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Rewinding Frankenstein and the body-machine: organ transplantation in the dystopian young adult fiction seriesUnwind
2016
While the separation of body and mind (and the entailing metaphor of the body as a machine) has been a cornerstone of Western medicine for a long time, reactions to organ transplantation among others challenge this clear-cut dichotomy. The limits of the machine-body have been negotiated in science fiction, most canonically in Mary Shelley9s Frankenstein (1818). Since then, Frankenstein9s monster itself has become a motif that permeates both medical and fictional discourses. Neal Shusterman9s contemporary dystology for young adults, Unwind , draws on traditional concepts of the machine-body and the Frankenstein myth. This article follows one of the young protagonists in the series, who is en…
More than a leap of faith: the impact of biological and religious correlates on reproductive behavior.
2004
Using a conceptual model that integrates both social and biomedical factors of causation, this paper tries to delineate the pathways through which the reproductive characteristics of a multidenominational community are characterized. In total, 5513 historical entries from family reconstitution were available. Selection of data was guided by the inclusion of information about religious affiliation. Only married couples with children as well as single mothers with the relevant information were considered. Of these, 1855 entries were of Roman Catholic (C), 1143 of Lutheran/Protestant (L/P2), and 609 of Reformed Calvinist (R) denomination. The analysis documented differential nuptiality and fer…
Da Akrágas a Girgenti. Architettura e paesaggio nelle descrizioni e nell’iconografia della “città dei templi” fra Settecento e Ottocento
2016
Quando Gioacchino Di Marzo, intorno alla metà dell’Ottocento, intraprende l'opera di traduzione in italiano del Lexicon topograficum siculum di Vito Amico, dato alle stampe fra il 1757 e 1760, sente l'esigenza di dovere emendare incisivamente la voce dedicata alla città di Agrigento, in cui l'abate catanese aveva concesso alla città antica soltanto alcune brevi notazioni intorno ai templi antichi – fatta eccezione per il tempio di Giove Olimpico – soffermandosi invece sulla «novella Girgenti» e fornendo notizie dettagliate su tutti gli edifici degni di nota presenti nella città. Il tentativo di Di Marzo di colmare una simile lacuna – ingiustificabile a suo modo di vedere – scrivendo una lun…
Antonino Sancho Arango, un arquitecto en el tránsito hacia la Valencia contemporánea
2016
The process of modernization that Valencia and its territory underwent during the central decades of the 19th century is intrinsically linked to the trajectory of Antonino Sancho Arango’s career. He is considered an important figure in Valencian urban planning of this century, but his works in the field of architecture are almost unknown. This article aims to complete the study of the Antonino Sancho’s work and to establish a biography that values his role in the changes experimented by Valencia, but also Sancho’s dedication to public projects. La modernización que experimentaron Valencia y su territorio durante las décadas centrales del siglo XIX es indisociable de la trayectoria profesion…
The neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinoses: A historical introduction
2013
AbstractThe neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinoses (Batten disease) collectively constitute one of the most common groups of inherited childhood onset neurodegenerative disorders, and have also been identified in many domestic and laboratory animals. The group of human neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinoses currently comprises 14 genetically distinct disorders, mostly characterised by progressive mental, motor and visual deterioration with onset in childhood or adolescence. Abnormal autofluorescent, electron-dense granules accumulate in the cytoplasm of nerve cells, and this storage process is associated with selective destruction and loss of neurons in the brain and retina. The present paper outlines near…
Tecniche costruttive antisismiche in Calabria tra la fine dell'Ottocento e l'inizio del Novecento,
2016
La presente memoria intende indagare lo sviluppo delle costruzioni antisismiche in Calabria in un periodo compreso tra gli anni Ottanta dell'Ottocento e i primi anni del Novecento. Lo studio è incentrato sulle tecniche costruttive adottate nelle ricostruzioni post-terremoto realizzate in un periodo immediatamente antecedente il sisma che colpì Messina e Reggio Calabria nel 1908, dopo il quale si registra un progressiva affermazione della tecnologia del cemento armato. In questo arco cronologico si assiste a un notevole sviluppo degli studi nel campo della costruzione antisismica, con una prevalente riproposizione di sistemi costruttivi tradizionali e con le prime sperimentazioni sul cemento…
Collections en bibliothèque universitaire, quel enjeux ?
2021
Mother's Death: A Turning Point in the Lives of Charles Dickens's David Copperfield and Lev Tolstoy's Nikolay Irtenev
2022
Although it is not possible to establish exactly when Lev Tolstoy started reading Charles Dickens, it was in the 1850s, he was reading David Copperfield, which was one of his most favourite novels by the English writer. David Copperfield is probabiy the most popular of all Dickens’s novels, and it is certainly the most autobiographical. The tendency to combine personal with general in an ambiguous generic package was also present from the beginning of Tolstoy’s career. His Childhood can be described as a pseudo-autobiography that imitates autobiography in all aspects, except one: its author and narrator are not the same person. A strong mother-son relationship is clearly visible in David Co…
Wiadomości o rudzkim opactwie cystersów – na podstawie dokumentu fundacyjnego z kapsuły czasu kościoła w Stanicy z 1802 r
2019
12 grudnia 2017 r. zdjęto krzyż z kulą z wieży kościoła parafialnego pw. św. Marcina w Stanicy – ostatniej świątyni zbudowanej przez opactwo cystersów w Rudach przed jego kasatą w 1810 r. W kapsule czasu znajdował się okolicznościowy zapis, sporządzony 20 września 1802 r. W oparciu o lekturę odkrytego dokumentu oraz dostępne opracowania na temat rudzkiego opactwa, autor omawia sytuację opactwa na początku burzliwego XIX w., a także charakteryzuje stan osobowy rudzkiego konwentu. W dalszej kolejności opisuje główne etapy budowy kościoła św. Marcina w Stanicy na kanwie dramatycznych dziejów zawieruchy napoleońskiej, posiłkując się kronikarskim zapisem ostatniej części odnalezionego dokumentu,…
Instrument transfer as knowledge transfer in neurophysiology: François Magendie's (1783-1855) early attempts to measure cerebrospinal fluid pressure.
2007
Francois Magendie's (1783-1855) experimental model for measuring blood pressure in animals, which he developed in 1838, had a major impact on French physiology in the nineteenth century, especially upon Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) in Paris. In due course it was also adopted by other European investigators, such as the Leipzig physiologist Carl Ludwig (1816-1895), and by clinicians who developed it into a major measuring tool. Historians of science, however, have paid hardly any attention to Magendie's further laboratory investigations conducted with the assistance of Jean-Louis Marie Poiseuille's (1799-1869) sphygmometre (blood pressure meter). After having used the apparatus to conduct…