How might historical queer and trans activist tactics visions of the future be used to invigorate contemporary LGBTQ+ politics thought? This article provides an introduction ‘Imagining Queer Europe Then Now’ special issue Third Text, which emerges from final conference pan-European history project ‘Cruising Seventies’. We identify uneven complex ways in activism, networks, erotic connections, f...

The demands of this poor public are not reasonable, but they are quite simple. lt dreads disease and desires to be protected against it. But it is poor and wants to be protected cheaply . . . What the public wants, therefore, is a cheap magic charm to prevent, and a cheap pill or potion to cure, all disease . . . Thus it was really the public and not the medical profession that took up uaccinat...

It is now widely recognized that malnutrition can partly be attributed to caregiver-child interaction during feeding episodes. Current conceptual frameworks emphasize the importance of responsiveness (including active and social behaviour), psychomotor abilities of the child to self-feed, and a non-distracting feeding environment. The present observational study had three main objectives: (1) t...

The experimental study of the emotions as pursued by LeDoux and Damasio is argued to be flawed as a consequence of the inadequate conceptual framework inherited from the work of William James. This paper clarifies the conceptual structures necessary for any discussion of the emotions. Emotions are distinguished from appetites and other non-emotional feelings, as well as from agitations and mood...

Women often experience novel food aversions and cravings during pregnancy. These appetite changes have been hypothesized to work alongside cultural strategies as adaptive responses to the challenges posed by pregnancy (e.g., maternal immune suppression). Here, we report a study that assessed whether data from an indigenous population in Fiji are consistent with the predictions of this hypothesi...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Parental control over feeding has been linked to child overweight. Parental control behaviours have been assumed to be exogenous to the child, but emerging evidence suggests they are also child-responsive. This study tests the hypothesis that parental control in early infancy is responsive to infant appetite and weight. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Participants were 1920 moth...

OBJECTIVE The increased incidence of obesity most likely reflects changes in the environment that had made food more available and palatable. Here we assess the response of the human brain to the presentation of appetitive food stimuli during food presentation using PET and FDG. METHOD Metabolic changes in response to food presentation were done in 12 healthy normal body weight subjects who w...