Tuberculosis And Irish Fiction 1800 2022

Author : Rachael Sealy Lynch
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031403453

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Tuberculosis and Irish Fiction, 1800–2022 by Rachael Sealy Lynch Pdf

This book focuses on Ireland’s lived experience of tuberculosis as represented in the nation’s fiction; not surprisingly, the disease both manifests and conceals itself with devastating frequency in literature as it did in life. It seeks to place the history of tuberculosis in Ireland, from 1800 until after its virtual eradication in the mid-Twentieth Century, in conversation with fictional representations or repressions of a condition so fearsome that until very recently it was usually referred to by code words and euphemisms rather than by its name.

Author : Christian W. McMillen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300213485

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Discovering Tuberculosis by Christian W. McMillen Pdf

Tuberculosis is one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, killing nearly two million people every year—more now than at any other time in history. While the developed world has nearly forgotten about TB, it continues to wreak havoc across much of the globe. In this interdisciplinary study of global efforts to control TB, Christian McMillen examines the disease’s remarkable staying power by offering a probing look at key locations, developments, ideas, and medical successes and failures since 1900. He explores TB and race in east Africa, in South Africa, and on Native American reservations in the first half of the twentieth century, investigates the unsuccessful search for a vaccine, uncovers the origins of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Kenya and elsewhere in the decades following World War II, and details the tragic story of the resurgence of TB in the era of HIV/AIDS. Discovering Tuberculosis explains why controlling TB has been, and continues to be, so difficult.

Author : Vidya Krishna
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789354925757

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Phantom Plague by Vidya Krishna Pdf

The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world. It killed novelist George Orwell, Eleanor Roosevelt, and millions of others-rich and poor. Desmond Tutu, Amitabh Bachchan, and Nelson Mandela survived it, just. For centuries, tuberculosis has ravaged cities and plagued the human body. In Phantom Plague, Vidya Krishnan, traces the history of tuberculosis from the slums of 19th-century New York to modern Mumbai. In a narrative spanning century, Krishnan shows how superstition and folk-remedies, made way for scientific understanding of TB, such that it was controlled and cured in the West. The cure was never available to black and brown nations. And the tuberculosis bacillus showed a remarkable ability to adapt-so that at the very moment it could have been extinguished as a threat to humanity, it found a way back, aided by authoritarian government, toxic kindness of philanthropists, science denialism and medical apartheid. Krishnan's original reporting paints a granular portrait of the post-antibiotic era as a new, aggressive, drug resistant strain of TB takes over. Phantom Plague is an urgent, riveting and fascinating narrative that deftly exposes the weakest links in our battle against this ancient foe.

Author : Hachette India
Publisher : Hachette India Children's Books
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9789391028831

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Hachette Children’s Yearbook & Infopedia 2022 by Hachette India Pdf

13th Updated Edition A power-packed GK, current affairs and reference book! If you want a fact-finder, if you're looking to expand your GK, if you wish you had a ready reckoner of must-know information, if you need to know what in the world is going on...then this book is indispensable for you! The Hachette Children's Yearbook & Infopedia brings you news, general knowledge, current affairs, fascinating facts and much more about your favourite focus points in every annual bestselling edition. With well-researched and updated content and data, this book is the essential companion for every smart student who wants to stay ahead. Pick it up and start to explore - for reference, home assignments, projects and so much more! PLUS: FACTS AND STATS ON INDIA AND EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD! What You Will Find Inside: *News Highlights from India and around the World *People Who Made Headlines *Inside the Earth *Environment News *Out There in Space *History Timelines *Science Basics *Literature Info *Sports Spotlights *Superlatives *The Year Ahead...and More! DON'T MISS *75 Years of Indian Independence *Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics Round-Up *The New Industrial Revolution *What on Earth Is Happening in 2022

Author : Miriam Fernández-Santiago,Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000827989

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Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature by Miriam Fernández-Santiago,Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández Pdf

Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent literary representations of vulnerability may problematize its visibilization from an ethical and aesthetic perspective. Recent technological and scientific developments have accentuated human vulnerability in many and different ways at a cross-national, and even cross-species level. Disability, technological, and ecological vulnerabilities are new foci of interest that add up to gender, precarity and trauma, among others, as forms of vulnerability in this volume. The literary visualization of these vulnerabilities might help raise social awareness of one’s own vulnerabilities as well as those of others so as to bring about global solidarity based on affinity and affect. However, the literary representation of forms of vulnerability might also deepen stigmatization phenomena and trivialize the spectacularization of vulnerability by blunting readers’ affective response towards those products that strive to hold their attention and interest in an information-saturated, global entertainment market.

Author : Christian G. Samito
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801463761

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Becoming American Under Fire by Christian G. Samito Pdf

In Becoming American under Fire, Christian G. Samito provides a rich account of how African American and Irish American soldiers influenced the modern vision of national citizenship that developed during the Civil War era. By bearing arms for the Union, African Americans and Irish Americans exhibited their loyalty to the United States and their capacity to act as citizens; they strengthened their American identity in the process. Members of both groups also helped to redefine the legal meaning and political practices of American citizenship. For African American soldiers, proving manhood in combat was only one aspect to their quest for acceptance as citizens. As Samito reveals, by participating in courts-martial and protesting against unequal treatment, African Americans gained access to legal and political processes from which they had previously been excluded. The experience of African Americans in the military helped shape a postwar political movement that successfully called for rights and protections regardless of race. For Irish Americans, soldiering in the Civil War was part of a larger affirmation of republican government and it forged a bond between their American citizenship and their Irish nationalism. The wartime experiences of Irish Americans helped bring about recognition of their full citizenship through naturalization and also caused the United States to pressure Britain to abandon its centuries-old policy of refusing to recognize the naturalization of British subjects abroad. As Samito makes clear, the experiences of African Americans and Irish Americans differed substantially—and at times both groups even found themselves violently opposed—but they had in common that they aspired to full citizenship and inclusion in the American polity. Both communities were key participants in the fight to expand the definition of citizenship that became enshrined in constitutional amendments and legislation that changed the nation.

Author : Catherine Flynn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108619035

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James Joyce and the Matter of Paris by Catherine Flynn Pdf

In James Joyce and the Matter of Paris, Catherine Flynn recovers the paradigmatic city of European urban modernity as the foundational context of Joyce's imaginative consciousness. Beginning with Joyce's underexamined first exile in 1902–03, she shows the significance for his writing of the time he spent in Paris and of a range of French authors whose works inflected his experience of that city. In response to the pressures of Parisian consumer capitalism, Joyce drew on French literature to conceive a somatic aesthetic, in which the philosophically disparaged senses of taste, touch, and smell as well as the porous, digestive body resist capitalism's efforts to manage and instrumentalize desire. This book resituates the most canonical of Irish modernists in a European avant-garde context while revealing important links between Anglophone modernism and critical theory.

Author : Kevin Grace
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780738594354

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Irish Cincinnati by Kevin Grace Pdf

Just one year after a settlement was established on the Ohio River in 1788 and one year before its name was changed from Losantiville to Cincinnati, an Irish immigrant brought his family to the cabins located there. Shortly thereafter, Francis Kennedy established a ferry service to support his wife and children, and more Irishmen followed over the next few decades. It was a diverse group that included Methodists, Presbyterians, Quakers, and Catholics who were manufacturers, stevedores, and merchants. The Irish in Cincinnati have always contributed to the culture, politics, and business life of the city. Their traditional strengths are found in churches, schools, and fraternal organizations like the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick and the Ancient Order of Hibernians. There is also richness in their ethnic heritage that includes art, dance, music, literature, and festivals involving everything from the annual mock theft of the St. Patrick statue in Mt. Adams, the St. Patrick's Day parade, and the various ceili throughout the year to the events at the Cincinnati Irish Heritage Center. Using rare and evocative images, Irish Cincinnati embraces 200 years of their lives in the Queen City.

Author : Nicholas Roe,Professor of English Literature Nicholas Roe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300124651

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John Keats by Nicholas Roe,Professor of English Literature Nicholas Roe Pdf

Offers a biography of the nineteenth century poet, offering insights into the details of his early life in London, the torments that affected him, and the imaginative sources of his works.

Author : Michael Crummey
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307374882

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River Thieves by Michael Crummey Pdf

In elegant, sensual prose, Michael Crummey crafts a haunting tale set in Newfoundland at the turn of the 19th century. A richly imagined story about love, loss and the heartbreaking compromises—both personal and political—that undermine lives, River Thieves is a masterful debut novel. Published in Canada and the United States, it joins a wave of classic literature from eastern Canada, including the works of Alistair MacLeod, Wayne Johnston and David Adams Richards, while resonating at times with the spirit of Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain and Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy. An enthralling story of passion and suspense, River Thieves captures both the vast sweep of history and the intimate lives of a deeply emotional and complex cast of characters caught in its wake.

Author : Cian Duffy,Robert W. Rix
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030991272

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Nordic Romanticism by Cian Duffy,Robert W. Rix Pdf

Nordic Romanticism: Translation, Transmission, Transformation is an edited collection exploring the varied and complex interactions between national romanticisms in Britain, Denmark, Germany, Norway and Sweden. The collection considers both the reception and influence of Nordic romanticism in Britain and Germany and also the reciprocal impact of British and German romanticism in the Nordic countries. Taken as a whole, the volume suggests that to fully understand the range of these individual national romanticisms we need to see them not as isolated phenomena but rather as participating, via translation and other modes of reception, in a transnational or regional romanticism configured around the idea of a shared cultural inheritance in ‘the North’.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113567544

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Historical Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frank McCourt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-05-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780684842677

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Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt Pdf

The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies

Author : Mike Sharland,Andrew Cant,E. Graham Davies,David A. C. Elliman,Susanna Esposito,Delane Shingadia,Adam Finn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 913 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199573585

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Manual of Childhood Infections by Mike Sharland,Andrew Cant,E. Graham Davies,David A. C. Elliman,Susanna Esposito,Delane Shingadia,Adam Finn Pdf

This manual gives information on the causative organisms, epidemiology and clinical features of all important childhood infections. It includes guidance on the clinical management of the infections and on steps to be taken to prevent future cases.

Author : Charlotte Brontë
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN2BDC

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Villette by Charlotte Brontë Pdf