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of aurists to boast curability for all cases of deafness – even though some cautiously argued that cases of congenital or ‘nervous’ deafness were beyond the purview of the surgeon. As Jennifer Esmail asserts, the growth of aural surgery was one of the varied ways in which British culture intervened in the issue of deafness. 13 By next turning to the expansion and then the eventual relocation of the RDDE after the 1840s, this chapter contextualises how aurists strove to pathologise hearing loss through individual
lives with a variety of difficult, painful and personal complications of the disease. Katie describes her ups and downs in battling to get the care she needs. The importance of continuity of care from her GP surgery is illustrated. She also talks of the impact on her mental health of living with her debilitating and gradually deteriorating condition for such a long time. Katie: My name's Katie. I'm 50 and I've been diabetic for twenty-six years. I was admitted to
to hospital. She describes how bewildering and lost it can feel to be waiting in an emergency department at night in severe pain. She had an X-ray and an MRI scan and two separate procedures involving a general anaesthetic, to reset the knee and then to repair the ligaments, and went home five days later. Jill experienced very different levels of care and attention in the various wards and departments of the hospital. Her post-operative care was chaotic – the GP surgery explained that they couldn't offer wound care, despite Jill having been steered to them by the
the Ottoman medical department, many had dubious qualifications. There was not a single qualified surgeon among them and only a small portion had any training in surgery. They could be useful as helpers in the operating room but, because few spoke Russian and they were unfamiliar with Russian hospital practice and pharmaceuticals, they were not much use elsewhere. Furthermore, there was a very high mortality rate among them. 24 Pirogov and the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna The arrival of Pirogov, one of the great
This book is about people willing to do the sorts of things that most others couldn't, shouldn't or wouldn't. While there are all sorts of reasons why people consume substances, the author notes that there are those who treat drug-taking like an Olympic sport, exploring their capacity to really push their bodies, and frankly, wanting to be the best at it. Extreme athletes, death-defiers and those who perform incredible stunts of endurance have been celebrated throughout history. The most successful athletes can compartmentalise, storing away worry and pain in a part of their brain so it does not interfere with their performance. The brain releases testosterone, for a boost of strength and confidence. In bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism (BDSM) play, the endogenous opioid system responds to the pain, releasing opioid peptides. It seems some of us are more wired than others to activate those ancient biological systems, be it through being caned in a dungeon during a lunchbreak or climbing a sheer rock wall at the weekend. Back in 1990, sociologist Stephen Lyng coined the term 'edgework', now frequently used in BDSM circles, as 'voluntary pursuit of activities that involve a high potential for death, physical injury, or spiritual harm'.
ageing and did not rule out cosmetic surgery as a solution to the problem of fewer and fewer film roles (Cole; So). However, more recently she has had a change of heart, citing the fact that the older actresses she admires have not had surgery (Verley and Defouilloy 153). In 2017 Gainsbourg addressed the way magazine images of female stars, including herself, are airbrushed and retouched to hide visible signs of ageing: ‘It’s like, ‘Give me back my age! I do have wrinkles! I don’t look like a 20-year-old’ (qtd. in Feinstein). However, Gainsbourg does admit that youth
disputes broke beyond surgery walls. Criminal prosecutions, particularly those for abortion and some high-profile accusations of murder, revealed only limited scope for legitimate condemnation of rivals. This constitutes a forcible repositioning of the ‘medical market’ as a concern for practitioners into the second half of the nineteenth century and beyond. Professionalising forces did not quell and then over-write 274 Medical misadventure competition narratives in medicine. Instead they drove competition underground and created different sorts of pressure point. The
another occasion, a female patient asked to try on the nurse’s lab coat, which was allowed without any reluctance. Figure 8 The interior of the hotel. The part of the hotel where patients are located as they wait for their surgeries
otherwise be loathsome. 5 The more serious cases that were beyond the competence of the missionaries were passed on – if the patient was willing – to the MBC doctors, especially if surgery was required. 6 Writing in 1888, Thompson reported that he had secured £36 worth of medicine from England, which he was dispensing. 7 These
This book explores for the first time women’s leading roles in animal protection in nineteenth-century Britain. Victorian women founded pioneering bodies such as the Battersea Dogs’ Home, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and the first anti-vivisection society. They intervened directly to stop abuses, promoted animal welfare, and schooled the young in humane values via the Band of Mercy movement. They also published literature that, through strongly argued polemic or through imaginative storytelling, notably in Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty, showed man’s unjustifiable cruelty to animals. In all these enterprises, they encountered opponents who sought to discredit and thwart their efforts by invoking age-old notions of female ‘sentimentality’ or ‘hysteria’, which supposedly needed to be checked by ‘masculine’ pragmatism, rationality and broadmindedness, especially where men’s field sports were concerned. To counter any public perception of extremism, conservative bodies such as the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for long excluded women from executive roles, despite their crucial importance as donors and grassroots activists. However, women’s growing opportunities for public work in philanthropic projects and the development of militant feminism, running in parallel with campaigns for the vote, gave them greater boldness in expressing their distinctive view of animal–human relations, in defiance of patriarchy. In analysing all these historic factors, the book unites feminist perspectives, especially constructions of gender, with the fast-developing field of animal–human history.