Fertility and Family History: Using the Past to Explain the Present

1997 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 627 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Ryan Johansson
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
The Past

Chelovek.RU/Человек.RU

Chelovek RU ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 18-53
Author(s):  
Sergei Avanesov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Great Distance ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Past ◽  
Russian Philosopher ◽  
True Meaning ◽  
The Future ◽  
Pavel Florensky ◽  
The Moment

Abstract. The article analyzes the autobiography of the famous Russian philosopher, theologian and scientist Pavel Florensky, as well as those of his texts that retain traces of memories. According to Florensky, the personal biography is based on family history and continues in children. He addresses his own biography to his children. Memories based on diary entries are designed as a memory diary, that is, as material for future memories. The past becomes actual in autobiography, turns into a kind of present. The past, from the point of view of its realization in the present, gains meaning and significance. The au-thor is active in relation to his own past, transforming it from a collection of disparate facts into a se-quence of events. A person can only see the true meaning of such events from a great distance. Therefore, the philosopher remembers not so much the circumstances of his life as the inner impressions of the en-counter with reality. The most powerful personality-forming experiences are associated with childhood. Even the moment of birth can decisively affect the character of a person and the range of his interests. The foundations of a person's worldview are laid precisely in childhood. Florensky not only writes mem-oirs about himself, but also tries to analyze the problems of time and memory. A person is immersed in time, but he is able to move into the past through memory and into the future through faith. An autobi-ography can never be written to the end because its author lives on. However, reaching the depths of life, he is able to build his path in such a way that at the end of this path he will unite with the fullness of time, with eternity.

Porous Selves

2019 ◽  
pp. 164-187
Author(s):  
Justine Buck Quijada
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Will

Chapter 6 narrates a shamanic initiation and describes the family history that is produced in the process of diagnosing the initiate’s shamanic calling. In Yuri’s initiation we see the stakes of embracing one historical genre over another. For Yuri, whose father is Buryat and his mother Russian, whether or not he accepts a shamanic genealogical genre of the past is a matter of life or death for him and his family. This chapter illustrates the kind of relationships to the past that shamanic practices can build, and shows how engaging with historical genres can transform conceptions of self for post-Soviet subjects. The shamanic genre critiques the kind of self, the New Soviet Person, that Soviet modernism sought to cultivate. Through the process of diagnosing a calling and initiation, the aspiring shaman remakes themselves into porous subject, subjected to the will of their ancestors.

Nebraska, New England, New York

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-59
Author(s):  
Melissa J. Homestead
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Family History ◽  
New England ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Willa Cather ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
College Education ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adolescence And Young Adulthood

This chapter describes Edith Lewis’s family history, childhood, and education as a background to her first meeting with Willa Cather in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1903. Because of Lewis’s deeply rooted New England family history, her Nebraska childhood, her elite eastern college education, and her plans to move to New York to pursue literary work, Cather found powerfully concentrated in Lewis two geographically located versions of the past she valued: the Nebraska of her own childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood, and a New England–centered literary culture she encountered through reading. Cather also glimpsed in Lewis the future to which she herself aspired, the glittering promise of literary New York.

Influence of loco-regional radiation therapy on subsequent cancer risk among BC pts with p53 germline mutations

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. 11043-11043
Author(s):  
A. Rahal ◽  
O. Caron ◽  
C. Bourgier ◽  
T. Frebourg ◽  
B. Bressac de Paillerets ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Radiation Therapy ◽  
Family History ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Ductal Carcinoma ◽  
P53 Mutation ◽  
P53 Mutations ◽  
Primary Tumors ◽  
The Past ◽  
Second Primaries

11043 Background: The management of breast cancer (BC) patients (pts) with germline p53 mutations, a rare genetic condition, is not the object of specific recommendations. Preclinical data and preliminary clinical observations suggest a theoretically major radio-sensitivity and high risk of secondary radio-induced malignancies. It remains discussed whether the knowledge of a germline p53 mutation may influence treatment (trt) choices and have prognostic importance. We reviewed our cohort of BC diagnosed as first tumor in pts with germline p53 mutations within the past 11 years, with an attempt to describe secondary malignancies occurring after trt of primary tumor. Patients and Methods: 9 pts have been diagnosed and treated in our institution within the past 11 years for BC as first tumor in the context of a documented germline p53 mutation. Their tumor characteristics, treatment and follow-up data were extracted from prospectively-registered medical records. Results: Median age at diagnosis of primary BC was 32 (22–48). 7/9 pts had a family history compatible with Li Fraumeni syndrome, while 2 had no family history. No pt had previous knowledge of her p53 mutation. Primary tumors were ductal carcinoma in situ (4), infiltrating ductal carcinoma (4), phyllode tumor (1). 3 pts had conservative surgery and 6/9 underwent mastectomy (M). 6 received loco-regional radiation therapy (RT). None had prophylactic contra lateral mastectomy. Loco-regional (LRR) and contra-lateral relapses are listed in the Table , as well as incidence of second primaries within or outside radiation field. Second primaries were sarcoma in 3/4 cases and 1 was papillary thyroid carcinoma. Conclusions: Because of high risk of second breast primary and probably very high risk of radio-induced breast cancer, BC pts with germline p53 mutations should be advised bilateral prophylactic mastectomy and avoidance of radiation therapy. In this context, the knowledge of the mutation might be of great importance. [Table: see text] No significant financial relationships to disclose.

scholarly journals Height and the High Life: What Future for a Tall Story?

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Leunig ◽  
Hans-Joachim Voth
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Family History ◽  
Social History ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Reliable Indicator ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Developed World

This chapter discusses height as a reliable indicator of health status and standard of living. It also suggests that mapping from height to other measures of well-being has attracted the attention of economic historians. The history of heights may prove to be a useful means by which economic historians can better explain the past. The first area is social history, and in particular family history, in the developed world. The second is the economic history of those countries or areas with limited amounts of other data.

Family History Studies: VII. Manic Depressive Disease Versus Depressive Disease

1970 ◽  
Vol 116 (535) ◽  
pp. 625-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Remi J. Cadoret ◽  
George Winokur ◽  
Paula J. Clayton
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Genetic Evidence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Discrete Groups ◽  
Affective Illness ◽  
The Past ◽  
Manic Depressive

During the past twenty years, the unity of manic-depressive disease as defined by Kraepelin (1913) has been questioned by investigators who have presented clinical and genetic evidence that the disease is heterogeneous and contains at least two discrete groups (Leonhard, 1957; Perris, 1966). In one of these groups mania occurs and patients exhibit both manic and depressive phases during the course of their illness. This group has been designated bipolar by most investigators (Leonhard, 1957; Perris, 1966). In the other group there are only episodes of depression, and this has been designated the unipolar group by some (Perris, 1966) and corresponds largely to the ‘monopolar’ group of Leonhard (1957). In this paper we shall use the term unipolar throughout to designate an affective illness in which only depression occurs.

scholarly journals Magnetic Source Imaging Localization of 14 and 6 Hz Positive Bursts

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 753-755 ◽  
Author(s):  
Puneet Jain ◽  
Ayako Ochi ◽  
Rohit Sharma ◽  
Hiroshi Otsubo
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Learning Disability ◽  
Source Imaging ◽  
Magnetic Source Imaging ◽  
The Past ◽  
Focal Seizures ◽  
Magnetic Source ◽  
Multiple Drugs

A 16-year-old boy with learning disability presented with nocturnal pharmaco-resistant focal seizures consisting of right arm/axilla pain, sometimes followed by tonic-clonic movements of right arm/leg since 8 years of age. He was on valproate and levetiracetam and had failed multiple drugs in the past. Family history and examination were unremarkable.

ABDOMINAL EPILEPSY IN CHILDHOOD

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-154
Author(s):  
George H. Schade ◽  
Helen Gofman
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Clinical Diagnosis ◽  
Past History ◽  
Febrile Seizures ◽  
Detailed Consideration ◽  
Complete Family ◽  
The Past ◽  
Seizure State ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of

A complete family history as to the past seizures experienced by the patient or by members of his family may be revealing and helpful in establishing a diagnosis of abdominal epilepsy. In our study 19 of the 46 children revealed a past history of seizure state and 25 had experienced febrile seizures in infancy. Detailed consideration of the type of pain, its site, and allied symptoms should be evaluated carefully. Disorientation during an episode of pain followed by exhaustion and sleep is suggestive of abdominal epilepsy. Electroencephalography is usually helpful in supporting the clinical diagnosis of abdominal epilepsy. Discussion with the child and his parents, when practical and possible, in regard to the diagnosis and therapy, is recommended. Clarification and definition of the regimen and of the condition are essential, as the term "epilepsy" still carries a stigma to the lay person. Consideration of the patient and parental feelings and attitudes leads to understanding, co-operation, and ultimate success in the control of symptoms.

International Federation for Public History Plenary Address

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 102-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome de Groot
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Public History ◽  
International Federation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

This article argues for the importance of genealogy and family history to contemporary understanding and experience of the past. Through looking at various ways that genealogy might be undertaken and imagined, the article argues that this important area needs to be further conceptualized and studied by public historians. The article looks at the implications inherent in the broad shift to global online genealogy and family history. The argument is interrogative and assertive in order to provoke debate amongst public historians about how we might investigate, theorize, and interrogate genealogy and family history further in the future.

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