Clothing the space of flesh: fashion as material narration

In this thesis, I conceive clothing as a corporeal surface in order to re-envision clothing, the corporeal, and the surface. I conceive clothing as a frame for embodied experience in the world, and the body as a means by which clothing is brought into worldly existence. Taking clothing and the body to be mutually constitutive, I draw on texts from a range of registers—literary, artisanal, experiential, theoretical, artistic, conceptual—in order to locate their material interrelation. The act of location is an important reflexive concern of the thesis. In examining the interface of clothing with space, I figure clothing as a spatial form. Each chapter of the thesis examines the significance of clothing through an aspect of its materiality: through its skin-like corporeal immediacy; through its multiplicity in relation to dimension; through its function as a revisable dwelling; through its uncanny figuration in display; and finally through its promotional address in the shopping space of the city. The material on which my argument builds is treated as in itself conceptual. That is, the thesis attends to clothing in its immediate manifestation as matter, in all its richness and complexity, rather than appending conceptual meanings to it from a remove. I treat the mutual material intimating of clothing and body according to its own logic, of simultaneous ephemerality and tangibility, immediacy and evasion, interiority and exteriority, in order to unfold their shared complexity

Classification of routinelyprocessed anaplastic large cell tumours with a small panel of antibodies. An immunohistochemical study

A proportion of anaplastic large cell tumours is difficult to classify on sections of routinely processed, paraffin-embedded tissue. Differentiation into large cell lymphoma, carcinoma, melanoma or sarcoma is important in order to assess prognosis and proper treatment. Although the use of immunohistochemistry has been reported in the differentiation between some of these types of neoplasms, no antibody panel, which can directly differentiate all of them, has been described. In the present study we evaluated the value of a panel of 5 antibodies for the classification of 29 anaplastic large cell tumours, which could not be classified by experienced pathologists using conventional histological and histochemical techniques. The panel, which can be used on routinely fixed paraffin-embedded tissue, consisted of 5 different antibodies directed against keratin, vimentin, the human milk-fat globule membrane antigen MAM-6, a melanoma associated antigen and common leucoyte antigen. The use of this panel directly resulted in a definite diagnosis in 95% of the cases and provided valuable information for the diagnosis in the remaining cases. The diagnosis was confirmed by additional marker studies and electron microscopy. Moreover, clinical follow-up, including treatment data, was in accordance with the diagnosis based on the panel