Dr Douglas Pretsell's Outputs (6)

"I am happier healthier and more efficient!" : A Germanic Queer* Typology of the 1860s (2025)
Journal Article
Pretsell, D. (2025). "I am happier healthier and more efficient!" : A Germanic Queer* Typology of the 1860s. Journal of the History of Sexuality, 34(1), 122-149

How Human Rights Became Gay Rights (2024)
Journal Article
Pretsell, D., & Willem Jones, T. (2024). How Human Rights Became Gay Rights. Human Rights Quarterly, 46(3), 437-460. https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2024.a933872

When the Legislative Council of the Australian island state of Tasmania rejected gay law reform in July 1991, a group of enterprising activists took their case to the United Nations. In April 1994, the United Nations Human Rights Committee ruled in t... Read More about How Human Rights Became Gay Rights.

Queer Urbanisms in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany: Of Towns and Villages (2024)
Journal Article
Pretsell, D. (2025). Queer Urbanisms in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany: Of Towns and Villages. Journal of Homosexuality, 73(3), 596-598. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2024.2326495

The evolution of the questionnaire in German sexual science: A methodological narrative (2019)
Journal Article
Pretsell, D. (2020). The evolution of the questionnaire in German sexual science: A methodological narrative. History of Science, 58(3), 326-349. https://doi.org/10.1177/0073275319881014

The sexological research questionnaire, which became a central research tool in twentieth-century sexology, has a methodological-developmental history stretching back into mid-nineteenth century Germany.
It was the product of a prolonged, disruptive... Read More about The evolution of the questionnaire in German sexual science: A methodological narrative.

Functional implications of dopamine D1 vs. D2 receptors: A ‘prepare and select’ model of the striatal direct vs. indirect pathways (2014)
Journal Article
Keeler, J., Pretsell, D., & Robbins, T. (2014). Functional implications of dopamine D1 vs. D2 receptors: A ‘prepare and select’ model of the striatal direct vs. indirect pathways. Neuroscience, 282, 156-175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.07.021

The Edinburgh cohort of HIV-positive injecting drug users at 10 years after infection: a case-control study of the evolution of dementia (1996)
Journal Article
Goodwin, G. M., Pretsell, D. O., Chiswick, A., Egan, V., & Brettle, R. P. (1996). The Edinburgh cohort of HIV-positive injecting drug users at 10 years after infection: a case-control study of the evolution of dementia. AIDS, 10(4), 431-440. https://doi.org/10.1097/00002030-199604000-00012