Robin Chatterjee (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- December 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780198859444
- eISBN:
- 9780191892226
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198859444.003.0040
- Subject:
- Clinical Medicine and Allied Health, Clinical Medicine
This chapter is comprised of 5 clinically based and also knowledge based questions and answers. The corresponding answers to the questions can be found at the end of the chapter, each of which has a ...
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This chapter is comprised of 5 clinically based and also knowledge based questions and answers. The corresponding answers to the questions can be found at the end of the chapter, each of which has a short explanation and at least one reference.Less
This chapter is comprised of 5 clinically based and also knowledge based questions and answers. The corresponding answers to the questions can be found at the end of the chapter, each of which has a short explanation and at least one reference.
Andrew Reynolds
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199544554
- eISBN:
- 9780191720390
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199544554.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
This chapter considers in detail the archaeological evidence for deviant burial from Early Anglo‐Saxon cemeteries of the 5th to 7th centuries ad. The pre‐Christian centuries present challenges of ...
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This chapter considers in detail the archaeological evidence for deviant burial from Early Anglo‐Saxon cemeteries of the 5th to 7th centuries ad. The pre‐Christian centuries present challenges of interpretation in the absence of written evidence, and so this section of the book concentrates on the analysis and discussion of prone burials, decapitations, instances of amputation, and burials covered with rocks in order to characterize such practices with regard to issues such as distribution and chronology. National study reveals distinct regional variation in deviant burial rites, but that certain practices, such as prone burial, were widely applied. The chapter addresses the presence of grave goods with certain deviant burials, and argues that in a particular category of women's graves, those of so‐called ‘cunning women’, the bodies are often treated in unusual ways at burial, besides being interred with a wide range of distinctive objects. The chapter concludes that individual deviant rites were widely known, and probably commonly understood, but that they were applied at community level rather than being determined by any higher authority.Less
This chapter considers in detail the archaeological evidence for deviant burial from Early Anglo‐Saxon cemeteries of the 5th to 7th centuries ad. The pre‐Christian centuries present challenges of interpretation in the absence of written evidence, and so this section of the book concentrates on the analysis and discussion of prone burials, decapitations, instances of amputation, and burials covered with rocks in order to characterize such practices with regard to issues such as distribution and chronology. National study reveals distinct regional variation in deviant burial rites, but that certain practices, such as prone burial, were widely applied. The chapter addresses the presence of grave goods with certain deviant burials, and argues that in a particular category of women's graves, those of so‐called ‘cunning women’, the bodies are often treated in unusual ways at burial, besides being interred with a wide range of distinctive objects. The chapter concludes that individual deviant rites were widely known, and probably commonly understood, but that they were applied at community level rather than being determined by any higher authority.
David Seed, Stephen C. Kenny, and Chris Williams (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781781382509
- eISBN:
- 9781786945297
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781781382509.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This volume assembles selections from writings on the American Civil War in fiction, first-hand accounts and contemporary reportage, all supplemented with photographs. The focus falls on the injuries ...
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This volume assembles selections from writings on the American Civil War in fiction, first-hand accounts and contemporary reportage, all supplemented with photographs. The focus falls on the injuries sustained by participants and on their medical treatment. Writers and poets are included who drew on their experiences as nurses, combatants or observers. The volume focuses thematically on nursing, medical facilities, photography, amputations, battlefield accounts, and the war’s aftermath. The excerpts are supplemented by critical studies by specialists in the different aspects of the Civil War. Each excerpt is introduced by brief editorial commentaries, guiding the reader towards further related material and an overall introduction to the volume addresses the blurring between private and public documents as well as the different methods of recording these events.Less
This volume assembles selections from writings on the American Civil War in fiction, first-hand accounts and contemporary reportage, all supplemented with photographs. The focus falls on the injuries sustained by participants and on their medical treatment. Writers and poets are included who drew on their experiences as nurses, combatants or observers. The volume focuses thematically on nursing, medical facilities, photography, amputations, battlefield accounts, and the war’s aftermath. The excerpts are supplemented by critical studies by specialists in the different aspects of the Civil War. Each excerpt is introduced by brief editorial commentaries, guiding the reader towards further related material and an overall introduction to the volume addresses the blurring between private and public documents as well as the different methods of recording these events.
Jonny Geber
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813061177
- eISBN:
- 9780813051475
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813061177.003.0004
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
To resort to the workhouse during the Famine was an act of desperation, and many people were seemingly severely malnourished and physically exhausted when they entered the institution. The ...
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To resort to the workhouse during the Famine was an act of desperation, and many people were seemingly severely malnourished and physically exhausted when they entered the institution. The overcrowded situation of the union workhouses in Ireland during the Famine turned many of them into hotspots of infectious diseases such as typhus, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, cholera and smallpox. The paleopathologcial analysis of the skeletons of deceased inmates from the Kilkenny workhouse revealed high rates of scurvy, which is a direct reflection of the Famine as Vitamin C was primarily acquired from the potato prior to the blight. Other diagnosed conditions include rickets, possible iron deficiency anemia, tuberculosis, osteomyelitis and respiratory disease. Discrepancies in relative mortality frequencies in skeletons with and without diagnosed diseases suggests that scurvy influenced the death rates in the workhouse, and that individuals who had previously experienced severe health insults prior to the Famine had a greater chance of longer survival. The physicians in the Kilkenny workhouse struggled immensely to keep people alive, and this effort is evident from cases of amputations and craniotomies.Less
To resort to the workhouse during the Famine was an act of desperation, and many people were seemingly severely malnourished and physically exhausted when they entered the institution. The overcrowded situation of the union workhouses in Ireland during the Famine turned many of them into hotspots of infectious diseases such as typhus, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, cholera and smallpox. The paleopathologcial analysis of the skeletons of deceased inmates from the Kilkenny workhouse revealed high rates of scurvy, which is a direct reflection of the Famine as Vitamin C was primarily acquired from the potato prior to the blight. Other diagnosed conditions include rickets, possible iron deficiency anemia, tuberculosis, osteomyelitis and respiratory disease. Discrepancies in relative mortality frequencies in skeletons with and without diagnosed diseases suggests that scurvy influenced the death rates in the workhouse, and that individuals who had previously experienced severe health insults prior to the Famine had a greater chance of longer survival. The physicians in the Kilkenny workhouse struggled immensely to keep people alive, and this effort is evident from cases of amputations and craniotomies.
Aaron Shaheen
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- August 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198857785
- eISBN:
- 9780191890406
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198857785.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
Drawing on rehabilitation publications, novels by both famous and lesser-known American writers, and even the prosthetic masks of a classically trained sculptor, Great War Prostheses in American ...
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Drawing on rehabilitation publications, novels by both famous and lesser-known American writers, and even the prosthetic masks of a classically trained sculptor, Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture addresses the ways in which prosthetic devices were designed, promoted, and depicted in America in the years during and after the First World War. The war’s mechanized weaponry ushered in an entirely new relationship between organic bodies and the technology that could both cause and attempt to remedy hideous injuries. This relationship was evident in the realm of prosthetic development, which by the second decade of the twentieth century promoted the belief that a prosthesis should be a spiritual extension of the person who possessed it. This spiritualized vision of prostheses held a particular resonance in American postwar culture. Relying on some of the most recent developments in literary and disability studies, the book’s six chapters explain how a prosthesis’s spiritual promise was largely dependent on its ability to nullify an injury and help an amputee renew (or even improve upon) his prewar life. But if it proved too cumbersome, obtrusive, or painful, the device had the long-lasting power to efface or distort his “spirit” or personality.Less
Drawing on rehabilitation publications, novels by both famous and lesser-known American writers, and even the prosthetic masks of a classically trained sculptor, Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture addresses the ways in which prosthetic devices were designed, promoted, and depicted in America in the years during and after the First World War. The war’s mechanized weaponry ushered in an entirely new relationship between organic bodies and the technology that could both cause and attempt to remedy hideous injuries. This relationship was evident in the realm of prosthetic development, which by the second decade of the twentieth century promoted the belief that a prosthesis should be a spiritual extension of the person who possessed it. This spiritualized vision of prostheses held a particular resonance in American postwar culture. Relying on some of the most recent developments in literary and disability studies, the book’s six chapters explain how a prosthesis’s spiritual promise was largely dependent on its ability to nullify an injury and help an amputee renew (or even improve upon) his prewar life. But if it proved too cumbersome, obtrusive, or painful, the device had the long-lasting power to efface or distort his “spirit” or personality.
Cassandra S. Crawford
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814789285
- eISBN:
- 9780814764824
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814789285.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Health, Illness, and Medicine
Phantom limb pain is one of the most intractable and merciless pains ever known—a pain that haunts appendages that do not physically exist, often persisting with uncanny realness long after fleshy ...
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Phantom limb pain is one of the most intractable and merciless pains ever known—a pain that haunts appendages that do not physically exist, often persisting with uncanny realness long after fleshy limbs have been traumatically, surgically, or congenitally lost. The very existence and “naturalness” of this pain has been instrumental in modern science's ability to create prosthetic technologies that many feel have transformative, self-actualizing, and even transcendent power. This book critically examines phantom limb pain and its relationship to prosthetic innovation, tracing the major shifts in knowledge of the causes and characteristics of the phenomenon. It exposes how the meanings of phantom limb pain have been influenced by developments in prosthetic science and ideas about the extraordinary power of these technologies to liberate and fundamentally alter the human body, mind, and spirit. The book examines the modernization of amputation and exposes how medical understanding about phantom limbs has changed from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. It interrogates the impact of advances in technology, medicine, psychology and neuroscience, as well as changes in the meaning of limb loss, popular representations of amputees, and corporeal ideology. The book questions our most deeply held ideas of what is normal, natural, and even moral about the physical human body.Less
Phantom limb pain is one of the most intractable and merciless pains ever known—a pain that haunts appendages that do not physically exist, often persisting with uncanny realness long after fleshy limbs have been traumatically, surgically, or congenitally lost. The very existence and “naturalness” of this pain has been instrumental in modern science's ability to create prosthetic technologies that many feel have transformative, self-actualizing, and even transcendent power. This book critically examines phantom limb pain and its relationship to prosthetic innovation, tracing the major shifts in knowledge of the causes and characteristics of the phenomenon. It exposes how the meanings of phantom limb pain have been influenced by developments in prosthetic science and ideas about the extraordinary power of these technologies to liberate and fundamentally alter the human body, mind, and spirit. The book examines the modernization of amputation and exposes how medical understanding about phantom limbs has changed from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. It interrogates the impact of advances in technology, medicine, psychology and neuroscience, as well as changes in the meaning of limb loss, popular representations of amputees, and corporeal ideology. The book questions our most deeply held ideas of what is normal, natural, and even moral about the physical human body.
Susannah Sirkin, James C. Cobey, and Eric Stover
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195311181
- eISBN:
- 9780199865086
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195311181.003.0007
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
This chapter describes the global situation concerning antipersonnel landmines. It discusses medical consequences of landmine casualties, and describes the Mine Ban Treaty and its effectiveness. Mine ...
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This chapter describes the global situation concerning antipersonnel landmines. It discusses medical consequences of landmine casualties, and describes the Mine Ban Treaty and its effectiveness. Mine risk education is also described.Less
This chapter describes the global situation concerning antipersonnel landmines. It discusses medical consequences of landmine casualties, and describes the Mine Ban Treaty and its effectiveness. Mine risk education is also described.
Della Collins Cook, Laura Gano, Kristin M. Hedman, Susan Spencer Helfrich, and Andrew R. Thompson
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781683401032
- eISBN:
- 9781683401216
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9781683401032.003.0004
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
The Schild site in west-central Illinois comprises two Mississippian cemeteries (ca. AD 1030), one of which includes the burial of a young male (SA117) without a left hand who was buried on the ...
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The Schild site in west-central Illinois comprises two Mississippian cemeteries (ca. AD 1030), one of which includes the burial of a young male (SA117) without a left hand who was buried on the periphery of the cemetery. We suggest a complicated scenario including that the forearm was burned, resulting in loss of the hand, and we argue for a deviant social identity for this unfortunate young man. SA117 was not provided with grave goods—he was buried in a semi-flexed position, and his grave is unusual in that a fire was built over the grave fill. His marginalization and his disability may reflect outsider status; in fact, based on principal components analysis, his skull differs significantly from other Mississippian males. Several American Indian groups marked unusual causes of death in mortuary practices, and survivors of some kinds of trauma—for example, scalping—were treated as if dead. The use of fire in ordeals marked the transformation of captives into slaves or adopted members of the captor community; SA117 may have been such a person.Less
The Schild site in west-central Illinois comprises two Mississippian cemeteries (ca. AD 1030), one of which includes the burial of a young male (SA117) without a left hand who was buried on the periphery of the cemetery. We suggest a complicated scenario including that the forearm was burned, resulting in loss of the hand, and we argue for a deviant social identity for this unfortunate young man. SA117 was not provided with grave goods—he was buried in a semi-flexed position, and his grave is unusual in that a fire was built over the grave fill. His marginalization and his disability may reflect outsider status; in fact, based on principal components analysis, his skull differs significantly from other Mississippian males. Several American Indian groups marked unusual causes of death in mortuary practices, and survivors of some kinds of trauma—for example, scalping—were treated as if dead. The use of fire in ordeals marked the transformation of captives into slaves or adopted members of the captor community; SA117 may have been such a person.
Cassandra S. Crawford
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814789285
- eISBN:
- 9780814764824
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814789285.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Health, Illness, and Medicine
This book examines the link between phantom limb pain and prosthetic innovation—a relationship between ghosts and machines that has at times been pleasant, accommodating, and mutually beneficial. It ...
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This book examines the link between phantom limb pain and prosthetic innovation—a relationship between ghosts and machines that has at times been pleasant, accommodating, and mutually beneficial. It considers how prosthetization has transformed the bodies, selves, and identities of individuals who have survived amputation; how the promises and realizations of revolutionary forms of techno-corporeality shape our expectations from prosthetic technologies and from bodies, especially the “disfigured” or “functionally impaired”; and how corporeal ideology inform understandings of phantom peculiarities and influence efforts to legitimate the work being done on phantom limb syndrome. The book also explores how the phantom–prosthetic relations unfolded in the context of the modernization of amputation, including the maturation of the prosthetic industry and the development of a collaborative association between amputation surgery and prosthetic science.Less
This book examines the link between phantom limb pain and prosthetic innovation—a relationship between ghosts and machines that has at times been pleasant, accommodating, and mutually beneficial. It considers how prosthetization has transformed the bodies, selves, and identities of individuals who have survived amputation; how the promises and realizations of revolutionary forms of techno-corporeality shape our expectations from prosthetic technologies and from bodies, especially the “disfigured” or “functionally impaired”; and how corporeal ideology inform understandings of phantom peculiarities and influence efforts to legitimate the work being done on phantom limb syndrome. The book also explores how the phantom–prosthetic relations unfolded in the context of the modernization of amputation, including the maturation of the prosthetic industry and the development of a collaborative association between amputation surgery and prosthetic science.
Cassandra S. Crawford
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814789285
- eISBN:
- 9780814764824
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814789285.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Health, Illness, and Medicine
This chapter examines how phantom–prosthetic relations unfolded in the context of the modernization of amputation, including the rapid state-sponsored expansion and maturation of the prosthetic ...
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This chapter examines how phantom–prosthetic relations unfolded in the context of the modernization of amputation, including the rapid state-sponsored expansion and maturation of the prosthetic industry and the collaboration between amputation surgery and prosthetic science. It first considers the debate between practitioners and researchers about the nature of phantom–prosthetic relations, a debate that was engendered by two apparently contradictory findings: prostheses both provoked phantom limbs and cured phantom limb syndrome. It then analyzes phantom limbs and prostheses in order to show how phantom–prosthetic relations have evolved over the twentieth and into the twenty-first century from the prosthetization of phantoms to the phantomization of prostheses and to phantom–prosthetic reciprocity. It also discusses the potential for prosthetic animation to prevent phantom pain and enable facile prosthesis use as well as the fundamental utility of phantom exercise to prevent or reverse cortical reorganization.Less
This chapter examines how phantom–prosthetic relations unfolded in the context of the modernization of amputation, including the rapid state-sponsored expansion and maturation of the prosthetic industry and the collaboration between amputation surgery and prosthetic science. It first considers the debate between practitioners and researchers about the nature of phantom–prosthetic relations, a debate that was engendered by two apparently contradictory findings: prostheses both provoked phantom limbs and cured phantom limb syndrome. It then analyzes phantom limbs and prostheses in order to show how phantom–prosthetic relations have evolved over the twentieth and into the twenty-first century from the prosthetization of phantoms to the phantomization of prostheses and to phantom–prosthetic reciprocity. It also discusses the potential for prosthetic animation to prevent phantom pain and enable facile prosthesis use as well as the fundamental utility of phantom exercise to prevent or reverse cortical reorganization.
Cassandra S. Crawford
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814789285
- eISBN:
- 9780814764824
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814789285.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Health, Illness, and Medicine
This concluding chapter explores how, after the turn of the twenty-first century, phantom–prosthetic relations went awry despite the fact that ghosts and machines have never been more intimate. Using ...
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This concluding chapter explores how, after the turn of the twenty-first century, phantom–prosthetic relations went awry despite the fact that ghosts and machines have never been more intimate. Using the concept of authenticity as a rhetorical frame, it considers biomedical knowledge on phantom limb syndrome and the biopolitics of phantom–prosthetic relations in the present-day context. It also discusses the significance of phantoms becoming at once extraordinary and seemingly inconsequential, and how phantom–prosthetic relations have transformed and been transformed by the modernization of amputation. It also looks at the case of phantom penis to demystify claims of scientific authenticity and goes on to explain how transsexuality and apotemnophilia have been dragged in the debate over what counts as authentic amputation. It concludes by reflecting on phantom endangerment in relation to biomedicine and biopolitical order in the second decade of the twenty-first century.Less
This concluding chapter explores how, after the turn of the twenty-first century, phantom–prosthetic relations went awry despite the fact that ghosts and machines have never been more intimate. Using the concept of authenticity as a rhetorical frame, it considers biomedical knowledge on phantom limb syndrome and the biopolitics of phantom–prosthetic relations in the present-day context. It also discusses the significance of phantoms becoming at once extraordinary and seemingly inconsequential, and how phantom–prosthetic relations have transformed and been transformed by the modernization of amputation. It also looks at the case of phantom penis to demystify claims of scientific authenticity and goes on to explain how transsexuality and apotemnophilia have been dragged in the debate over what counts as authentic amputation. It concludes by reflecting on phantom endangerment in relation to biomedicine and biopolitical order in the second decade of the twenty-first century.
Melba Porter Hay
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813125329
- eISBN:
- 9780813135236
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813125329.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
Preeminent Kentucky reformer and women's rights advocate Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872–1920) was at the forefront of social change during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. ...
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Preeminent Kentucky reformer and women's rights advocate Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872–1920) was at the forefront of social change during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Breckinridge had a remarkably varied activist career that included roles in the promotion of public health, education, women's rights, and charity. Founder of the Lexington Civic League and Associated Charities, she successfully lobbied to create parks and playgrounds and to establish a juvenile court system in Kentucky. Breckinridge also became president of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association, served as vice president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and even campaigned across the country for the League of Nations. This book draws on newly discovered correspondence and rich personal interviews with her female associates to illuminate the fascinating life of this important Kentucky activist. Balancing Breckinridge's public reform efforts with her private concerns, it tells the story of her marriage to Desha Breckinridge, editor of the Lexington Herald, and how she used the match to her advantage by promoting social causes in the newspaper. The book also chronicles her ordeals with tuberculosis and amputation, and emotionally trying episodes of family betrayal and sex scandals. It describes how Breckinridge's physical struggles and personal losses transformed her from a privileged socialite into a selfless advocate for the disadvantaged. Later, as vice president of the National American Women Suffrage Association, she lobbied for Kentucky's ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote in 1920. While devoting much of her life to the woman suffrage movement on the local and national levels, Breckinridge also supported the antituberculosis movement, social programs for the poor, compulsory school attendance, and laws regulating child labor.Less
Preeminent Kentucky reformer and women's rights advocate Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872–1920) was at the forefront of social change during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Breckinridge had a remarkably varied activist career that included roles in the promotion of public health, education, women's rights, and charity. Founder of the Lexington Civic League and Associated Charities, she successfully lobbied to create parks and playgrounds and to establish a juvenile court system in Kentucky. Breckinridge also became president of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association, served as vice president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and even campaigned across the country for the League of Nations. This book draws on newly discovered correspondence and rich personal interviews with her female associates to illuminate the fascinating life of this important Kentucky activist. Balancing Breckinridge's public reform efforts with her private concerns, it tells the story of her marriage to Desha Breckinridge, editor of the Lexington Herald, and how she used the match to her advantage by promoting social causes in the newspaper. The book also chronicles her ordeals with tuberculosis and amputation, and emotionally trying episodes of family betrayal and sex scandals. It describes how Breckinridge's physical struggles and personal losses transformed her from a privileged socialite into a selfless advocate for the disadvantaged. Later, as vice president of the National American Women Suffrage Association, she lobbied for Kentucky's ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote in 1920. While devoting much of her life to the woman suffrage movement on the local and national levels, Breckinridge also supported the antituberculosis movement, social programs for the poor, compulsory school attendance, and laws regulating child labor.
Melba Porter Hay
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813125329
- eISBN:
- 9780813135236
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813125329.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter discusses Madeline's social life. A near-serious mishap, which she suffered in her cart when her pony Cigarette ran away with her, caused her chronic pain in her foot. Madeline underwent ...
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This chapter discusses Madeline's social life. A near-serious mishap, which she suffered in her cart when her pony Cigarette ran away with her, caused her chronic pain in her foot. Madeline underwent numerous treatments and surgery to resolve the problem. However, the chapter notes that the foot did not heal well and the doctors sent Madeline to another doctor to have her lungs checked and no problem showed up. Surgery in New York revealed the medical problem as tuberculosis of the bone and the foot was amputated by Dr. Gibney. The chapter notes that with the amputation of her foot, Madeline experienced one of the greatest traumas that could befall a young woman; yet she endured it without complaint and the adversity only invigorated her, while physical suffering increased her empathy for the poor, the sick, and the downtrodden.Less
This chapter discusses Madeline's social life. A near-serious mishap, which she suffered in her cart when her pony Cigarette ran away with her, caused her chronic pain in her foot. Madeline underwent numerous treatments and surgery to resolve the problem. However, the chapter notes that the foot did not heal well and the doctors sent Madeline to another doctor to have her lungs checked and no problem showed up. Surgery in New York revealed the medical problem as tuberculosis of the bone and the foot was amputated by Dr. Gibney. The chapter notes that with the amputation of her foot, Madeline experienced one of the greatest traumas that could befall a young woman; yet she endured it without complaint and the adversity only invigorated her, while physical suffering increased her empathy for the poor, the sick, and the downtrodden.
Kia Corthron
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781469656007
- eISBN:
- 9781469658803
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, African-American Literature
Part One of the book contains excerpts from six of Clarence Major’s novels: Reflex and Bone Structure, My Amputations, Such Was the Season, Painted Turtle: Woman with Guitar, Dirty Bird Blues, and ...
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Part One of the book contains excerpts from six of Clarence Major’s novels: Reflex and Bone Structure, My Amputations, Such Was the Season, Painted Turtle: Woman with Guitar, Dirty Bird Blues, and One Flesh. Reflex and Bone Structure (1975) is a narrative of subtle clues regarding Majors’s Manhattan characters; the story then shifts to a road trip. Painted Turtle is an examination of Zuni life from the perspective of the narrator, who meets the title character as an adult and, from the stories she has told him, pieces together her existence from childhood on. The novel incorporates cultural language, traditions, and mental illness linked to the legacy of attempted race extermination. My Amputations chronicles a fictional African American poet abroad in Nice and Oxford for conference and readings. One Flesh centers on John and Susie, a black painter and a Chinese American poet in San Francisco, who are considering marriage.Less
Part One of the book contains excerpts from six of Clarence Major’s novels: Reflex and Bone Structure, My Amputations, Such Was the Season, Painted Turtle: Woman with Guitar, Dirty Bird Blues, and One Flesh. Reflex and Bone Structure (1975) is a narrative of subtle clues regarding Majors’s Manhattan characters; the story then shifts to a road trip. Painted Turtle is an examination of Zuni life from the perspective of the narrator, who meets the title character as an adult and, from the stories she has told him, pieces together her existence from childhood on. The novel incorporates cultural language, traditions, and mental illness linked to the legacy of attempted race extermination. My Amputations chronicles a fictional African American poet abroad in Nice and Oxford for conference and readings. One Flesh centers on John and Susie, a black painter and a Chinese American poet in San Francisco, who are considering marriage.
Ellen Samuels
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781479867820
- eISBN:
- 9781479802340
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479867820.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
Ellen Samuels examines Iron Man 3 (Shane Black, 2013), arguing that this film’s representations of veterans and disability reflected the social context in which increasing numbers of disabled ...
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Ellen Samuels examines Iron Man 3 (Shane Black, 2013), arguing that this film’s representations of veterans and disability reflected the social context in which increasing numbers of disabled veterans were returning to the U.S., with their futures uncertain. Drawing on veterans’ longstanding cultural roles as “heroes” or “villains,” this superhero film ultimately positions cure as both violent and mandatory, suggesting little cultural tolerance for veterans’ ongoing disabilities (specifically, PTSD and amputations) and the resources that such conditions would require. Bringing a disability studies reading to a Hollywood blockbuster, this chapter demonstrates the pervasiveness and power of disability narratives.Less
Ellen Samuels examines Iron Man 3 (Shane Black, 2013), arguing that this film’s representations of veterans and disability reflected the social context in which increasing numbers of disabled veterans were returning to the U.S., with their futures uncertain. Drawing on veterans’ longstanding cultural roles as “heroes” or “villains,” this superhero film ultimately positions cure as both violent and mandatory, suggesting little cultural tolerance for veterans’ ongoing disabilities (specifically, PTSD and amputations) and the resources that such conditions would require. Bringing a disability studies reading to a Hollywood blockbuster, this chapter demonstrates the pervasiveness and power of disability narratives.
Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781469655383
- eISBN:
- 9781469655406
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469655383.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
This chapter discusses the environmental effects of death, and what happens when a corpse becomes part of the natural environment. Bodies decomposed rapidly, producing an unbearable stench. It led ...
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This chapter discusses the environmental effects of death, and what happens when a corpse becomes part of the natural environment. Bodies decomposed rapidly, producing an unbearable stench. It led both armies to develop techniques for burial, embalming, and transportation of the dead to prevent sickness. The Overland Campaign—especially the battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and the Crater—and its extraordinary number of casualties, is the primary military focus. The chapter also discusses the advancements in medical care to treat wounded soldiers. Large numbers of disabled men had environmental effects as well, such as fewer acres of farmland due to the loss of labor, and expensive government policies to provide pensions for the disabled after the war.Less
This chapter discusses the environmental effects of death, and what happens when a corpse becomes part of the natural environment. Bodies decomposed rapidly, producing an unbearable stench. It led both armies to develop techniques for burial, embalming, and transportation of the dead to prevent sickness. The Overland Campaign—especially the battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and the Crater—and its extraordinary number of casualties, is the primary military focus. The chapter also discusses the advancements in medical care to treat wounded soldiers. Large numbers of disabled men had environmental effects as well, such as fewer acres of farmland due to the loss of labor, and expensive government policies to provide pensions for the disabled after the war.
Candida R. Moss
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780300179767
- eISBN:
- 9780300187632
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300179767.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
This chapter uses amputation and Jesus’s instruction to amputate one’s own appendages to discuss the question of bodily integrity as it relates to the resurrection. It examines the evidence for ...
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This chapter uses amputation and Jesus’s instruction to amputate one’s own appendages to discuss the question of bodily integrity as it relates to the resurrection. It examines the evidence for reading the saying literally and asks why modern scholarship refuses to consider the possibility that Jesus is encouraging bodily deformity.Less
This chapter uses amputation and Jesus’s instruction to amputate one’s own appendages to discuss the question of bodily integrity as it relates to the resurrection. It examines the evidence for reading the saying literally and asks why modern scholarship refuses to consider the possibility that Jesus is encouraging bodily deformity.
Mark de Rond
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781501705489
- eISBN:
- 9781501707940
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501705489.003.0002
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Medical Anthropology
The author recounts the day he reported for duty in the field hospital. Upon his arrival at Camp Bastion, the largest British overseas base since World War II, the author saw a wounded Gurkha being ...
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The author recounts the day he reported for duty in the field hospital. Upon his arrival at Camp Bastion, the largest British overseas base since World War II, the author saw a wounded Gurkha being treated by orthopedic surgeons and scrub nurses. Orthopedic surgeons are plentiful in Bastion, presumably because of too many amputations. The attending anesthetist let the surgeons know periodically how hard he had to work to keep up with the fading Gurkha. The next morning, the patients had all been Afghans. The author describes the mayhem that morning, which he says soon became typical fare. Despite its predictability, he admits he never got used to this prebreakfast ritual, which speaks of the brutality of humanity at war with itself.Less
The author recounts the day he reported for duty in the field hospital. Upon his arrival at Camp Bastion, the largest British overseas base since World War II, the author saw a wounded Gurkha being treated by orthopedic surgeons and scrub nurses. Orthopedic surgeons are plentiful in Bastion, presumably because of too many amputations. The attending anesthetist let the surgeons know periodically how hard he had to work to keep up with the fading Gurkha. The next morning, the patients had all been Afghans. The author describes the mayhem that morning, which he says soon became typical fare. Despite its predictability, he admits he never got used to this prebreakfast ritual, which speaks of the brutality of humanity at war with itself.
David Seed, Stephen C. Kenny, and Chris Williams (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781781382509
- eISBN:
- 9781786945297
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781781382509.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This chapter presents two excerpts to give first impressions of the medical situation during the Civil War. One is by William Williams Keen, the first brain surgeon in the USA describing the Battle ...
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This chapter presents two excerpts to give first impressions of the medical situation during the Civil War. One is by William Williams Keen, the first brain surgeon in the USA describing the Battle of Bull Run. The second is taken from the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion describing the use of ambulance wagons in the field.Less
This chapter presents two excerpts to give first impressions of the medical situation during the Civil War. One is by William Williams Keen, the first brain surgeon in the USA describing the Battle of Bull Run. The second is taken from the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion describing the use of ambulance wagons in the field.
David Seed, Stephen C. Kenny, and Chris Williams (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781781382509
- eISBN:
- 9781786945297
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781781382509.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Military History
Accounts by physicians as well as combatants highlight the desperate conditions of field hospitals and of surgery in the field. Broadsides and a plea for an ambulance service are both shown here and ...
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Accounts by physicians as well as combatants highlight the desperate conditions of field hospitals and of surgery in the field. Broadsides and a plea for an ambulance service are both shown here and the broader aspects of medical memoirs are examined by Susan-Mary Grant. In addition to physical injury, attention is given to malingering, nostalgia and the beginnings of medical welfare.Less
Accounts by physicians as well as combatants highlight the desperate conditions of field hospitals and of surgery in the field. Broadsides and a plea for an ambulance service are both shown here and the broader aspects of medical memoirs are examined by Susan-Mary Grant. In addition to physical injury, attention is given to malingering, nostalgia and the beginnings of medical welfare.
