Out of date: genetics, history and the British novel of the 1990s.

This article examines the representation of human genomics in the British historical novel of the 1990s. A form which meditates on the past and its relationship to the present, the historical novel readily lends itself to the exploration of genealogy, heredity and inheritance. Forwarding an understanding of human history, and particularly of family history, as a direct and causal function of the genes, the neo-Darwinian explanation of the genome popular in the 1990s similarly advanced its own teleological relationship between past and present.

Oral health curricula in physician assistant programs: a survey of physician assistant program directors.

Purpose: a review of the medical literature indicates that physician assistants (PAs) are not educationally prepared for oral health issues. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the status of oral health curricula and the knowledge and skills taught within PA curricula.

Methods: a survey examining oral health curricula in PA education was distributed electronically to the directors of all 142 accredited PA programs in the United States.