“Boy meets Girl”: Constructing Heterosexuality in Two Victoria Churches, 1945-1960

Sex Determination: One for a boy, two for a girl?

Sex determination in flies relies on the different ratio of X chromosomes to autosomes in XX females and XY males. Mammals have a male-determining Y-linked gene, but may retain dosage-related elements.

Aims and Obstacles , Gains and Setbacks : German Women , 1945 – 1960

International organizations and the problem of child health, 1945-1960.

Faced with planning mass relief campaigns in liberated Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration relied heavily on cheap supplies of skimmed milk from surplus production in northern Europe. The success of this approach swept aside more detailed planning around restoring national maternal and children's health services. This reli...

'Gay boy talk' meets 'girl talk': HIV risk assessment assumptions in young gay men's sexual health communication with best friends.

Young adults, particularly young gay men (YGM), are vulnerable to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Yet, little is known about how YGM discuss sexual health issues with their friends ('gay boy talk'). We conducted semi-structured interviews with YGM and their best friends (11 YGM/YGM dyads and 13 YGM/heterosexual female dyads). In this paper, we examine risk assessment assumptions conveyed wi...

Adenomatous Polyps in Adolescent Girl and Boy: A Report of Two Cases

A polyp is defined as a mass of the mucosal surface that protrudes into the lumen of the gastrointestinal tract. Neoplastic epithelial polyps are classified histologically as either benign adenoma or malignant carcinoma. The colonic polyps that most commonly present in children occur sporadically and individually and are of the juvenile type; they are most frequently associated with painless re...