With My Own Eyes: A Lakota Woman Tells Her People's History

The shaking woman or a history of my nerves.

The shaking woman or a history of my nerves Siri Hustvedt 2010, Sceptre, London ISBN 978-0-340-99876-2.

A woman in her 60s with pneumaturia.

A woman in her 60s with insulin-dependent type 1 diabetes since childhood was referred as an outpatient for urological assessment because of recurrent lower urinary tract infections and macroscopic haematuria. She had suffered an episode of spasmodic back pain five days before the referral in question was issued, but no back pain since this episode. She had not had fever, and her general condit...

‘Simply my own’

My Own Private Ishkabibble

My experiences with social media for scholarship research and networking were certainly positive. Social media allowed me to form dialogues with scholars and readers outside my own field of expertise and create a mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge. Having a presence in social media essentially meant I had a public platform that made my work accessible to a wider range of scholars – some ...

Through animal eyes: What behaviour tells us

To Charles Darwin, it was obvious that animals are sentient, so why should the idea not be now universally accepted? I review the difficulties and issues with animal sentience with a view to answering some of the critics. Sentience is ‘the hard problem’ and it is important we acknowledge the difficulties and do not claim too much for the evidence we have. Two sorts of evidence are examined: evi...