.e., sexual wanting, and pleasure) and sexual danger (i.e., sexual risk, and negative physical/health consequences of sex). Relying on the sexual scripts framework and Hofstede's cultural dimension of masculinity/femininity, we examined (a) how the coverage var...

This article examines discourses of authenticity embedded in European popular culture based on an empirical study British and Greek women’s magazines. After a quantitative content analysis 575 articles published editions Cosmopolitan Marie Claire during 2012–2016, we conducted qualitative repertoire 80 identified shared discursive repertoire, that ‘authentic self’. Our suggests magazines contai...

Because my expertise is in early American history, I will concentrate on Larry Kramer’s portrait of pre-Revolutionary popular constitutionalism, which acts as a baseline against which to measure nineteenth-century developments. Before examining pre-Revolutionary constitutionalism, however, I want to note two features of Kramer’s style of historical argument that make the book a particularly sop...

IT is difficult to imagine a case more deserving of detailed historical analysis than that of John Roberton (1776-1840), a surgeon who practised as a specialist in the treatment of venereal disease in two European capitals' yet is linked to a subject, medical police, which, on close examination, occupied a fraction of his known professional life. Despite his widely published popular works on ve...

The researchers collected a data set of consumer-directed print advertisements for antidepressant medications from three female-directed magazines, three male-directed magazines, and four common readership magazines published between 1997 and 2003. They evaluated these data for advertising techniques that enable drug advertisements to function as agents of medicalization. The investigators disc...

The press (books, newspapers, magazines, calendars, etc) in the Lithuanian language educated its readers extensively on prevention and treatment of infectious diseases early 20th century. However, frequent outbreaks various epidemics from 1900s to 1930s raises question whether this information really reached target audience, especially when, as folklore sources show, folk medicine was still hea...

T he communication between scientists and the public is changing. Major drivers of this change are the rapid evolution of the Internet, now in its web 2.0 version with an abundance of video-sharing websites, blogging platforms and social networks; the ubiquity of mobile devices; and the merging of individual and public communication. The new infrastructures allow nearly instantaneous access to ...