Inventing Aborigines

Inventing science

When I was young, we seemed to have plenty of free time available for activities that the more serious generation of today would regard as puerile, if not infantile. Thus I spent endless hours writing scripts for imaginary series such as the ‘Lives of Great Composers’ or ‘Great Moments in Science’. I remember a scene written for one of the former which depicted Berlioz in a morgue, fondling the...

Inventing and Re-Inventing the Juvenile Delinquent in British History

This article explores the development of historical writing on British youth delinquency over the last two decades, with some reference to broader European and North American influences. The article outlines the early analyses of historical juvenile crime, particularly in relation to the influence of ‘history from below’ approaches, and the history of childhood. It then moves on to consider the...

Immune dysfunction in Australian Aborigines.

An examination of the prevalence and phenotype of immune disorders in different ethnic groups may provide important clues to the etiopathogenesis of these disorders. Whilst still conjectural the restricted and somewhat unique polymorphisms of the MHC (and other genetic loci involving host defences) of the Australian Aborigines may provide an explanation for their apparent heightened susceptibil...

Re-Inventing Rulemaking

Bob Anthony and Tom McGarity both maki a number of important, perceptive points, and I find myself in substantial agreement with each of them. I have only two principal disagreements with Bob Anthony. First, I believe that a court should not go behind the objective terms of a statement of agency policy to speculate about whether the statement was "really intended" to bind the public. If by its ...

Inventing Molecular Beacons