Monarch’s Multiple Bodies: Implementing Body Politic Metaphor on Present-Day North American Stages

Present-day South American climate

Article history: This paper documents the m Received 25 April 2007 Accepted 13 October 2007 Available online 9 September 2008

Bodies politic: disease, death and doctors in Britain 1650–1900

in the case ofRichard von Krafft-Ebing, it was by writing to sexologists with descriptions of sexual behaviour that challenged pathological interpretations. Other sexologists, such as Hirschfeld, were gay themselves, and so projected relatively positive images of homosexuality. This "gay-liberation" trend continued throughout the history of scientific writing about homosexuality. Either the par...

Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900

Alcohol harm: beyond the body to the body politic.

In light of the World Health Organization's declaration that non-dependent drinking contributes more to the global burden of alcohol-related disease than does drinking by those who meet diagnostic criteria for dependence, this paper argues that clinicians, researchers and decision-makers need to consider microsocial and macrosocial impacts of alcohol use, not just addiction and clinical effects...

Implementing the North American Industry Classification System at BLS

Recent years have brought many changes in the U.S. economy. The rapid development of telecommunications and the Internet are only two examples of an incredible continuing evolution and progressively changing business environment. Correspondingly, economists and statisticians are improving their tools for measuring the economy. One basic tool is the classification of businesses by industry. Sinc...