“Deus foi o primeiro anestesista”: a obstetrícia e a dor em Lisboa, na viragem do século XX

In this article, I analyse the historical emergence of pain management in obstetric literature and practice and how it affected the constitution of a new epistemology of obstetrics in Portugal. The text draws largely on archival research on biomedical articles and theses from mid-19th up to early-20th-century Lisbon, revealing an emerging and shifting biomedical understanding of pain and the labouring body, the agency of the obstetrician, and the political role of obstetrics. The research is part of a longitudinal anthropological study of childbirth pain approached as a locus where affectivities, shifting ontologies and biopolitics merge. Rather than considering childbirth pain as a taken-for-granted physical phenomenon, its materialization within the specific biomedical and historical context of Portugal at the turn of the 20th century is analysed.Analisa-se, neste artigo, a forma como a gestão da dor no parto surgiu na prática e na literatura obstétrica e como afetou a constituição de uma nova epistemologia. A partir de uma pesquisa de arquivo de artigos biomédicos e teses, produzidas em Lisboa, entre a segunda metade do século XIX e as primeiras décadas do século XX, pretende-se focar o conhecimento biomédico, emergente e incerto, sobre a dor e o corpo em trabalho de parto, a agência do obstetra e o papel político da obstetrícia. A pesquisa faz parte de um estudo antropológico longitudinal, com uma abordagem da dor como locus onde se fundam afetividades, ontologias em mudança e biopolíticas. Em vez de considerar a dor como um fenómeno físico tido como certo, pretende-se traçar a sua materialização no contexto biomédico e histórico português específico, na viragem do século XX.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

(Eu) somos lived experience of pregnancy and medicalization

In the past fifty years, pregnancy has gained a lot of interest in social sciences in correspondence with the surge of the body as systematic category of analysis. The pregnant body seems to become a hyper-body on which simultaneously operate biopolitics, economic forces and social imaginaries, all engaged in the creation of a new, dynamic ethic of reproduction. This thesis is an in-depth exploration of the unfolding of my lived experience of pregnancy on the background of the biomedical landscape. Moreover, it analyses the sharing of this experience with three pregnant women that, like me, immigrated in Portugal. It is developed within a phenomenological and critical frame, and takes the form of a dialogue, a dialectical alternation between the autoethnography of my pregnancy and the reflections it triggered in terms of embodiment, medicalization and socialization. The pregnant embodiment that emerges is a liminal one: challenging postulates of subjectivity and individuality, it reflects the complexity of being at once an “I”, (eu) and an “us” (somos).Nos últimos 50 anos a gravidez tem se revelado um assunto relevante na área das ciências sociais

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio e l'isola di Mauritius: ritorno alle origini tra viaggio e letteratura

Ruolo del viaggio all'isola Mauritius nella letteratura di Le Clézio

Bone healing in extraction sockets covered with collagen membrane alone or associated with porcine-derived bone graft: a comparative histological and histomorphometric analysis

The present paper reports data of a randomized study aimed to analyse and compare the histologic and histomorphometric aspects of bone healing in extraction sites covered with collagen membrane alone or associated with porcine-derived bone graft

Molecular and morphometric identification of plant parasitic nematodes

During a nematode survey in vineyards of the Veneto region (Italy), several soil samples were collected. On morphological and morphometric studies, a population from Conegliano Veneto was preliminarily identified as X. rivesi Dalmasso 1969. To support the morphological diagnosis, a molecular characterization of X. rivesi from Italy using the D2-D3 expansion segments of the 28S rDNA and the ITS containing region was undertaken. PCR-RFLP analyses were also performed to determine species-specific patterns for the Italian population of the nematode. Neighbor-Joining, Minimum Evolution and Maximum Parsimony analyses were used to reconstruct phylogenetic relationships within X. rivesi and other Xiphinema species

Atlas: Matrix. Diary of a collaborative practice

This short, experimental piece, represents one possible way to describe the site-specific installation ATLAS: MATRIX in the Tropical Garden of Belém in Lisbon, Portugal. The text is the narrative of a mindful collaboration, one where the act of collaborating - intentional but not overly planned - resulted in an open-ended installation/dispositive that called for ulterior collaboration, enabling the spectators to play with the elements while generating, at the same time, a reflection around the collaborative endeavour itself. An introductory story in the form of a diary is followed by DIY guidelines, indicating a replicable formula for co-laborating - [from Latin cum (together) + laborare (to practice)] - in transdisciplinary settings.Este é um artigo experimental que oferece uma descrição possível da instalação site-specific ATLAS: MATRIX, apresentada no Jardim Tropical de Belém, em Lisboa, Portugal. O texto é a narrativa de uma colaboração frutífera, em que o ato de colaborar – intencional, mas não totalmente planeado – culminou numa instalação/dispositivo comunicativo aberta à colaboração dos presentes, permitindo atuar com e através dos elementos. A instalação motivou, ao mesmo tempo, uma reflexão sobre a própria tentativade colaboração que se foi estabelecendo. O artigo compõe-se de uma história introdutória, na forma de diário, que oferece depois um guia de instruções “faça você mesmo” (DIY), uma fórmula replicável para co-laborar – do latim cum (“com’, “juntos”) + laborare (trabalhar) em cenários transdisciplinares

Energy and water vapor transport across a simplified cloud-clear air interface

We consider a simplified physics of the could interface where condensation, evaporation and radiation are neglected and momentum, thermal energy and water vapor transport is represented in terms of the Boussinesq model coupled to a passive scalar transport equation for the vapor. The interface is modeled as a layer separating two isotropic turbulent regions with different kinetic energy and vapor concentration. In particular, we focus on the small scale part of the inertial range as well as on the dissipative range of scales which are important to the micro-physics of warm clouds. We have numerically investigated stably stratified interfaces by locally perturbing at an initial instant the standard temperature lapse rate at the cloud interface and then observing the temporal evolution of the system. When the buoyancy term becomes of the same order of the inertial one, we observe a spatial redistribution of the kinetic energy which produce a concomitant pit of kinetic energy within the mixing layer. In this situation, the mixing layer contains two interfacial regions with opposite kinetic energy gradient, which in turn produces two intermittent sublayers in the velocity fluctuations field. This changes the structure of the field with respect to the corresponding non-stratified shearless mixing: the communication between the two turbulent region is weak, and the growth of the mixing layer stops. These results are discussed with respect to experimental results with and without stratification.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figure

Absorption and Scattering 2D Volcano Images from Numerically Calculated Space-weighting functions

Acknowledgments Yosuke Aoki and an anonymous reviewer greatly improved the quality of the paper. All calculations were made with Mathematica-10TM. Discussions with Marie Calvet, Danilo Galluzzo, Mario La Rocca, Salvatore De Lorenzo, Jessie Mayor and Ludovic Margerin are gratefully acknowledged. The authors are supported by MEDSUV European project and by Spanish Project Ephestos, CGL2011-29499-C02-01 and NOWAVES, TEC2015-68752. The TIDES EU travel Cost action provided travel money to support cooperation between Luca De Siena and the other authors.Peer reviewedPostprin

Adjuvant radiation therapy in stage I seminoma: 20 years of oncologic results

Aim: To report long term oncologic outcomes after adjuvant radiotherapy (RT) for stage I seminoma. Method: We reviewed the complete data set for all patients treated at our institute between 1988 and 2005 for stage I seminoma with adjuvant RT after radical orchiectomy. Results: A total of 85 patients were included. The median follow-3up was 15 years. The 20-3year overall survival (OS) and relapse free survival (RFS) were 92% and 96.3%, respectively. No severe acute and late complications were recorded. Overall 5.9% of patients had a second unrelated malignancy. Conclusion: Adjuvant RT is an efficacious and safe treatment in stage I seminom

Politiche della casa in Europa. Differenze nazionali e tendenze unificanti dell'housing sociale.

Housing policies in Europe: national differences and unifying tendencies of social housing. - The features of present housing issue ask for new keys, both from the analytical point of view and from that of the policies. One of the most interesting field of anlaysis is represented by the kaleidoscope of different experiences of social housing in Europe. This article aims to go in depth into this hetereogenity and to define a possible model of European social housing. The contribution is organized into five parts: the first one aims to clarify the key terms of the debate; the second one highlights the differences that characterize European countries housing management. In the third part the attention is focused on European Union in order to follow the evolution of its role in social housing from the Eighties to nowadays; opportunities and limits of the multilevel relationships between actors are analyzed in the fourth part; in the conclusions, finally, the focus is on social housing as a way to explain the characters that influence urban spaces of neoliberalism. The changes in housing policies in different European countries, strongly encouraged by the Eu agenda for competitiveness, are evolving towards neoliberal models that rarely assure not only economic but also social and territorial benefits, as the differences between the unitarian and dualistic systems of rental sector prove. Les politiques du logement en Europe. Différences nationales et tendances unifiantes de l'habitat social. - Les caractères de l'actuelle question du logement exigent, soit du point de vue analytique et soit du point de vue des politiques, des nouvelles clefs de lecture. Un des domaines les plus intéressants pour cet exercice est celui-là concernant l'habitat social où l'Europe apparaît comme un tableau de expériences très differentes. Cet article veut approfondir cette hétérogéneité et s'interroger sur le modèle vers auquel on est en train de s'addresser. Cette contribution se déroule autour de certains passages principaux: après avoir clarifié les termes du débat, on analyse les différences qui caractérisent, du point de vue de l'organization et de la gestion, les Pays européens. Dans le troisième passage l'attention se concentre sur le niveau de l'Union européenne pour reconstituer l'évolution de son rôle dès les années Quatre-Vingts jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Ensuite on va souligner les possibilités et les limites qui se dégagent dès les relations multi-niveau entre les acteurs engagés. Dans le dernier passage on s'interroge si et dans quelle façon l'habitat sociale offre des outils efficaces pour développer des raisonnements sur les caractères des espaces urbains du néolibéralisme. Les changements des politiques du logement dans les différents Pays européens, encouragés par les impulsions vers la compétitivité de l'Union européenne, sont en train de évoluer vers des modèles du néolibéralisme qui n'arrivent pas toujours à garantir des avantages économiques et, au même temps, sociaux et territoriaux, comme on peut le voir dans les différences entre les systèmes unitaires et dualistiques dans le domain de la location.This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Società di Studi Geografici in Rivista Geografica Italiana Vol. 116, Issue 3, pp. 349-378