Performing Abjection in Wafaa Bilal’s Domestic Tension

Domestic abuse as a transgressive practice: understanding nurses' responses through the lens of abjection.

Domestic abuse is a worldwide public health issue with long-term health and social consequences. Nurses play a key role in recognizing and responding to domestic abuse. Yet there is considerable evidence that their responses are often inappropriate and unhelpful, such as trivializing or ignoring the abuse. Empirical studies have identified several reasons why nurses' responses are sometimes wan...

Anorexia and Abjection: A Review Essay

This article draws on a review of Megan Warin’s 2010 book, Abject Relations: Everyday Worlds of Anorexia, to discuss the ways in which a feminist ethnographic approach might disrupt dominant cultural narratives of eating disorders and embodiment. My argument draws on feminist work on figuration and ‘body image’ to discuss how the anorexic body becomes a figure of abjection, both in media images...

Horror and the monstrous-feminine An imaginary abjection

Measurements of the oxygen tension in the lumen of the small intestine of the domestic duck.

The aim of the work described in this paper was to measure the oxygen tension across the lumen of the small intestines of domestic ducks, with special reference to the region of the lumen near the villi. These data are required to enable the metabolism of the acanthocephalan parasite, Polymorphus minutus, to be studied in vitro. Many parasites of vertebrates live in this region of the lumen, fo...

Feasibility of Integrating Heating Valve Drivers with KNX-standard for Performing Dynamic Hydraulic Balance in Domestic Buildings

The increasing demand for sufficient and clean energy forces industrial and service companies to align their strategies towards efficient consumption. This trend refers also to the residential building sector. There, large amounts of energy consumption are caused by house and facility heating. Many of the operated hot water heating systems lack hydraulic balanced working conditions for heat dis...