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Trauma and the stoic foundations of sympathy
No full textMany of the contributions to this volume are concerned with the difficulty of communicating traumatic experience to a wider public. Richard Gehrmann’s essay and our interviews with emergency nursing specialist Therese Lee and foreign correspondent Michael Willacy give detailed accounts of some of the difficulties created by the immense gulf in awareness and understanding. Yet the impulse to bridge that gulf is very powerful. There are two things at issue here. One is the influence on public memory, so that it is accountable for the full spectrum of human reality. The other is the need for a more fundamental kind of influence, on the cognitive and emotional range from which public memories are drawn. The second of these is difficult territory. This essay offers an approach to it with some historical perspectives, and explores how certain influential figures were concerned with the formation of memory in circumstances that test the capacities of human sympathy in the modern era
Introduction
No full textWhen Evelyn Fox Keller wrote that 'Frankenstein is a story first and foremost about the consequences of male ambitions to co-opt the pro-creative function', she took for granted an interpretive consensus amongst late twentieth-century critical approaches to the novel. Whilst the themes had been revealed as 'considerably more complex than we had earlier thought', Fox Keller concludes 'the major point remains quite simple'. The consensus might be characterised a little more broadly than this - as a view that the novel is about masculinity and scientific hubris - and has led to an enduring use of the title as a byword for the dangerous potential of the scientific over-reacher: It was in this vein that Isaac Asimov coined the term 'the Frankenstein complex' to describe the theme of his robot stories in the 1940s, and The Frankenstein Syndrome is the title for a collection of essays on genetic engineering published in 1995
Interview with Norman Fry, Disaster Co-ordinator for the Toowoomba Regional Council at the time of the 2011 floods
No full textJane Goodall: One of our central concerns in this book is with the gap between what people experience in a traumatic event and the ways in which the story gets told more widely so that people who are distant from it get a sense of it through reportage and then they start to see those who have experienced the trauma through a certain lens. As disaster co-ordinator in the immediate location of the Toowoomba flood event of 10 January, you were in a unique position to see how the story was being put together. How did you first become aware of having a major situation on your hands
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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