Despite a contemporary milieu that emphasises fluidities across gender boundaries and shifting roles, the 75 respondents in the study that informs this paper presented their food auto/biographies as a type of transformation narrative heavily influenced by the continued intersectionalities of gender and class. Respondents utilised ‘common vocabularies’ (Mills 1959) and conformed to cultural scri...

These are but a few of the major problems the author had to tackle in writing this book, and he does justice to both sides of the arguments with unrelenting impartiality. The volume obviously is a survey-book for the non-professional public, nevertheless one would still prefer to have some of the author's own opinions instead of sweeping and often contradictory generalizations in an almost epig...

In Greek mythology, Medea betrays her homeland to assist her lover, the adventurer Jason, to obtain the Golden fleece. In exile she bears him two children, but later discovers that Jason plans to marry the King of Corynth’s daughter, so that their future children will become heirs to the throne. Seeking revenge, Medea poisons the bride and slaughters her children, leaving Jason with no chances ...

At the center of the video game experience is the interface. Before a player grabs the first powerup or meets the first obstacle, the would-be-adventurer must accept the limitations of the encounter. Only the controller can lead to action in the game space. A life in motion must be reduced to input. Modern games have developed a great deal since their early days as quarterseeking cabinets. Howe...

In 1982 Howard White and Belver Griffith proposed using authors as markers of "intellectual space" (White and Griffith, 1982). Since then, many in information science have made use of the metaphor between points in a real-world Cartesian coordinate system and points in abstract information spaces. "Spaces" now may be prefixed by the intellectual subtopic, such as cyberspace, conceptual space, d...

This account of Woodall's career and writings has, it is hoped, demonstrated that his place in medical history is of great importance. He was one of the earliest medical administrators as organiser of a rudimentary medical service for ships at sea. He was the first medical writer to provide a good text-book designed for the instruction of the younger men in the service. He was an innovator of t...

of anatomical specimens, housed in his Museum in Leicester Square and guarded by young William Clift. Matthew Baillie and Everard Home, the executors of Hunter's Will, enlisted the help of Lord Auckland and Sir Joseph Banks (the President of the Royal Society), and by their influence a Committee of the House of Commons was appointed and the result was that the Government granted £15,000 to purc...

This article examines the career of pioneer British psychoanalyst David Eder (1865-1936). Credited by Freud as the first practising psychoanalyst in England, active in early British socialism and then a significant figure in Zionism in post-war Palestine, and in between an adventurer in South America, a pioneer in the field of school medicine, and a writer on shell-shock, Eder is a strangely ne...