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Blue plaque review series: Dr. Florence Buchanan: A trailblazing physiologist in an era of barriers and breakthroughs

open access: yesExperimental Physiology, Volume 110, Issue 9, Page 1203-1216, September 1, 2025.
Abstract What do Charles Darwin, T.H. Huxley, August Krogh and Charles Sherrington have in common? Florence Buchanan – a name history has unjustly dimmed but never erased. Her academic lineage is a direct thread through the titans of biology: E. Ray Lankester mentored her after being shaped by Huxley, Darwin's celebrated protégé.
Brian C. Clark
wiley   +1 more source

A Girls’ Army of Vengeance?: Perceptions of Sexual Violence against Children in post‐1905 Russia

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 636-652, July 2025.
Abstract This article offers a microhistorical reading of a criminal case of sexual violence in 1908 St Petersburg. It traces the re‐interpretation of underage girls from innocent victims to potential prostitutes and carriers of debauchery and disease.
Alexandra Oberländer
wiley   +1 more source

Vivisection au ralenti: Don DeLillo’s Point Omega [PDF]

open access: yesCultural Intertexts, 2014
Reading a Don DeLillo is like walking on glass, that is, you need hold your breath so that nothing could deter you from focusing on the mission, if you want to keep safe and mostly sound.
Ruxanda BONTILĂ
doaj  

The experimental foundations of Galen's teleology [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
This article outlines in details specific experiments that Galen performed. It explores how his methodology for experimentation was a sophisticated response to the rationalist-empirist debate as it occurred in ancient ...
Cosans, Christopher E.
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Christian Bohr. Discoverer of Homotropic and Heterotopic Allostery

open access: yesActa Physiologica, Volume 241, Issue S734, July 2025.
ABSTRACT This essay recounts and revisits the scientific contributions of Christian Bohr, highlighting his pivotal role in discovering allostery about 120 years ago. Bohr's meticulous experimentation led to identifying two distinct forms of allostery: homotropic (single‐ligand) and heterotropic (multi‐ligand), the latter widely recognized as the Bohr ...
Niels Bindslev
wiley   +1 more source

The Aesthetic Uncanny: Staging Dorian Gray [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This article discusses my theatrical adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (2008). Freud's concept of the uncanny (1919) was treated as a purely aesthetic phenomenon and related to late nineteenth
Darren Tunstall   +3 more
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Spartan Daily, November 8, 1938 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1938
Volume 27, Issue 34https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/2824/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
core   +3 more sources

The Italian anatomist Realdo Colombo (1516-1559) and his contribution to the discovery of pulmonary circulation [PDF]

open access: yesArchives of the Balkan Medical Union, 2018
In our article we present the anatomical work of the distinguished Renaissance anatomist Realdo Colombo, as well as, his contribution to the discovery of pulmonary circulation.
Konstantinos Markatos   +4 more
doaj  

Daughters of Trauma

open access: yesPoliteja, 2019
This paper attempts to delineate and focus on the common narrative thread running through subsequent cinematic treatises on the situation of women during the Partition, particularly those kidnapped and sexually violated during the vivisection.
Roshni Sengupta
doaj   +1 more source

They Are People Too: The Ethics of Curation and Use of Human Skeletal Remains for Teaching and Research

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 186, Issue 2, February 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper is an introduction and review for the special issue of AJBA on the Curation and Use of Human Skeletal Remains for Teaching and Research, which emerged from an organized session at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists in 2022.
Gwen Robbins Schug   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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