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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
wiley   +1 more source

‘A Fairly Average “White Middle‐Class” Species of Lesbian’: Lorna Gulston, Ireland and the Early Anglophone Lesbian Press, 1965–1980

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the published writings of Lorna Gulston (c. 1932–2023), a hitherto unknown Northern Irish civil servant who wrote many articles for the earliest British lesbian magazines such as Arena Three, Sappho and Sequel. In doing so, the article asks: How did Gulston find her way onto the pages of these pioneering magazines?
Maurice J. Casey
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping the scholarly landscape of Saudi Arabia-related folk medicine: a bibliometric study. [PDF]

Libyan J Med
Ghoneim MM, Fahmy EK, Nael M, El-Sherbiny M, Al-Serwi RH, Hossain S, Elokely K, Ahmad N.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

“Women of the Happy Life”: Prostitution, Public Morality, and Venereal Disease in US‐Occupied Nicaragua, 1912–33

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
wiley   +1 more source

Herbal Remedies for Skin Diseases in Serbian Folk Medicine: A Review of 19th- and 20th-Century Practices. [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Živković J, Šavikin K, Aligiannis N, Pišev M.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Technology of the future: a call for co‐development of gene editing tools in wildlife management

Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.
Antoinette J. Piaggio
wiley   +1 more source

From Folk Medicine to Pharmacology: A Systematic Review of the Anti-Inflammatory Evidence for <i>Hymenaea</i> spp. (Fabaceae). [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Cavalcante JB, Silva AB, de Freitas Lopes R, Rosseto LP, Marques FA, da Silva OV, Martins JLR, Souza JMF, de Carvalho LBR, de Vasconcellos Otoya N, Dutra E Silva S, Oliveira-Silva I, Maggi LE, Lacerda RF, Costa EA, Borges LL, Fajemiroye JO.   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Twenty‐First Century Butlers and the New Spirit of Service

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT More than 50 years ago, Lewis Coser argued that the “servant” had become obsolete, claiming that such a “premodern” occupation could not function within modernity without religious legitimations. However, with parts of the contemporary service sector exhibiting the very characteristics that Coser viewed as “premodern”—especially within ...
Bryan Boyle
wiley   +1 more source

Consumption of folk medicine in men-seeking treatment for infertility. [PDF]

Urol Ann
Baazeem A, Alqurashi TMM, Alharbi YHH, Aldahhas RAD, Fatani MHA.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Mainland diversification and recent island lineages in the reduviid genus Tapirocoris: an integrative taxonomic framework with four new species

Insect Science, EarlyView.
Using an integrative taxonomic framework that combines COI DNA barcodes, geometric morphometrics and phylogeography, we revise the assassin bug genus Tapirocoris and recover seven well‐supported species, including four newly described cryptic species.
Ping Zhao, Qinpeng Liu, Minmin Ou, Huaiyu Liu, Yingqi Liu, Jianyun Wang, Miao Yang, Zhuo Chen, Wanzhi Cai   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source