123 research outputs found
'The CASE of the Author'
No full textExamining the intersections between medicine and literature in the eighteenth century, this article argues that Scottish physician George Cheyne\u27s celebrated "CASE of the Author" (1733) adopts the literary inheritance of the spiritual autobiography as a means of establishing narrative authority and of structuring the clinical record of one man\u27s experiences in health and illness. In tracing his own "Progress" from physical ruin to "perfect Health," Cheyne invokes the authorities of medical science and clinical objectivity. However, the language, structure, and ethos are those of the spiritual autobiography, in which a reflecting author, looking back upon the apparently random and disconnected events of his past, reads "God\u27s plot" for his life. Reading the symptoms of his own ill health and emergent recovery as symbols provided by "the Author of Nature," the reflecting Cheyne discovers an intelligible providential plot by which to interpret the raw data of his own clinical observations
Dyspnea or Cheyne–Stokes respiration associated with Ticagrelor?
No full textA 65-year-old, 85-kg, 182-cm man (author PB), known for ischemic heart disease with surgical revascularization in 2005, was admitted for non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. At the end of successful right coronary artery stenting, Ticagrelor, a reversible inhibitor of P2Y12 receptor, was added to Aspirin. Five hours later, the patient had dyspnea and Cheyne–Stokes respiration (CSR) which was difficult to repress while awake. At home, his spouse recorded on a portable phone the abnormal pattern of periodic breathing during sleep, with apneas lasting up to 21 s. CSR disappeared during daytime over the next few weeks, but the patient kept complaining of dyspnea when going upstairs. [...
The voices of women impacted by non-fatal strangulation: Summary report – key themes
No full textStrangulation is one of the most lethal forms of domestic violence. Despite the high risk of lethality and serious harm the prevalence of non-fatal strangulation (NFS) is unknown and there is limited research on the topic, with only a minimal number of published studies in Australia. An MOU was signed with the Red Rose Foundation to further research in this area and a Merit Grant to Dr Nicola Cheyne supported the study. This research was carried out with two aims. The first was to capture women’s perspectives regarding their perspectives regarding their NFS experiences and the impacts. The second was to discern the supports and responses they received from the service system. Sixteen women participated in the study
“He’s been trying to get me …”: The lived experience of survivors of intimate partner strangulation after leaving the abusive relationship
No full textPurpose
The purpose of this article is to examine the lived experience of survivors of intimate partner strangulation after they have left the abusive relationship. This cohort of survivors of intimate partner violence are being identified in literature due to their elevated risk for harm, vulnerability for femicide, and the complexity brought to their lives through the psychological burdens of facing their impending death, often many times over.
Methods
In-depth interviews were carried out with 16 survivors of intimate partner strangulation. Transcripts were analyzed by all authors.
Results
The analysis identified themes relating to safety, health, employment, housing, and mothering concerns. Although these themes can also align with the lived experience of other survivors of severe intimate partner violence, survivors of intimate partner strangulation are being identified as a cohort, and their lived experience in the post-abusive relationship phase requires exploration to determine how strangulation, experienced alongside a compendium of other forms of violence, impacts on their lives.
Conclusions
Survivors of intimate partner strangulation can benefit from long-term support to facilitate their ongoing journey of recovery. This study highlights the interrelated nature of these survivors’ needs in the post-relationship period. Recommendations include the establishment of a strangulation specialist service with a nurse practitioner and systems navigator to coordinate survivors’ access to wraparound support.Full Tex
‘I’m going to take my power back and do whatever I can’: The self-efficacy of survivors of intimate partner strangulation and their engagement in research interviews
No full textPurpose: Existing literature identifies the agency used by survivors of domestic violence when they participate in research. However, some human research ethics committees act as gatekeepers on research into survivors’ lived experience due to their perceived vulnerability. This article explores factors that influence survivors’ decision-making when they participate in research interviews.
Methods: Sixteen survivors of intimate partner strangulation participated in interviews about their lived experience. The analysis of the interview transcripts was guided by the research question: What factors influence the agency that survivors of domestic violence draw on when making decisions about participating in research interviews?
Results: The findings revealed four processes through which the self-efficacy of participants became apparent – cognitive, motivational, affective and selection processes. Self-efficacy underpins a person's agentic behaviours, particularly their decision-making.
Conclusion: This article highlights how survivors of intimate partner strangulation, notwithstanding their lived experience of extreme violence, exercise self-efficacy. Knowledge in this area is valuable because it indicates survivors who have left the abusive relationship and have engaged in support can make informed decisions about their participation in research interviews. Such understandings can provide researchers with an increased awareness about the wellbeing of participants during interviews and human research ethics committees can be confident that research participants, who may be considered ‘vulnerable’, have the ability to assess their capacity to engage in research, if the caveats of having left the abusive relationship and having sought support are satisfied.Full Tex
Density of a Reintroduced Population of Bornean Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) in Pristine and Disturbed Forest Areas, Sungai Wain Protection Forest, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
No full textSungai Wain Protection Forest is among the final extant primary lowland coastal forests remaining in East Kalimantan (Fredriksson and Nijman, 2004). From 1992-1997 82 formerly captive Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) were released in Sungai Wain Protection Forest through the Wanariset Orangutan Reintroduction Project (Russon and Susilo, 1999). Forest fires burned approximately 60% of the reserve in 1998 (Fredriksson and Nijman, 2004). An extensive nest census conducted in 1998 produced an estimate of 13-17 orangutans remaining in Sungai Wain Protection Forest (Russon and Susilo, 1999). Very little research has been conducted on this reintroduced population of orangutans since the 1998 nest survey. In this study, a new nest survey will be conducted in order to produce a current estimate of orangutan densities in Sungai Wain Protection Forest.
Orangutan density estimates in the primary forest area will be compared to densities in areas of forest
which have been disturbed by fires
Disability Studies Reads the Romance
No full textAs the most popular of the popular genres, romance novels are an important site of investigation for cultural disability studies, a field concerned with the effects that representations of disability have on the world. The article explores the productive potentials of a dialogue between cultural disability studies and popular romance studies. With a focus on selected novels by Mary Balogh, a bestselling author of historical romance, the argument is that the frequent use of disabled characters, and the way in which those characters are depicted, positions all disabled characters as potential romantic actants, and encourages readers to reflect critically upon how they conceptualize disability
Women’s Food Refusal and Feminine Appetites in the long British Eighteenth Century
No full textDans cette dissertation, “Women’s Food Refusal and Feminine Appetites in the Long Eighteenth Century,” j’étudie le refus de nourriture des femmes tel qu’il est décrit par l’écriture médicale, la fiction, l’autobiographie, et par les textes religieux en Angleterre au cours du long 18e siècle. En m’appuyant, entre autres, sur les écrits du Dr. George Cheyne, de Samuel Richardson, de Hester Ann Rogers, et avec les textes composés sur le cas d’Ann Moore, je considère comment les pratiques et les présupposés des courants de la pensée médicale, littéraire, et religieuse ont participé à façonner une idéologie oppressive du contrôle de soi des femmes, par la diète. Je questionne la manière dont les idées de rationalité et de sensibilité ont influencé la notion moderne d’appétit. Le 18e siècle, qui voit l’influence naissante de l’empirisme, construit le contrôle de l’appétit au féminin comme une nouvelle forme d’obligation morale. Ma recherche démontre que cette période historique a produit des mouvements intellectuels qui ont cherché à établir la notion d’une vertu diététique qui fonde les idéaux modernes des normes morales de l’appétit.In my doctoral thesis, entitled “Women’s Food Refusal and Feminine Appetites in the Long Eighteenth Century,” I analyze women’s abstinence from food as portrayed by British medical writing, fiction, autobiographies, and spiritual self-help tracts from the late 1660s to the early 1800s. With the works of Dr. George Cheyne, Samuel Richardson, Hester Ann Rogers, and through case studies on female fasters such as Ann Moore, I explore how an interaction of medical, literary, and religious presuppositions and practices defined an oppressive ideology of women’s dietary virtue. By considering transformations in the ideals of rationality, sensibility, and appetite in the eighteenth century, I investigate how maintenance of the feminine appetite became a signifier of moral responsibility. I explore a dual conceptualization of appetite as a volatile feminine passion. On the one hand, women’s socially sanctioned appetite control was positively associated with a disembodied, disinterested faith and rationality. On the other hand, extreme food refusal in women was systematically cast as an emotional addiction, rather than considered as a possible digestive disorder or other form of organic illness discussed in the period. My research underscores eighteenth century biases about gender and class that would limit the nineteenth-century understanding of psychological food refusal as an illness. I contend that the eighteenth century’s paradoxical discrimination between socially sanctioned and unacceptable forms of food refusal was the model for distinguishing between “good” and “bad” restrictive eating
The Precautionary Principle in EC and WTO Law: Searching for a Common Understanding
No full textThis paper briefly examines the meaning of the precautionary principle in international law, and summarises the main trade liberalisation provisions in EC and WTO law before analysing and comparing the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice and the Appellate Body on the use of the precautionary principle by Community institutions, EC Member States and WTO Members. The author concludes by examining whether it is possible to identify a common, trade-related approach to the precautionary principle
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