scholarly journals ‘A Procedure Without a Problem’, or the face transplant that didn’t happen. The Royal Free, the Royal College of Surgeons and the challenge of surgical firsts

2021 ◽  
pp. medhum-2020-012106
Author(s):  
Fay Bound Alberti ◽  
Victoria Hoyle
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Working Party ◽  
Surgical Innovation ◽  
Face Transplant ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Surgical History ◽  
The Media ◽  
International Issues ◽  
The Uk

Face transplants are an innovative and unusual form of modern surgery. There have been 47 face transplants around the world to date, but none as yet in the UK. Yet in 2003, the UK was poised to undertake the first face transplant in the world. The reasons why it didn't take place are not straightforward, but largely unexplored by historians. The Royal College of Surgeons, concerned about the media attention given to face transplants and the ethical and surgical issues involved, held a working party and concluded that it could not give approval for face transplants, effectively bringing to a halt the UK’s momentum in the field. This extraordinary episode in medical history has been anecdotally influential in shaping the course of British surgical history. This article explores and explains the lack of a face transplant in the UK and draws attention to the complex emotional, institutional and international issues involved. Its findings have implications beyond the theme of face transplants, into the cultural contexts and practices in which surgical innovation takes place.

The NACPDE: new opportunities for dentists trained overseas

2009 ◽  
Vol 91 (8) ◽  
pp. 283-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Clinical Training ◽  
Dental Education ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Dental Surgery ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk

The National Advice Centre for Postgraduate Dental Education (NACPDE) was founded in 1978 and is based in the Faculty of Dental Surgery of The Royal College of Surgeons of England and funded by the Department of Health. The UK has traditionally played an important part in providing clinical training and postgraduate education for dentists from all parts of the world. But it is equally important to recognise the contribution oversea-strained dentists have made to the NHS.

scholarly journals Cenas da precariedade de ontem e de hoje | Scenes of the precariousness of yesterday and today

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-92
Author(s):  
José Edilson Amorim
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Politics

ResumoA partir de uma crônica de Bráulio Tavares, este artigo reflete sobre cenas da precariedade de ontem e de hoje. A primeira cena está em Lima Barreto, em Recordações do escrivão Isaías Caminha, ao referir a Revolta da Vacina no Rio de Janeiro do século XX, comparada às manifestações de 2013 e 2014 no país; a segunda é a espetacularização da mídia sobre as manifestações de rua em 2013 e 2014, e sobre o processo de impedimento do mandato presidencial de Dilma Rousseff em 2015; a terceira é uma cena da vida cotidiana de uma moça de Brasília em outubro de 2014. As três situações revelam o mundo da classe trabalhadora e seu desamparo em meio ao espetáculo midiático.Palavras-chave: Trabalho. Mídia. Política. Espetáculo. AbstractFrom a chronicle by Bráulio Tavares, this paper reflects about scenes of the precariousness of yesterday and today. The first scene is in Lima Barreto’s novel Recordações do escrivão Isaías Caminha (Memories of the scrivener Isaías Caminha), when referring to the Vaccine Revolt in the Rio de Janeiro of the 20th century, compared to the manifestations of 2013 and 2014 in Brazil; the second is about the media spectacularization of the street manifestations between 2013 e 2014 in Brazil, and also on Dilma Rousseff's impeachment process in 2015; the third one is from the everyday life of a girl from Brasília in October of 2014. All those three situations reveal the world of the working class and its helplessness in the face of the media spectacularization.Keywords: Work. Media. Politics. Spectacle.

scholarly journals Autopsy in suspected COVID-19 cases

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 239-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Hanley ◽  
Sebastian B Lucas ◽  
Esther Youd ◽  
Benjamin Swift ◽  
Michael Osborn
Keyword(s):  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Clinicopathological Correlation ◽  
Sars Coronavirus ◽  
Autopsy Findings ◽  
Death Toll ◽  
The World ◽  
Group 3 ◽  
The Uk

The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-coronavirus-2 (CoV-2) outbreak in Wuhan, China has now spread to many countries across the world including the UK with an increasing death toll. This will inevitably lead to an increase in the number of suspected coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related deaths at autopsy. The Royal College of Pathologists has responded to this concern with the release of a briefing on autopsy practice relating to COVID-19. The following article is a summary and interpretation of these guidelines. It includes a description of hazard group 3 organisms, the category to which SARS-CoV-2 has been assigned, a brief description of what is currently known about the pathological and autopsy findings in COVID-19, a summary of the recommendations for conducting autopsies in suspected COVID-19 cases and the techniques for making the diagnosis at autopsy. It concludes by considering the clinicopathological correlation and notification of such cases.

The RCS International Office: a profile

2011 ◽  
Vol 93 (10) ◽  
pp. 356-357
Author(s):  
Carly Evans
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Surgical Innovation ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
The Uk

The Royal College of Surgeons of England is an international organisation with members from more than 90 countries. The movement of doctors, patients and surgical innovation across borders has a huge impact on surgery in the UK. The College recognises that an appreciation, understanding and active engagement in international affairs can be usefully brought to bear on the advancement of surgical standards in the UK and abroad, to the benefit of our fellows and members and ultimately their patients.

A new international focus for the RCS

2010 ◽  
Vol 92 (10) ◽  
pp. 345-345
Author(s):  
John Getty
Keyword(s):  
World Health ◽  
Coalition Government ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Global Level ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Surgical Innovation ◽  
European Working ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

The College is an inherently international organisation with international interests: around a quarter of our total membership resides abroad in 99 countries. The movement of doctors and patients and the development of surgical innovation have a great impact on surgery in this country. In addition, the coalition government has cited health and overseas development as the two key areas for ring-fenced resourcing. Increasingly, policy and safety initiatives at both the EU and the global level (such as the European Working Time Regulations and the World Health Organization's safer surgery checklist) demonstrate that an appreciation, understanding of and active engagement in international affairs can be usefully brought to bear on advancing surgical standards in the UK, to the benefit of our fellows and members, and ultimately their patients.

Are UK otorhinolaryngologists maintaining their research output?

2013 ◽  
Vol 127 (6) ◽  
pp. 556-561 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Kulkarni ◽  
M Kulkarni ◽  
J Ramsden ◽  
P Silva
Keyword(s):  
Research Output ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Article Type ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

AbstractBackground:In the general surgical and anaesthetic literature, there has been a decline in research output originating from the UK. This study analysed the 10 globally leading and 2 UK leading otorhinolaryngology journals to determine whether this trend was also reflected within otorhinolaryngology.Methods:Citable research output was analysed from 4 individual years, over a 10-year period (2000–2010), to determine absolute output, geographical mix and article type.Results:The proportion of research output from the UK and Ireland grew 22.8 per cent among the leading global otorhinolaryngology journals, but fell 28.6 per cent among the leading two UK otorhinolaryngology journals. The converse trend was true for the USA and Canada. Output from European and the rest of the world grew among both sets of journals, while Japanese output fell. ‘Research’ articles remained the most prevalent type.Conclusion:These results are encouraging as they refute the fall in UK research output observed by other authors. In the face of growing challenges, it is important to maintain published output so that the fate that has befallen other specialties is not mirrored within UK otorhinolaryngology.

scholarly journals Stay Home, Stay Safe Proximity as Vitality ad Vulnerability Under Lockdown

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Leo Hopkinson ◽  
Lydia House
Keyword(s):  
Social Isolation ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Public Rhetoric ◽  
Anthropological Theory ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Adverse Impacts ◽  
Ethnographic Interview ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Uk

From March to May 2020 in the UK, measures that became known across the world as ‘lockdown’ curtailed personal freedoms in order to curb the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus. While initial criticisms of lockdown focused on the adverse impacts of social isolation on wellbeing, this research article explores how lockdown creates new and altered proximities and intimacies as well as distances. During the initial UK lockdown, the ‘household’ and ‘home’ were deployed in public rhetoric as default spaces of care and security in the face of widespread isolation and uncertainty. However, emergent proximities created by bringing people together in the assumed safety of home also deepened existing inequalities and vulnerabilities. Using anthropological theory, third sector evidence, and ethnographic interview data we explore this process. We argue that understanding proximity and intimacy as fundamentally ambivalent, not normatively affirming, is central to recognising how pandemic responses such as lockdown reinforce and reproduce existing forms of inequality and violence.

scholarly journals Jack Monroe and the cultural politics of the austerity celebrity

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942110309
Author(s):  
Jessica Martin
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Queer Identity ◽  
Dual Identity ◽  
Public Persona ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Mediated Presence

This article conceptualises home cook Jack Monroe as an ‘austerity celebrity’, a mediated figure who forged her public persona directly through articulations with austerity culture. Drawing on an intertextual analysis of her blogs, cookbooks, interviews, speeches and representations across the media, I argue that Monroe demonstrates the paradox of anti-austerity celebrity in becoming economically successful as the face of modern poverty. Monroe’s navigation of a dual identity of celebrity and activist manifests in her critique of the government, her middle-class precarity, her status as a mother and her queer identity which requires consistent ‘authenticity labour’. In Monroe’s case, this labour is visible as a constant and politicised struggle over the terms of her ‘authenticity’. While unable to manage her more complex middle-class, queer identity, which confronts the established grounds of ‘feckless mothers’, the UK tabloid media attempts to frame Monroe’s success as a rags-to-riches style narrative reinforcing hegemonic rhetorics of resilience and creativity as routes to overcoming adversity. This analysis of the struggles at work in Monroe’s mediated presence demonstrates how the moral imperatives for women to offer to resourcefully manage the ‘challenges’ of austerity cuts, arguably draws attention away from austerity as structurally and politically motivated.

scholarly journals Scotland's Referendum and the Media

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
General Election ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
International Context ◽  
British Identity ◽  
Rich Variety ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Scottish Independence ◽  
The Uk

On 18 September 2014, a referendum took place in Scotland to determine the question of Scottish independence. Soon after, the independence issue recurred strongly as a topic in the UK general election of May 2015. This volume examines the media coverage of the referendum, analyzing how it was reported and structured in the media in Scotland, the wider United Kingdom, and in other parts of the world which had a direct interest in the outcome. In twenty chapters encompassing a rich variety of perspectives, scholars, commentators and journalists from Scotland, the rest of Britain, Europe, Canada and Australia examine how the media across the world presented the debate. By exploring how the media in their particular nations constructed coverage of the Scottish political debate, contributors from outside the UK illuminate a range of attitudes to nationalism and separatism in various countries which saw significance for themselves in the Scottish case. The book’s investigation of the shifting nature of Scottish – and British - identity thus revealed is thereby placed in an emphatically international context, alongside specific contributions from England, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as Scotland itself. The consequences of the referendum are traced in the media until the aftermath of the May general election of 2015.

the International Advisory Board at the Royal College of Surgeons

2013 ◽  
Vol 95 (8) ◽  
pp. 252-253
Author(s):  
Martin Bircher ◽  
Mike Parker
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Advisory Board ◽  
The World ◽  
International Activities ◽  
The Uk ◽  
International Advisory

The International Advisory Board (IAB) was created at the College in 2009 to coordinate and enhance the College's international activities. At the outset the question was posed as to whether we pursue an active overseas strategy? We believe the answer is a resounding 'yes'. Nearly 25 per cent of our membership is from overseas. We believe we owe all our members a commitment not only to advance standards of healthcare within the UK but also across the world.

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