..., for a human life. The article reveals this shift through a set of historical readings across four venues in the period 1980–1993: scientific research, diagnostic protocols, judicial practice, and political rhetoric. More than an empirical advance, this shift in addiction discourse reflects a novel...

.... While much of the existing research on surrogacy in Israel explains its ubiquity by centering cultural accounts of Jewishness, this article rethinks contemporary policies, practices, and markets of assisted reproduction from the vantage point of the “colonial episteme,” by unpacking the complex...

... in this article, the addict's stigmatized moral status was an obstacle to their science and a product of a psychoanalytic psychiatry, the dominant cultural configuration to which they opposed themselves early in their research and clinical careers. Through their shared project to biologize psychiatry...

... element ofthe culture wars-identity politics, poststructuralism, new historicism, culturalstudies, politicized teaching and research, Eurocentrism, the politics of literary canons. Today, those topics have the feel ofanother epoch, and arguments about them look like sporting among the rich, which it turns...

... studied photos such as this one while ensconced in my Rice University office, a stone’s throw from the largest medical center in Texas and, no doubt, the world. Given the physical proximity, I somehow felt particularly well-informed (as though by osmosis) about the cutting-edge research on the COVID-19...

...M. Brady Brower Copyright © 2011 University of Illinois Press 2011 Science, Seduction, and the Lure ofReality in Third Republic France M. Brady Brower On June 8, 1905, a group of researchers representing the elite of theFrench scientific community gathered in the offices of the Institut...

... TheFrenchImperialNation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism Between the World Wars in 2005, I sketched out a new research project on the relationship between the French impe­ rial wars of colonial liberation during decolonization in the 1950s, the emergence of "romantic" mercenaries during the postcolonial period...

... of the twentieth century, who happened to be Muslims, were to be treated as “aliens” despite all evidence to the contrary. A group of Indian historians sought to combat this messaging by activating the protocols of empirical research and investigating such claims about the fifteenth-century past. However, what...

... related to Romani as well as the English Travelers and the Central European Yenish (German, Jenische ; French, Yéniche ), who speak wholly unrelated languages. This broad conception of affiliation and identity sharply contrasts with researchers’ tendency to treat the Roma as an isolated diasporic Indian...

... occasion a series offlashbacks-to Arendt's research in Jerusalem; to her time in Marburg as Martin Heidegger's devoted student and passionate lover; and to discussions with friends and colleagues at dinner parties, conversations that become heated with regard to her iconoclastic and contested...

... signed, copies of reviews of my books and discussions with editors about the paperbacks and translations. There are drawers full of my handwritten notes for research projects, along with letters about them from colleagues and from people who heard me give a talk and wanted to offer suggestions about what...

... as to methods and theories of research would not hit the headlines, were it not that the very notion of a research project is now a troubled one. . . . The wider social role of the University as an institution is now up for grabs. It is no longer clear what the place of the University is within society nor what...

... with the extraordinary quantitative and geographic expansion of universities over the next twenty-five years, led to a restructuring in the university as institution with a decided emphasis on the " more nomothetic tendencies within the social sciences. The massive public and private invest­ ment in scientific research...

...; the odos or path to historical knowledge is assumed to be singular, and those who stray from it are considered lost. This methodological emphasis narrows the disciplinary path of history, blinding researchers and readers to other possible routes to the past. In contrast, training in theory lays bare...

..., during a meeting of the Max Planck Institute’s research group “Empires of Memory” in Vienna in the spring of 2018. Carabelli and Jovanović reflected on the multiple entanglements of Habsburg and colonial pasts in the city with their colleague Annika Kirbis. The very term that informed our conversations...

... and the American way of life. Toward this end, the USDA funded research and advanced programs that increased domestic agricultural production. In the 1950s and 1960s, public and private initiatives promoted the development of high-yield seeds, fertilizer and pesticides, irrigation, and mechanical and technical...

... ofor between the gods, is useful to think about in relation to these questions. I came to these questions in the course ofethnographic research focused on a practice oftheogamy in South India. In this practice, children are dedi­ cated by their families to a devi [goddess] and called jogatis...

..., for example, that it will be impossible to main­ tain an allegiance toconventionaldrive theory in the light ofrecentempirical work in the neurosciences, infant development research, and attachment theory. Because "there is no scientific support forFreud's instinct theory;' drive theory can't simply be added...

... around the enslavement of Black people and, generally to a lesser extent, the dispossession of Native land. As Vineeta Singh describes, this work has helped to foment important research through which scholars “address the color line as a central driving force in the history of U.S. higher education...

... the repetition of the known. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has also argued in favor ofhumanities -based research as a way oflearning "fromthe singular and the unverifiable;' urging us to embrace "the exercise of the imagination" en route to "an uncoercive rearrangement of desire:'7 For Spivak, such work...