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Literary narratives treating infertility metaphorically or thematically abound, but stories about women's individual experiences with infertility and assisted reproduction are less scrutinized by literature scholars. Acknowledging the role of online writing in the proliferation of such stories in the post-in vitro fertilization era, this article applies the tools of narrative analysis to a set of social media narratives authored by women undergoing Assisted Reproduction Therapy. I argue that examining the guiding metaphors and central conflicts of such texts reveals their significant interventions into traditional narratives about childbearing as well as their complicated complicity in the raced and classed elements of the contemporary fertility industry.This article considers the cultural meanings of Civil War injury, particularly amputation, with regard to race. Putting elements of print and visual culture in conversation with the material history of prostheses, the article explores competing understandings of war-acquired disability as a unifying category that could cross the color line or, alternatively, as a site of (white) racial distinction. Lusutrombopag While a number of depictions of "Empty Sleeves" in the Northern press in the early years following the war depicted black veterans' battle injuries as proof of their fitness for citizenship, representations of prosthetic limbs tended to tie rehabilitation to whiteness and to exclude blackness from the imagined national future. Exploring representations of Civil War injury and prosthetic reconstruction thus nuances accounts of the intersection of disability and race in the nineteenth century, revealing a form of disability inclusion that produced new elements of subjection and exclusion.Scholars of literature and medicine have begun to address the under-studied relationship between the medical case study and the novel, two central genres emerging out of Enlightenment empiricism. This essay contributes to this line of inquiry by focusing on Charles Brockden Brown's novel Wieland (1798) and the medical case study. It unpacks the connection between Wieland and the launching of the first medical journal in the U.S., the Medical Repository. While scholarship has attended to the influence of contagious disease and medicine on Brown's later novels, this essay demonstrates the importance of medical ways of knowing at the beginning of the novelist's brief career. Specifically, it argues that Brown borrows a provisional mode of reasoning from medical literature, a mode of reasoning that finds literary form in the case study of the pre-clinical era.What light can De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) shed on its author's later advocacy of the First Opium War? To what degree did De Quincey's and other contemporaneous accounts of opium use in Britain influence metaphorical connections between bodily energy and national power in the 1830s and 1840s? Placing Confessions alongside John Brown's 1780 treatise, Elements of Medicine, this essay argues that De Quincey "nationalized" opium-eating by transforming mental exceptionality in British Romanticism into a medical body's connection with internal energies and external stimuli from China and "the Orient." The essay concludes that opium serves in De Quincey's Confessions as a crucial bridge between Romantic sublimity, in which it purportedly acted as a mysterious technology for self-strengthening, and Victorian consumerism, when the drug became both a popular commodity among national and global users.In this paper, I analyze the phenomenon of child cultural body modification (CCBM). I describe the practice, discuss philosophical, sociological, and anthropological arguments about the parental motivations, and evaluate an influential justification based on the children's putative cultural benefit of undergoing CCBM. I propose an alternative view of bodily integrity based on the value of body agency, the ability of individuals to generate meaning in their world through conscious, voluntary, and purpose-driven usage of their own bodies.People with Alzheimer's dementia experience significant neuropsychological decline, and this seems to threaten their sense of self. Yet they continue to have regard for their moral standing, especially from the feedback they receive from others in relation to such things as pride in their work, retaining a valued role, or acting out of a sense of purpose. This continuing self-regard is based on a self-image which often persists through memory loss. I will argue that in care settings the self-image ought to be assumed to remain intact. Treating a person with Alzheimer's dementia supportively and respectfully as the person with a certain role or identity-say as scientist, musician, janitor, parent, or friend-fosters an environment in which they are best able to retain what I call moral self-orientation. The latter notion is central to the well-being of social persons, and so it takes on special significance for people with dementia because, although their remembering selves are fragmenting, their self-image persists. Normative aspects of the self-image, I argue, require a social framework of support to sustain the self-image.We explore conceptions of responsibility and integrity in global health research and practice as it is being carried out in the academic setting. Our specific motivation derives from the recent publication of a study by a clinical research team involving the delivery of mental health care services in a Ghanaian prayer camp. The study was controversial on account of the prayer camp's history of human rights abuses and therefore was met with several high-profile critiques. We offer a more charitable evaluation of the Joining Forces study. Our analysis has three primary goals. First, we respond to criticism suggesting that the Joining Forces research team needed to maintain some form of morally "clean hands" in relation to the human rights abuses at Mount Horeb prayer camp. We argue that, for academic global health practitioners working under severe resource constraints, what is reasonable and responsible to pursue is a complex proposition without a one-size-fits-all ethical answer. Second, we offer an explanation for why the Joining Forces study team designed the project as they did in spite of their obvious vulnerability to ethical concern.
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