Toward a Transnational History of World War I

Michael S. Neiberg delivered the keynote address at the 19th Military History Colloquium, held at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, 1–3 May 2008. This is the text of his address

Roses, Just to Say That I Love You

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Exquisite Corpses: Fantasies of Necrophilia in Early Modern English Drama

My dissertation examines representations of necrophilia in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. From the 1580s, when London’s theatres began to flourish, until their closure by Parliament in 1642, necrophilia was deployed as a dramatic device in a remarkable number of plays. Exquisite Corpses analyzes the relationship between the English Reformation’s abolition of the doctrine of Purgatory and obsequies for the dead, and the frequent, often eroticized representations of dead bodies in the commercial theatre. Despite Protestant iconoclasm, “the cult of the cadaver,” as Eamon Duffy refers to it, was not readily relinquished and remained indelible in the cultural imagination. My project expands the definition of necrophilia beyond sexual intercourse with corpses, and builds on current uses of the word by early modern scholars to include all eroticism that occurs within the vicinity of death and dead bodies in English Renaissance drama, all eroticism that cannot be understood without considering the role death plays in its formulation. During this same period, human dissections were publically performed more frequently and anatomical discoveries were published for lay as well as professional audiences. Outbreaks of the plague and public executions likewise kept the dead in intimate proximity to the living. I argue that the confluence of religious, anatomical, and punitive discourses contributed significantly to the eroticized depictions of corpses in early modern drama. Central to this study is my observation that the sex/death nexus is about the flesh. As theologians and polemicists argued, lust is born in, expressed through, and ultimately corrupts the flesh; similarly, many discourses concerned with what “dead” meant posited that death was defined by the decay of the flesh. In other words, flesh conjoins the erotic and the thanatotic. Thus, to understand the eroticization of corpses, and the ways in which corpses influenced the shaping of erotic subjectivities, is to better understand how early moderns conceived of eroticism, death, and mortal flesh. To demonstrate my argument, I use a cultural historicist approach underpinned by psychoanalytic and gender theories and analyze plays that illustrate particularly well the conjunctions between sex and death and their relationship to subject formation. My intervention opens promising new models for understanding the reciprocal relationship between death and erotic subjectivity. As the first book-length study on necrophilia in early modern drama, it foregrounds several dramas that interrogate key cultural concerns about intimacies between the living and the dead

The effects of induced stress on the management of hostility in essential hypertension

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston UniversityThis investigation studied the mode of hostility management in persons with essential hypertension. The mode of adjustment to hostile impulses of hypertensive persons was viewed as a defensive adaptation which was different from the normal mode. The hypothesized differences between these groups were to be observed under two conditions, one with and one without hostility arousal. Under both conditions it was predicted that the hypertensive would be over-inhibited with respect to expressions of hostility. In the first condition a higher level of inhibition and tension was expected to characterize the hypertensive group. Under the second condition greater change from the earlier levels of inhibition and tension were also expected to characterize the hypertensive group. The independent variable of essential hypertension was defined on the basis of presence or absence of a medical diagnosis of essential hypertension. The second independent variable was hostility arousal. The method employed was an adaptation of the Wisconsin card sort that involved punishment for failure [TRUNCATED

Rose: Just To Say That I Love You

[Verse 1] These roses, dear, I’m sending you, No fairer roses ever grow. For deep in each heart there is concealed This message of love to you revealed. [Chorus] Roses can bring us happiness, Roses can bring us tears, Roses can bring back memories Memories of by-gone years, Roses can bring forgiveness For their charms are rare ‘tis true, But could these roses speak, they’d tell you that they seek, Just to say, dear, that I love you. [Verse 2] Like music, dear, flow’rs play their part. They bring us joy and break our heart Most beautiful flow’rs that ever grew This message they bring, sweetheart, to you. [Chorus

Dermatomyositis and supraventricular tachycardia

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Dermatomyositis is an idiopathic inflammatory myopathy, often associated with an underlying malignancy. Its prevalence rate is approximately one per 100,000 in the general population, and is even rarer without evidence of a cancer. Dermatomyositis rarely involves myocardial muscle fibers, but has shown to be associated with cardiac arrhythmias.</p> <p>Case Presentation</p> <p>We present a case of a young female patient with known history of dermatomyositis who presented to hospital with a flare up of her disease. She also complained of paroxysms of palpitation. Telemetry monitoring revealed several episodes of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia with heart rate reaching up to 220 beats per minute.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Cardiac involvement in dermatomyositis is a very rare, but well known entity. Dermatomyositis patients with palpitations should be monitored on a Holter monitor, and appropriate therapy initiated if found to have a significant arrhythmia.</p

High Output Heart Failure, A Lethal and Forgotten Cause of Heart Failure

Introduction Cardiac output (CO) is usually low or normal in patients with heart failure. However, some patients have a high CO deemed high-output heart failure (HOHF). HOHF is not well characterized and continues to be under-recognized clinically. At the Detroit VA, we conducted a quality improvement project to define the characteristics of this unique patient population, identify predictors and increase awareness of this entity. Methods Patients with HOHF were compared to patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and normal CO. HOHF was defined as CO \u3e8 L/minute on right heart catheterization performed between 2008-2021. Retrospective data regarding hemodynamics, comorbidities, and mortality were collected and compared using descriptive and univariate analyses. Results There were no significant differences in age or race between the groups or in the rate of comorbidities analyzed except for tobacco smoking and CKD which were higher in the HOHF group. Majority of the patients in the HOHF group had preserved EF (91%). Patients had a similar mean wedge pressure, but the HOHF group had significantly lower pulmonary vascular resistance and systemic vascular resistance. Mortality among patients with HOHF was 48.6% compared to the comparative group of 18.9% (p Conclusion In this single center study comparing HOHF to HFpEF, the HOHF group had significantly higher mortality compared to the HFpEF group, despite similar co-morbidities, wedge pressure and demographics. The diagnosis of HOHF was not made in majority of the cases, suggesting under recognition. We aim to create awareness of this entity among providers and highlight the need for early referral for right heart catheterization, given that HOHF can be erroneously diagnosed as HFpEF without invasive measurements. Clinical trials allocated towards management of this entity is overdue