MIDWIVES AND ABNORMAL CASES..

Midwives for midwives. Protecting the sacred circle.

María Catalina lives in a small village called Áto, about an hour and a half walk from Antigua, a colonial city in the Guatemalan highlands. The region is surrounded by volcanoes, and is an agricultural center for the production of corn and coffee. Catalina looks much older than her 38 years, and is plagued by chronic health problems stemming from a life of poverty and hard physical labor. She ...

Midwives for Midwives in Guatemala: Weaving Traditional and Professional Midwifery

Midwives' Midwifery

pillow. Her countenance indicated exhaustion, and she did not wish to be disturbed ; preferring, as she said, death to any further interference. Her friends stated that labour pains set in four days before, and that the membranes broke and the waters were discharged thirty hours previous to my visit. The pains having been slight, and the labour having made no advance, midwives of repute were se...

Abnormal Hypnotic Phenomena: A Survey of Nineteenth-Century Cases

capillaries between arterial and venous blood vessels. Even then Borelli much to his embarrassment could not see them. Similar light is cast on Malpighi's discoveries in his studies of the tongue, the organ of touch, the kidneys, glands, and polypus of the heart. Special mention should be made of Malpighi's dissertation on embryology. Here clearly Malpighi saw that there was a rich unexplored f...

Use Cases for Abnormal Behaviour Detection in Smart Homes

While people have many ideas about how a smart home should react to particular behaviours from their inhabitant, there seems to have been relatively little attempt to organise this systematically. In this paper, we attempt to rectify this in consideration of context awareness and novelty detection for a smart home that monitors its inhabitant for illness and unexpected behaviour. We do this thr...