scholarly journals The Secrets of Indians: Native Knowers in Enlightenment Natural Histories of the Southern Americas

2021 ◽  
pp. 101-123
Keyword(s):  
Natural Histories

scholarly journals Snaking into the Gothic: Serpentine Sensuousness in Lewis and Coleridge

Humanities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Jeremy Chow
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
Prose Poetry ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Natural Histories ◽  
The Erotic ◽  
Gothic Studies

This essay charts the ways late-eighteenth-century Gothic authors repurpose natural histories of snakes to explore how reptile-human encounters are harbingers of queer formations of gender, sexuality, and empire. By looking to M.G. Lewis’s novel The Monk (1796) and his understudied short story “The Anaconda” (1808), as well as S.T. Coleridge’s Christabel (1797–1800), I centre the last five years of the eighteenth century to apprehend the interwoven nature of Gothic prose, poetry, and popular natural histories as they pertain to reptile knowledge and representations. Whereas Lewis’s short story positions the orientalised anaconda to upheave notions of empire, gender, and romance, his novel invokes the snake to signal the effusion of graphic eroticisms. Coleridge, in turn, invokes the snake-human interspecies connection to imagine female, homoerotic possibilities and foreclosures. Plaiting eighteenth-century animal studies, queer studies, and Gothic studies, this essay offers a queer eco-Gothic reading of the violating, erotic powers of snakes in their placement alongside human interlocutors. I thus recalibrate eighteenth-century animal studies to focus not on warm-blooded mammals, but on cold-blooded reptiles and the erotic effusions they afford within the Gothic imaginary that repeatedly conjures them, as I show, with queer interspecies effects.

Anthropology and the Anthropocene: Criticisms, Experiments, and Collaborations

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew S. Mathews
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Human Impacts ◽  
Ecological Models ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Temporal Scales ◽  
The World ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
Natural Histories ◽  
Historical Epoch

The Anthropocene, a proposed name for a geological epoch marked by human impacts on global ecosystems, has inspired anthropologists to critique, to engage in theoretical and methodological experimentation, and to develop new forms of collaboration. Critics are concerned that the term Anthropocene overemphasizes human mastery or erases differential human responsibilities, including imperialism, capitalism, and racism, and new forms of technocratic governance. Others find the term helpful in drawing attention to disastrous environmental change, inspiring a reinvigorated attention to the ontological unruliness of the world, to multiple temporal scales, and to intertwined social and natural histories. New forms of noticing can be linked to systems analytics, including capitalist world systems, structural comparisons of patchy landscapes, infrastructures and ecological models, emerging sociotechnical assemblages, and spirits. Rather than a historical epoch defined by geologists, the Anthropocene is a problem that is pulling anthropologists into new forms of noticing and analysis, and into experiments and collaborations beyond anthropology.

Comparison of Outcomes after Hospitalization for Deep Venous Thrombosis or Pulmonary Embolism

2002 ◽  
Vol 88 (09) ◽  
pp. 407-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Murin ◽  
Patrick Romano ◽  
Richard White
Keyword(s):  
Pulmonary Embolism ◽  
Venous Thromboembolism ◽  
Relative Risk ◽  
Venous Thrombosis ◽  
Disease Process ◽  
Initial Diagnosis ◽  
Multivariate Models ◽  
Principal Diagnosis ◽  
Hospital Discharge Records ◽  
Natural Histories

SummaryVenous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism are commonly viewed as different manifestations of a single disease process, venous thromboembolism. Recent evidence suggests that there may be important differences between patients who manifest these two conditions. Using linked hospital discharge records we analyzed 71,250 patients hospitalized with a principal diagnosis of venous thrombosis alone or pulmonary embolism and analyzed predictors of rehospitalization within 6 months for venous thrombosis or pulmonary embolism. There were 51233 patients diagnosed with venous thrombosis alone and 21,625 diagnosed with pulmonary embolism. Comparing patients initially diagnosed with venous thrombosis alone to patients with pulmonary embolism, the relative risk of being rehospitalized with venous thrombosis within 6 months for venous thrombosis was 2.7. Conversely, when patients with pulmonary embolism were compared to patients with venous thrombosis alone, the relative risk of rehospitalization within 6 months with a diagnosis of pulmonary embolism was 4.2. In multivariate models the strongest predictor of recurrent thromboembolism manifest as pulmonary embolism was an initial diagnosis of pulmonary embolism and the strongest predictor of recurrence as venous thrombosis was an initial diagnosis of venous thrombosis. We conclude that the initial clinical manifestation of thromboembolism strongly predicts the manifestation of a recurrence. Venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism appear to be distinct, albeit overlapping, clinical entities with different natural histories.Presented at the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis Meeting in Paris, France on July 9, 2001

Hobbes'forgotten Natural Histories

2006 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Bunce
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Thomas Hobbes ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Historical Information ◽  
Natural Histories

AbstractThomas Hobbes' natural philosophy is often characterised as rationalistic in opposition to the emerging inductivist method employed by Francis Bacon and fellows of the Gresham College - later the Royal Society. Where as the inductivists researched and published a multitude of natural histories, Hobbes' mature publications contain little natural historical information. Nonetheless, Hobbes read numerous natural histories and incorporated them into his works and often used details from these histories to support important theoretical moves. He also wrote a number of natural histories, some of which remain either unpublished or untranslated. Hobbes' own mature statements about his early interest in natural histories are also misleading. This article attempts to review Hobbes' early writings on natural histories and argues that his works of the 1630s and 1640s owe a significant debt to the natural histories of Francis Bacon, Hobbes' one-time patron.

Marvels of Medicine

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yarí Pérez Marín
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Medical Writing ◽  
Colonial Mexico ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
The Common ◽  
New Form ◽  
Natural Histories

Marvels of Medicine makes a compelling case for including sixteenth century medical and surgical writing in the critical frameworks we now use to think about a genealogy of cultural expression in Latin America. Focusing on a small group of practitioners who differed in their levels of training, but who shared the common experience of having left Spain to join colonial societies in the making, this book analyses the paths their texts charted to attitudes and political positions that would come to characterize a criollo mode of enunciation. Unlike the accounts of first explorers, which sought to amaze audiences back in Europe with descriptions of strange and astonishing lands, these texts instead engaged the marvellous in an effort to supersede it, stressing the value of sensorial experience and of verifying information through repetition and demonstration. Vernacular medical writing became an unlikely early platform for a new form of regionally anchored discourse that demanded participation in a global intellectual conversation yet found itself increasingly relegated to the margins. In responding to that challenge, anatomical treatises, natural histories and surgical manuals exceeded the bounds set by earlier templates becoming rich, hybrid narratives that were as concerned with science as with portraying the lives and sensibilities of women and men in early colonial Mexico.

World Weeds: Natural Histories and Distribution

Taxon ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 209
Author(s):  
Rudolf Schmid ◽  
LeRoy Holm ◽  
Jerry Doll ◽  
Eric Holm ◽  
Juan Pancho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Histories

scholarly journals The Natural Histories of Schizophrenic Processes

1988 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 653-659 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. C. Wynne
Keyword(s):  
Natural Histories

Bacon’s Inductive Method and Material Form

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 57-68
Author(s):  
Ori Belkind ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Inductive Method ◽  
General Account ◽  
Dynamic Form ◽  
Natural Histories ◽  
Material Form

This paper contends that Bacon’s inductive method depends crucially on his general account of matter. I argue that Bacon develops a dynamic form of corpuscularianism, according to which aggregates of corpuscles undergo patterns of change that derive from active inclinations and appetites. The paper claims that Bacon’s corpuscularianism provides him with a theory of material form that enables him to theorize bodily change and possible material transformations. The point of natural histories and experiments is then to find the processes of corpuscular change that correlate with making present or making absent simple natures.

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