Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Zachary Michael Jack
Keyword(s):  
Death And Dying ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Beating Heart ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Cautionary Tale ◽  
Middle America ◽  
Heart Section

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the portrayals of Middle America. How can such a beating-heart section of the country, the very cradle of regionalism, psychically ground and spiritually anchor a nation while simultaneously serving as its ultimate cautionary tale? Those who chose to leave Middle America sometimes hear in its portrayals a chilling message: Middle America is a place to avoid getting stuck in, a place whose fatalistic machinations the monied and mobile do well to escape. Many regionalists present Middle Americans as a Gothic people, from cradle to grave as mindful of death and dying as of living and thriving. Their stories and canvases illuminate an almost funereal-life-art practiced with fidelity in the heartland, where fictional characters and real-life citizens alike undertake the difficult task of living passionately and purposefully against a backdrop of finite and sometimes tragic limits. For true regionalists, however, the homegrown Gothic amounts to much more than mere pessimism or fatalism; it is an homage to Death, Life's less heralded twin, an animating force no less instructive and no less worthy of its own pages.

Discrepant Affects

2020 ◽  
pp. 176-200
Author(s):  
Jonathan Gilmore
Keyword(s):  
Actual World ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Actual Experience

This chapter addresses a puzzling feature of one’s engagement with certain kinds of fictions. This is the problem of discrepant affects: one sometimes takes pleasure in fictional events that one would deplore in real life; one aligns oneself with or even admires fictional characters whom one would find despicable if encountered in the actual world; and one forms desires for events to occur in fictions that, in actual experience, one would want to prevent. Highlighting certain dimensions of simulative and empathetic processes, this chapter explains such normatively deviant responses as reflecting an appropriate fiction-motivated breakdown in the quarantine separating how one really values things from how one only imagines doing so.

Radiology Basics: Overview and Concepts

2000 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Trotter ◽  
Barbara Carey
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
X Rays

WHILE I WAS GROWING UP, THERE WAS A PERIOD OF time when I was no longer interested in fictional characters, but in real life heros. Certainly one of the books that influenced me was Microbe Hunters by Paul De Kruif. I was spellbound as these scientific heros discovered the unseen universe of bacteria that was all around us. No less thrilling or useful was the discovery of a new force that allowed us to see within the human body, x-rays.

Combustion or Incineration? Notes on English Translations of Holocaust-related Writings by W. G. Sebald

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-221
Author(s):  
Edward Timms
Keyword(s):  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
German Original ◽  
English Translations

This paper examines certain discrepancies between the German originals and the English translations of three Holocaust-related works by W. G. Sebald: The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, and Vertigo. The process of Anglicization is shown to involve tonal transformations. Attention is also drawn to variations in the use of the textually embedded illustrations that form such a distinctive feature of Sebald's narrative strategy, for example the omission from The Emigrants of a chalk drawing by the refugee artist Frank Auerbach that was featured in the German original, Die Ausgewanderten. This raises further questions about an aesthetic of hybridity that not only combines words with images, but transforms real-life originals into quasi-fictional characters.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Julie Sin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Practical Purpose ◽  
Health Gain ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Population Approach

This introductory chapter sets out the book’s practical purpose to be a useful and salient guide in the real life arena of commissioning and health services decision-making for better population health outcomes. The book is grounded in the experience of health services in England where the intention is to provide a comprehensive range of services on a whole population basis. The reader will be taken through the book using the main anchoring point of commissioning, the process of securing services for populations within finite resources. The book is structured in two parts. The first half (Part I) contains core topics to help build confidence about commissioning for health gain. It covers the purpose of commissioning, its health service context, and offers concepts that tangibly link commissioning actions with a population approach. Part II builds on that to cover more applied topics that commissioners will need to navigate in practice.

Death and Dying

Cinema, MD ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 193-216
Author(s):  
Eelco F.M. Wijdicks
Keyword(s):  
Death And Dying ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Active Euthanasia ◽  
Assisted Death ◽  
Dying Patients ◽  
Film Directors ◽  
History Of ◽  
Prolongation Of Life ◽  
Active Assistance

There have been major advances in care of dying patients, and screenwriters, like physicians, have grappled with quality-of-life concerns, artificial prolongation of life, and active assistance in death. Palliation and active euthanasia have been constant, side-by-side considerations in the history of medicine. Assisted death, euthanasia, and self-determination in how to end life have been interests for film directors, and this chapter places these films in context. In real life death is dignified and peaceful, whereas in the movies death from disease is often agonizing and not easily over. In the movies, the sick seldom leave earthly existence in a convincing way.

Holding a Mirror up to Nature

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Gilligan ◽  
David A.J. Richards
Keyword(s):  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Cultural Roots

Shakespeare has been dubbed the greatest psychologist of all time. This book seeks to prove that statement by comparing the playwright's fictional characters with real-life examples of violent individuals, from criminals to political actors. For Gilligan and Richards, the propensity to kill others, even (or especially) when it results in the killer's own death, is the most serious threat to the continued survival of humanity. In this volume, the authors show how humiliated men, with their desire for retribution and revenge, apocryphal violence and political religions, justify and commit violence, and how love and restorative justice can prevent violence. Although our destructive power is far greater than anything that existed in his day, Shakespeare has much to teach us about the psychological and cultural roots of all violence. In this book the authors tell what Shakespeare shows, through the stories of his characters: what causes violence and what prevents it.

scholarly journals Paramedics and serious illness: communication training

2019 ◽  
pp. bmjspcare-2018-001734
Author(s):  
Nikki Jane Pease ◽  
Jenifer Jeba Sundararaj ◽  
Edward O'Brian ◽  
Joanne Hayes ◽  
Edward Presswood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Care ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Symptom Control ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Ambulance Service ◽  
Serious Illness ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Service Staff ◽  
The Impact

ObjectivesThe need to empower Ambulance Service staff at the point of delivery of end of life care (EoLC) is crucial. We describe the delivery, outcomes and potential impact of the Serious Illness Conversation project delivered to Welsh Ambulance Service Trust (WAST) staff. Over an 18-month period, 368 WAST staff attended face-to-face teaching, which included serious illness conversation communication skills, symptom control and ‘shared decision making’.MethodData collected from WAST staff were used to gain insight on perception of their role and challenges within the context of EoLC, understand the impact of teaching on self-confidence and identify impact on the wider service. A mixed methods approach was used for data analysis.ResultsWAST staff view themselves in several important roles, acting as ‘facilitators’ to patient-centred, seamless care, providing support, liaison between services and practical help in patient care at the end of life. The difficult questions and situations pertaining to EoLC were related to discussions on death and dying and managing expectation. The predominant barriers identified related to communication. Quantitative outcomes on the six communication domains indicate statistically significant improvement in self-assessed confidence. The overall impact to the wider ambulance service suggests a trend towards better use of resources.ConclusionThe perceived roles and challenges identified by paramedics can help in customising training objectives. The initial outcomes from the ongoing project with WAST demonstrate increased confidence in handling communication issues. Initial successive surveys suggest teaching is making a real life impact on patient care at end of life.

scholarly journals R. F. BURTON Revisited: Alternate History, Steampunk and the Neo-Victorian Imagination

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 591-603
Author(s):  
Iolanda Ramos
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Real Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Alternate History ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
History Approach ◽  
Cultural Features

Abstract This article draws on an alternate history approach to the Victorian world and discusses steampunk and neo-Victorian literary and cultural features. It focuses on Richard Francis Burton-one of the most charismatic and controversial explorers and men of letters of his time-who stands out in a complex web of both real-life and fictional characters and events. Ultimately, the essay presents a twenty-first-century revisitation of the British Empire and the imperial project, thus providing a contemporary perception of Victorian worldliness and outward endeavours.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Emar Maier ◽  
Andreas Stokke
Keyword(s):  
Possible Worlds ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Impossible Worlds ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Interdisciplinary Work ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Human Capacity

Fiction is the ultimate application of the human capacity for displacement—thinking and talking about things beyond the here and now. Fictional characters may live in very remote possible or even impossible worlds. Yet our engagement with fictional stories and characters seems effortless and permeates every aspect of our everyday lives. How is this possible? How does fictional talk relate to assertions about the here and now, or indeed to modal talk about other possible worlds? What is the relation between fiction and mental states like belief and imagination? How does a sequence of fictional statements become a story? What are fictional characters? How do narrators manage to give us access to their characters’ innermost thoughts and desires? This introductory chapter traces the development of various strands of research on these questions within linguistics, narratology, and philosophy in order to lay a foundation for the cutting-edge interdisciplinary work in this volume.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Sivan Shlomo Agon
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Multidimensional Approach ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Wto Dispute Settlement ◽  
Dispute Settlement System

The introductory chapter begins with a review of the literature on the effectiveness of international courts, with a focus on the World Trade Organization (WTO) Dispute Settlement System (DSS). It then sets out the book’s main objective, which is to offer a multidimensional approach for analysing the effectiveness of the WTO DSS, a goal-based approach that defines DSS effectiveness as the extent to which this adjudicative system attains the goals set for it by the WTO and its Member states. Such an approach not only transcends classic compliance-centred effectiveness models by taking into account the manifold goals entrusted to the DSS, but also enables revelation of the real-life intricacies underlying the DSS’s operation and, consequently, its effectiveness, as these emerge from the multiple, conflicting, and shifting nature of its objectives. After formulating the book’s research agenda and objectives, the chapter provides an overview of the book’s four parts and explains its methodological framework.

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