Books: 'Prion conversion'

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Wiebe, Ron. L' héritage visionnaire de Ron Wiebe: Conversation inachevée. Ottawa, Ont: Service correctionnel du Canada, 2000.

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Berkowitz, David Richard. Son of hope: The prison journals of David Berkowitz. New York: Morning Star Communications, 2006.

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1941-, Nesbitt Bruce, and Correctional Service Canada, eds. The visionary legacy of Ron Wiebe: An unfinished conversation. Ottawa: Published by the Correctional Service of Canada, 2000.

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Joe, Chaplain. From death to life: The testimonies and writings of a prison minister. Orland Hills, IL (9001 W. 159th Street, Orland Hills, 60477): Freedom in Christ Restoration Ministries, 1996.

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United States. Government Accountability Office. Military base closures: Updated status of prior base realignments and closures : report to Congressional committees. Washington, D.C: GAO, 2005.

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Campbell, William D. Approaching the venture of faith: An apologetical study of the rational development and experiences of a convert prior to the act of faith according to the life and writings of John Henry Cardinal Newman. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1985.

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Wiebe, Ron. Reflections of a Canadian prison warden: The visionary legacy of Ron Wiebe : an unfinished conversation. Ottawa: Correctional Service of Canada, 2000.

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Office, General Accounting. Military bases: Lessons learned from prior base closure rounds : report to the Congress. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1997.

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Office, General Accounting. Military bases: Lessons learned from prior base closure rounds : report to the Congress. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1997.

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Office, General Accounting. Military bases: Status of prior base realignment and closure rounds : report to the Honorable John E. Sununu, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington, D.C. 20013): The Office, 1998.

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Johnson, Andrew. Prison Pentecostalism. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190238988.003.0006.

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Daily, collective practice is at the heart of Prison Pentecostalism. Because of the skepticism swirling around religious conversion and practice inside of prison and the importance of proving faith commitments as genuine, the way a Pentecostal lives inside of prison is very important. Pentecostal inmates participate in rituals inside of the cellblocks that are visible to their fellow inmates, which serve to signal their membership in the group and help to prove the authenticity of their conversions and Pentecostal identity. The rituals and daily practice of Prison Pentecostalism provided inmates with a way to be different people even though they were still incarcerated.

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Saleh, Yusuf. Prison Letters: My Conversion to Islam. Independently Published, 2019.

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Apichella, M. Prison Pentecost. Kingsway Communications, 1996.

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Rogers, J. The Prison Letters: My Conversion to Islam. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018.

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Prison Life Writing: Conversion and the Literary Roots of the U. S. Prison System. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2021.

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Prison Life Writing: Conversion and the Literary Roots of the U. S. Prison System. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2021.

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Rolston, Simon. Prison Life Writing: Conversion and the Literary Roots of the U. S. Prison System. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2021.

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Hindmarsh, D. Bruce. Law and Conversion in Evangelical Devotion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190616694.003.0008.

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Evangelical spirituality had implications for both felons and philosophers. Convictions about the psychological depth and comprehensiveness of God’s law led evangelicals to minister to those who were condemned and imprisoned by the law. The evangelical message of law and gospel was tested when confronted by the desperate condition of the capital convict. This is evident in the prison ministry of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, and other lay Methodists, especially at Newgate prison in London, and also in the response of the Dissenters Philip Doddridge and Benjamin Fawcett to condemned criminals. Intellectually, John and Charles Wesley and Henry Venn offered a deontological ethics grounded in evangelical spirituality, and Jonathan Edwards challenged dominant ideas in moral philosophy by showing that true virtue was deeper and more comprehensive than natural virtue. It required the grace of conversion and the presence of God who was always first and last in any moral considerations.

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Gould, Rebecca Ruth. The Persian Prison Poem. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474484015.001.0001.

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The Persian Prison Poem is the first study of the prison poem genre (habsiyyat) across twelfth-century Central, South, and West Asia. While documenting the emergence of a concept of poetry as a form of political resistance, the book shows the profound entanglements of poetry and power across premodern Eurasia. This book traces the political role of poetry in shaping the prison poem genre across twelfth-century Central, South, and West Asia. The emergence of the genre is indebted to the changing role of the poet, who came into increasing conflict with Ghaznavid and Saljuq sovereigns as the genre developed. Uniting the polarities of perpetuity and contingency, the poet’s body became the medium for the prison poem’s oppositional poetics. Bringing modern European theorists such as Ernst Kantorowicz, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor Adorno into conversation with classical Persian poetics, this book offers an unprecedented account of prison poetry before modernity, and of premodern Persianate culture within the framework of world literature and global politics.

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Smith, Nigel. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666). Edited by Michael Davies and W. R. Owens. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199581306.013.10.

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This chapter looks closely at John Bunyan’s first major narrative, his conversion account Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666), exploring interwoven qualities of intense religious confession, especially the deep sense of sinful guilt; metaphorical vitality drawn from Bunyan’s local experience in Bedfordshire; animated, personified, medicinal citation of the Bible (and other pious books); modes of social abjection; and pursuit of the authority to speak. Grace Abounding was composed when Bunyan was in prison under the terms of the 1664 Conventicle Act, and hence he was using the conversion narrative as a kind of published sermon. Later revisions reduced or erased traces of his earlier religious radicalism, and demonstrated his growing competence as minister and writer, but sometimes compromised authentically remembered spontaneous experience.

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Rahmani, Masoumeh. Drifting through Samsara. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197579961.001.0001.

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Goenka’s Vipassana movement is distinguished for its consistent refusal to identify as Buddhist and its rich rhetorical repertoire for repackaging Theravada Buddhist teachings in pseudo-scientific and secular language. This book is an in-depth qualitative study of Goenka’s movement in New Zealand. It illustrates the implication of the movement’s discourse on shaping unique processes and narratives of conversion and disengagement. It argues that conversion to this movement is tacit and paradoxically results in the members’ rejection of religious labels and categories. The book subsequently examines disengagement in the context of tacit conversion, outlining three pathways: (1) pragmatic leaving, (2) disaffiliation, and (3) deconversion. Pragmatic leavers refer to individuals who disengaged prior to developing a commitment and their language is characterised by pragmatisms, dualistic discourse, and ambivalence, and their post-disengagement involves an active gravitation towards practices with easily accomplished goals. Disaffiliates and deconverts are individuals who disengaged after years of intense commitment to the movement. One of the distinguishing features of disaffiliation narratives is self-doubt resulting from the movement’s ambiguous discourse regarding progress, and that post-disengagement often involves the retrospective adoption of the Buddhist identity. The book argues that consequential to its linguistic strategies as well as the movement’s relation to the host culture, deconversion from this movement is a rare exit pattern. The book thus also questions the normative participant recruitment approach in conversion studies and argues that a simple reliance on the informants’ identification or rejection of categories fails to encompass the tonalities of conversion in the contemporary spiritual landscape.

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Teasdale, Harvey. The Life and Adventures of Harvey Teasdale, The Converted Clown and Man Monkey, with his Remarkable Conversion in Wakefield Prison. Victorian Secrets, 2018.

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Szifris, Kirstine. Philosophy Behind Bars. Policy Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529205541.001.0001.

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This book describes the experience and outcomes of engaging prisoners in philosophy education. Through philosophical dialogue, prisoners had the opportunity to discuss some of the ‘big’ questions in life: ‘What does it mean to be me?’ ‘What is society?’ ‘What are morals and how do they affect how we ought to behave?’ Through non-adversarial, collaborative conversation, Szifris works with men serving long sentences to develop a community of philosophical enquiry. After 3 months of philosophical conversation, the importance of this type of education became apparent – this is about identity and self-understanding. Men in prison need opportunity to express themselves, to explore philosophical questions and engage with each other in positive activity. Through discussion of identity, the text considers whether there is room for growth in the prison environment or can people only ‘survive’. The research, which took place in two prisons, explores the role of prison education, community dialogue and active philosophising in encouraging personal development. The research describes the role of philosophical dialogue in developing trust and relationships between and among the participants; the relevance of this type of education to prisoners’ psychological wellbeing; and the significance of the subject-matter to participants’ perspectives. The book argues that prison promotes the formation of a hyper-masculine ‘survival’ identity. It goes on to argue that education, and more specifically philosophy education, can play a role in cultivating growth identities that encourage personal exploration, self-reflection, and development of new interests.

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Life of Jerry Mcauley, the River Thief [microform]: His Conversion in Prison and His Mission Work in Water Street, New York. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2021.

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The Life of Jerry McAuley, the river thief: His conversion in prison and his mission work in Water Street, New York. Ottawa: Holiness Movement Pub. House, 1996.

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Van Baalen, Susan. Islam in American Prisons. Edited by Jane I. Smith and Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199862634.013.014.

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This chapter explores the gradual legitimization of the beliefs and practices of Islam in US prisons, analyzing the factors that led to the pronounced shift from “Black Muslim” to Sunni Islam over a fifty-five-year period (mid-1950s‒2010). An understanding of the history of prison Islam offers insights into the motivation of black Americans to embrace Islam and the reasons why correctional staff and the general public are suspicious of incarcerated Muslims. Program accommodations to protect prisoners’ religious rights are described to enhance the understanding of the complexities involved in providing a rich experience of Islam during incarceration and preparing prisoners for entry into the wider community of global Islam upon their release. A brief analysis of interactions between various factions—immigrant, black American, Sunni, Shia, Sufi, Salafi, and Wahhabi clarifies issues related to prison conversion to Islam and to the perceived extremist threat created by the mass incarceration of under-educated and marginalized. Muslim prisoners.

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Heiner, Prof, Bielefeldt, Ghanea Nazila, Dr, and Wiener Michael, Dr. Part 3 Vulnerable Groups, 3.2 Persons Deprived of Their Liberty. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198703983.003.0020.

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This chapter addresses the right to freedom of religion or belief, which all detainees should enjoy regardless of the reasons of their detention. Freedom of religion or belief can be deeply significant for detainees, since it can offer them comfort, rehabilitation, and hope at a time when they are experiencing a paucity of social interaction. The chapter highlights the positive duties upon the State in relation to detention due to the heightened risk of religious violations such as indoctrination, forced conversion or involuntary access to prison chaplains. Moreover, imprisonment imposes particular risks on limitations being imposed on manifestations of religion or belief such as fasting, access to religious materials, diet, clothing, and headdress.

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Sinton, Jamie W. Perioperative Management of the Child Following an Extremity Amputation. Edited by Erin S. Williams, Olutoyin A. Olutoye, Catherine P. Seipel, and Titilopemi A. O. Aina. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190678333.003.0056.

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Postamputation pain is multifactorial in nature. Pain often begins prior to the surgical amputation and can be related to trauma or malignancy. Types of pain experienced include nociceptive, neuropathic, phantom, and stump. Control of pain preoperatively and acutely in the postoperative phase, may prevent the conversion from acute to chronic pain. Each patient undergoing amputation experiences nociceptive pain due to surgery, and the overwhelming majority experience neuropathic and phantom limb pain as well. Goal-targeted pain therapies can reduce pain burden perioperatively. Multimodal analgesia begins preoperatively with antineuropathic agents; continues intraoperatively with regional anesthetics, anti-inflammatories, and opioid therapy; and continues for approximately 6 weeks postoperatively with nonpharmacologic and continued pharmacologic therapy.

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Brownson, Orestes A. The Works Of Orestes A. Brownson: Containing The Writings On Religion And Society Prior To The Author's Conversation V4. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2006.

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Brownson, Orestes A. The Works Of Orestes A. Brownson: Containing The Writings On Religion And Society Prior To The Author's Conversation V4. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007.

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Pooley, Roger. Bunyan’s Reading. Edited by Michael Davies and W. R. Owens. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199581306.013.6.

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The Bible is John Bunyan’s primary text, but the range of his reading, before and after his conversion experience, reveals some of the sources of his imaginative works as well as his pastoral and theological concerns. This chapter discusses, in turn, some of the key books in his intellectual and spiritual formation, including popular ballads, newsbooks, and romances; best-selling religious works by Lewis Bayly and Arthur Dent; Martin Luther’s commentary on Galatians; the terrifying story of the apostate Francis Spira; a treatise by Isaac Ambrose in which (it is claimed) he wrote marginal annotations; and John Foxe’s great ecclesiastical history, Acts and Monuments, a copy of which Bunyan had with him in prison, and to which he refers often in his writings.

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Robb, Megan Eaton. Print and the Urdu Public. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190089375.001.0001.

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In early twentieth-century British India, prior to the arrival of digital medias and after the rise of nationalist political movements, a small-town paper from the margins became a key node for an Urdu journalism conversation with particular influence in the United Provinces and Punjab. Understanding this newspaper’s rise shows how a print public characterized by bottom-up as well as top-down approaches influenced the evolution of a new type of Urdu public in twentieth-century South Asia. Addressing a gap in scholarship on Urdu media in the early twentieth century, during the period when it underwent some of its most critical transformations, this book contributes a discursive and material analysis of a previously unexamined Urdu newspaper, Madinah, augmenting its analysis with evidence from contemporary Urdu, English, and Hindi papers; government records; private diaries; private library holdings; ethnographic interviews with families who owned and ran the newspaper; and training materials for newspaper printers. Madinah identified the Urdu newspaper conversation both explicitly and implicitly with Muslim identity, a commitment that became difficult to manage as the pro-Congress paper sought simultaneously to counter calls for Pakistan, to criticize Congress’s treatment of Muslims, and to emphasize Urdu’s necessary connection to Muslim identity. Since Madinah delineated the boundaries of a Muslim, public conversation in a way that emphasized rootedness to local politics and small urban spaces like Bijnor, this study demonstrates the necessity of considering spatial and temporal orientation in studies of the public in South Asia.

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Pincombe, Mike, and Gavin Schwart-Leeper. John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. Edited by Andrew Hiscock and Helen Wilcox. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199672806.013.16.

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This chapter traces the relationship between Reformist conceptions of tragedy, tyranny, and martyrdom in John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments. First published by John Day in 1563 and revised extensively in 1570, 1576, and 1583 prior to Foxe’s death, the Book of Martyrs (as it was popularly called) provided readers with sensational representations of the suffering and piety of the Marian martyrs as part of a Reformist ecclesiastic history. This chapter argues that Foxe presents this contention as a generic issue: the tragedy of death is transformed by an apocalyptic theology into a type of sacred tragi-comedy. Through Foxe’s keen sense of the polemical and conversional power of performance, the Book of Martyrs demonstrates the interplay between Reformist apocalyptic theology and early modern spectacle.

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Patterson, Janet P. Aphasia Assessment. Edited by Anastasia M. Raymer and Leslie J. Gonzalez Rothi. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199772391.013.3.

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Theoretically grounded aphasia assessment that matches clinical practice settings is critical to planning intervention and assisting individuals with aphasia and their family members. This chapter begins with an overview of aphasia assessment in three historical periods: clinical description prior to 1935, standardized testing into the 1960s, and the postmodern era of multifaceted assessment. Topics in this section include aphasia classification; screening; assessing specific linguistic ability, functional communication, and quality of life; and assessment within cognitive neuropsychological and information-processing models. The second section describes contemporary assessment practices including the purpose and models of assessment, personal and environmental factors influencing assessment decisions, assessing conversation and connected speech, and related assessment areas such as cognition, executive function, and emotional state. Finally, emerging trends in assessment are discussed including evidence-based practice, treatment candidacy and prognosis, psychosocial models of assessment, and telehealth. Successful aphasia assessment should be a principled, systematic, and dynamic component of managing and living with aphasia.

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Military bases: Lessons learned from prior base closure rounds : report to the Congress. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1997.

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Cappelen, Adne, Nils Petter Gleditsch, and Olav Bjerkholt. The Wages of Peace: Disarmament in a Small Industrialized Economy (International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO)). Sage Publications Ltd, 1995.

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Chiran, Gabriela Aurelia. Limba romana literara in traducerile succesive din Jules Verne. Editura Universitara, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5682/9786062810474.

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Lucrarea de fata reprezintă o incercare de cercetare sistematică a fenomenelor și tehnicilor traductologice evidentiate în talmacirile romanesti ale romanului Le Château des Carpathes/ Castelul din Carpati, cu scopul de a releva marcile diacronice ale limbii romane literare, de-a lungul celor o suta douazeci si cinci de ani de confruntare cu scrierile lui Jules Verne. Textul Le Château de Carpathes/Castelul din Carpati, despre care discutam aici, s-a bucurat de un succes deosebit in epoca si in posteritate, ajungand la sensibilitatea cititorilor romani, dar si a traducatorilor, intrucat acesta valorifica o limba literara in care terminologia stiintifica de la nivelul de popularizare a stiintelor se îmbina cu elementele stilului beletristic: un vocabular complex, presarat cu expresii metaforice, cu forme arhaice, regionale, dar mai ales cu imprumuturi, cu neologisme obtinute pe aceasta cale a imprumutului sau prin creatii interne partiale ori totale – calcuri lingvistice, derivate, compuse, conversiuni, combinatii intre toate acestea. In plus, romanul in cauza a reprezentat un prilej de mandrie nationala, dat fiind faptul ca Transilvania, un colt de tara romaneasca, a provocat un interes deosebit pentru anticipatorul stiintific francez – un autor de talie mondiala.

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Gray, Andrew C. Orthopaedic approach to the multiply injured patient. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199550647.003.012003.

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♦ Major trauma results in a systemic stress response proportional to both the degree of initial injury (1st hit) and the subsequent surgical treatment (2nd hit).♦ The key physiological processes of hypoxia, hypovolaemia, metabolic acidosis, fat embolism, coagulation and inflammation operate in synergy during the days after injury/surgery and their effective management determines prognosis.♦ The optimal timing and method of long bone fracture fixation after major trauma remains controversial. Two divergent views exist between definitive early intramedullary fixation and initial external fixation with delayed conversion to an intramedullary nail once the patient’s condition has been better stabilised.♦ There is agreement that the initial skeletal stabilisation should not be delayed and that the degree of initial injury has a more direct correlation with outcome and the development of subsequent systemic complications rather than the method of long bone fracture stabilisation.♦ Trauma patients can be screened to identify those more ‘at risk’ of developing systemic complications such as respiratory insufficiency. Specific risk factors include: A high injury severity score; the presence of a femoral fracture; the combination of blunt abdominal or thoracic injury combined with an extremity fracture; physiological compromise on admission and uncorrected metabolic acidosis prior to surgery.♦ The serum concentration of pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin (IL) 6 may offer an accurate method of quantifying the degree of initial injury and the response to surgery.♦ The effective management of the polytraumatised patient involves a team approach and effective communication with allied specialties and theatre staff. A proper hierarchy of the injuries sustained can then be compiled and an effective surgical strategy made.

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Platt, R. Eric, and Holly A. Foster, eds. Persistence through Peril. University Press of Mississippi, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496835031.001.0001.

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Literature that recounts the history of nineteenth-century Southern higher education includes Civil War-related issues as part of a larger, longitudinal narrative. In cases concerning the war years (1861-1865), existing publications focus on the closure, destruction, and reformation of regional colleges and universities due to student enlistment, the burning of buildings by Union troops, campus conversions to military barracks or army hospitals, etc. Few, however, focus completely on the Civil War South—even fewer provide detailed case examples that extol the persistence of some Southern colleges during the fray. Though most Southern institutions of higher education did close during the war, a handful of academies remained open, weathering the storm and providing instruction to remaining students. While related literature provides interesting insights regarding college student military service, the role some professors played as Confederate officers, and the reemergence of Southern higher education following the war, this text showcases how some colleges and universities remained open while battles rages in nearby fields, towns, and ports via in-depth case “episodes” of eleven Southern institutions of higher education: South Carolina Military Academy (The Citadel), Wofford College, Mississippi College, Spring Hill College, Tuskegee Female College, (present-day Huntingdon College), Mercer University, Wesleyan College, the University of Virginia, the Virginia Military Institute, the University of North Carolina, and Trinity College (now known as Duke University). This volume provides pertinent information that underscores events that occurred at each institutional site prior to, during, and after the deadliest internal conflict in American history.

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Herdt, Jennifer A. Assuming Responsibility. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192849205.001.0001.

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This book defends an “ecstatic” or “goodness-prior” eudaimonism found in both ancient pagan and Christian thinkers, distinguishing this from objectionably self-regarding forms of eudaimonism. Ever since Kant, eudaimonism, the doctrine of happiness as highest end, has come under attack as egoistic and as offering the wrong reasons for fulfilling obligations. Today we are witnessing enthusiastic endorsements of eudaimonism, yet it is unclear both whether they can ward off these critiques and whether they succeed in recovering eudaimonism in either its pagan or Christian guise. In this book, Jennifer Herdt examines how happiness, the final end, and obligation are construed by major figures within the Western tradition, arguing that Augustine, Aquinas, Scotus, and Calvin are all best understood as ecstatic eudaimonists, who understand the final end as a good greater than oneself and therefore worthy of one’s commitment and devotion. The book further argues that ecstatic eudaimonism succeeds in accounting for the binding character of obligation, requiring neither a divine command theory nor a notion of sui generis moral obligations. In conversation with a broad array of contemporary moral philosophers, the book characterizes obligation as a feature of accountability relations among agents who track their own and others’ commitments and entitlements. It concludes by exploring the vocation Christians affirm as divine call to a shared life of responsiveness to fragile finite goods and persons, and thereby to a participation in creation’s reditus to God.

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Shay, Anthony, and Barbara Sellers-Young, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199754281.001.0001.

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Dance intersects with ethnicity in a powerful variety of ways and in a broad set of venues. Dance practices and attitudes about ethnicity have sometimes been the source of outright discord, such as when African Americans were—and sometimes still are—told that their bodies are “not right” for ballet, when Anglo Americans painted their faces black to perform in minstrel shows, when nineteenth-century Christian missionaries banned the performance of particular native dance traditions throughout much of Polynesia, and when the Spanish conquistadors and church officials banned sacred Aztec dance rituals. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity brings together scholars from across the globe to investigate what it means to define oneself in an ethnic category and how this category is performed and represented by dance as an ethnicity. The chapters in the book place a reflective lens on dance and its context to examine the role of dance as performed embodiment of the historical moments and associated lived identities. In bringing modern dance and ballet into the conversation alongside forms more often considered ethnic, the chapters ask the reader to contemplate previous categories of folk, ethnic, classical, and modern. From this standpoint, the book considers how dance maintains, challenges, resists, or in some cases evolves new forms of identity based on prior categories. Ultimately, the goal of the book is to acknowledge the depth of research that has been undertaken and to promote continued research and conceptualization of dance and its role in the creation of ethnicity.

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Billingsley, A. S. 1818-1897. From the Flag to the Cross: Or, Scenes and Incidents of Christianity in the War. the Conversions ... Sufferings and Deaths of Our Soldiers, on the Battle-Field, in Hospital, Camp and Prison; and a Description of Distinguished Christian Men and Their Lab. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2018.

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