The last few decades of the twentieth century witnessed the body moving from no one’s particular concern to virtually everyone’s preoccupation – including historians. Roy Porter writing on the history of the body in the revised second edition of Peter Burke’s New Perspectives on Historical Writing declared that “body history” had become the “historiographical dish of the day” (Porter, 2001, 236...

The purpose of this paper is to suggest a procedure to empirically test the Porter hypothesis. This hypothesis argues that environmental regulation not only increases environmental quality, but also brings the polluting producers information that makes them more resource efficient, as well as able to develop new technologies. Specifically, the hypothesis tested is whether there is a positive si...

T HE THOROUGH and oft-quoted experiments of Porter (I) were designed to determine the presence or absence of crossing connections between the descending inspiratory reticulospinal fibers of one side and the phrenic motor nuclei of the opposite side. In demonstrating the existence of such connections, Porter repeated an observation which had been made previously (z-4) and formulated an hypothesi...