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Clinical Forum: canine pancreatitis and biliary duct obstruction
Authors: Schaafsma Irene , Bradley Kate , Denning Andrew , Barett Esther
Published: June 2013

Part 2: The radiologist's perspective

This clinical forum will review pancreatic disease in dogs, primarily focusing on those patients that go on to develop obstruction of the biliary tree. A series of commonly asked questions relating to pancreatitis and concurrent biliary tract obstruction will be asked of a panel of specialists with varying views expressed! In the August 2013 issue of Companion Animal, a further article on this topic will be published giving both a surgeon's perspective on canine pancreatitis and biliary duct obstruction.
Surgery of the small intestine in dogs and cats
Authors: Murgia Daniela
Published: June 2013

Part 2: surgical techniques

This article, the second on surgery of the small intestine in dogs and cats, will focus on the surgical techniques and closure modalities of the intestinal wound. Small intestine pathological conditions that require surgical intervention include intestinal obstruction and perforation, ischaemia, intussusception and mesenteric volvulus.
Claw disease in dogs: Part 1 – anatomy and diagnostic approach
Authors: Warren Sarah
Published: June 2013

Claw and claw fold diseases are relatively rare in the dog but can be frustrating conditions to diagnose and treat. They may also be debilitating for affected animals and result in severe pain and lameness. A rigorous, methodical diagnostic approach is required in order to narrow down a large differential diagnoses list. Diagnostic tests, including bacterial and fungal culture and impression smear cytology, can be helpful but histopathological examination of a whole claw biopsy may be required in order to help achieve a definitive diagnosis.
From "Jacobinical Clamor" to the "One True Church": The Conversion of Stephen Cleveland Blyth and Political Discourse in the Early Republic
Authors: Miskinis William P.
Published: June 2013

One of the few Catholic conversion narratives published in the early nineteenth century, the Apology for the Conversion of Stephen Cleveland Blyth has received little scholarly attention. This singular narrative, however, has the potential to shed light on the political and religious tensions present in the Early Republic. This paper will attempt to make a connection between Blyth's religious exploration and his search for an ideal society, linking in particular Blyth's embrace of Catholicism and his repudiation of the majority culture. When he converted, he not only rejected a splintered Protestant church, but republican politics as well. Blyth's conversion served as a means of criticizing perceived subjectivity in the political discourse of the Early Republic.
Zeami's Confucian Theatre
Authors: Mathews Gary
Published: June 2013

Buddhism, particularly Zen, is by far the most widely recognized extratheatrical influence on Zeami's drama theory and practice. This article argues that while Zeami draws extensively on Buddhist ideas to conceptualize his performance practices and especially to describe the relations between actor and audience, Confucianism is the fundamental influence on his thinking about nō . Confucianism establishes the purpose of nō as a performing art, namely, to promote peace and harmony among the people. To Zeami, the distinctive way that nō can realize this purpose is by fostering empathy in the audience through their identification with the experience and feelings of the characters on stage. This conviction inspires his lifelong search for the most effective means of engaging the audience in this process of identification. He regularly resorts to Buddhist aesthetic, psychological, and philosophical ideas to elucidate those means. But the purpose they serve always retains its Confucian inspiration.
Suzuki Tadashi's Intercultural Progress in South Korea
Authors: Kim Jae Kyoung
Published: June 2013

This article examines Suzuki Tadashi's intercultural progress in South Korea focusing on his production of Electra (2008) with a Korean cast. This production led Suzuki to build his satisfying network with Korean performers and propel his active participation in Korean theatre festivals as a director as well as a festival organizer. This article aims to provide a new approach to understand Suzuki's interculturalism within East Asia.
Yeonwoo Mudae and the Korean Theatre Movement in the 1980s
Authors: Park Jungman
Published: June 2013

Yeonwoo Mudae is an exemplary theatre company of Korean theatre of the 1980s. It focused on newly created pieces ( changjak-geuk ) to provide a critical and historical understanding of contemporary Korean politics and culture. Using Brechean epic theatre, elements of madang-geuk (outdoor, episodic performances colored by traditional Korean theatre aesthetics), and local literature or history as its source, the company transitioned from a student workshop with no space of its own to a group with a permanent little theatre-style space in first the Shinchon area and then the Daehakro theatre district. Its exemplary productions both reflected and spurred the movement toward democratization and freedom of speech in the fraught political environment of a country repressed by the military-led government of President Chun Doo-Hwan.
Politics and Theatre in the PRC: Fifty Years of Teahouse on the Chinese Stage
Authors: Yu Shiao-ling
Published: June 2013

Ever since its introduction to China in the early twentieth century, spoken drama (huaju) has been at the forefront of social and political changes. Its realistic portrayal of life and use of spoken dialogue made it an ideal vehicle to promote social reforms and to serve politics. This study investigates the relationship between politics and theatre in the People's Republic of China by focusing on a masterpiece of modern Chinese drama: Lao She's play Chaguan (Teahouse, 1957), which chronicles fifty years of modern Chinese history from the demise of the Qing dynasty to the eve of the communist victory. This essay examines how historical events are portrayed, how history served as a commentary on political conditions of the 1950s, and how changing political climates have affected the productions and reception of this play. It asks whether the new critical opinions of the past few years that question the earlier politically correct interpretation might invite new ways to stage the script.
A Wolf in Tiger's Clothing: Danger, Desire, and Pleasure in Judith Kerr's The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Authors: Beasley-Murray Tim
Published: June 2013

This essay analyses a 1968 picture-book by the German-born British author, Judith Kerr. Drawing on psychoanalysis and the study of fairy tale and on Bettelheim's work on the nexus of the two, and with a theoretical framework that includes Todorov's notion of the fantastic and Benjamin's analysis of Kafka, it sees in the Tiger the embodiment of different forms of desire and presents three possible readings of the functioning of desire in the text (patriarchal, feminist, and electral), the coexistence of which contributes to the its uncanny quality. To make these arguments, the essay pays particularly close attention to the story's illustrations.
"Counting Coup" on Children's Literature about American Indians: Louise Erdrich's Historical Fiction
Authors: Stewart Michelle Pagni
Published: June 2013

Louise Erdrich's children's novels "count coup" on previous attempts to render American Indian life, especially those found in beloved books by Laura Ingalls Wilder and others. Through intertextual connections, she revisions stereotypical images of American Indians that have, until more recently, pervaded children's literature. Analyzing Erdrich's novels within the framework of Catherine Rainwater's counting coup paradigm suggests a way to negotiate the problems posed by classic texts rather than eradicate them altogether, allowing American Indian texts to triumph over the problematic images while celebrating more culturally-sensitive depictions, thus finding a place alongside of, not just in response to, canonical children's texts.
Childhood and Greek Love: Dorian Gray and Peter Pan
Authors: Blackford Holly
Published: June 2013

This essay argues that both Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan offer studies of eternal male children and their consciousness because studies of congenital inversion and childhood were linked in the late Victorian period. Representing the coalescence of three late Victorian fields—developmental psychology (then called Child Study), sexology, and Greek studies—Wilde's Dorian and Barrie's Peter Pan embody perceptions of queerness, hedonism, and arrested development theorized as congenital inversion yet paradoxically understood as the free-floating desire of youth before a "proper" love object is chosen.
Fritz Lang’s Radio Aesthetic: M. Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
Authors: Ryan Michael P.
Published: June 2013

Prior to sound film’s debut the matter was arguably plain: radio was a sound medium, and film was a visual medium; radio was the purveyor of fantasized images, and film was the purveyor of fantasized sound. With the emergence of the talkie, however, a new era in film aesthetics ensued, and cinema turned to radio in order to learn from the acoustic medium’s experience with dramatic sound design. In this regard, Fritz Lang’s M serves as an excellent case study. My contention is that crucial to M’s celebrated sound track is a quintessentially radiophonic sound design.
Ernst Barlach and the Conservative Revolution
Authors: van Dyke James
Published: June 2013

This article examines the relationship between the artist Ernst Barlach and the so-called conservative revolution, an overlooked aspect of his life and career. Of particular interest are Barlach’s friendship with Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, an antiacademic and antibourgeois writer who became a leading political thinker on the right, and an important essay on Barlach published in 1935 by the prominent “young conservative” art critic Paul Fechter. Though Barlach was never politically engaged, the article suggests the degree to which his work and career were shaped by, and appealed to, such intellectuals.
Rites and Rule: Kiyomori at Itsukushima and Fukuhara
Authors: Blair Heather
Published: June 2013

Heather Blair offers a correction to the politically centered paradigm for early medieval history. English-language historians have generally focused on the political and military history of the Genpei War (1180-1185), attending to the war's victors, the Minamoto, while defining Taira no Kiyomori (1118-1181) primarily as a failed warrior. Placing Kiyomori in the context of Heian court culture, Blair instead argues that ritual played an important role in the Taira family's rise. Formulating a new theoretical model of ritual regimes, she first outlines the regime piloted by Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa (1127-1192), with whom Kiyomori interacted constantly, and then examines Kiyomori's ritual activities and their relation to his political career. Through a close analysis of Kiyomori's construction of a set of signature sites, rites, and texts—at both the ocean-side shrine Itsukushima and Fukuhara-Blair makes her case for the importance of ritual in twelfth-century politics.
Boats Moored and Unmoored: Reflections on the Dunhuang Manuscripts of Gao Shi's Verse
Authors: McMullen David
Published: June 2013

David McMullen reviews Christopher M. B. Nugent's important study, Manifest in Words, Written on Paper: Producing and Circulating Poetry in Tang Dynasty China . He accepts most of Nugent's findings on verse production, memory, recitation, and anthologizing but queries Nugent's thesis that the author's role was reduced as copyists reproduced and adapted poems. McMullen offers evidence that individual literary reputations and authorial links were stronger in the eighth century than Nugent supposes, and that an elite ideal of precision in textual production and copying was probably widespread. McMullen's analysis of textual variation in recovered and transmitted epitaphs supports the idea that the texts of all wenji genres, not verse alone, might have been unstable from the moment of composition. Gao Shi's poems are a partial exception to this rule; copied relatively carefully early on, they later were incorporated in loosely constructed miscellanies, sometimes without authorial attribution.
Image Repair Through TV : The Strategies of McGwire, Rodriguez and Bonds
Authors: Utsler Max , Epp Susie
Published: June 2013

This study critically analyzes Mark McGwire, Alex Rodriguez and Barry Bonds' defense of their steroid use and attempts at image repair during respective television interviews, applying the theory of image restoration discourse (Benoit, 1994). Rodriguez and McGwire used the same basic strategies of bolstering, mortification and blame shifting, while Bonds used denial and attacking his accuser. McGwire and Rodriguez used an "apologize-and-move-on" approach, while Bonds denied and continues to deny steroid use. The media continue to attack Bonds and search for contradictions in his denial, while Rodriguez and McGwire's stories have become monotonous. Teammates and respective fans showed support for Rodriguez and McGwire, while Bonds struggled with relatives and teammates speaking out against him. Fans forgive athletes more easily when the athlete belongs to a winning team, or makes a significant contribution to a winning team. This paper will evaluate each athlete's strategies, the effectiveness of the strategies and the implications of actions as they attempts to restore their positive reputations.
Gaining Primacy in the Digital Network: Using Social Network Analysis to Examine Sports Journalists' Coverage of the Penn State Football Scandal via Twitter
Authors: Hambrick Marion E. , Sanderson Jimmy
Published: June 2013

This study explored the social network that developed amongst sports journalists as the Penn State football scandal evolved. The results suggest that Twitter is an essential domain for sports journalists to occupy when reporting sports stories. Further as sports journalists gain prominence in Twitter networks, they gain exposure to large audiences, thereby obtaining a prime agenda-setting position. Twitter has become a vital tool in sports journalists' repertoire and cannot be ignored.
Institutional Constraints and Changing Routines: Sports Journalists Tweet the Daytona 500
Authors: Emmons Betsy , Butler Sim
Published: June 2013

Twitter's use among sports journalists and bloggers has altered sporting event coverage. Journalists use Twitter under institutional constraints, yet also assert themselves as individual brands; bloggers are not under such constraints. A mixed method approach was used to discern tweeting trends of traditional journalists and bloggers during NASCAR 's Daytona 500. Results suggested that traditional journalists use Twitter primarily for information sharing, while bloggers share opinions. Journalists have homogeneous reporting tendencies and mimic many pre-Twitter behaviors.
Writing About Fighting: A Critical Content Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of The Ultimate Fighting Championship from 1993-2006
Authors: Masucci Matthew , Butryn Ted M.
Published: June 2013

Given the increased popularity of Mixed Martial Arts ( MMA ) in the United States and abroad, the purpose of this study was to investigate newspaper coverage of the most profitable MMA organization in the U.S., the Ultimate Fighting Championship ( UFC ), from 1993-2006. To better understand how the print media framed this controversial sport, a critically informed content analysis of 320 newspaper articles was conducted. Drawing from critical sport studies and media theory (Lowes, 1999; Rowe, 2007; Trend, 2007), the researchers analyzed how various categories of newsprint coverage have shifted over the 13-year period. One clear conclusion was the ability of the mainstream print media to effectively contour the popular discourse of this sporting practice, often playing a key role in the public's appraisal of the UFC during various points in its brief history. Moreover, the mainstream press often served to unwittingly promote the UFC through a lack of critical journalistic practices.
Rube Goldberg, College Football Pollster: An Agenda Setting Analysis of College Football Ranking Systems
Authors: Funk Marcus , McElroy Kathleen
Published: June 2013

The Associated Press retains an extremely significant agenda setting role in the Bowl Championship Series rankings process for college football. Although the AP has not been a formal part of the complicated methodology since 2005, an analysis of polls between 2005 and 2011 indicates highly significant Spearman's correlations (often .990** and above) between the unofficial Associated Press poll and all other polls. Data indicate a highly synchronous polling agenda concerning uniquely explicit media priorities.
Sending a Message through Captain Canada's Punishment: News Media Coverage of the Patrice Cormier Hockey Violence Incident
Authors: Gibbs Laura , Dallaire Christine
Published: June 2013

In January 2010, Canadian Major Junior hockey player, Patrice Cormier, elbowed and injured an opposing player during a Quebec Major Junior Hockey League game. A discourse analysis of one hundred-two texts from five Canadian media sources highlights how the widespread media coverage of this incident constructed Cormier as a star player whose actions crossed the line of acceptable behavior and whose lengthy suspension and guilty plea to assault charges illustrated the unacceptability of his actions.
Ladies First, Men Second: The 2010 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters and Women's Tennis Open and Use of Social Media Marketing
Authors: Schoenstedt Linda J. , Reau Jackie
Published: June 2013

This article will focus on the 2010 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters Tennis Open's Use of Social Media Marketing and show results of each social media platform such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. The 2010 Open ended with website traffic up 62%, over 5,600 Facebook fans, a 59% increase in Twitter fans, over 29,000 retweets and 92,000 YouTube views as well as an increase of 4% in ticket sales. An editorial schedule is appended.
Dense Junctures of Ethical Concern
Authors: Frank Arthur W.
Published: June 2013

A collection of stories by bioethicists writing about their own illnesses displays the importance of microethics. From this perspective, ethics happens not in the application of principles to specific decisions, but rather in the moment-to-moment flow of clinical interaction, as healthcare workers and patients make decisions, especially in their use of language. Microethical issues that are common to multiple stories are described as dense junctures of ethical concern. Three junctures are discussed in detail: conflicts between medical and patient rationalities, issues of how clinicians represent patients, and practices of truth telling. These junctures are illustrated with examples from the bioethicists’ personal stories of treatment.
Taking Bioethics Personally
Authors: Chambers Tod
Published: June 2013

This narrative symposium examines the relationship of bioethics practice to personal experiences of illness. A call for stories was developed by Tod Chambers, the symposium editor, and editorial staff and was sent to several commonly used bioethics listservs and posted on the Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics website. The call asked authors to relate a personal story of being ill or caring for a person who is ill, and to describe how this affected how they think about bioethical questions and the practice of medicine. Eighteen individuals were invited to submit full stories based on review of their proposals. Twelve stories are published in this symposium, and six supplemental stories are published online only through Project MUSE. Authors explore themes of vulnerability, suffering, communication, voluntariness, cultural barriers, and flaws in local healthcare systems through stories about their own illnesses or about caring for children, partners, parents and grandparents. Commentary articles by Arthur Frank, Bradley Lewis, and Carol Taylor follow the collection of personal narratives.
Fractured Humerous/Fractured Humor—What a Broken Arm Taught Me About Racial and Cultural Privilege in Hospital Care
Authors: Jordan Sara R.
Published: June 2013

This narrative symposium examines the relationship of bioethics practice to personal experiences of illness. A call for stories was developed by Tod Chambers, the symposium editor, and editorial staff and was sent to several commonly used bioethics listservs and posted on the Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics website. The call asked authors to relate a personal story of being ill or caring for a person who is ill, and to describe how this affected how they think about bioethical questions and the practice of medicine. Eighteen individuals were invited to submit full stories based on review of their proposals. Twelve stories are published in this symposium, and six supplemental stories are published online only through Project MUSE. Authors explore themes of vulnerability, suffering, communication, voluntariness, cultural barriers, and flaws in local healthcare systems through stories about their own illnesses or about caring for children, partners, parents and grandparents. Commentary articles by Arthur Frank, Bradley Lewis, and Carol Taylor follow the collection of personal narratives.
Teaching the Tyranny of the Form: Informed Consent in Person and on Paper
Authors: Watson Katie
Published: June 2013

This narrative symposium examines the relationship of bioethics practice to personal experiences of illness. A call for stories was developed by Tod Chambers, the symposium editor, and editorial staff and was sent to several commonly used bioethics listservs and posted on the Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics website. The call asked authors to relate a personal story of being ill or caring for a person who is ill, and to describe how this affected how they think about bioethical questions and the practice of medicine. Eighteen individuals were invited to submit full stories based on review of their proposals. Twelve stories are published in this symposium, and six supplemental stories are published online only through Project MUSE. Authors explore themes of vulnerability, suffering, communication, voluntariness, cultural barriers, and flaws in local healthcare systems through stories about their own illnesses or about caring for children, partners, parents and grandparents. Commentary articles by Arthur Frank, Bradley Lewis, and Carol Taylor follow the collection of personal narratives.
What my Children Taught Me about Information Sharing in Medicine
Authors: Harter Thomas D.
Published: June 2013

This narrative symposium examines the relationship of bioethics practice to personal experiences of illness. A call for stories was developed by Tod Chambers, the symposium editor, and editorial staff and was sent to several commonly used bioethics listservs and posted on the Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics website. The call asked authors to relate a personal story of being ill or caring for a person who is ill, and to describe how this affected how they think about bioethical questions and the practice of medicine. Eighteen individuals were invited to submit full stories based on review of their proposals. Twelve stories are published in this symposium, and six supplemental stories are published online only through Project MUSE. Authors explore themes of vulnerability, suffering, communication, voluntariness, cultural barriers, and flaws in local healthcare systems through stories about their own illnesses or about caring for children, partners, parents and grandparents. Commentary articles by Arthur Frank, Bradley Lewis, and Carol Taylor follow the collection of personal narratives.
Two Journeys
Authors: Taylor Katherine A.
Published: June 2013

This narrative symposium examines the relationship of bioethics practice to personal experiences of illness. A call for stories was developed by Tod Chambers, the symposium editor, and editorial staff and was sent to several commonly used bioethics listservs and posted on the Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics website. The call asked authors to relate a personal story of being ill or caring for a person who is ill, and to describe how this affected how they think about bioethical questions and the practice of medicine. Eighteen individuals were invited to submit full stories based on review of their proposals. Twelve stories are published in this symposium, and six supplemental stories are published online only through Project MUSE. Authors explore themes of vulnerability, suffering, communication, voluntariness, cultural barriers, and flaws in local healthcare systems through stories about their own illnesses or about caring for children, partners, parents and grandparents. Commentary articles by Arthur Frank, Bradley Lewis, and Carol Taylor follow the collection of personal narratives.
Body Alienation and the Moral Sense of Self
Authors: Scully Jackie Leach
Published: June 2013

This narrative symposium examines the relationship of bioethics practice to personal experiences of illness. A call for stories was developed by Tod Chambers, the symposium editor, and editorial staff and was sent to several commonly used bioethics listservs and posted on the Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics website. The call asked authors to relate a personal story of being ill or caring for a person who is ill, and to describe how this affected how they think about bioethical questions and the practice of medicine. Eighteen individuals were invited to submit full stories based on review of their proposals. Twelve stories are published in this symposium, and six supplemental stories are published online only through Project MUSE. Authors explore themes of vulnerability, suffering, communication, voluntariness, cultural barriers, and flaws in local healthcare systems through stories about their own illnesses or about caring for children, partners, parents and grandparents. Commentary articles by Arthur Frank, Bradley Lewis, and Carol Taylor follow the collection of personal narratives.
No Surprises, Please!
Authors: Davis Dena S.
Published: June 2013

This narrative symposium examines the relationship of bioethics practice to personal experiences of illness. A call for stories was developed by Tod Chambers, the symposium editor, and editorial staff and was sent to several commonly used bioethics listservs and posted on the Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics website. The call asked authors to relate a personal story of being ill or caring for a person who is ill, and to describe how this affected how they think about bioethical questions and the practice of medicine. Eighteen individuals were invited to submit full stories based on review of their proposals. Twelve stories are published in this symposium, and six supplemental stories are published online only through Project MUSE. Authors explore themes of vulnerability, suffering, communication, voluntariness, cultural barriers, and flaws in local healthcare systems through stories about their own illnesses or about caring for children, partners, parents and grandparents. Commentary articles by Arthur Frank, Bradley Lewis, and Carol Taylor follow the collection of personal narratives.
Give Away Decisions
Authors: Klauser Sylvia
Published: June 2013

This narrative symposium examines the relationship of bioethics practice to personal experiences of illness. A call for stories was developed by Tod Chambers, the symposium editor, and editorial staff and was sent to several commonly used bioethics listservs and posted on the Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics website. The call asked authors to relate a personal story of being ill or caring for a person who is ill, and to describe how this affected how they think about bioethical questions and the practice of medicine. Eighteen individuals were invited to submit full stories based on review of their proposals. Twelve stories are published in this symposium, and six supplemental stories are published online only through Project MUSE. Authors explore themes of vulnerability, suffering, communication, voluntariness, cultural barriers, and flaws in local healthcare systems through stories about their own illnesses or about caring for children, partners, parents and grandparents. Commentary articles by Arthur Frank, Bradley Lewis, and Carol Taylor follow the collection of personal narratives.
The Foretelling
Authors: Crow Sheila
Published: June 2013

This narrative symposium examines the relationship of bioethics practice to personal experiences of illness. A call for stories was developed by Tod Chambers, the symposium editor, and editorial staff and was sent to several commonly used bioethics listservs and posted on the Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics website. The call asked authors to relate a personal story of being ill or caring for a person who is ill, and to describe how this affected how they think about bioethical questions and the practice of medicine. Eighteen individuals were invited to submit full stories based on review of their proposals. Twelve stories are published in this symposium, and six supplemental stories are published online only through Project MUSE. Authors explore themes of vulnerability, suffering, communication, voluntariness, cultural barriers, and flaws in local healthcare systems through stories about their own illnesses or about caring for children, partners, parents and grandparents. Commentary articles by Arthur Frank, Bradley Lewis, and Carol Taylor follow the collection of personal narratives.
A Good Death
Authors: Kirkwood Kenneth W.
Published: June 2013

This narrative symposium examines the relationship of bioethics practice to personal experiences of illness. A call for stories was developed by Tod Chambers, the symposium editor, and editorial staff and was sent to several commonly used bioethics listservs and posted on the Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics website. The call asked authors to relate a personal story of being ill or caring for a person who is ill, and to describe how this affected how they think about bioethical questions and the practice of medicine. Eighteen individuals were invited to submit full stories based on review of their proposals. Twelve stories are published in this symposium, and six supplemental stories are published online only through Project MUSE. Authors explore themes of vulnerability, suffering, communication, voluntariness, cultural barriers, and flaws in local healthcare systems through stories about their own illnesses or about caring for children, partners, parents and grandparents. Commentary articles by Arthur Frank, Bradley Lewis, and Carol Taylor follow the collection of personal narratives.
Nourishing my Grandmother’s Soul
Authors: Ahmad Ayesha
Published: June 2013

This narrative symposium examines the relationship of bioethics practice to personal experiences of illness. A call for stories was developed by Tod Chambers, the symposium editor, and editorial staff and was sent to several commonly used bioethics listservs and posted on the Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics website. The call asked authors to relate a personal story of being ill or caring for a person who is ill, and to describe how this affected how they think about bioethical questions and the practice of medicine. Eighteen individuals were invited to submit full stories based on review of their proposals. Twelve stories are published in this symposium, and six supplemental stories are published online only through Project MUSE. Authors explore themes of vulnerability, suffering, communication, voluntariness, cultural barriers, and flaws in local healthcare systems through stories about their own illnesses or about caring for children, partners, parents and grandparents. Commentary articles by Arthur Frank, Bradley Lewis, and Carol Taylor follow the collection of personal narratives.
The End of a Life
Authors: Greenlaw Jane
Published: June 2013

This narrative symposium examines the relationship of bioethics practice to personal experiences of illness. A call for stories was developed by Tod Chambers, the symposium editor, and editorial staff and was sent to several commonly used bioethics listservs and posted on the Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics website. The call asked authors to relate a personal story of being ill or caring for a person who is ill, and to describe how this affected how they think about bioethical questions and the practice of medicine. Eighteen individuals were invited to submit full stories based on review of their proposals. Twelve stories are published in this symposium, and six supplemental stories are published online only through Project MUSE. Authors explore themes of vulnerability, suffering, communication, voluntariness, cultural barriers, and flaws in local healthcare systems through stories about their own illnesses or about caring for children, partners, parents and grandparents. Commentary articles by Arthur Frank, Bradley Lewis, and Carol Taylor follow the collection of personal narratives.
A Personal Experience of Prenatal Testing for Down Syndrome
Authors: Kaposy Chris
Published: June 2013

This narrative symposium examines the relationship of bioethics practice to personal experiences of illness. A call for stories was developed by Tod Chambers, the symposium editor, and editorial staff and was sent to several commonly used bioethics listservs and posted on the Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics website. The call asked authors to relate a personal story of being ill or caring for a person who is ill, and to describe how this affected how they think about bioethical questions and the practice of medicine. Eighteen individuals were invited to submit full stories based on review of their proposals. Twelve stories are published in this symposium, and six supplemental stories are published online only through Project MUSE. Authors explore themes of vulnerability, suffering, communication, voluntariness, cultural barriers, and flaws in local healthcare systems through stories about their own illnesses or about caring for children, partners, parents and grandparents. Commentary articles by Arthur Frank, Bradley Lewis, and Carol Taylor follow the collection of personal narratives.
The Personal Pilgrimage of David Lurie — or Why Coetzee's Disgrace Should and Should not Be Read in Terms of an Ethics of Perception
Authors: Hämäläinen Nora
Published: June 2013

Through a reading of J. M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace this paper discusses the contemporary genre of reading literature in terms of an "ethics of perception." In the fourteen years since its publication the novel has elicited a rich body of commentary and criticism with an ethical edge, often focusing on the unfolding vision or stunted but developing perceptiveness of its uneasy protagonist David Lurie. This path of criticism is paradigmatic of a broader interest in studying literary works as paths to moral philosophical illumination. I discuss how the novel yields to this kind of reading, but also how this path of reading is complicated by its various other features, above all, a plurality of values that may be hard to reconcile and a Christian perspective of grace which is played against the novels secular, intellectual perspective on perceptiveness. I argue that reading Disgrace in terms of any pre-given ethical formula, however compelling, may be problematic considering the nature of Coetzee's authorship.
Philip Roth's Professor of Desire in the Light of Its French Translation
Authors: Ivanova Velichka D.
Published: June 2013

The article analyzes Henri Robillot's 1979 translation of Philip Roth's The Professor of Desire (1977) into French. It demonstrates the manner in which apparently minor stylistic choices, slight omissions, and more generally the stylistic treatment of male and female characters in the translation constitute a strategy of excessive interpretation and gender politics traced back to the critical reception of Roth's work. Through the analysis of the translation, the article aims to improve the analytical perception of the novel.
Recycling of Doubles in Narrative Fiction of the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries
Authors: Marcus Amit
Published: June 2013

Doppelgänger narratives of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries relate in different and sometimes incompatible ways to their Romantic precursors. They often parody these precursor narratives, criticize their popular interpretations, or tinker with their conventions. Some of them follow the Romantic tradition in highlighting the harsh rivalry between "original" and double and its catastrophic results, whereas in others the double acts as a catalyst for self-reflection and self-transformation. Doppelgänger narratives of the last decades tend to focus on the intersection of the psychological with the scientific or the aesthetic domains, while the significance of the supernatural principle is reduced, eliminated, or replaced by implausible coincidences and analogical relations typical of (post)modern fiction. In order to demonstrate these ideas, the article begins with an analysis of E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Devil's Elixir (1815-1816) and continues with an exploration of five types of later Doppelgänger narratives.
The Difference in One Word: The Italian Translation of Philip Roth's American Pastoral
Authors: Masiero Pia
Published: June 2013

This article addresses the problems of the Italian translation of Philip Roth's American Pastoral by Vincenzo Mantovani. The theoretical backdrop against which the assessment is set concerns the novel's intentional system as David Herman interprets it in his "Narrative Theory and the Intentional Stance." Accordingly, the notion of "intentional equivalence" is proposed as a tool for comparing the original text and its translation. Well aware that the creation of effects starts at the lexical level, word choices at crucial textual junctures are examined, starting with the incipit and proceeding with pivotal moments in the first 90 pages of the book. These pages revolve around a very tight intentional construction depending on Zuckerman's immersion in the Swede's mystique and the consequent need for the narrator to write his story. The article demonstrates that because of inexplicable translation choices the Italian reader is inevitably led into a storyworld different from the original as far as focalizing perspective, ironic distance, and empathetic involvement are concerned.
Sartre Recounts a Childhood Story: The Case of Genet
Authors: Klein Rony
Published: June 2013

In Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr , Sartre tells the story of the writer Jean Genet. He does it from the presuppositions he developed in his major philosophical book, Being and Nothingness , where he presented man as a free being acting in specific situations but always able to surmount the given by decisions of his own. Nevertheless, Sartre describes the story of the orphan Genet as it begins in childhood with the accusation of theft made by his adopted parents and by the adults of the village where he had been sent. This accusation turns out to be traumatic. Genet will actually become a thief later, and a writer of theft and crime. It thus determines his entire life. By telling this story, Sartre himself puts his basic ideas to the test, and has to admit that events which occurred in childhood influence and determine our life. Sartre the philosopher of freedom is thus challenged by Sartre the writer of existence.
Darwin’s Perplexing Paradox: Intelligent Design in Nature
Authors: Thorvaldsen Steinar , Øhrstrøm Peter
Published: June 2013

Today, many would assume that Charles Darwin absolutely rejected any claim of intelligent design in nature. However, review of his initial writings reveals that Darwin accepted some aspects of this view. His conceptualization of design was founded on both the cosmological and the teleological ideas from classical natural theology. When Darwin discovered the dynamic process of natural selection, he rejected the old teleological argument as formulated by William Paley. However, he was never able to ignore the powerful experience of the beauty and complexity of an intelligently designed universe, as a whole. He corresponded with Asa Gray on religious themes, particularly touching the problem of pain and intelligent design in nature. The term “intelligent design” was probably introduced by William Whewell. Principally for theological and philosophical reasons, Darwin could only accept the concept for the universe as a whole, not with respect to individual elements of the living world.
Virtue in Medicine Reconsidered: Individual Health and Global Health
Authors: Benatar Solomon , Upshur Ross
Published: June 2013

One hundred years after the Flexner Report recommended major changes to medical education, an international panel has released a vision of medical education for the 21st century. Two major features of this detailed report that were not adequately articulated or developed were (1) the values that underpin care of individual patients and how these could be sustained and promoted, and (2) the values required to promote global health at a time when health disparities are widening. After reviewing the timeless scientific and humanistic foundations of clinical medicine that are essential for the care of individuals, we consider the role of virtue both in relation to individual patient care and in promoting an ethical framework for population health within a cosmopolitan global health perspective, and suggest that many organs of society should contribute to promoting such progress.
Ancestral Assumptions and the Clinical Uncertainty of Evolutionary Medicine
Authors: Cournoyea Michael
Published: June 2013

Evolutionary medicine is an emerging field of medical studies that uses evolutionary theory to explain the ultimate causes of health and disease. Educational tools, online courses, and medical school modules are being developed to help clinicians and students reconceptualize health and illness in light of our evolutionary past. Yet clinical guidelines based on our ancient life histories are epistemically weak, relying on the controversial assumptions of adaptationism and advocating a strictly biophysical account of health. To fulfill the interventionist goals of clinical practice, it seems that proximate explanations are all we need to develop successful diagnostic and therapeutic guidelines. Considering these epistemic concerns, this article argues that the clinical relevance of evolutionary medicine remains uncertain at best.
Understanding Unconscious Intelligence and Intuition: “ Blink ” and Beyond
Authors: Isenman Lois
Published: June 2013

The importance of unconscious intelligence and intuition is increasingly acknowledged by the scientific community. This essay examines and assesses the varied views on the topic presented in three books that bridge the scientific world and reading public: Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (2005), Gut Feelings by Gerd Gigerenzer (2008), and How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman (2007). The analysis differentiates among kinds of unconscious intelligence and points towards a more complete understanding of the higher cognitive potential of the unconscious mind.
"The Feeling's Mutual": Student Participation in Leadership as a Cooperative Effort
Authors: Owens Michael A.
Published: June 2013

This article stems from a grounded theory study of leadership among urban youth. It reports the perspective of students in a college preparation program by examining how they participated in leadership. Data were collected from semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and field observations of 20 incoming college freshmen. Students conceptualized their participation in the program's leadership practice as a process of purpose-driven cooperative reciprocity. The findings suggested that all members of educational organizations make contributions to their organizations' total leadership capacity. The study concludes by encouraging further empirical work that explores leadership contributions by followers in urban educational organizations.
Paternal Solicitude and Haitian Emigration: The First American Occupation?
Authors: O’Brien Colleen C.
Published: June 2013

The expansionist projects of the first decades of the United States, such as Thomas Jefferson’s desired “Empire of Liberty,” metaphorically whitened the new nation’s geography by denying African American citizens any legitimate claim to the landscape and displacing the First Nations. Shortly after the War of Independence, national policies to “protect property” became, for many, a continuation of colonialism rather than the creation of a land of freedom. Thus African American writing from 1790–1830 often expresses an anti-imperialist stance. This essay considers how black authors protested the idea that the American landscape was white space—the dominion of the descendants of European colonizers. Since the greatest inspiration for anticolonial sentiments came from the free black nation of Haiti, which cut ties with France in 1804, many black leaders advocated emigration. By projecting the ideals of a land of liberty upon a different New World landscape, they sometimes replicated imperial paradigms, but this essay argues that a different kind of emphasis on the relationship of land and labor distinguishes African American expansionism from American imperialism.
“This boa-constrictor appetite of swallowing states and provinces”: Anti-Imperialist Opposition to the U.S./Mexican War
Authors: Lawrence Nicholas
Published: June 2013

Viewed in retrospect, opposition to the U.S./Mexican War stands out as the first moment of full-throated anti-imperialist critique leveled against the United States government by an ideological cross-section of its own citizens. This essay explores the nature and operation of that critique as it appears in several political speeches, newspaper editorials, and literary works from the period. Popular backlash against the war in many ways laid the foundation for anti-imperialisms that persist into the twenty-first century; indeed, opposition to the U.S./Mexican War indexes a tradition within the United States of condemning U.S. imperialism, and worrying over its long-term consequences for the political and moral character of the nation. In her recent essay “ Moby-Dick and the War on Terror” (2007), Carolyn Karcher indirectly touches on the political ramifications for our own historical moment, of deepening our engagement with this tradition. Ahab’s methods of overcoming resistance to his mission, Karcher writes, tells us something about “how the politics of fear has served to cow dissenters into silence and frighten humane, thinking people into supporting the war on terror.” But the U.S./Mexican War evoked a cacophony of dissenters who were neither “cowed” nor “frightened” into supporting what they considered to be an anti-republican, imperialist enterprise. In deepening our engagement with such outbursts of anti-imperialist dissent in the United States, we better position ourselves to productively apprehend twenty-first century anti-imperialist rhetoric—whether appearing in academic publications, the popular media, or in the mainstream political discourse—as a vital aspect of U.S. history and cultural identity.
Occupy Walden
Authors: Killingsworth M. Jimmie
Published: June 2013

Occupy Wall Street is the latest iteration of a metonymic/symbolic turn in the art of American politics that this essay traces back through environmentalism to locate a connection with Henry David Thoreau at Walden. Like the participants in the recent social movement, Thoreau illuminated the search for good work in difficult economic times through an extended performance of acts involving ephemeral occupation and its seeming opposite, vacation (and the related value oppositions of wildness/tameness and freedom/slavery). Without abandoning the values of the middle class, Thoreau and participants in the Occupy movement raise questions about the sustainability of satisfying occupation/vacation under the pressure of severe economic fluctuations and the subsequent lack of opportunity that accompany the shrinking of the middle class.