Margaret Macdowall

in Britain : exploring the extent of change 1990 – 2000

The Training of Attendants in Certified Institutions

General sick nursing knowledge, while a useful adjunct, is of 110 more value in the work of the average attendant on the mentally defective than it is in that of anyone else responsible for the general welfare of a number of people, and if too much time is spent in an endeavour to acquire hospital nursing technique, it must hinder what is the essential part of the treatment, viz., the developme...

Reading Traumatized Bodies in Margaret Atwood’s Bodily Harm

Contemporary literary traumatheory indicates that experiencing trauma creates a fear that destroys identity. In fact, experiencing trauma creates a new identity for the victim. The representation of the trauma and the formation of the new identity for the victim are the building blocks of trauma novels. Due to the nature of trauma, it seems impossible to fully describe traumatic experiences by ...

Out of the blue

Episodes of hypotension are common during haemodialysis sessions; they are usually related to volume depletion, presence of cardiac disease or both. Fortunately, severe hypotension with loss of consciousness, disappearance of peripheral pulses and pre-arrest is rare during haemodialysis. Such an event mandates a comprehensive assessment after the patient has been stabilized. We present the inte...

The Fourth World and Politics of Social Identity in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy

With the advent of the 21st century, the way characters and identities interact under the influence of dominant powers has brought a new world into existence, a world dubbed by Manuel Castells as the ‘Fourth World’. Within the Castellsian theoretical matrix of the Fourth World and politics of identity, the present study seeks to investigate the true nature of the futuristic world Margaret Atwoo...