Although the ancient Greek and Roman sculptors recognized that the human frame was not symmetrical, it was not until 1822 that Meckel pointed out variations in size and shape of the two halves of the body, and the first clinical report of a patient with hemihypertrophy was made by Wagner in 1839. Since that day there have been only just over 100 cases reported throughout the world claiming tota...

OBJECTIVES Reported associations of self-employment with occupational injury and cerebrovascular disease suggest that worker safety and health precautions may vary by occupational status. The authors assessed the extent to which use of respiratory protection and ventilation equipment is associated with self-employed versus employee status among adults in an international study. METHODS The Eu...

When he was growing up in the 1940s and 1950s, teachers and parents told Helaman Ferguson he would have to choose between art and science. The two fields inhabited different realms, and doing one left no room for the other. “If you can do science and have a lick of sense, you’d better,” he recalled being told, in a 2010 essay in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society (1). “Artists sta...

Abstract If David Bell in his book Men on Horseback (2020) focuses what is political charisma, how it functions, and means ‘to write its history’, this article examines Brazil's ex-President Luís Inácio Lula da Silva (‘Lula’) acquired charisma during the dramatic 1978–80 metalworkers’ strikes industrial ABC region of São Paulo, Brazil. While generating a vast literature, scholars have evaded qu...

During the First World War, the horror of facial mutilation was evoked in journalism, poems, memoirs and fiction; but in Britain it was almost never represented visually outside the professional contexts of clinical medicine and medical history. This article asks why, and offers an account of British visual culture in which visual anxiety and aversion are of central importance. By comparing the...

Throughout the world new hospitals have been designed and built for high quality medical care. Few have been designed to be beautiful. We believe each hospital should enhance the lives of patients, visitors, and staff by including works of art. Works of art cost money, yet money spent on contemporary works provides employment for painters, sculptors, and craftsmen and also for the manufacturers...

Flowing air and water are persistent sculptors, gradually working stone, clay, sand and ice into landforms and landscapes. The evolution of shape results from a complex fluid–solid coupling that tends to produce stereotyped forms, and this morphology offers important clues to the history of a landscape and its development. Claudin et al. (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 832, 2017, R2) shed light on how we...