This case report highlights the successful use of telepsychiatric consultation by secure video chat to remotely assess a mariner expressing suicidal ideation. As a result of this intervention, telemedicine providers initiated psychiatric stabilisation while the mariner was still aboard the vessel, determined that he was safe for repatriation under the care of qualified medical escorts, and faci...

The debatc concerning repatriation and reburial is attracting increasing attention in Sweden. While most archaeologists today understand the importancc of arguments underlying claim, process not completely unproblematic certainly all cases. This article explores some tendencies within international debate about repatriation, frames them a more general discussion human rights, right to culture, ...

This essay examines Abe Kōbō's 1957 novel Kemono-tachi wa kokyō o mezasu (Beasts head for home), a relatively neglected work among Abe's oeuvre because of its atypically realistic plot and lucid style. In contrast to previous interpretations, which linked the author's own experiences repatriation, this argues that was writing against putative genre autobiographical repatriation narratives invok...

In March 1885, the government Resident of the Northern Territory of Australia issued a report on the problem of tropical development. "To the ordinary English emigrant", wrote J Langdon Parsons, "the bare mention of 'the tropics' is sufficient to create a scare, and conjure up visions of pasty-faced children, delicate women, and men with bad livers".' But in 1925, Sir James Barrett, a leading f...