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7 Fatal injury In the autobiographical writings we have discussed so far the writers primarily represent themselves as isolated in their own pain, the traumatic nature of their experience rarely acknowledged even in their own profession. As we noted in our introduction, Iraq War veteran poet Brian Turner’s poem ‘AB negative (The Surgeon’s Poem)’ is unusual in bringing us into the physician’s intimate physical and emotional relationship with war injury and death: And an exhausted surgeon in tears, His bloodied hands on her chest, his head Sunk down, the nurse
published. 3 In March 1928 Adolphe Abrahams addressed the Royal College of Surgeons, giving the prestigious Arris and Gale lecture on the topic of ‘Physiology of Violent Exercise in Relation to Possible Strain’. 4 Also in March 1928, the British Medical Journal commented on the rise of professional sports medicine in Germany, noting that although: there have been and are in this country surgeons with special experience in the pursuit of various sports … no attempt has as yet been made to develop the study of these injuries into a specialty. 5 That said
Intimacy and Injury maps the travels of the global #MeToo movement in India and South Africa. Both countries have shared the infamy of being labelled the world’s ‘rape capitals’, with high levels of everyday gender-based and sexual violence. At the same time, they boast long histories of resisting such violence and its location in wider cultures of patriarchy, settler colonialism and class and caste privilege. Northern voices and experiences have dominated debates on #MeToo, which, while originating in the US, had considerable traction elsewhere, including in the global south. In India, #MeToo revitalised longstanding feminist struggles around sexual violence, offering new tactics and repertoires. In South Africa, it drew on new cultures of opposing sexual violence that developed online and in student protest. There were also marked differences in the ways in which #MeToo travelled in both countries, pointing to older histories of power, powerlessness and resistance. The book uses the #MeToo moment to track histories of feminist organising in both countries, while also revealing how newer strategies extended or limited these struggles. Intimacy and Injury is a timely mapping of a shifting political field around gender-based violence in the global south. In proposing comparative, interdisciplinary, ethnographically rich and analytically astute reflections on #MeToo, it provides new and potentially transformative directions to scholarly debates, which are rarely brought into conversation with one another. With contributors located in South Africa and India alone, this book builds transnational feminist knowledge and solidarity in and across the global south.
windows. Saving lives is certainly of paramount concern, but injuries and economic loss are also important factors. Table 1 , with information from the EM-DAT disaster database, shows, interestingly, an inverse relationship between the number of fatalities and the numbers affected (EM-DAT). Table 1 Average per annum figures from 2007 to 2016 #occurrences/year Fatalities/year Affected/year* Earthquakes 26 35,173 8 million Storms 98 4,122 34 million Flooding 161 5,553 85 million *The
The construction of an underground car park beneath the main square of Turin, Italy in 2004 led to the unearthing of the skeletonised remains of twenty-two individuals attributable to the early eighteenth century. At this time the city was besieged during the War of the Spanish Succession in a hard-fought battle that resulted in unexpected triumph for the Piedmontese, a victory that marked a fundamental turning point in Italian history. The current study assesses the strength of evidence linking the excavated individuals to the siege and assesses their possible role in the battle through consideration of their biological profiles, patterns of pathology and the presence of traumatic injuries. This article presents the first analysis of evidence for the siege of Turin from an anthropological point of view, providing new and unbiased information from the most direct source of evidence available: the remains of those who actually took part.
The author reviews Barry Jenkins’s 2018 film adaptation of Baldwin’s novel, If Beale Street Could Talk, finding that Jenkins’s lush, painterly, and dreamlike visual style successfully translates Baldwin’s cadenced prose into cinematic language. But in interpreting the novel as the “perfect fusion” of the anger of Baldwin’s essays and the sensuality of his fiction, Jenkins overlooks the novel’s most significant aspect, its gender politics. Baldwin began working on If Beale Street Could Talk shortly after being interviewed by Black Arts poet Nikki Giovanni for the PBS television show, Soul!. Giovanni’s rejection of Baldwin’s claims that for black men to overcome the injuries of white supremacy they needed to fulfill the breadwinner role prompted him to rethink his understanding of African American manhood and deeply influenced his representation of the novel’s black male characters. The novel aims to disarticulate black masculinity from patriarchy. Jenkins’s misunderstanding of this aspect of the novel surfaces in his treatment of the character of Frank, who in the novel serves as an example of the destructiveness of patriarchal masculinity, and in his rewriting of the novel’s ending.
economically active people. People from 18 to, let’s say, in low-income countries, late forties, early fifties, they would be helped to some extent by vaccines, but they will usually succumb not to infections but to injury, road-traffic accidents, violence and, in women, complications of labour – and there is a surgical fix to those. I think the innovations in medicine may need to come conceptually and in the way things are presented; in order to understand that you should really
. Atmeh – A Change of Direction In 2013, camps were set up in Atmeh and all along the border with Turkey to provide shelter for thousands of displaced people fleeing the bombing. MSF set up mobile teams tasked with health and vaccine education not only in the camps, but also in the surrounding villages. The hospital focused on treating burns victims because of a growing number of injuries of this nature caused by bombs, artisanal refining processes and
/IPV Survivor] 11 be like when I arrived here? A: I will first welcome you, provide you with shelter. Then I will go to your husband after listening to you. I will also listen to him. I am not alone. I will also bring your neighbours and others – two or three people from my side to sit, and we resolve your problem. If you have made a mistake, we direct on how [to fix it yourselves]. If your case involves injuries that I cannot solve, I
and Meta-Analysis ’, The Lancet , 394 : 10194 , 240 – 8 , doi: 10.1016/S0140–6736(19)30934–1 . Collaborative Paper ( 2018 ), ‘ Global, Regional, and National Incidence, Prevalence, and Years Lived with Disability for 354 Diseases and Injuries for 195 Countries and Territories, 1990–2017: A Systematic