scholarly journals На фоне Центральной Европы: Преимущественно вежливый Леопольд в сети мужских персонажей романов Михала Вивега

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Иво Поспишил
Keyword(s):  
Men And Women ◽  
Central European ◽  
European Literature ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
New Novel ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Sexual Promiscuity

The author of the present study investigates the character of Leopold in the new novel by Michal Viewegh in the net of the characters of his preceding novels. In this novel, the writer does not discuss politics, the problem of men and women, husbands and wives, and the sexual promiscuity, but, above all, unstoppable aging and permanent support of the gradually waning sexuality. Leopold is a metaphor of anatomy and physiology of a Central European man who, in his own manner, has always aimed at searching new ways, at the beginning of new epochs, at the anticipation of new ideas and at the formation of new humans under the changed conditions. Viewegh – already in his quasipostmodernist poetics, and due to his extreme opinions and language and style inventions – belongs, covertly or openly, to the mighty stream of unclear, vague, ambivalent Central European literature.

Transcultural phenomena in contemporary Slovakian Hungarian prose

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriella Petres Csizmadia
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Central European ◽  
European Literature ◽  
Language Varieties

AbstractIn my study I deal with the transcultural liteary-spacial position of contemporary Slovakian Hungarian prose. I have selected the works for interpretation from the representative writings of the last five years (Katarina Durica: Szlovákul szeretni [To love in Slovak]. Libri, Budapest, 2016; Anikó N. Tóth: Szabad ez a hely? [Is this seat free?]. Pesti Kallgiram Kft., Budapest, 2017; Pál Száz: Fűje sarjad mezőknek [Grass grows on meadows]. Pesti Kalligram Kft., Budapest, 2017). Due to their diversity in genre, language and subject, these works provide a cross-section of contemporary Slovakian Hungarian prose. The peculiarity of the corpus is that it reflects on the hibridity, inter- and multiculturalism typical for Central-European literature (cf. Welsch, 1999), and it also demonstrates translocality, multiculturalism, multilingualism and the experience of using multiple language varieties.

'All manner of ingenuity and industry'

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alastair Compston
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Muscular Movement ◽  
System P ◽  
New Ideas

This book celebrates the quatercentenary of the birth of Thomas Willis on 27 January 1621. As a physician in Oxford, Willis’s work in the 1650s provides an example of rural medical practice in early modern England. As a member of the Oxford Philosophical Club that met from the 1640s, he was central to the development of new ideas on anatomy and physiology. As Sedleian professor of natural philosophy in Oxford, the surviving records of his lectures from the 1660s provide an example of teaching in medicine at that time. And, after moving to London in 1667, Willis continued to interact with a community of scientists and physicians who transformed ideas on respiration, muscular movement, and the nervous system.

“A Dark, Impenetrable Wall of Complete Incomprehension”: The Impossibility of Heterosexual Love in Imperial Germany

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 467-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Ross Dickinson
Keyword(s):  
Women's Movement ◽  
Women's Movements ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Central European ◽  
Major Topic ◽  
Daily Press ◽  
Imperial Germany ◽  
European Culture ◽  
The Times ◽  
Conservative Christians

In the years around the turn of the twentieth century, the “war between the sexes” was a major topic of public discussion and concern in Germany—in the daily press, in academic sexology journals and organizations, among medical and psychiatric professionals, in the women's movements, among conservative Christians, in art and music. Jacques Le Rider has even referred to the “obsessive leitmotif of male-female confrontation” in central European culture in this period. Much of what has been written about this topic in recent years posits a crisis of gender relations produced by the growth of the women's movement, and by the backlash against it. The idea that the feminist challenge generated hostility between men and women in this period was one that was also common at the time, particularly among anti-feminists. As Hedwig Dohm put it in 1913, “In all anti-feminist speeches and writings, the hostility between men and women is tirelessly denounced as a characteristic of the times, and a product of the women's movement.”

SOCIAL INFLUENCE, DESIRABILITY AND RELATIONSHIP INVESTMENT: THE EFFECTS OF RESOURCEFULNESS AND SEXUAL PERMISSIVENESS

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 593-602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur H. Perlini ◽  
Tanya L. Boychuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
Social Information ◽  
Relative Level ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Sexual Permissiveness ◽  
The Social ◽  
Opposite Sex ◽  
Relationship Investment ◽  
Sexual Promiscuity

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of social information about a prospective mate on evaluations of attractiveness, social desirability, and desired relationship. Men and women rated opposite-sex targets with (or without) peer information on the target's relative level of resourcefulness and sexual promiscuity; that is, high resourcefulness/high promiscuity, low resourcefulness/low promiscuity, or no peer information. The findings indicated no effect of these variables on physical attractiveness; however, on ascriptions of social desirability, men and women differed as a function of the social information condition. Likelihood of engaging in sex, dating and marriage with the target varied as a function of sex. Deeper levels of engagement (i.e., dating, marriage) were affected by the type of social information available to judges. Results are discussed in terms of sexual strategy theories of mate preference.

Urinary incontinence

2020 ◽  
pp. 706-715
Author(s):  
Jay Iyer ◽  
Ajay Rane
Keyword(s):  
Urinary Incontinence ◽  
Stress Urinary Incontinence ◽  
Overactive Bladder ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Urgency Urinary Incontinence ◽  
Mixed Urinary Incontinence ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Classification Evaluation ◽  
Definition Of

According to the most recent definition of the International Continence Society, urinary incontinence (UI), a symptom of impaired storage, is ‘the complaint of any involuntary leakage of urine’. A condition that primarily affects women, UI is not a lethal condition; however, it significantly affects quality of life. Three types of incontinence are generally distinguished: stress urinary incontinence, urgency urinary incontinence, and mixed urinary incontinence, which associates with the first two. Prevalence varies significantly due to variations in definitions and measurement, methodology of data collection, lack of self-reporting, and sampling/non-response issues. Age, parity, vaginal childbirth, and body mass index are important factors that affect the prevalence of urinary incontinence. In 2005, the ‘Evaluation of the Prevalence of urinary InContinence’ (EPIC) study, which was the largest population-based survey of 19,165 individuals, was conducted in five developed countries to assess the prevalence of lower urinary tract symptoms in men and women. Prevalence of overactive bladder overall was 11.8%; rates were similar in men and women and increased with age. Overactive bladder was more prevalent than all types of UI combined (9.4%). Besides the obvious issue of hygiene, UI results in ramifications that extend to the sufferer’s social and sexual life. This chapter focuses on mainly three types of female urinary incontinence commonly encountered in clinical practice—stress urinary incontinence, urgency urinary incontinence, and mixed urinary incontinence—and discusses the anatomy and physiology of the continence apparatus, and the classification, evaluation, and management of urinary incontinence.

INFLUENCE OF SEX DIFFERENCES ON PHARMACOKINETICS OF DRUGS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF BIOEQUIVALENCE STUDIES OF GENERIC MEDICINAL PRODUCTS

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 94-105
Author(s):  
D. P. Romodanovsky ◽  
D. V. Goryachev ◽  
A. L. Khokhlov ◽  
A. E. Miroshnikov
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Dosage Form ◽  
Digestive System ◽  
Generic Drugs ◽  
Medicinal Products ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Oral Medications ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Main Factors

Background. Evidence of the effect of sex on the pharmacokinetics of drugs and, accordingly, on the clinical response is significantly accumulated, because of a growing number of clinical studies of the early development of original drugs, which include female subjects. The number of bioequivalence studies of replicated drugs involving both sexes is also growing. Of particular importance for the bioavailability of oral medications are differences in the anatomy and physiology of the digestive system. Along with this factor, the differences may be due to the dosage form of the reproduced drug, which may differ from that of the reference (original). The aim of the study was to identify the effect of sex differences on the pharmacokinetics of drugs and to propose an algorithm for assessing their detection. Materials and methods. The article presents a general analysis of the works devoted to the pharmacokinetics of medicines in men and women and includes literature data. Results. The main factors influencing the pharmacokinetics of drugs (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion) are identified. Examples of medicinal products for which differences in pharmacokinetics in men and women are revealed are given. The article describes the main international requirements for conducting clinical trials and bioequivalence studies with regard to the choice of gender of subjects and their number to be included in the clinical study. It is suggested that there is a need to further study of the effect of sex differences on bioequivalence results in carrying out relevant studies. Conclusion. An algorithm for estimating the detection of sex differences and their effect on the results of bioequivalence studies of generic drugs is proposed.

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