Susan Jones, Literature, Modernism & Dance

Invitation to the dance: lessons from Susan Sontag's death.

The standard model for end-of-life decision-making gives roles to two parties--the physician, who explains the medical options, and the patient, who selects from among those options. The model can be harmful not only for individuals but also for the state, if the patient's right to control her own choices is understood as a positive right of access to whatever is available.

Biomechanical research in dance: a literature review.

The authors reviewed the literature, published from 1970 through December 2009, on biomechanical research in dance. To identify articles, the authors used search engines, including PubMed and Web of Science, five previous review articles, the Dance Medicine and Science Bibliography, and reference lists of theses, dissertations, and articles being reviewed. Any dance research articles (English l...

Women and Psychiatric Modernism

he therapies of Rivers and Yealland represented the two modes of English psychiatric modernism which would affect women both inside and outside the asylum from the 1920s to the 1960s: psychoanalysis, which offered the twentieth century's most influential theory of femininity and female sexuality; and traditional medical psychiatry, which made rapid advances in scientific knowledge and technolog...

Modernism and Nation Building

Modernity, Modernisation, Modernism

3. Modernity, Modernisation, Modernism and the First World War 3.