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Margaret Macdowall
Margaret Macdowall, a well known and leading figure among pioneer teachers of the mentally defective, was born on July 20th, 1862, at Thornton Dale (her father was Vicar of Rillington in 1864). She had a very delicate girlhood which seriously interfered with her education, but in spite of that she lived to be nearly 68. When special opportunities came, her doctor (attending her for a very sever...
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Whether it’s related to remnants of paternalism or to the universal rise of the public relations industry, healthcare is littered with terminology that inadvertently or otherwise misleads, by concealing or distorting crucial information. From lazy language to deliberate doublespeak, some of my most loathed examples are below. Don’t we need a clear-out of this bad language? Words that mask auste...
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ion gradient What are the minimum and maximum levels of abstraction? Can fragments be encapsulated? Closeness of mapping What ‘programming games’ need to be learned? Consistency When some of the language has been learnt, how much of the rest can be inferred? Diffuseness How many symbols or graphic entities are required to express a meaning? Error-proneness Does the design of the notation induce...
متن کاملMargaret McCartney: Perfect people.
“I’ve literally moulded myself into Ivan’s fantasy woman,” writes Victoria, partner to the author of the Convince Her to Get Bigger Breasts manual. “I think it’s wrong for women not to pander to their men. If they feel like their husbands prefer blondes, I think you should be blonde. If you like bigger breasts, why not?” Victoria had surgery to increase her breasts from size 26D to 26K. Who are...
متن کاملMargaret McCartney: Christmas presents.
With Christmas come the presents, but since graduation they’ve caused me disquiet. They arrived, carefully and thoughtfully wrapped, some with notes and cards, some with just my name. In accepting gifts from patients, I was disturbed. I thought, firstly, that they were being given under false pretences. I wasn’t doing any more than the average doctor, maybe less: I’d made mistakes; had missed t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Notes and Queries
سال: 1857
ISSN: 1471-6941,0029-3970
DOI: 10.1093/nq/s2-iv.99.419-g