scholarly journals Five Pictures of My Son

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
Rita Malenczyk
Keyword(s):  
Terrible Thing

It’s hard for me to talk in any kind of brief, definitive way about what this essay is. If pressed (which I sort of am now) I’d say that it’s a reflection on coming to terms with what is possibly the most terrible thing that can happen to a parent, and doing so while one is a teacher, scholar, and writer. It is also, for me, a way of moving forward, of memorializing my son while trying to find meaning in the things I’ve always done but which have changed in their significance now, in ways I’m not yet sure I can name.

A Terrible Thing to Waste

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID HAMILTON GOLLAND
Keyword(s):  
Terrible Thing

scholarly journals Inheriting a Tragic Ethos: Learning from Radhabinod Pal

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 25-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adil Hasan Khan
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
Anne Carson ◽  
Catastrophic Failures ◽  
Terrible Thing

This terrible thing we’re witnessing now is Not unique; you know it happened before Or something like it. We’re not at a loss how to think about it We’re not without guidance… Anne Carson, Antigonick (2012). International law can, and times has, involved the performance of another way of living with, of accepting, uncertainty… Anne Orford, The Destiny of International Law (2005). We in the postcolony currently inhabit times constituted by the aftermaths of the catastrophic failures and tragic reversals of countless projects of global redemption and by the bereavement of their promised futures. As Simon Critchley observes, the experience of disorientation produced by such tragedies acutely raises the problem of action: “[E]xpressed in one bewildered and repeated question . . . what shall I do?” This essay takes this problem as its central concern by asking specifically how international lawyers should act in these “tragic times.”

Should the child live? Doctors, families and conflict

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Glover
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Medical Team ◽  
The Third ◽  
Withdrawal Of Treatment ◽  
The Family ◽  
Terrible Thing

It is a terrible thing to let a child die against the deeply held and clearly expressed view of the child's parents. Yet it could be claimed that there are some conditions so burdensome that it may also be a terrible thing to deny a child the escape of death. The focus of this piece is on three ethical issues relating to withholding and withdrawal of treatment in a neonatal and paediatric context. The first is whether there are other interests that should be considered as well as those of the child. The second is how we should think about the interests of the child. The third is a set of issues raised by cases where the medical team and the family reach different conclusions about what it is best to do. Reference is made to the recent cases of Charlotte Wyatt and Luke Winston-Jones.

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