The representation of autism in literature is a novelty delicate sense for what impact it can have on readers. Autism shows more frequently the lines Young-Adult fiction (YA), genre known its large audiences, which makes contemplating image an autistic person, as actual character or theme, either means access block to public awareness spectrum, respectively. selected YA works this paper are Fan...

Anencephaly is one of the most frequent type of all fetal monstrosities. Sprangler7, who studied 11,52i births, has reported the incidence of anencephaly as I in every goo, or approximately O.1 per cent. The condition was not successfully diagnosed previous to labor until 1917, when Case2 reported such a monstrosity, recognized roentgenologically before the onset of labor. Since that time there...

background: in most cancer cases, the treatment choice for a pregnant patient is radiotherapy. in these patients, the abdomen is usually not exposed therefore fetus exposure is due to peripheral dose (pd). the purpose of this study was to estimate the fetal dose (the maximum pd in each pregnancy stage) for modalities available and to fabricate and evaluate a generally applicable fetal shield. m...

The virulent debates that have dogged research on, and the diffusion of, a wide range of technologies indicate a growing loss of confidence in what we might call, the techno-scientific endeavour to reshape the world. Utopian images of a world rendered ever more amenable to human desires are now closely shadowed by just as compelling dystopian visions of monstrosity and disaster that are neverth...

St Augustine suggested that monsters (monstra) serve to show or to signify (monstrare) something, whilst Foucault argued that one ancestor of today’s abnormal individual was the human monster, a class of being characterised by a composite nature. This essay examines what two very different mixed human monsters can show us. The donestre, a mediaeval race of lion-headed polyglots with a taste for...