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From outsiders to motherhood to reinventing the family: Constructions of lesbian parenting in the psychological literature - 1886-2006 (2008)
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This article provides a feminist critical psychological analysis of the psychological literature on lesbian parenting. Rather than offer an overview of the findings and methods and an evaluation of the scientific merit of the literature, the aim of t... Read More about From outsiders to motherhood to reinventing the family: Constructions of lesbian parenting in the psychological literature - 1886-2006.

Empowered to change: Evidence from a qualitative exploration of a user-informed psycho-educational programme for people with type 1 diabetes (2008)
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Objectives: To evaluate the impact of a user-informed psycho-educational programme for people with type 1 diabetes. Methods: Qualitative data derived from repeated interviews and diaries enabled an appraisal of participants' unique, individual experi... Read More about Empowered to change: Evidence from a qualitative exploration of a user-informed psycho-educational programme for people with type 1 diabetes.

Children's judgments of disloyal and immoral peer behavior: Subjective group dynamics in minimal intergroup contexts (2008)
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The developmental model of subjective group dynamics hypothesizes that peer exclusion during middle childhood involves inferences about group dynamics. To test the generality of this prediction, children judged, within minimal groups, peers whose beh... Read More about Children's judgments of disloyal and immoral peer behavior: Subjective group dynamics in minimal intergroup contexts.

Tracing a matrix of gender: An analysis of the feminine in hospital-based treatment for eating disorders (2008)
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Numerous studies have elucidated how a multiplicity of contemporary western cultural ideas and values that constitute 'normal' femininity are enmeshed in and central to the discursive production and regulation of girls' and women's 'eating disordered... Read More about Tracing a matrix of gender: An analysis of the feminine in hospital-based treatment for eating disorders.

Considerations for the provision of psychosocial services for families following paediatric burn injury-A quantitative study (2008)
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The purpose of the study was to quantify and report levels of psychosocial distress in a sample of parents of burned children to inform evidence-based recommendations for psychosocial support programmes. This paper reports on the cross-sectional quan... Read More about Considerations for the provision of psychosocial services for families following paediatric burn injury-A quantitative study.

General intellectual capacity of young men with cleft lip with or without cleft palate and cleft palate alone (2008)
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We report on the general intellectual capacity of men around 17-19 years of age and with cleft lip either with or without cleft palate (CLP) or cleft palate alone. Data were obtained from the Swedish National Service enrolment register for the years... Read More about General intellectual capacity of young men with cleft lip with or without cleft palate and cleft palate alone.

Infected by the seed of post-industrial punk bohemia: Nick Cave and the Milieu of the 1980s underground (2008)
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This article uses the concepts of cultural milieu and music genre to explore the work of Nick Cave in the 1980s and later. Milieu theory is derived from the work of phenomenologists Alfred Schutz and Jorg Durschmitt. The article analyses the transgre... Read More about Infected by the seed of post-industrial punk bohemia: Nick Cave and the Milieu of the 1980s underground.

Transgenerational epigenetics, or the spectral history of the flesh. A Merleau-Pontian approach to epigenetics (2008)
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Recent advances in the field of genetics, more specifically the substantiation of epigenetic inheritance, have expanded our understanding of genetic transmission. We will try to demonstrate here that a Merleau-Pontian approach to some of these recent... Read More about Transgenerational epigenetics, or the spectral history of the flesh. A Merleau-Pontian approach to epigenetics.

Tissue-engineered technologies: Scientific biomedicine, frames of risk and regulatory regime-building in europe (2008)
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Tissue engineering is one potential arm of the much-heralded regenerative medicine. We use the concepts of technological zone, risk framing and regulatory jurisdiction to analyse what risks are formulated in the zone of tissue engineering and whether... Read More about Tissue-engineered technologies: Scientific biomedicine, frames of risk and regulatory regime-building in europe.