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Fighting tradition : Hemingway’s Nick Adams and shell shock
No full textIn his Nick Adams stories, Ernest Hemingway traces the life of a single man as he moves from boyhood to adolescence to adulthood to fatherhood. From the beginning of Nick Adam’s life, it is clear that he does not fit into the role of the traditional hero. In addition, Nick has difficulty achieving proper masculinity in terms of how it was viewed at the time the stories take place. Instead, the young Nick continually shows himself to be fearful, immature, and timid. These characteristics would have labeled him as susceptible and predisposed to shell shock, a mark of unmanliness, during the early twentieth century. This thesis examines how Nick displays himself as predisposed to shell shock before going to World War I and the tension surrounding why a person becomes shell shocked. The opposing views regarding shell shock at the time Hemingway wrote the Nick Adams stories is evident in the writing itself as the author struggles to decide if Nick is innately flawed or the victim of his environment that does not allow men/heroes to develop. As this thesis concludes, the answer appears to be that Nick is doomed both by a natural weakness of character and a lack of proper male role models who themselves have been "unmanned" by the horrors of modern times
Tartuffe (2011)
No full textDirector: Christopher J. Mitchell
Set Design: Nick Shaw
Costume Design: Karen Eisenhourhttps://thekeep.eiu.edu/productions_2010s/1021/thumbnail.jp
A time to act: improving liver health and outcomes in liver disease
No full textA report prepared by the British Association for the Study of the Liver (BASL) and the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) Liver Sectio
Seminar (2017)
No full textDirector: J. Kevin Doolen
Set Designer: Nick Shaw
Costumes: Karen Eisenhour
Lighting: David Wolskihttps://thekeep.eiu.edu/productions_2010s/1076/thumbnail.jp
Book launch and discussion
No full textBook launch event for Nick Drake: Dreaming England (Reaktion 2013) at the NN Cafe, Number 9 Guildhall Road, Northampton, NN1 1DP, Thursday 3rd October 2013.
Author Nathan Wiseman-Trowse talked about and read from his book on the musician Nick Drake. Music was provided by Gregg Cave and Ant Savage and the book's photographer Paul Hillery DJd. The event was publically promoted and around sixty attended
Perspectives on ‘the lens of risk’ interview series: interviews with Tom Horlick-Jones, Paul Slovic and Andy Alaszewski
No full textThis article is the fourth and final of an interview series with a selection of significant contributors to the social science of risk. It provides quasi-verbatim interviews with Tom Horlick-Jones, Paul Slovic and Andy Alaszewski. Tom Horlick-Jones contributed to Chapter 6 of the Royal Society Risk monograph, on risk management. He offers further insights into the debates which underlay its production to those given by Nick Pidgeon in the first article of this series. Paul Slovic provides a North American perspective on risk social science. Andy Alaszewski, in the last of the eight interviews, discusses his views about risk in relation to the evolution of his journal, Health, Risk & Society
Higher prevalence of non-skeletal comorbidity related to X-linked hypophosphataemia: a UK CPRD parallel cohort study
No full textObjectivesX-Linked hypophosphataemic rickets (XLH) is a rare multisystemic disease of mineral homeostasis that has a prominent skeletal phenotype. The aim of this study was to describe additional comorbidities in XLH patients compared with general population controls.MethodsThe Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) GOLD was used to identify a cohort of XLH patients (1995–2016), along with a non-XLH cohort matched (1:4) on age, sex and GP practice. Using the CALIBER portal, phenotyping algorithms were used to identify the first diagnosis (and associated age) of 273 comorbid conditions during patient follow-up. Fifteen major disease categories were used and the proportion of patients having ≥1 diagnosis was compared between cohorts for each category and condition. Main analyses were repeated according to Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD).ResultsThere were 64 and 256 patients in the XLH and non-XLH cohorts, respectively. There was increased prevalence of endocrine (OR 3.46 [95% CI: 1.44–8.31]) and neurological (OR 3.01 [95% CI: 1.41–6.44] disorders among XLH patients. Across all specific comorbidities, four were at least twice as likely to be present in XLH cases, but only depression met the Bonferroni threshold: OR 2.95 [95%CI: 1.47–5.92]. Distribution of IMD among XLH cases indicated greater deprivation than the general population.ConclusionWe describe a higher risk of mental illness in XLH patients compared with matched controls, and greater than expected deprivation. These findings may have implications for clinical practice guidelines and decisions around health and social care provision for these patients
Prevalence and mortality of individuals with X-linked hypophosphataemia: a United Kindgom real world data analysis
No full textBackgroundX-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH) is a rare multisystemic disease with a prominent musculoskeletal phenotype. We aimed here to improve understanding of the prevalence of XLH across the life course and of overall survival.MethodsThis was a population-based cohort study using a large primary care database in the United Kingdom (UK) from 1995 to 2016. XLH cases were matched by age, gender and practice to up to four controls. Trends in prevalence over the study period were estimated (stratified by age) and survival among cases was compared to controls.FindingsFrom 522 potential cases, 122 (23.4%) were scored as at least possible XLH while 62 (11.9%) were classified as highly likely or likely (conservative definition). In main analyses, prevalence (95% CI) increased from 3.1 (1.5 – 6.7) per million in 1995 – 1999 to 14.0 (10.8 – 18.1) per million in 2012 – 2016. Corresponding estimates using the conservative definition were 3.0 (1.4 – 6.5) to 8.1 (5.8 – 11.4). Nine (7.4%) of the possible cases died during follow-up, at median age 64 years. Fourteen (2.9%) of the controls died. at median age 72.5 years. Mortality was significantly increased in those with possible XLH compared to controls (hazard ratio [HR] 2.93, 95% CI 1.24 – 6.91). Likewise, among those with likely or highly likely XLH (HR 6.65, 1.44 – 30.72).ConclusionsWe provide conservative estimates of the prevalence of XLH in children and adults within the UK. There was an unexpected increase in mortality in later life which may have implications for other FGF23-related disorders
Globalising care? Town twinning in Britain since 1945
No full textTown twinning describes the establishment and practice, by various groups and to various ends, of relatively formal and long-term relationships between settlements usually located in different nation-states. Twin towns are sometimes called sister cities. This paper draws on a study of town twinning that focused on the involvement of British localities since the end of the Second World War and analysed data collected by the Local Government Association (for England and Wales), materials archived in the National Archives at Kew, London and various local record offices, and transcripts of interviews with representatives of relevant local, national, and international organisations. The paper makes three main contributions. Firstly, it provides a brief history of town twinning involving British localities. Secondly, it develops from this historical narrative an original conceptualisation of town twinning, arguing that it should be approached less as a coherent movement and more as a device, a repertoire, and a model. Thirdly, it argues that town twinning has often been used as a device for extending care across space – and that much can be learned from its history for contemporary geographies of care. Town twinning participants have approached the problem of care-at-a-distance as both an ontological problem and a practical problem. Some have focused more than others on the role of distanciated causal relationships in the generation of needs in distant places. Some are currently encountering another problem as they attempt to globalise care: the problem of care-in-a-hurry
From ethical consumerism to political consumption
No full textThis article reviews some of the recent literature in geography and related disciplines on ethical consumerism and political consumption. Many geographers began their engagement with questions of ethics, politics, consumption and consumerism inspired by critical theory, commodity chain analysis and a sense that geographical knowledge might have a central role to play in progressive social change. Since these early engagements, it has been established that consumption practices are rarely the practices of rational, autonomous, self-identified consumers, and so-called ethical consumption practices are rarely detached from organisations and their political activity. Over time, therefore, some researchers have gradually shifted their focus from consumer identities and knowledge to consumption practices, social networks, material infrastructures and organisations of various kinds. This shift in focus has implications – both for the field of political consumption and for how the discipline of geography relates to this field
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