St. John Ambulance Classes for Asylum Attendants

1886 ◽  
Vol 32 (138) ◽  
pp. 200-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. E. Shuttleworth
Keyword(s):  
Medical Officer ◽  
First Aid ◽  
The Body ◽  
Practical Work ◽  
General Outline ◽  
Systematic Training ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Mixed Classes ◽  
The One ◽  
Practical Instruction

Much attention having recently been given (in the pages of this Journal and elsewhere) to the subject of the systematic training of asylum attendants, it occurred to me last autumn that some advantage might be gained in this direction by the instruction of the staff of this institution in “first aid to the injured,” as prescribed in the scheme of the St. John Ambulance Association. I accordingly announced my willingness to give the necessary course of five lectures and demonstrations, and having obtained the moral and pecuniary support of my Committee, who granted £5 in aid of the project, two classes were speedily formed, the one consisting of 28 men and the other of 39 women (the rules of the Association forbidding mixed classes). The fees were fixed at 2s. for the men and 1s. 6d for the women (including an anatomical diagram), and each pupil was advised also to purchase Shepherd's Manual of “First Aid,” price 1s., and an illustrated triangular bandage, price 6d. The staff of attendants and nurses were so eager to enter the classes that the only difficulty I had was to exclude a sufficient number for the necessary service of the patients on lecture evenings, which were Thursdays, at 8 p.m. Each lecture occupied about an hour, and another half hour or so was subsequently devoted to practical work, in which I had the aid of the assistant medical officer, Dr. Taylor. The subjects embraced in the course included a general outline of the structure and functions of the body, with special reference to the formation of the skeleton, the course of the circulation, and the functions of respiration and the nervous system. The practical instruction was in the application of bandages, chiefly triangular, the various extemporary means of arresting hæmorrhages, and of protecting and securing fractured bones, and what to do in certain emergencies, such as suffocation, drowning, burns, scalds, &c.; also in the removal of the injured on ambulance stretchers and otherwise, and (for women) a cursory account of the principles of nursing. The classes were from time to time questioned on the subjects of the lectures, the matron undertaking the supervision of the practical work of the women. By these various means I think I may say that the pupils were well taught, and at the examination by Surgeon-Major Hutton, one of the Association examiners, out of 15 men and 19 women presenting themselves, 15 men and 18 women passed with credit. The examination was of a fair and specially practical character, the women having, in addition to vivâ-voce questioning, a paper of six questions to answer in writing, and the men being subjected to an extended examination in ambulance drill.

scholarly journals Idrott och genus: Kroppens materialisering

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Håkan Larsson
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Track And Field ◽  
The Other ◽  
Biological Entity ◽  
Male Body ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Male Discourse ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One ◽  
Cultural Effect

Håkan Larsson: Sport and gender This article concerns bodily materialisation as it occurs in youth sport. It is based on interviews with teenagers 16 to 19 years of age doing track and field athletics. The purpose of the article is to elucidate how the notion of a “natural body“ can be seen as a cultural effect of sports practice and sports discourse. On the one hand, the body is materialised as a performing body, and on the other as a beautiful body. The “performing body“ is a single-sexed biological entity. The “beautiful body“ is a double-sexed and distinctly heterosexually appealing body. As these bodies collide in teenager track and field, the female body materialises as a problematic body, a body that is at the same time the subject of the girl’s personality. The male body materialises as an unproblematic body, a body that is the object of the boy’s personality. However, the body as “(a problematic) subject“ or as “(an unproblematic) object“ is not in itself a gendered body. Rather, these are positions on a cultural grid of power-knowledge relations. A girl might position herself in a male discourse, and a boy might position himself in a female discourse, but in doing so, they seem to have to pay a certain price in order not to be seen as queer.

scholarly journals Posthumanizm i „syntezoidalny mimetyzm” w komiksie „Vision” Toma Kinga i Gabriela Hernandeza Walty

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 467-479
Author(s):  
Oskar Meller
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Cultural Texts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One

Cultural texts on the subject of posthuman can be found long before the post-anthropocentric turn in humanistic research. Literary explanations of posthumanism have entered the conventional canon not only in terms of the science-fiction classics. However, a different line follows the tradition of presenting posthumanist existence in the comic book medium. Scott Jeffrey accurately notes that most comic superheroes are post- or trans-human. Therefore, the transgression of human existence into a posthumanoid being is presented. However, in the case of the less culturally recognizable character of Vision, a synthezoid from the Marvel’s Avengers team, combining the body of the android and human consciousness, the vector of transgression is reversed. This article is an attempt to analyze the way the humanization process of this hero is narrative in the Vision series of screenwriter Tom King and cartoonist Gabriel Hernandez Walta. On the one hand, King mimetic reproduces the sociological panorama of American suburbs, showing the process of adaptation of the synthesoid family to the realities of full-time work and neighborly intercourse, on the other, he emphasizes the robotic limits of Vision humanization. Ultimately, the narrative line follows the cracks between these two plans, allowing King to present, with the help of inhuman heroes, one of the most human stories in the Marvel superhero universe.

scholarly journals The Idea of the Posthuman: A Comparative Analysis of Transhumanism and Posthumanism

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 132-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. I. Kriman
Keyword(s):  
Outer Space ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Influence ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Vitruvian Man ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
The One ◽  
The Mind

The article discusses the modern philosophical concepts of transhumanism and posthumanism. The central issue of these concepts is “What is the posthuman?” The 21st century is marked by a contradictory understanding of the role and status of the human. On the one hand, there comes the realization of human hegemony over the whole world around: in the 20th century mankind not only began to conquer outer space, invented nuclear weapons, made many amazing discoveries but also shifted its attention to itself or rather to the modification of itself. Transhumanist projects aim to strengthen human influence by transforming human beings into other, more powerful and viable forms of being. Such projects continues the project of human “deification.” On the other hand, acknowledging the onset of the new geological epoch of the Anthropocene, there comes the rejection of classical interpretations of the human. The categories of historicity, sociality and subjectivity are no longer so anthropocentric. In the opinion of the posthumanists, the project of the Vitruvian man has proven to be untenable in the present-day environment and is increasingly criticized. The reflection on the phenomenon of the human and his future refers to the concepts that explore not only human but also non-human. Very often we can find a synonymous understanding of transhumanism and posthumanism. Although these movements work with the same modern constructs and concepts but interpret them in a fundamentally different way. The discourse of transhumanism refers to the Cartesian opposition of the body and the mind. Despite the sacralization of technology and the desire to purify the posthuman from such seemingly permanent attributes of the living as aging and death, transhumanism in many ways continues the ideas of the Enlightenment. For posthumanists, the subject is nomadic and a kind of assembly of human, animal, digital, chimerical. Thus, in posthumanism the main maxim of humanism about the human as the highest value is rejected – the human ceases to be “the measure of all things.”

To the question of corporeal experience in Bernard Tschumi’s theory of architecture

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-32
Author(s):  
Svetlana Vladimirovna Petrushikhina
Keyword(s):  
Direct Contact ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Internal Space ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One

The subject of this research is the theoretical works of Bernard Tschumi. The goal is to determine the place of the problem of corporeal experience in the theory of architecture of developed by the Swiss architect. For achieving the set goal, the author examines the key themes of his works –  the question of boundaries and limits of architecture, architecture as the place of occurrence of the event; as well as a number of concepts – “pleasure”, “limits”, “violence”. The texts created by Bernard Tschumi over the period from 1977 to 1981: “The Pleasure of Architecture” (1977), the article “Violence of Architecture” (1981), and a series of essays “Architecture and Limits” (1980–1981) served as the sources for this analysis. B. Tschumi did not dedicate works to the problem of corporeal experience alone; however, addresses this problem in the context of interaction between the audience and the building. His attention is focused on the viewer’s sensory experiences emerging in direct contact with the architectural object. On the one hand, this apposes B. Tschumi with the representatives of the phenomenology of architecture – S. Hall and J. Pallasmaa; all of them emphasizes the kinesthetic, nonverbal nature of corporeal experience in the perception of structures, their internal space and materials. On the other hand, B. Tschumi describes the relations between the body and the building as violent. Violence in the relations between man and architecture is ubiquitous: it is the interference of of a person into the architectural space, as well as feeling of discomfort provoked by the architectural space.

FRANCIS GLISSON ON THE TREATMENT OF RICKETS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-82
Author(s):  
T. E. C.
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Important Work ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One

Although Francis Glisson (1597-1677) was not the first to describe rickets, nevertheless, his treatise on rickets (1650) is generally regarded as the most important work which has yet appeared on the subject.1 A sample of Glisson's method of treating rickets follows: To straighten the trunk of the body or to keep it straight, they use to make breast plates of whalebone put into two woollen cloths and sewed together, which they so fit to the bodies of the children that they may keep the back-bone upright, repress the sticking out of the bones, and defend the crookedness of them from a further compression. But you must be careful that they be not troublesome to the children that wear them, and therefore the best way is to fasten them to the spine of the back with a handsom [sic] string fitted to that use. The bearing them about in the nurses arms is almost agreeable to the same children, and under the same conditions; in like manner the rejoicing of the child whilst the nurse singeth, either as it sits in her lap, or is held up in her hands, as also the tossing of it up and down, and waving it to and fro. Also the drawing of the children backward and forward upon a bed or a table between the two nurses, the one holding it by the hand, the other by a foot. The two last notions seem to contribute somewhat to the erection of the crooked or bended backbone.

Contemporary Relevance of Nehru

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-168
Author(s):  
Baljit Singh
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Cultural Nationalism ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Washington Consensus ◽  
Fourth Section ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Phase ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One

The subject contemporary relevance of Nehru is unfolded into five sections. First section introduces the subject by contextualising Nehru’s ideas in the contemporary scenario. Nehruvian ideological system and its utility in the age of globalisation constitute the body of this article. His nationalism, socialism and world view are located and discussed in the second, third and fourth sections, respectively. Nehru’s idea of composite culture, contested by cultural nationalism from the one end and ethno-nationalism from the other end of spectrum comprises the second section. The third section discusses the conception, consolidation, retreat and revival of Nehruvian model of economic development in the light of Washington Consensus and Post-Washington Consensus. His idea of socialism and the mixed economy are debated in liberal, neoliberal and post-neoliberal scenario. His world view faced rough weather during the second and third phase of India’s foreign policy. The former was set in motion after his death, whereas the latter started taking shape in the Post-Soviet world, which has acquired the hegemonic overtones. Contemporary significance of Nehru’s world view in the hegemonic world is probed in the fourth section. The last section sums up the discussion in the form of concluding observations.

scholarly journals Obituary notices of fellows deceased

1912 ◽  
Vol 84 (575) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Medical Officer ◽  
The Body ◽  
Clinical Teacher ◽  
Muscular Tissue ◽  
Materia Medica ◽  
Physiological Laboratory ◽  
University College ◽  
The Subject

Sydney Ringer, who died at Lastingham, in Yorkshire, on October 14, 1910, was the son of John and Harriet Ringer, of Norwich, where he was born in 1835. He was educated at private schools, and at the age of 19 entered, as a medical student, University College, London, with which institution he was to remain connected during the remainder of his active life. At the hospital connected with that school he was successively House Physician, Resident Medical Officer (1861), Assistant Physician (1863), full Physician (1866), and Consulting Physician (on his retirement in 1900); and in the Faculty of Medicine of University College he held successively the chairs of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine. The School of Medicine with which Ringer was associated has produced many distinguished clinicists, but it may be safely affirmed that it has produced no better clinical teacher than the subject of this memoir. It was not, however, on the ground of his clinical reputation that Ringer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and it is not in the notices of this Society that his eminence as a clinicist need be accentuated. For Ringer was more than a great physician, much as that may mean: he was a scientific enquirer. His bent in that direction showed itself early, for even while still a student of medicine he presented a paper to the Royal Society, “On the Alteration of the Pitch of Sound by Conduction through different Media,” and others to the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society on Metabolism in Disease. These were followed by an investigation (conducted jointly with A. P. Stuart) into the diurnal variations of temperature in the human body, which was, however, not published in full until 1878. The subject of this enquiry, from its bearing on the variations of temperature in fever, never lost interest for him. But his appointment to the chair of Materia Medica and Therapeutics directed his attention towards the action of medicinal substances and agencies. His experiences of their action on the human body he embodied in his well-known ‘Handbook of Therapeutics,' of which a very large number of editions have appeared; no more thoroughly practical handbook of treatment has probably ever been written. Ringer, however, recognised that it is necessary for the understanding of the action of remedies in disease for their action in health first to be determined, and that, to comprehend their effects upon the body generally, their influence upon the individual organs and tissues must be understood. There was then no laboratory of pharmacology in London, but he found the opportunity for carrying out researches of this nature in the Physiological Laboratory of University College, where a place was always at his disposal. Here, in the intervals of a busy consulting practice, he carried out the remarkable series of researches on the action of various salts upon the tissues, and especially upon the muscular tissue of the heart, which resulted in the recognition of the influence exerted by simple inorganic constituents of the blood in maintaining the activity of the living tissues—an influence which had remained obscure, in spite of the elaborate series of researches of the same nature which were conducted in the famous Physiological Laboratory of Leipzig and elsewhere.

scholarly journals Melting Ice and the Paradoxes of Zeno: Didactic Impulses and Aesthetic Distanciation in German Climate Change Fiction // Impulsos didácticos y distancia estética en la ficción alemana sobre el cambio climático

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axel Howarth Goodbody
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
The Other ◽  
General Outline ◽  
Literary Representation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One

Although global warming has been a topic of American and British popular fiction since the 1980s, its literary representation has only recently become an object of academic enquiry. Perhaps a score of German novels on the subject have also appeared, and critical analysis of these is now called for. Following a general outline of the socio-political, philosophical, and ethical issues which climate change raises, and of the particular aesthetic challenges which writing about global warming poses, Ilija Trojanow’s EisTau (Melting Ice, 2011) serves as a basis for discussion of the tensions between confessional and didactic impulses on the one hand, and recognition of the need for an aesthetic facilitating detachment on the other.  Resumen               Aunque el calentamiento global ha aparecido en la literatura popular americana y británica desde los años 80, su representación literaria no se ha converitdo en objeto de investigación académica hasta recientemente. Quizá una veintena de novelas alemanas sobre el tema también han aparecido, requiriendo así un análisis critico. Siguiendo un resumen general de los asuntos socio-políticos, filosóficos y éticos que el cambio climático ha planteado, y de los desafíos estéticos particulares que surgen al escribir sobre el calentamiento global, la novela EisTau (Melting Ice, 2011) de Ilija Trojanow sirve como base para debatir las tensiones entre los impulsos confesionales y didácticos, por un lado, y sobre el reconocimiento de la necesidad de una estética que facilite el desapego, por otro. 

A STONE AND THE STUMBLING - II. The house, the temple, the curtain, the flesh - metaphors of exegetic constructivism

2020 ◽  
pp. 74-100
Author(s):  
Степан Сергеевич Ванеян
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Spatial Relations ◽  
The Body ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Rhetorical Construction ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Metaphorical Structures

После того как был прослежен опыт строительства, созидания и разрушения в Первом Завете, стало возможно обратиться уже к Новому Завету, построенному как текстуальный канон вокруг единого христологического центра - исповедания Иисуса как Мессии и более того - как воплощенного Божественного Слова. Так как имеются в виду реалии текстуального свойства, то важно себе представлять все эпистемологические особенности рецепции некоторых семантических пространств-топосов, задаваемых в первую очередь керигмой, т. е. личным возвещением опыта встречи с Иисусом, принимаемым Христом - пасхально и евхаристически. Эти новые отношения с Богом, отличные от опыта Первого Завета, оформляются в качестве некоторых метафорических конструкций, которые выглядят как те или иные текстуально-символические действия, обращенные на конкретные пространственные отношения - в виде домов, синагог и, главное, Храма. Судьба Храма в Новом Завете - трагическая: он подвергается уже на уровне текста разрушению и упразднению. Но за этим - опыт телесности: она и замещающая реальность (плоть заменяет тело здания как скиния Небесная - земную), и реальность трансформируемая (тело, завеса, плоть, пелена, община как слагаемые камни Царства). В результате же - опыт метафорической и риторической конструкции Откровения Иоанна, о котором наша следующая попытка «архитектонической экзегезы», призванная финализировать опыт разрушения и созидания, ложного и подлинного, оскверненного и очищенного, проклятого и оправданного - спасенного. Having examined the experience of building and destruction in the First Testament, it is possible to focus on the New Testament, built as a textual canon around the one christological center - professing Christ as the Messiah and the embodied Word of God. As we focus on textual properties, it is essential to understand the epistemological element of the perception of certain semantic spaces/topoi, based, first and foremost, on kerigma - personal proclamation of meeting Jesus, who is recognized as the Christ of Easter and the Eucharist. These new relationships with God, different from those of the First Testament, are built as metaphorical structures that look like certain textual-symbolic actions referring to specific spatial relations shaped as houses, synagogues and the Temple. The fate of the Temple in the New Testament is tragic: it is destroyed and abolished even at the textual level. Behind it is the experience of corporeality as a replacement reality: flesh replaces the body of the building, and similarly, the Heavenly tabernacle replaces the earthly one. This reality is being transformed: the body, the flesh, the community - altogether become stones of the Kingdom. And as a result - St. John's Revelation, his metaphorical and rhetorical construction, which is the subject of our following attempt at 'architectonic exegesis', invoked to finalize the experience of the destruction and structuring, of the false and true, of the desecrated and cleansed, of the condemned and saved.

Daoist Mysticism

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judson B. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
The Body ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Moral Integrity ◽  
Optimal Setting ◽  
Chinese Religions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One

Daoist mysticism is a subfield in academic areas of study including comparative mysticism, Chinese religions, and Daoist studies. Methodologies employed in it often adopt and adapt different definitions, categories, and theories formulated in contemporary Western scholarship on the subject of “mysticism” for the purpose of analyzing Daoist thinkers, texts, practices, and traditions throughout the religion’s history. Important topics examined in scholarly works on Daoist mysticism include, first, Daoist views of the human self, both as it exists in its problematic state of degeneracy—physically, intellectually, emotionally, and morally—and in the natural and optimal condition it can and should embody. A point of emphasis regarding the latter condition is the self’s experience or consciousness of, conformity to, and unity with that which is of ultimate significance for Daoists: the “Way” (Dao/Tao). Daoist mystics, by understanding themselves to be microcosmic embodiments of the world and its processes, grasp that they are inherent constituents of the Dao and are unified with the totality of existence that it encompasses. Second, there is an array of Daoist self-cultivation techniques that are combined into training regimens aimed at cultivating and actualizing this awareness. Methods range from practices relating to the optimal setting and lifestyle to adopt for training, proper preparation and maintenance of the body, qi/ch’i cultivation, ethical observances, visualizations, and other meditative techniques. Third, successful training in them achieves the mystical aims, experiences, and transformations that practitioners seek, including physical vigor to aid the body’s functioning and longevity, moral integrity, profound visions, true and omniscient insight, correct and effective conduct, self-divinization, and immortality. Fourth, the scholarship also identifies both notable continuities and intriguing innovations in comparing ancient Daoist mystical ideas, practices, and goals to later expressions and elaborations of them. Studying Daoist mysticism has also reciprocally contributed to Western scholarly inquiries into theories of mysticism and comparative mysticism, not only in providing a wealth of material that is relevant to these fields, but also in offering both additional perspectives on debated issues and new trajectories for future research. For example, recent scholarship has contributed to the debate between, on the one hand, Essentialist and Decontextualist theorists and, on the other, Contextualists concerning the subject of mystical experience. Scholars of Daoist mysticism have also underscored the distinctiveness of the content and the literary form of its mystical writings, as well as the vital role the practitioner’s body plays in its theories and practices, and how these defining features distinguish Daoist mysticism from some of the world’s other mystical traditions.

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