Considerations on a Gentleman’s Posterior

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture
Volume 16, Number 2, June 2012 , pp. 211-234(24)
Publication date: June 1, 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/175174112X13274987924131

Cole, Shaun

Abstract

In discussing J.C. Leyendecker’s 1911 painting Man on a Bag used to advertise S.T. Cooper and Sons’ Kenosha Klosed Krotch union suit, Richard Martin noted that the positioning of the male figure had to be careful to avoid raising concerns about anal anxiety, reflecting Freudian theories of sexual development. For this new revolutionary back opening for men’s underwear it was essential to depict a rear view of the male figure wearing the garment. However, as Martin noted, there was a certain discomfort around the idea of considering the male rear end. The association of sodomy and homosexuality led to this insecurity about the display of the male posterior. Men’s behinds have, however, periodically been put on display throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through changing fashions and this article will address key moments when male fashion has concentrated and highlighted the male behind such as the adoption of shrink-to-fit blue jeans by teenagers in the 1950s and close-fitting Italian-style trousers worn beneath “bum freezer” jackets that revealed a shapely male behind. It will also consider the depiction of the male behind in underwear advertising and the use of padded underwear to enhance this “asset,” and conclude with a reflection on the mass adoption of the hip-hop-inspired low-slung jean.

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bloomsbury/jdbc/2012/00000016/00000002/art00005

The nurses' role in the prevention of Solanum infection: dealing with a zombie epidemic

Journal of Clinical Nursing
Volume 21, Issue 11-12, pages 1606–1613, June 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2011.03920.x

David Stanley, MSc, RN, RM, Associate Professor

University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley, 6009 WA
Australia

Keywords:
disaster; emergency; infection; nurses; nursing; solanum; zombies

Aims
To outline the background and nursing interventions for Solanum infection in the event of a zombie epidemic.

Background
Literature and feature film evidence supports the theoretical probability for an outbreak of a Solanum infection which could result in a zombie epidemic. This paper discusses the causative agent, history of zombiism, signs and symptoms, diagnosis and nursing interventions.

Design
Review.

Methods
Academic and general literature and web sites were searched up to February 2011 for the key words, ‘zombie’, ‘zombie nurses’, ‘zombie epidemic’ and ‘zombie nursing interventions’. Limited academic literature was sourced pointing to a serious knowledge deficit in this area.

Results
If nurses are to respond successfully to a potential Solanum epidemic they need to be prepared and able to recognise Solanum infection, prevent its spread and care appropriately for sufferers and victims of a zombie attack. Advice is offered on prevention, initial nursing management and secondary nursing interventions including dealing with reanimation, palliative care and psychological support.

Conclusion
History offers numerous examples of the sudden appearance of a serious disease that has impacted on man kind’s survival. While difficult to conceive, a zombie epidemic is theoretically possible and nurses have a responsibility to be as prepared as possible to support and care for victims.

Relevance to clinical practice
Nurses are likely to be the front line staff faced with initiating most primary and secondary care interventions, including isolation and infection control, wound care, pain relief, documentation observations, support for activities of daily living, nutrition and fluid support, medication administration and other interventions.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2702.2011.03920.x/abstract

A priori physicalism, lonely ghosts and cartesian doubt

Consciousness and Cognition
Volume 21, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 742–746
doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2011.02.007

Philip Goff

University of Hertfordshire, Department of Philosophy, de Havilland Campus, Hatfield AL 10 9AB, United Kingdom

Abstract

A zombie is a physical duplicates of a human being which lacks consciousness. A ghost is a phenomenal duplicate of a human being whose nature is exhausted by consciousness. Discussion of zombie arguments, that is anti-physicalist arguments which appeal to the conceivability of zombies, is familiar in the philosophy of mind literature, whilst ghostly arguments, that is, anti-physicalist arguments which appeal to the conceivability of ghosts, are somewhat neglected. In this paper I argue that ghostly arguments have a number of dialectical advantages over zombie arguments. I go onto explain how the conceivability of ghosts is inconsistent with two kinds of a priori physicalism: analytic functionalism and the Australian physicalism of Armstrong and Lewis.

Keywords

Consciousness; Zombies; Ghosts; Hard problem; Physicalism; Conceivability arguments

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381001100033X