Orientalist Ambivalence

Gustave Alexandre Liétard, orientalist and physician.

IN 1972 the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine acquired an important collection of letters, reprints, and manuscripts belonging to Dr. Lietard of Plombieres. This collection gives an interesting insight to the thinking of medical historians interested in traditional oriental medicine during the closing decades of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century, and giv...

Immune ambivalence

In addition to cytotoxic effects, anticancer agents can exert multiple immunomodulatory functions. We have recently described the molecular mechanisms whereby bleomycin can 1) promote endoplasmic reticulum stress, causing the immunogenic death of cancer cells and hence strengthening antitumor CD8+ T cell responses; and 2) induce the secretion of transforming growth factor β (TGFβ), which stimul...

Ambivalence in Organizations

Understanding Ambivalence in Anorexia

People with anorexia often feel ambivalent about whether they wish to maintain it or recover from it. One place where individuals can communicate their experiences of wanting to maintain their anorexia is through pro-anorexia websites. This study investigated the experiences and understandings of those who wish to maintain their anorexia and looked at how these understandings may affect their t...

Contextual Sources of Ambivalence

When will people become ambivalent about politics? One possibility is that the roots of ambivalence lie within the individual, with differences in political knowledge and attitude strength predicting whether a person internalizes the conflicts of politics. Alternately, attitudinal ambivalence could result from structural differences in the way political choices are presented in the wider politi...