We propose a visualization approach for dynamic affiliation networks in which events are characterized by a set of descriptors. It uses a radial ripple metaphor to display the passing of time and conveys relations among the different constituents through appropriate layout. Our method is particularly suitable when assuming an egocentric perspective, and we illustrate it on movie-actor biographies.

The biographies of 280 scientists demonstrate that the age distribution of their career peaks is identical to those of jazz musicians, painters, and writers, and that this universal age profile holds only among scientists who were married some time in their lives. I interpret this as support for Miller's cultural display model in an evolutionarily novel environment.

the historyof science, medical historiansmight similarly learn to incorporate biographical and social history approaches to their work. Biography, after all, is just another form of microhistory, versions of which are currently filling the pages of medical history journals. Reiterating Jordanova’s contention, Linker suggests that, by avoiding such areas of major historical debate, social histor...

This article follows the recent ‘affective turn’ in social sciences and migration scholarship by analyzing role of emotions handling risks people with different biographies. The study is based on large-scale research migrant organizations Germany, which are important, though often neglected, sources protection, identity development, community building. Interviews egocentric network diagrams usi...

BACKGROUND As a kidney transplant recipient I have long been exposed to a shortage of renal narratives and to a dominant theme in those that exist: transplant as restitution or redemption. My lived experience has, however, shown me that post-transplant life is more complex. Even after transplantation, chronic kidney disease requires lifelong health care with varying degrees of impairment, resul...

Abstract This comment discusses three topics. First, John French's biography of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is located in the broader trajectory production biographical narratives activists under auspices historiography labour movement. Second, daring gesture comparing trajectories and August Bebel, who lived such different contexts, impact this terms a more sophisticated understanding history Br...