The UCT Child Guidance Clinic : changing client profile and policies in the 1990s

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 143-158).As UCT Child Guidance Clinic (CGC) practice and policy shifted markedly in response to the political turmoil and parallel crisis in South African psychology during the 1980s, this study investigates the effects of the ""new"" South Africa on CGC practice and clientele during the 1990s

Educating the other : the politics of somatic difference in Frankenstein

The dissertation engages in a postcolonial reading of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. It argues that Frankenstein and the education of Frankenstein's creature are both deeply rooted in colonial discourse, the nature of the colonial other and the place of this other within Western society. By charting how this discourse functions in the construction of physical alterity, this paper argues that through his exposure to language and society Frankenstein's creature becomes complicit in this process of imposition in which he is placed as the object of a discourse which construes him as other

Posthumous pieces of the Reverend John William de la Flechere

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Infant feeding

The subject of infant feeding, in this country at least, does not seem to have received all the attention that the importance of the matter deserves. The figures on Infantile Death and Disease, and the extreme frequency with which gastro-intestinal disorders occur amongst infants, which on enquiry are found in the majority of cases to be brought on by improper food, are sufficient to justify some enquiry into the methods at present in vogue in feeding infants.I propose to consider the subject in the following manner:-The natural food is of course taken first with general conditions as to the times of nursing and the quantities taken.Failing the Mother's milk, the selection and control of a Wet Nurse is considered next, as being the best substitute. This leads to some of the reasons that make nursing impossible, and the method and times for weaning. Which brings us to Artificial feeding.The substitutes for Mother's milk that have been considered are:- Asses Milk. Goats milk. Ewes milk. Mares milk. Patent foods. & Cows milk.In considering the bearing that food has upon Infantile gastro-intestinal troubles, it is certain that errors in diet are responsible for the majority. Such are:- Dyspepsia, Gastro-enteritis, Diarrhoea and Constipation.The grave constitutional conditions due also largely to errors in diet are considered;- Anaemia, Atrophy, Rickets and Scurvy.It has seemed to me that the main lines upon which improvement should take place are:- 1) The greatest possible care in producing a milk supply of constant quality and Unquestionable purity. 2) The admixture of dilutants and scalding. 3) The dissemination of more accurate knowledge of the subject, amongst those responsible for the upbringing of children.I have tried the effect of administering a specially prepared cows milk, whose preparation is described, with very satisfactory results

Research on the control of airplanes

Our task is to endeavor to obtain precise experimental records of the motion of stalled airplanes, both when left to themselves and when the pilot is trying to control them. The apparatus which we use consists of a box containing tree gyroscopes which are slightly deflected against a spring control when the airplane is turning

Spinal cord stimulation for the management of pain: Recommendations for best clinical practice

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is an accepted method of pain control. SCS has been used for many years and is supported by a substantial evidence base. A multidisciplinary consensus group has been convened to create a guideline for the implementation and execution of an SCS programme for South Africa (SA). This article discusses the evidence and appropriate context of SCS delivery, and makes recommendations for patient selection and appropriate use. The consensus group has also described the possible complications following SCS. This guideline includes a literature review and a summary of controlled clinical trials of SCS. The group notes that, in SA, SCS is performed mainly for painful neuropathies, failed back surgery, and chronic regional pain syndrome. It was noted that SCS is used to treat other conditions such as angina pectoris and ischaemic conditions, which have therefore been included in this guideline. These recommendations give guidance to practitioners delivering this treatment, to those who may wish to refer patients for SCS, and to those who care for patients with stimulators in situ. The recommendations also provide a resource for organisations that fund SCS. This guideline has drawn on the guidelines recently published by the British Pain Society, and parts of which have beenreproduced with the society’s permission. These recommendations have been produced by a consensus group of relevant healthcare professionals. Opinion from outside the consensus group has been incorporated through consultation with representatives of all groups for whom these  recommendations have relevance. The recommendations refer to the current body of evidence relating to SCS. The consensus group wishes to acknowledge and thank the task team of the British Pain Society for their help and input into this document

Literary Praxis and Pedagogic Philosophy in British Educative Fiction after Rousseau

Finding its origin in the educational philosophy forwarded by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the 1760s, this thesis examines how the experimental system of education proposed in Emile or On Education (1762) was received and adapted in the educative writing of Maria Edgeworth, Mary Hays and William Godwin. Focusing primarily on Edgeworth’s Belinda (1801), Hays’s Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1798), and Godwin’s Fleetwood (1805), this thesis examines how Rousseau’s educational model was adapted towards the end of the 1790s as a philosophy of literary reception that was grounded in active, practical experimentation and literary praxis. Drawing a line between didacticism and education, Rousseau opened up the possibility for an educational philosophy that shifted the focus away from didactic pedagogy towards an understanding of education that focused on the act of reception rather than the imparting of ideas. While many critics have, like Godwin, focused on the implications that this shift in perspective has had for the relationship between the teacher and pupil, less apparent is how Rousseau’s experiential educational model was revised towards the end of the eighteenth century in ways that reframed the role that literature could play in education. What Maria Edgeworth, Mary Hays and William Godwin recognise in the 1790s is that the interaction between the reader and the novel has the potential to function in a fundamentally similar fashion to the relationship Rousseau theorises in Emile between his student and the physical world. Focusing on how each of these writers envisions the act of reading, this thesis demonstrates how, within the Rousseauvean educational framework, reading is reconstituted by Edgeworth, Hays and Godwin as a practical, empirically justifiable educational act. Through an examination of this experiential approach to literary reception, this thesis explores how the growing emphasis on the practical nature of the interaction between readers and literary texts functions to involve readers in the educational process. Through this conception of active readerly reception, works like Belinda, Memoirs of Emma Courtney and Fleetwood open up the possibility for a form of auto-education that, I argue, enables a movement towards a democratisation of education that could be situated outside of the bounds of institutionalised educational systems.This thesis would not have been possible without the generous financial support that I received from the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, the Cambridge International Trust and the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust