scholarly journals Living with the past at home: The afterlife of inherited domestic objects

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Caron Lipman
Keyword(s):  
Material Objects ◽  
Domestic Interiors ◽  
The Past ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
At Home

This article examines people’s responses to the material objects they inherit or discover in their homes. Reflecting on interviews with inhabitants of a variety of English domestic interiors, the author explores the meanings, values and beliefs involved in choices to retrieve, retain, reposition or replace material residues from the home’s recent or distant past. Participants’ responses reveal how beliefs about the past and its objects become imbricated in homemaking practices, locating home as shared, both spatially and temporally, and enhancing or challenging senses of belonging. In particular, objects left by previous inhabitants are endowed with degrees of agency as part of the identity of home. Responses reflect a belief in the continuing presence of the past. Many objects require a form of negotiation – including rituals of appeasement or containment – expressing an entangled relationship between the heimlich and unheimlich in everyday homemaking practices.

DEATH AT HOME

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-78
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Neonatal Care ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Past ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
At Home

Paediatricians responsible for neonatal care have been increasingly involved in, and aware of, the importance of parent infant interactions. These interactions are of major importance when concerned with the dying newborn. Over the past few years parental involvement in decision making related to life and death of newborn babies is becoming increasingly accepted ... more and more parents are opting to take their baby home to die. As changing patterns of birthing increasingly involve fathers and children, so death is once again becoming a family affair.

Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane S. Gerber
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Many ◽  
At Home

Sephardi identity has meant different things at different times, but has always entailed a connection with Spain, from which the Jews were expelled in 1492. While Sephardi Jews have lived in numerous cities and towns throughout history, certain cities had a greater impact on the shaping of their culture. This book focuses on those that may be considered most important, from Cordoba in the tenth century to Toledo, Venice, Safed, Istanbul, Salonica, and Amsterdam at the dawn of the seventeenth century. Each served as a venue in which a particular dimension of Sephardi Jewry either took shape or was expressed in especially intense form. Significantly, these cities were mostly heterogeneous in their population and culture — half of them under Christian rule and half under Muslim rule — and this too shaped the Sephardi worldview and attitude. While Sephardim cultivated a distinctive identity, they felt at home in the cultures of their adopted lands. The book demonstrates that Sephardi history and culture have always been multifaceted. The book's interdisciplinary approach captures the many contexts in which the life of the Jews from Iberia unfolded, without either romanticizing the past or diluting its reality.

Information from the past: how elderly people orchestrate presences, memories and technologies at home

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 739-753 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandra Talamo ◽  
Marco Camilli ◽  
Loredana Di Lucchio ◽  
Stefano Ventura
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
The Past ◽  
At Home

scholarly journals Providing a “peaceful death” in the twenty-first century

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Evangel Sarwar
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Terminal Illness ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Natural Course ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Dying At Home ◽  
At Home

Advances in medical technology have not only raised our expectations that medicine can perform miracles and keep us alive; it has also raised conflicts in allowing death to take its natural course. Many dilemmas are faced by physicians as well as families in end-of-life care and relieving the suffering. Ethical dilemmas about how to ensure individuals with terminal illness/end-of-life experience a “peaceful death,” when the meaning and perception of death has changed due to technology? In the past, death was expected and accepted, with rituals. Today, death has been reduced to an unheard phenomenon - shameful and forbidden. The advances in technology brought with it a change in culture of medicine from caring to curing, where medicine is expected to heal any disease. This advance has also acted as a double-edged sword, where longer lives come at the price of greater suffering, illness, and higher costs. While most Americans want to die at home, surrounded by loved ones - the “medicalization” of death does not allow the natural course of death to take place. Although recent studies indicate that more Americans are dying at home, most people still die in hospital beds – alone. This paper looks at the transition that took place in the concept of death and dying, and the impacts of technology, and makes suggestions for facilitating a “peaceful death” in the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals OBITUARY: James (Jim) F. Lynch 1942-1998

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Denis Saunders
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
At Home

Jim Lynch lost his long battle with cancer when he died at home at Shady Side Maryland, USA on 26th March. Despite the difficulties posed by his illness, he was carrying out fieldwork in Texas only three weeks before he died. Over the past year he produced several new papers and manuscripts and sustained an active correspondence with colleagues around the world.

scholarly journals MEMBANGUN PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER DALAM MASYARAKAT

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Sri Suyanta
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Character Education ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Elderly Age ◽  
The Past ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
At Home

Character education is a necessity across the area, time and age. Character education is absolutely necessary not only in school, but also at home and in other social environments. It was prioritized since the past, present and future. Even today the students in character education is no longer for an early childhood but also adult and even the elderly age. Therefore character education should be designed and implemented systematically and simultaneously to help the students understand the human behavioral values which are associated with someoneself, fellow human beings, the environment and his or her Lord. Character education can be reached through three stages, namely socialization of the introduction, internalization, application in life.

Chickenpox in Leukemic Patients— Factors in Prognosis

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 562-564
Author(s):  
GERALD BODEY ◽  
EUGENE MCKELVEY ◽  
MYRON KARON
Keyword(s):  
Complete Remission ◽  
Acute Leukemia ◽  
Incubation Period ◽  
Partial Remission ◽  
Ample Evidence ◽  
The Past ◽  
Frequent Administration ◽  
Fatal Complications ◽  
Platelet Transfusions ◽  
At Home

There is now ample evidence that chickenpox can produce fatal complications in patients with acute leukemia. The prognosis, however, is not invariably bad. In the past three years, we have observed twelve cases of varicella in leukemic patients, all of whom recovered (Table I). Nine of the twelve cases occurred during two epidemics on the childrens' ward. The incubation period ranged from 14-24 days with a median of 19 days. The remaining three were infected at home. Eight children were in marrow remission, two were in partial remission (Nos. 9 & 10) and two had relapsed (Nos. 11 & 12). Three patients were severely ill (Nos. 10, 11 & 12), and none of these was in complete remission. Patient No. 11 had profound leukopenia and thrombocytopenia, but did not develop hemorrhagic lesions probably because of the frequent administration of platelet transfusions.

The Second Shift in (Modern) Ruler Visibility: the Reign of Abdülhamid II (1876–1909)

2018 ◽  
pp. 127-198
Author(s):  
Darin Stephanov
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Public Display ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Personality Cult ◽  
Second Shift ◽  
Over Time ◽  
At Home

Chapter 4 analyses the second shift in modern ruler visibility, along faith-based lines, during the reign of Abdülmecid’s son, Abdülhamid II (1876–1909). It demonstrates that the sultan strove to present himself as a pious Muslim to Muslims at home and abroad, and as a Western ruler to non-Muslims at home and abroad. Therefore, the sultan tended to deprive the former of his direct visibility (public appearances and public display or dissemination of royal portraits), while at the same time channelling and staging it selectively towards the latter. Split chronologically into early-, middle- and late-reign sections, this chapter places a special emphasis on the overall shift from direct to indirect sultanic visibility over time by way of resorting to material objects and abstract metaphors as ruler proxies. Chapter 4 traces the escalation of celebration in the second half of Abdülhamid II’s reign in an attempt to capture the deliberate personality cult, centred on the sultan. At the same time, it also analyses a range of alleged provocations and attempts at subversion (ceremonial or otherwise) of symbolic central power in order to shed new light on the later channels for group activation and increasingly ethnic group realisation.

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