This article explores the cultural and structural forces that help influence the reproduction of sexist, misogynistic, and antifeminine attitudes among men in team sports. It first shows how the segregation of men into a homosocial environment limits their social contact with women and fosters an oppositional masculinity that influences the reproduction of orthodox views regarding women. Howeve...

In a review of gastrointestinal medications in pregnancy [1] it was pointed out that no large epidemiological study had been published on pregnant women with irritable bowel syndrome and that other forms of functional gastrointestinal disorders during pregnany are also rather little studied. Some drugs used at such conditions have been investigated for a possible effect on the unborn child like...

It is an admitted practice to pay homage to the source of any information being used for a new work. Elsewhere [1], I delineated the principles as I found them in the literature. Here, on proposing to trace the patterns used by the medical masters of yester years, it materialized that they probably sought to prevent the accusation of plagiarism. This word, as the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Di...

Research on the history of anatomy in the Third Reich has often concentrated on the influence of the National Socialist (NS) regime on anatomists and their consequent unethical activities. Only recently, the focus has shifted to NS victims whose bodies were used for anatomical purposes. As a first approach to learning more about the victims, this study investigated the persons whose names Herma...