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Mental Health Treatment for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Authors: Warshaw Carole , Brashler Phyllis
Published: November 2023

Physical and emotional safety are primary concerns for survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). Becoming knowledgeable about the dynamics of IPV and the strategies batterers use to control their partners is essential for working with survivors of IPV. Survivors face many obstacles in trying to leave an abusive relationship and/or to maintain their safety, credibility, and connections with others in the face of ongoing abuse. A combined IPV–trauma framework is potentially most helpful for understanding mental health symptoms in the context of ongoing trauma, entrapment, and danger. Respecting survivor self-determination and choice are key elements of both DV advocacy and trauma-informed treatment. Issues of culture, context, community, and spirituality play important roles in survivors’ lives and need to be taken into account. Services should be culturally sensitive and relevant, as well as fully accessible.
Strength and Resilience in Battered Women and Their Children
Authors: Campbell Jacquelyn , Sharps Phyllis , Parsons Kerry
Published: November 2023

A strengths or resilience framework can be helpful in explaining the responses of women and children to intimate partner violence (IPV) and designing interventions for them. Considerable research documents that abused women display impressive strengths, including that the majority eventually leave the abusive relationships and/or make the violence end. Abused women take many impressive protective actions to keep themselves and their children safe. Abused women are most often good and protective mothers. Children exposed to IPV display many detrimental effects, but many if not most of the problems are alleviated if the violence ends. Interventions that build upon women’s strengths and children’s resilience may be most effective in dealing with the consequences of abuse, but have yet to be tested.
Weapons and Intimate Partner Violence
Authors: Sorenson Susan B
Published: November 2023

A woman is more than twice as likely to be shot and killed by her male intimate than killed in any other way by a stranger. Handguns account for most of these gun deaths. Focusing solely on the homicide of an intimate partner underestimates the full scope of fatal outcomes associated with intimate partner violence (IPV). Guns can be used to intimidate and coerce, as well as to harm, an intimate partner. Persons under a restraining order and those convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence (DV) are prohibited from purchasing and possessing a firearm.
Poly(hydroxybutyrate)
Authors: Noda Isao , Marchessault Robert H , Terada Mikio
Published: November 2023

Properties of Special Interest Biocompatibility and biodegradability. Biologically produced PHB is a semicrystalline isotactic stereoregular polymer of 100% R configuration that allows a high level of degradability. PHB is obtained by fermentation of bacteria capable of biosynthesizing polyesters as energy storage media. It can be completely biodegraded by numerous microorganisms. Synthetic racemic stereoblock structures degrade more slowly than the bacterial products. Copolymers, such as poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3- hydroxyvalerate), are also available.
How Doctors Think
Authors: Montgomery Kathryn
Published: November 2023

How Doctors Think defines the nature and importance of clinical judgement. Although physicians make use of science, this book argues that medicine is not itself a science but rather an interpretive practice that relies on clinical reasoning. A physician looks at the patient’s history along with the presenting physical signs and symptoms and juxtaposes these with clinical experience and empirical studies to construct a tentative account of the illness. How Doctors Think is divided into four parts. Part One introduces the concept of medicine as a practice rather than a science; Part Two discusses the idea of causation; Part Three delves into the process of forming clinical judgement; and Part Four considers clinical judgement within the uncertain nature of medicine itself. How Doctors Think contends that there can be adverse side effects to assuming that medicine is strictly science, and suggests reducing these by recognizing the vital role of clinical judgement.
Perspectives on the Face
Authors: Cohen M Michael
Published: November 2023

Our faces play essential roles in defining us as individuals. They are the most immediately identifiable parts of our bodies. We use our faces to communicate emotions and to interact socially. Sometimes, despite our intentions, our faces reveal our thoughts even when we do not speak. In several medical conditions, the facial aspect confirms diagnosis, and while surgical alteration of craniofacial anomalies can do much to normalize appearance, patients are always confronted with the question of what is normal, and with the fact that beauty itself may be nothing more than a culturally determined concept. This book explores a range of distinct yet related perspectives on the face--the evolutionary, the developmental, the anatomic, the dysmorphic and genetic, the surgical, the psychological; the sociocultural, and the artistic. As a cross-disciplinary study, it is the first to comprehensively address the question of what constitutes a face, and to span the gap between symbolic interpretation and scientific fact. Both broadly informative and in-depth in its discussions, this highly readable book will be of interest to biologists, geneticists, plastic surgeons, craniofacial surgeons, oral and maxillofacial surgeons, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and others with a special interest in the face.
The Growth of Prescription Opioid Abuse
Authors: Comer Sandra D , Ashworth Judy B
Published: November 2023

Data from various sources suggest that the abuse of prescription opioids has risen dramatically in the United States since the mid-1990s. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), previously known as the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, is one such source that surveys the civilian, non-institutionalized population of the United States aged 12 years or older and is designed to determine national estimates of rates of use, numbers of users, and other measures related to illicit drugs, alcohol, and tobacco products. As depicted in Figure 4.1, this survey revealed that the initiation of the nonmedical use of prescription pain relievers has quadrupled, from an incidence of 573,000 in 1990 to an astounding 2.5 million in 2002 (SAMHSA, 2004a). Taken in the larger context of substance abuse, the estimated number of new initiates in 2004 to nonmedical use of pain relievers (2.4 million) exceeded even that of illicit drugs such as marijuana (2.1 million) and cocaine (1 million; SAMHSA, 2005a).
Opioids for Pain
Authors: Smith Howard S Todd W Gary , Vanderah Todd W , McCleane Gary
Published: November 2023

Pain is described as an unpleasant sensation associated with a specific part of the body (Melzack & Katz, 2006). It is produced by processes that either damage, or are capable of damaging, the tissues. Such damaging stimuli are called ‘‘noxious’’ and are detected by specific sensory receptors called ‘‘nociceptors’’ (Sherington, 1906). Nociceptors are identified as C-fibers and Ad-fibers. By definition, nociceptors respond selectively to noxious stimuli. These nociceptors are free nerve endings with cell bodies in the dorsal root ganglia and terminate in the superficial layers of the dorsal horn of the spinal cord. Here they relay messages by releasing neurotransmitters such as glutamate (Jeftinija et al., 1991), substance P, and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP; Lawson et al., 1997, 2002). These ‘‘pain’’ neurotransmitters will result in the activation of the second-order neuron via their corresponding receptor. The second-order neuron crosses the spinal cord to the contralateral side and travels up the spinothalamic tract until it reaches the thalamus. From there, the third-order neuron is activated, traveling from the thalamus to the somatosensory cortex, which allows for the perception of pain. It should be mentioned that at the level of the spinal cord, second-order neurons result in the direct activation of lower motor neurons in the ventral horn of the spinal cord which provokes a reflex withdrawal from the noxious stimulus. Likewise, there are interneurons at the level of the spinal cord that will modulate the incoming pain information.
Urine Drug Testing in Pain and Addiction Medicine
Authors: Gourlay Douglas L , Heit Howard A
Published: November 2023

The use of urine drug testing (UDT) in clinical medicine has increased over recent years. UDT results have traditionally been used in legal proceedings under supervision of a medical review officer (MRO). In this context, testing has been required by statute or regulation and so is typically not in the ‘‘donor’s’’ interest. Health-care professionals, however, can use UDT in a variety of ways. When used initially, they are particularly helpful in assessing risk and so aid in the development of a rational treatment plan. Over time, they can be used to motivate healthy behavioral change, assist in maintenance of changes already made, and assist in monitoring patients’ compliance with a mutually agreed-upon treatment plan. By using UDT in a patient-centered fashion, both patient and health-care professional interests are maintained.
Some Computational Problems Associated with Horizontal Gene Transfer
Authors: Syvanen Michael
Published: November 2023

It has been over 30 years since the suggestion that horizontal gene transfer (HGT) may have been a factor in the evolution of life entered the literature. Initially these speculations were based on discoveries made in medical microbiology, namely, that genes for resistance to antibiotics were found to move from one bacterial pathogen to another. This discovery was so unexpected and contrary to accepted genetic principles that though it was announced in Japan in 1959 [1,2], it was not generally recognized in the West for another decade. Speculations that HGT may have been a bigger factor in the evolution of life was inviting because it offered broad explanations for a variety of biological phenomena that have interested and puzzled biologists for over the last century and a half. These were problems that had been raised by botanists who have puzzled over the evolution of green plants [3] as well as by paleontologists who recorded macroevolutionary trends [4] in the fossil record that were often difficult to reconcile with the New Synthesis that merged Darwin’s thinking with Mendelian genetics. However, outside of the field of bacteriology this exercise did not really attract that much attention until the late 1990s, at which time there was a major influx of data indicating that HGT had been very pervasive in early life. Namely, complete genome sequences began to appear. Simple examination of these sequences showed beyond any doubt that horizontal gene transfer was indeed a major factor in the evolution of modern bacterial, archaeal, and eukaryotic genomes.
The Road TO Monticello
Authors: Hayes Kevin J
Published: November 2023

The sheer variety of Jefferson’s many pursuitshes was an inventor, horticulturist, statesman, architect, and philosopher, among many other things-almost mask the singularity of his genius. But there is little doubt that our third president was also one of America’s greatest intellectuals. This superb new biography focuses on Jefferson’s intellectual and literary life. It follows Jefferson’s education from adolescence to adulthood, examines his interests, and gives new interpretations of his writings. Early writings, including A Summary View of the Rights of British America, the Declaration of Independence, and Notes on the State of Virginia are analyzed in depth. Hayes also provides substantial coverage of Jefferson’s professional, social, and literary activities in Paris and his travels through Europe. He devotes a CHAPTER to the time he served as secretary of state and his publication, The Anas, an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at George Washington’s presidency. His tenure as vice-president and president is considered in light of the ideas and relationships that were most salient for him during those crucial years. Separate CHAPTER s treat his correspondence with John Adams, the formation of the Library of Congress and his retirement library, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, The Autobiography, and the founding of the University of Virginia. Overall, the biography offers an intimate portrait of the life of the mind that Jefferson cultivated and dreamed of one day developing to its full potential while in retirement at Monticello.
Molecular Targets of Botanicals Used for Chemoprevention
Authors: cuendet Muriel , Pezzuto john m.
Published: November 2023

The treatment of many diseases is dependent on natural products, and this is especially true for the treatment of cancer. Chemoprevention is the use of synthetic or natural agents to inhibit, retard, or reverse carcinogenesis, or prevent the development of invasive cancer. Dietary consumption of foods and herbal medicines is a convenient method of administrating potentially beneficial phytochemicals in a cost-effective manner.
Traditional and Modern Chinese Medicine
Authors: Zhang Qing Cai
Published: November 2023

In Chinese Medicine (CM), cancer is seen as a local manifestation of an underlying constitutional disease. Therefore, CM focuses on whole-body treatment, addressing the far-reaching effects of cancer which the localized treatment of Western Medicine (WM) can underestimate. The Chinese concept of cancer is a weakening of resistance in the body while the oncogenic factor grows. Therefore, treatment focuses on strengthening the body’s resistance, rather than directly attacking the disease, which might also weaken the body as a whole. CM treatment aims to regulate body functions to maximize immunity, and mitigate the side effects, attenuate toxicity, and enhance the therapeutic effects of WM treatments.
Homeopathy for Primary and Adjunctive Cancer Therapy*
Authors: Ullman Dana , Oberbaum Menachem , Bell, Iris , Singer Shepherd Roee
Published: November 2023

Homeopathy is a medical specialty that recognizes symptoms as adaptive responses of the organism to endogenous and exogenous factors. This system of medicine utilizes drugs that have undergone a specific pharmaceutical process of serial dilution with vigorous shaking, which homeopaths have found stimulates the healing process. Each drug is selected according to the “law of similars,” with the intention of initiating a healing process by stimulating the body’s own adaptive capacities.
Prostate Cancer: An Integrative Approach
Authors: Moyad Mark A
Published: November 2023

Cardiovascular disease is still the leading cause of death in men in the developed world. In general, what is heart healthy is also good for the prostate! Fitness and overall health should be emphasized first, and not weight loss, by encouraging patients to get approximately 30 minutes of physical activity a day and to lift weights or perform resistance exercises several times a week. Aerobic and resistance exercise should be emphasized equally, not one more than the other.
Alternative Therapies as Primary Treatments for Cancer
Authors: Sagar Stephen M
Published: November 2023

Alternative therapies for cancer are typically promoted as viable treatment options, that is, alternatives to so-called mainstream therapies such as chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery. Alternative therapies are unproved, rarely based on credible scientific rationale, and potentially harmful, especially when patients are led away from effective, proven therapies by the lure of false promises and an emphasis on a lack of adverse side effects as compared with conventional therapies. Proponents of alternative therapies that are alleged to cure cancer often propose ad hoc quasi-scientific interventions— heavily marketed with scanty evidence based on a combination of simple and untrue logic, together with a series of misleading testimonials.
CAM and Cancer Research Methodology
Authors: fønnebø Vinjar
Published: November 2023

When researching complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and cancer researchers need to realize that patients are well aware of the limitations of CAM treatment with regard to prolonged overall survival and reduction of tumor size. The difference in preresearch patient experience between conventional medicine and CAM precludes a direct replication of the conventional research approach to the CAM field. Research in CAM and cancer should lead to results ensuring that the treatments patients seek are safe, document what packages of care are most beneficial, and double-check claims of e’cacy of products and procedures that are intended for general and wide- spread use among cancer patients.
At the mercy of chance?
Authors: Kitcher Philip
Published: November 2023

Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin, once professor of engineering at the University of Glasgow, is best remembered for his work with Lord Kelvin in laying the transatlantic cable. He probably never knew of the great compliment Darwin paid him in 1869, in a letter to Hooker, in which Darwin reflected on the review that Fleeming Jenkin had published two years earlier. “Fleeming Jenkin,” Darwin wrote, “has given me much trouble, but has been of more use to me than any other essay or review.”53 The trouble concerned natural selection, for Fleeming Jenkin’s analysis suggested that the accumulation of small variations under selection could not produce the effects Darwin had claimed.
The Ethics of Surgical Practice
Authors: Jones James W , McCullough Laurence B , Richman Bruce W
Published: November 2023

Surgical ethics is the application of ethics to issues specific to surgery. This volume provides a collection of clinical case studies representing a wide range of the ethical issues surgeons confront today. It is an excellent text for teaching surgical ethics to surgical residents and medical students and a fascinating read for practicing surgeons. It is intended to engage the reader into participating in evidence-based ethical conflicts. The authors escort us through 71 brief, realistic, and ethically complex problems, offering a series of five possible resolutions to each and guiding us through the relative benefits and weaknesses of the options until a best ethical choice is defended. The volume includes sections on Consent and Disclosure, Self-Regulation, Research and Innovation, Conflicts of Interest, Business Dealings, and End of Life Issues, each with a brief introduction by the authors.
Moral Responsibility and Determinism:The Cognitive Science of Folk Intuitions
Authors: Nichols Shaun , Knobe Joshua
Published: November 2023

The dispute between compatibilists and incompatibilists must be one of the most persistent and heated deadlocks in Western philosophy. Incompatibilists maintain that people are not fully morally responsible if determinism is true, that is, if every event is an inevitable consequence of the prior conditions and the natural laws. By contrast, compatibilists maintain that even if determinism is true, our moral responsibility is not undermined in the slightest, for determinism and moral responsibility are perfectly consistent.
Intentional Action:Two-and-a-Half Folk Concepts?
Authors: Cushman Fiery , Mele Alfred
Published: November 2023

What are the criteria people use when they judge that other people did something intentionally? This question has motivated a large and growing literature both in philosophy and in psychology. It has become a topic of particular concern to the nascent field of experimental philosophy, which uses empirical techniques to understand folk concepts. We present new data that hint at some of the underlying psychological complexities of folk ascriptions of intentional action and at distinctions both between diverse concepts and between associated mechanisms.
Experimental Philosophy and Philosophical Intuition
Authors: Sosa Ernest
Published: November 2023

Our topic is experimental philosophy as a naturalistic movement and its bearing on the value of intuitions in philosophy. I explore first how the movement might bear on philosophy more generally and how it might amount to something novel and promising. Then I turn to one accomplishment repeatedly claimed for it already: namely, the discrediting of armchair intuitions as used in philosophy.
So You Want To Be A Scientist?
Authors: Schwartzkroin Philip A
Published: November 2023

So You Want to Be a Scientist offers readers a glimpse into the “job” of being a research scientist. It is not intended to be a step-by-step “how to” book. Rather, it is intended to fill a hole in the education of most would-be scientists, addressing explicitly many issues that are rarely addressed directly in training programs. Starting with thoughts about how to decide whether you’d want to pursue such a career (and if so, how to get started), the book works through some of the obvious topics relevant to a research profession (e.g. how to write a paper, give a talk, construct a grant proposal). It also examines less obvious, but equally important topics that are generally incorporated into a research education only by trial and error-e.g., “thinking” like a scientist, negotiating scientific politics, dealing with research ethics, and understanding social interactions. Chapters on the challenges and rewards of a career in research science include reflections on science as art and on the social responsibilities of scientists in the modern world. The book is not designed to convince the reader one way or another about a career as a research scientist. Rather, it provides information and insights, based on the author’s long career in the laboratory and his rich experience with trainees, that will help the young scientist make better decisions and choices. It may also be useful to teachers, counselors, and parents for a realistic look at the demands and requirements for success in a research career.
Joseph Babinski
Authors: Philippon Jacques , Poirier Jacques
Published: November 2023

The life and work of Joseph Babinski (1857-1932) has been revisited by two French physicians whose enthusiasm for the subject is reflected in the depth and breadth of documentary sources. From Babinski's Polish roots, his father (an intrepid revolutionist, his brother(the gold miner and famous gastronome Ali-Bab to the Babinski circle, his friends, his colleagues and his disciples, the reader will find a refreshing perspective on a particularly fascinating period in French medicine. His scientific contribution is analyzed in detail, with for the first time a complete bibliography of his publications. These includes not only the Babinski Sign, but also the earlier and heretofore less-known concerning pathological anatomy and histology, the papers on cutaneous and tendinous reflexes, cerebellar and vestibular semeiology, hysteria and pithiatism, localization of spinal cord compression s and the birth of French neurosurgery.
Social Justice and Public Health
Authors: Powers Madison , Faden Ruth
Published: November 2023

The theory of social justice that we have thus far presented is not designed to focus solely on one aspect of human welfare, public policy, or social organization. Quite the opposite. We have built our account around six distinct dimensions of well-being, each of which illuminates a uniquely salient moral consideration. Although distinct, these different dimensions often have common social determinants and are frequently intertwined in complex webs of disadvantage and privilege. Our theory thus emphasizes the importance of keeping all the dimensions in view when evaluating the justice of social organizations and public policies. Although health figures prominently in our theory as one of these six dimensions, it is no more or less important than the others. At the same time, as we noted in chapter 1, we came to develop our theory out of an original concern with questions of justice in public health and health policy, questions which have never quite left us. Accordingly, we turn now to some of the health-specific implications of our theory. In this chapter, our focus is on the social institution of public health. In chapter 5, we examine the implications of our account for a central issue in health policy and public health: how justly to organize and finance medical care services. In chapters 6 and 7 we examine the ways our theory informs the problem of how to justly set priorities among competing public health programs and health care policies.
Epilogue
Authors: Laureno Robert
Published: November 2023

Raymond Adams’health progressively declined during the months after his ninety-seventh birthday. Worsened anemia required transfusion. Eventually, he spent most of his days bedridden. Finally, a hospital bed was needed. He spent his last night in his home. On October 18, 2008 he was in duress. The ambulance attendants would not take him to the distant Massachusetts General Hospital. He died with congestive heart failure not long after arriving at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He was buried next to the grave of his wife, Maria.
A Pediatric Perspective on Nutritional Therapeutics
Authors: Kligler Benjamin , Scott Emilie
Published: November 2023

For infants, the nutrition literature supports that breastfeeding is best; and that waiting until 6 months of age to introduce solids, reduces likelihood of food allergies and atopic conditions. Fish oil (specically DHA/EPA) supplementation during pregnancy and breastfeeding has a positive impact on cognitive development.
Changing Race, Changing Sex: The Ethics of Self-Transformation
Authors: Heyes Cressida J
Published: November 2023

Analogical Minefields: What Is Changing Sex Like? First published in 2006, “Changing Race, Changing Sex” was one of those articles that comes out of the backchat at conferences and in bars. It was a response to a tendency among feminists who are relatively far from trans politics to wonder why people don’t change race, how feminists should respond if they did, and whether this (putatively critical) response could be transposed to the much more well-trodden ground of changing sex. At a time when “transgender” is a ubiquitous term of art within feminist theory, the analogy can function as a Trojan horse for skepticism about transsexuality: rather than risking censure by arguing outright that sex change is politically regressive, critics would rather imply this by asking, rhetorically, “Well, what would you say to a transracial?” A lot of this wondering never seemed very well grounded to me: people do “change race,” even if they don’t have a psychiatric diagnosis to explain it. I don’t exactly know the best response as a feminist to such changes—real or imagined—and I’m not sure one response would cover all eventualities. Most of all, the idea that sex and race necessarily function in the same illdefined constructionist way does a great disservice to the long and complex histories of the categories as we have inherited them. The article, then, tries to flesh out these intuitions in a philosophical voice, showing that race and sex yield different possibilities that we all negotiate but none of us can dictate.
The Right to a Decent Minimum of Health Care
Authors: Buchanan Allen
Published: November 2023

A consensus that there is (at least) a right to a decent minimum of health care pervades recent policy debates and much of the philosophical literature on health care. Disagreement centers on two issues: Is there a more extensive right than the right to a decent minimum of health care? What is included in the decent minimum to which there is a right?
Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Essex Rebellion
Authors: Gasper Julia
Published: November 2023

No Elizabethan history play deals with subject-matter more recent or more dangerous than The Famovs History of Sir Thomas Wyat, which was printed in 1607 and, according to its title-page, was ‘Written by Thomas Dickers, and John Webster’. Both its overt and covert subjects, the Wyatt rebellion of 1554 and the Essex rebellion, were highly sensitive political issues. It comes closer than any other Elizabethan play, even the censored and abandoned Sir Thomas More, to representing the reigning monarch on the stage, and it includes an insurrection of a far more serious nature than the one that offended the censor of Sir Thomas More.
The Literary Genres of Edmund Burke
Authors: Bruyn Frans De
Published: November 2023

The Literary Genres of Edmund Burke brings a literary perspective to bear upon Edmund Burke's political writings. Burke understood himself to be a `literary' writer, a claim that held a much greater cultural and political significance in his time than it does in our own. This study recontextualizes Burke's writings by exploring what the eighteenth century understood by the term `literature' and by demonstrating how thoroughly he relies on the dominant literary discourses of his time, especially the satire and georgic/didactic modes, in composing his speeches and polemics. From his debt to the Scriblerian satire of Pope and swift to his extensive use of the theatrical metaphor and his forays into the fields of gothic romance, tragedy, and epic, De Bruyn argues that the literary forms Burke uses are instrinsic and indispensable elements in the meanings of his texts, both for himself and for his audience.
The Heritage Film, British Cinema, and the National past: Comin ‘ Thro ‘ The Rye
Authors: Higson Andrew
Published: November 2023

One of the key strategies adopted in the bid to construct a national cinema in Britain has been the exploitation of what we may, following Charles Barr, call the heritage film—that is to say, a genre of film which reinvents and reproduces, and in some cases simply invents, a national heritage for the screen. In the discourse which confirms and celebrates these films, they are constructed as one of the major sites of quality in British cinema. This quality is in part inherited from the already canonic cultural properties adapted for the screen (the novels, stately homes, period costumes, and the like), and in part constructed in the modes of representation adopted for these films.
Richard Verstegan
Authors: Parry Graham
Published: November 2023

‘Richard Verstegan, or as some call him, Richard Rowlands, a great reviver of our English antiquities, and a most admirable Critick in the Saxon and Gothick languages, ought with due ceremony to crave a place among these writers ... because he is litle remarked among authors. ‘1 So wrote Anthony Wood in his account of Oxford authors, and the obscurity of which he complained in the late seventeenth century has intensified since, so that Verstegan is today almost totally forgotten; yet in his time he was a most innovative antiquary, albeit an unexpected one. The book for which he deserves to be remembered, A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities (1605), came from a man whose concerns had previously been almost entirely religious, for he was a recusant and in many ways an outsider to English society. Some biographical details are helpful to explain his unusual situation.
Greeks and Romans and the Secret Ballot
Authors: Hall Ursula
Published: November 2023

"In 139 BC a tribune Gabinius secured the passage of a plebiscitum which introduced the secret ballot (tabella) into Roman electoral procedure. Further leges tabellariae, in 137, 131, and 107 BC, extended the principle to judicial and legislative assemblies (Cic. Leg. 3. 35 f.). In our own world we assign great importance to the secret ballot as an essential ingredient and guarantee of the free working of a democratic society, especially in electoral processes. Modern scholars have set the Roman legislation in the context of reforming pressures developing at Rome from the mid-second century, and indeed it has been described as ‘a much more genuine popular movement than the Gracchan legislation itself’.
‘Virgins of God’: Variations of Female Ascetic Life
Authors: Elm Susanna
Published: November 2023

In the year 314, just two years after Constantine had accepted Christianity as a religio licita, an official religion, bishops and priests from Galatia, Cappadocia, and Pontus met in Ancyra, today’s Ankara in Turkey, to discuss various practical issues which in the past had caused controversies and required official regulation. As a result of their efforts the Fathers issued several orders or canons, one of which, canon 19, reads as follows:
Poisonous Women and Unnatural History in Roman Culture
Authors: Currie Sarah
Published: November 2023

This is an essay about ancient Roman veneficium (‘poisoning’), a practice which subverts any view of the ancient body as a stable locus.Roman venenum (‘poison’) disrupts the relationship between bodies and subjects. It is that which inhabits the body, annihilates the boundaries of the self, and before which subjectivity itself collapses. Venenum spells loss of control over the body and identity.
Introduction
Authors: Reed T J
Published: November 2023

At his death in 1955, Thomas Mann had a unique reputation. He was acknowledged not merely as the greatest modem German novelist, but as something like a living sum of German culture. In part this view derived from his work. It was markedly intellectual and rich in literary and philosophical allusion. It rested, as he often pointed out, on foundations in the art and thought of the nineteenth century-Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Wagner. From his middle years, Mann began to link himself with the greatest figure in German literary culture, Goethe, and eventually celebrated a ‘mystical union’ with him in the novel Lotte in Weimar, where quotation and allusion, from being a favoured technique, became the continuous substance.
The Indigenous Public Sphere
Authors: Hartley John , McKee Alan
Published: November 2023

The Indigenous Public Sphere is a fascinating and innovative account of the connections between textuality and citizenship. Focusing on the reporting and reception of Aboriginal affairs in the media, it has major implications for rethinking the study of journalism and ethnicity in national politics and public life. The book is in three sections: Research: The authors explore the historical and theoretical context to show how nation, media, ethnicity and storytelling intersect, and how politics can no longer be understood by reference to the institutions of government alone. While centred on Australia, the analysis draws on comparable developments in the USA, Canada, Siberia and Scandinavia to provide some pointers towards best practice in the conduct of ethno-national dialogue with established nation-state polities. Reception: In a major new departure, the authors have evolved a 'parliamentary' method of audience research. Instead of investigating individual opinions or consumer attitudes, they seek to identify the collective or 'national' voice of Indigenous people. This section canvasses the public views of Indigenous leaders, community activists and media producers, gathered in a 'national media forum' designed to set a new agenda for the 'Indigenous public sphere.' Reporting: The findings of a three-year investigation of media coverage of Aboriginal and Islander affairs in Australia, across newspapers, magazines, radio and TV. The research includes a comprehensive survey of how journalism education, media codes of ethics, regulatory bodies and working journalists themselves deal with the reporting of Indigenous issues. Aboriginal people are massively over-represented in the media. That coverage is compromised not so much by media racism as by Indigenous people's unresolved national status. The Indigenous Public Sphere is thus a contribution to the growing literature on their claims to sovereignty, in the specific context of news and journalism - public story-telling that not only counts as true, but also speaks on behalf of 'the' nation.
English Opera In Late Eighteenth-Century London
Authors: Girdharn Jane
Published: November 2023

English opera reached a peak of popularity in the lateeighteenth century, sharing the stage with spoken plays. Stephen Storace (1762-96) dominated the music at Drury Lane from 1788 until his death in 1796, with works that were outstanding among their peers. In his main pieces he integrated music and drama along Italian lines; in his afterpieces, he followed the English tradition to which he was heir. His original music demonstrates a lyrical gift and strong sense of the theatre, while his use of borrowed material shows a practical man of the theatre. Theatrical life is discussed from a practical perspective to give fair weight to music in the well-being of the institution. The music publishing industry was also important to Storace, both in disseminating his music and in providing a large part of his income. His publications are placed in the context of publishing norms and early use of copyright provisions for his music.
Margherita Durastanti as Leading Man and Leading Woman
Authors: Larue C Steven
Published: November 2023

Although the warrant and instructions issued to Handel by Thomas Holles (governor of the newly formed Royal Academy of Music) on 14 May 1719 provided that the composer, ‘repair to Italy Germany or such other Place or Places as you shall think proper, there to make Contracts with such Singer or Singers as you shall judge fit to perform on the English Stage’,1 the Continental singers imported for the first season of the Royal Academy amounted to only three Italians, none of whom could be considered to be the best that Italy had to offer.
Isaac Albéniz
Authors: Clark Walter Aaron
Published: November 2023

Walter Aaron Clark here presents, for the first time in English, a detailed and accurate account of one of the most intriguing figures in the Romantic period. Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909), a renowned concert pianist, created a national style of Spanish piano music and also fostered the growth of the concerto, orchestral music, and opera in Spain. As a touring child prodigy who supposedly stowed away on a steamer to the New World, later studied with Liszt, and eventually got ensnared in a "Faustian pact" with the wealthy English librettist, Frances Burdett Money-Coutts, Albeniz has become somewhat of a legend. Based on a wealth of new and previously overlooked documentary evidence, this biography debunks the mythology surrounding his career, much of it spun by the composer himself.
Born For The Muses
Authors: Wegman Rob C
Published: November 2023

Son of a town trumpeter, Jacob Obrecht became one of the most prominent composers in Europe in the late fifteenth century. In Born for the Muses, Rob Webman enlarges our picture of the social and cultural conditions that framed his world, drawing on a wealth of new archival sources and a newly discovered dated portrait that sheds light on his developmnet as a composer. Obrecht's greatest contribution lay in the field of mass composition. In a penetrating stylistic analysis, Wegman treats each of the thirty-odd surviving masses as a historical record, tracing influences and establishing a rich context for the development of Obrecht's musical language. This new assessment of his creative achievement and historical significance entirely changes the face of Obrecht studies and of late fifteenth-century music in general.
Introduction
Authors: Hurley David Ross
Published: November 2023

Scholars interested in compositional process have by now turned their attention to several composers of the eighteenth century. Musicologists have not only explored the compositional methods of prominent figures such as Bach and Mozart; even composers such as Hassel, who are today relatively obscure, have been studied.’ Yet Handel’s compositional process in the most familiar of his works, the oratorios, has (apart from the specific area of borrowing) been by and large neglected, and only very recently have compositional revisions in his operas been evaluated.This fact becomes even more surprising in view of the source situation: virtually all Handel’s composing scores are housed in the British Library, his sketches in the Fitzwilliam Museum. This attractive state of affairs contrasts dramatically with Beethoven, whose autographs and sketches are strewn all over Europe.
The Ceremony of the Armed Man: The Sword, the Altar, and the I’homme armé Mass
Authors: Warmington Flynn
Published: November 2023

While the plague ravaged Florence in 1457, the prosperous merchant Giovaimi Rucellai withdrew to a castle near Siena where, in enforced isolation, he began to set down a work imbued with the spirit of humanism, his Zibaldone quaresimale.
Franz Schubert
Authors: McKay Elizabeth Norman
Published: November 2023

Franz Schubert (1797-1828) was born in Vienna of immigrant parents. During his short life, brought to an end by syphilis at the age of 31, he produced an astonishing amount of music. Symphonies, chamber music, opera, church music, and songs (more than 600 of them) poured forth in profusion. His ‘Trout’ Quintet, his ‘Unfinished’ Symphony, the three last piano sonatas, and above all his song cycles Die Schöne Müllerin and Winterreise have come to be universally regarded as belonging to the very greatest works of music. Who was the man who composed this amazing succession of masterpieces, so many of which were either entirely ignored or regarded as failures during his lifetime? In her new biography, Elizabeth McKay paints a vivid portrait of Schubert and his world. She explores his family background, his education and musical upbringing, his friendships, and his brushes and flirtations with the repressive authorities of Church and State. She discusses his experience of the arts, literature and theatre, and his relations with the professional and amateur musical world of his day. Schubert’s manic-depressive temperament became of increasing significance in his life, and Elizabeth McKay shows how it was partly responsible for his social inadequacies, professional ineptitude, and idiosyncrasies in his music. She examines Schubert’s uneven physical decline after he contracted syphilis, traces its effects on his music, his hedonism, and sensuality, and investigates the cause and circumstances of his death at the age of thirty-one.
Domenico Dragonetti in England (1794-1846)
Authors: Palmer Fiona M
Published: November 2023

Dragonetti devoted his life to the double bass. His career in England (1794-1846) is one of the most remarkable success stories in the annals of musical history. His unprecedented virtuosity elevated the double bass to a new status. In combination with his charismatic personality his musical talent dominated the English cultural world for more than fifty years. As performer, composer, collector, and friend, he exposed the unforeseen potential of the double bass. His formidable talent as a musician and businessman provides an unusual insight into nineteenth-century entrepreneurship. This first substantial biography and assessment of Dragonetti's career allows us to understand his importance in the history of music in general and of double-bass performance in particular.
‘It goes on happening’: Frances Bellerby and the Great War
Authors: Blondel Nathalie
Published: November 2023

The ‘Wonderful Great War’ of 1914-18 haunts the work of the neglected English writer Frances Bellerby (1899-1973). Not trench warfare as experienced by soldiers at the front, but the effects of war on civilians and ex-soldiers who survive in England. In narratives which are set before, during, and after the war, Frances Bellerby depicts the ordinary daily activities of life for the middle classes in English towns and villages-school, work, attending church, socializing, going on holiday. Parochial the settings may be; the writing is not. For what makes Frances Bellerby’s fiction distinctive and compelling is the way it shows how this fragile interwoven cloth of respectable English life sometimes veils but often cannot protect the bereaved fathers, mothers, sisters, wives, children, friends, and ex-soldiers whose lives have been broken by their sense of loss. People live double lives: they interact with the living whilst dwelling in memories of the dead.
Flies and Violets in Katherine Mansfield
Authors: Coroneos Con
Published: November 2023

Of the writers discussed in this book, Katherine Mansfield was one of the few who entered a militarized zone in the Great War, and perhaps the only one who entered it for the ‘wrong’ reason. She did not go to drive an ambulance, to report, to propagandize or to mourn. Instead, she went to pursue a love affair with Francis Carco, a French soldier who was stationed just east of Dijon. At Carco’s invitation, she left England on 15 February 1915 for the French town of Gray, located in a zone forbidden to women visitors. Mansfield’s first thought was to masquerade as a pregnant wife. She settled on the ruse of visiting a sickrelative (with Corporal Carco pretending to be a helpful stranger) and just managed to get past the authorities: ‘The last old paman who saw my passport, “M le Colonel” ... nearly sent me back.’ She spent four days with Carco and then returned precipitately to England.
Dysemol daies and fatal houres’: Lydgate’s Destruction of Thebes and Chaucer’sKnight’s Tale
Authors: Simpson James
Published: November 2023

Lydgate’s poem known as the Siege of Thebes is in every respect a much darker, more saturnine work than has been commonly allowed. The strongest manuscript tradition, endorsed by Lydgate from within the work, calls it the Destruction of Thebes, and destruction is indeed its subject. In this it may well answer to the period of its composition, which in my view is after the death of Henry V. So far from being any simple celebration of Henry and the Treaty of Troyes (May 1420), its themes of fraternal strife and civic destruction answer more convincingly to events that followed Henry’s death.
A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf
Authors: Kirkpatrick B J
Published: November 2023

This acclaimed bibliography of Virginia Woolf, prepared with the late Leonard Woolf's agreement and co-operation, has been greatly expanded since its first publication in 1957 and the revised editions of 1967 and 1980. The need for a fourth revised edition is the result both of the explosion of new editions of existing books, and of the appearance of much previously unpublished material. Section A, Books and Pamphlets, has increased from 54 to 79 items; Section AA, Composite Editions, is a new section with nine items; Section C, Contributions to Periodicals, has increased by 78 items, including 56 unsigned reviews; Section D, Translations, has increased from 207 to 557 items; Section F, Letters, is new in that it now itemizes only uncollected letters. Studies of variant editions and texts are noted in the entry for the work concerned. The bibliography is an essential tool for all interested in Woolf.
Introduction
Authors: Humble Nicola
Published: November 2023

‘Middlebrow’ has always been a dirty word. Since its coinage in the late 1920s, it has been applied disparagingly to the sort of cultural products thought to be too easy, too insular, too smug. While the lowbrow has undergone a process of critical reclamation in recent decades, with the development of popular culture studies as a legitimate area of academic interest, the middlebrow has remained firmly out in the cold.
Philip Larkin: Wounded by Unshrapnel
Authors: Fenton James
Published: November 2023

It is often casually said of Larkin’s poetry that it expresses common experience, that it has its origin in the common place, or even-I have seen this in newspapers-that the famous catchphrases that have been drawn from it (‘What wm survive of us is love’, ‘Books are a load of crap’, ‘Life is first boredom, then fear’, ‘They fuck you up, your mum and dad’) express a common point of view. But what strikes us most about Larkin is not the commonness but the singularity of the point of view.