An unusual case of a penetrating wound  of the orbit

Bulbulia, Abdulsamed; Roux, Paul; Asholi, A.

doi:10.4102/aveh.v65i2.262

African Vision and Eye Health

2006

DOI: 10.4102/aveh.v65i2.262

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An unusual case of a penetrating wound of the orbit

Abdulsamed Bulbulia

Paul Roux

A. Asholi

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“…[1] Ocular injuries are most common in males and young adults. Case reports of penetrating orbital injuries with foreign bodies show a predominance of left eye involvement, [2,3] suggestive of right-hand-dominant assailants. In a series of 179 cases of stabs to the head at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa, 9 injuries were isolated to the orbit.…”

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Why Sacred Lands Are Not Indivisible: The Cognitive Foundations of Sacralising Land

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Numerous political analysts have argued that conflicts over sacred land are intractable. These scholars maintain that sacred lands are psychologically perceived as indivisible, or alternatively, in the sociological tradition, their indivisibility is a social fact. Moreover, religious beliefs are viewed as stagnant and resistant to change. Consequently, resolving such conflicts is fraught with difficulty, and even if a truce could be imposed, it would be unstable and violence would eventually erupt. A cognitive and evolutionary account offers a less pessimistic view. Individuals do not conceive of sacred lands in the same way that they conceive of sacred space, such as cemeteries or houses of worship, or sacred objects, such as holy water or prayer beads. Unlike sacred space and objects, whose boundaries are clearly defined, conceptions of sacred land are typically abstract and may bear little resemblance to the contested physical land. While abstract notions of sacred land are indivisible and must remain intact, the physical land is not indivisible, and therefore there is often greater room for negotiation of sacred lands than is generally appreciated. The map is not the territory.Alfred Korzybski, 1931 Humans sacralise countless things, including water, wine, cows, dung, trees, books, buildings, and rocks. The types of item that humans sacralise appear unbounded, but possibly the most recurrent thing that humans have sacralised throughout history is land. Some have even claimed that sacralising land is nearly universal among traditional peoples.[1] Despite its prevalence across time and space, there is a notable lack of research addressing why humans sacralise land. Journal of Terrorism ResearchVolume 2, Issue 1 17The importance and urgency of understanding why humans sacralise land are painfully obvious. Sacred lands are at the heart of numerous recent and current violent conflicts such as Israel −Palestine, Kashmir, Sri Lanka, and bin Laden's campaign against the United States. Not all lands deemed sacred are involved in conflict, and many territorial disputes, in fact most, do not involve sacred lands.[2] But those conflicts which arise from disputed sacred territories have been particularly devastating and many of them, such as Israel−Palestine and Kashmir, have proven frustratingly difficult to resolve.It has been argued that sacred land and related territorial conflicts, such as ethnicity-based homeland conflicts, [3] are particularly difficult to resolve because lands are viewed by disputants as indivisible. As Goddard describes, "So intractable are conflicts in Jerusalem, Kosovo, Kashmir, and Ulster that their indivisibility appears natural, an inevitable result of clashing identities and attachments to the land." [4] If contested land is genuinely indivisible, such disputes are expected to escalate toward military conflict more quickly than other disputes and to be more difficult to peacefully resolve. [5] Here I offer a more optimistic assessment of sacredland conflicts based on evolutionary a...

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An unusual case of a penetrating wound of the orbit

Abstract: No Abstract Available

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Intra-orbital knife blade foreign body: A case series

Intra-orbital knife blade foreign body: A case series

Why Sacred Lands Are Not Indivisible: The Cognitive Foundations of Sacralising Land

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