Death in Life

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190687724.003.0001 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-6

Author(s):

Gary C. Howard

Keyword(s):

Normal Development ◽

Cellular Death ◽

Individual Life ◽

Life And Death

Everyone dies, and so we naturally associate death with the end of an individual life. However, life is much more complicated, and death is actually interwoven into biology at many levels. Normal development and life could not exist without the carefully regulated death of certain cells; that type of cellular death also serves as one defense against disease. Other cells wear out and die and must be replaced regularly. On a larger scale, death has influenced the direction of entire species. In fact, death has shaped all life through the cycle of life and death, both throughout time and in normal development. It affects our cells, our development, and our life.

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Portrait of a “Real” Marero

Mortal Doubt ◽

10.1525/california/9780520297081.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 33-56

Author(s):

Anthony W. Fontes

Keyword(s):

Life History ◽

Life Histories ◽

Gang Member ◽

Gang Violence ◽

Individual Life ◽

Life And Death ◽

Memory Material ◽

History Of

Through the life history of a young man named Andy—a gang member who became a protected witness in the prosecution of a spectacular quadruple murder—chapter 2 explores the confused entanglements between memory, material violence, and mara myths in stories of gang violence. In this account of Andy’s life and death, the complex play between truth and rumor—the facts of the matter and the inventions of the imagination—illuminate the possibilities and pitfalls of the search for order in the midst of chaos. This chapter serves as an entrance into how the “all-pervading unpredictability” of violence shapes individual life histories, as well as the manner in which such histories can be told.

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From Becoming-Woman to Becoming-Imperceptible: Self-Styled Death and Virtual Female Corpse in Digital Portraits of Cancer

Kvinder Køn & Forskning ◽

10.7146/kkf.v28i2-3.116311 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 86-106

Author(s):

Katja Herges

Keyword(s):

Creative Process ◽

Death And Dying ◽

Visual Representations ◽

Subject Formation ◽

Female Subjectivity ◽

Individual Life ◽

Life And Death ◽

Death Studies

Contemporary textual and visual representations of cancer engage self-reflectively with death and dying, yet they often rely on normative notion of death as the end of an individual life. This article focuses on stylised cancer portraits of the young German Nana Stäcker which she took in collaboration with her mother and professional photographers during her chemotherapy and until her death. Intervening in the field of Queer Death Studies this article explores if and how these images allow us to rethink normative Western notions of death. Drawing on Rosi Braidotti’s posthuman theory of death and of female subjectivity, I argue that the photo shoots recast Nana’s illness and dying as a gendered and creative process of subject formation beyond individual death. Through creating aestheticised and eroticised camp images, Nana playfully performs und subverts a range of iconic Western femininities and styles both life and death as a constant becoming. Portraits of Nana as virtual female corpse further highlight this continuity of life and death by reinserting death into life. While these images resist a necropolitical engagement with cancer and dying, they suggest an impersonal and affirmative understanding of death that opens up bioethical questions about contemporary cultures of longevity and health.

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Electron Microscopy of Silicon Deposits in Foliar Idioblasts of Magnolia Grandiflora

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100091858 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 34 ◽

pp. 374-375

Author(s):

Michael T. Postek

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Water Loss ◽

Normal Development ◽

Magnolia Grandiflora ◽

Plant Body ◽

Normal Metabolism ◽

Hydrated Oxide

Silicon occurs naturally in plants in the form of its hydrated oxide (SiO2.nH2O) commonly called silica. Silica has been shown to be a necessary element in the normal development of many plants, playing an array of roles including strengthening, protection, and reduction of water loss. Deposition of silica in various portions of the plant body, especially the leaves, may also be viewed as a way for the plant to dispose of any excess silica taken up beyond that necessary for normal metabolism.Studies of this “opaline” silica have thus far been limited to species of the Cyperaceae and Gramineae known to possess significant quantities of silica. Within the Magnoliaceae, certain “glistening” idioblast cells at the foliar veinlet termini and vein sheaths of Magnolia grandiflora (1) have been suspected to be siliceous in nature.

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Localization of Intracisternal a Particle Antigens in Neoplastic Cells and Preimplantation Mouse Embryos

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s1431927600003044 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 38 ◽

pp. 696-697

Author(s):

Thomas T.F. Huang ◽

Patricia G. Calarco

Keyword(s):

Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽

Normal Development ◽

Mouse Embryos ◽

Neoplastic Cells ◽

Large Numbers ◽

Preimplantation Mouse Embryos ◽

Preimplantation Mouse ◽

Intracisternal A Particle ◽

Normal Feature

The stage specific appearance of a retravirus, termed the Intracisternal A particle (IAP) is a normal feature of early preimplantation development. To date, all feral and laboratory strains of Mus musculus and even Asian species such as Mus cervicolor and Mus pahari express the particles during the 2-8 cell stages. IAP form by budding into the endoplasmic reticulum and appear singly or as groups of donut-shaped particles within the cisternae (fig. 1). IAP are also produced in large numbers in several neoplastic cells such as certain plasmacytomas and rhabdomyosarcomas. The role of IAP, either in normal development or in neoplastic behavior, is unknown.

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Lexical Comprehension in Young Children With Developmental Delays

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology ◽

10.1044/1058-0360.0301.79 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 79-88 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Theresa A. Kouri

Keyword(s):

Young Children ◽

Developmental Delays ◽

Normal Development ◽

Clinical Applications ◽

Group Status ◽

Novel Object ◽

Related Information ◽

Comprehension Skills ◽

Lexical Items ◽

Lexical Concepts

Lexical comprehension skills were examined in 20 young children (aged 28–45 months) with developmental delays (DD) and 20 children (aged 19–34 months) with normal development (ND). Each was assigned to either a story-like script condition or a simple ostensive labeling condition in which the names of three novel object and action items were presented over two experimental sessions. During the experimental sessions, receptive knowledge of the lexical items was assessed through a series of target and generalization probes. Results indicated that all children, irrespective of group status, acquired more lexical concepts in the ostensive labeling condition than in the story narrative condition. Overall, both groups acquired more object than action words, although subjects with ND comprehended more action words than subjects with DD. More target than generalization items were also comprehended by both groups. It is concluded that young children’s comprehension of new lexical concepts is facilitated more by a context in which simple ostensive labels accompany the presentation of specific objects and actions than one in which objects and actions are surrounded by thematic and event-related information. Various clinical applications focusing on the lexical training of young children with DD are discussed.

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