There seems to be a broad consensus that Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits race discrimination in places of public accommodation, was a remarkable success. But the consensus is illusory. Laws prohibiting discrimination by public accommodations currently exist under a significant legal threat. And this threat is merely the latest iteration in the controversy over public a...

Throughout his career, Michel Foucault sustained a trenchant critique of Jean-Paul Sartre, whom he accused of arguing that the subject “dispenses (all) significations”. In contrast to existentialism’s interests in subjective consciousness, Foucault pursues an archaeological method which he later develops into a genealogical approach to discourse that emphasizes the institutional practices and f...

The standard history of antihomosexual legislation states that lesbian acts were not punished by medieval or later laws. This essay challenges this view by documenting capital laws since 1270 in Europe and America. A major influence was Paul's condemnation in Romans I, 26. By 1400, the lex foedissimam, an edict of the Emperors Diocletian and Maximianus, issued in 287, was interpreted to justify...

In his book “La Mémoire, l’Histoire, l’Oubli” Paul Ricoeur reminds us of “the diffıcult path that must be traversed between memory and its historic representation”. It is hazardous to try it. But it is worth attempting to sketch some faces—those that oblivion has not erased—and to find again the climate of the times, sometimes full of sound and fury, progressing from the polytene chromosomes of...

Masafumi Fukagawa* and Tilman B. Drüeke *Division of Nephrology, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan; and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unit 1018, Team 5, Centre de Recherche en Epidémiologie et Santé des Populations, Hôpital Paul Brousse, Paris-Sud University and Versailles Saint-Quentin-enYvelines University (Paris-Ile...

This essay historically explores philosophical views about the nature and significance of human sexuality, starting with the Ancient Greeks and ending with late 20th-century Western philosophy. Important figures from the history of philosophy (and theology) discussed include Sappho, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, the Pelagians, St. Thomas Aquinas, Michel de Montaigne, Rene Descart...

Cardiac resynchronization therapy has become an integral part of treatment in patients presenting with reduced ventricular function (left ventricular ejection fraction <35%), clinically symptomatic dyspnea (New York Heart Association II–IV), and complete left bundle branch block. Currently, the standard approach of left ven-tricular lead placement is transvenously via the coronary sinus (CS). A...

Fragment” Production Evaluated in Patients wfth Gynecological Neoplasms, Patrick Neven,”2 Ray K I/es,3 Paul G. Carter,’ John H. Shepherd,’ and Tim Chard3 [1 Gynecol. Once!. Unit, St. Bartholomew’s Hosp. and the Royal Marsden Hosp., London; 2A mene Kliniek St. Jan, Broekstraat 1000, Brussels, Belgium (address for correspondence), fax 32-2-219-86-96; 3Wilhianison Lab. for Molec. Oncol., St. Barth...

12 Department of Haematology, Institut Jules Bordet (ULB), Brussels, Belgium Department of Haematology, Cliniques Universitaires St Luc, Brussels, Belgium Department of Haematology, Hôpital de Jolimont, Haine St Paul, Belgium Department of Haematology, Universitair Ziekenhuis, Gent, Belgium Department of Haematology, Universitair Ziekenhuis, Antwerp, Belgium Department of Haematology, Centre Ho...

Warwick Grant (La Trobe University, Australia) Stewart Bisset (Hopkirk Research Institute, New Zealand) Roger K. Prichard (McGill University, Canada) Peter Hotez (The George Washington University, USA) Jeffrey Bethony (The George Washington University, USA) John Gilleard (University of Calgary, Canada) Paul Sternberg (California Institute of Technology, USA) Robin Gasser (Melbourne University, ...