Biography of a Mexican Crucifix

Hughes, Jennifer Scheper

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“…Apart from ethnographic observations 'out in the community', she based her sample on twenty-two mental hospital patients from Killarney and the affiliated Dingle psychiatric clinic, only ten of whom were diagnosed schizophrenic or paranoid. 86 Among several weaknesses in her study (not least her limited sample), Guinnane picks a number of holes in her hypothesis, primarily the lack of scientific evidence used. He wrote that 'the disease has a biochemical basis, and the connection to marital status reflects not causality but the difficulties people with the disease have in convincing someone else to share their lives'.…”

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Medicalizing the female reproductive cycle in rural Ireland, 1926-56*

Breathnach

2011

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This article highlights the parameters of a lifecycles project that was funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, entitled ‘From the cradle to the grave: lifecycles in modern Ireland (pilot study: maternity)’. The project used individual hospital records to bring the regional effects of ‘medicalization’ outside metropolitan areas into a sharper focus. With an emphasis on rural Ireland from 1926 to 1956, this ‘pilot’ study used longitudinal data modelling to explore the medicalization of the female reproductive cycle in a general hospital and again in a psychiatric hospital setting. The project team chose disparate clinical settings to test how people understood their functions, to see, for example, if medical cases were presenting to the psychiatric setting. This article describes the digitization and data modelling processes and the parameters of the research agenda. It locates the broader medical and statistical findings of the project in their socio‐economic context to highlight whether such matters conditioned when and how women resorted to medical care. It discusses the analytical challenges that the project posed and points to avenues of further research and future publications. It concludes that for historical reasons, in the rural Irish context, people engaged more freely with the asylum than the general hospital setting.

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Medicalizing the female reproductive cycle in rural Ireland, 1926-56*

Breathnach

2011

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The Kingdom of New Spain in the Seventeenth Century

Curcio‐Nagy¹

2011

A Companion to Mexican History and Culture

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Speculative Realism and Religion: Irreduction, Objects, Forms, and Intensities

MacKay

2022

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This article uses the philosophy of Tristan Garcia to theorize about religion and to identify religion as an object without essentializing it (scientistic reduction) or reducing it to culture (as in critical theory). It proposes a radical speculative ontology for analyzing religion in opposition to late-liberalism’s determining effects on the study of religion. In juxtaposition with Graham Harman’s object-oriented ontology and Quentin Meillassoux’s speculative philosophy, Garcia’s philosophy offers a unique perspective about the irreduction of religion and classification within religious studies, especially through his philosophy of intensities. His perspective on the concatenation of human and nonhuman objects and their assemblages compliments and builds upon the current scholarship in material religion. In particular, his philosophy of intensities enables religion and religions to be dispersed into countless temporal instances and evaluated in limitless levels of intensity in a classificatory system set to avoid reductionism and neoliberalism.

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Biography of a Mexican Crucifix

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Medicalizing the female reproductive cycle in rural Ireland, 1926-56*

Medicalizing the female reproductive cycle in rural Ireland, 1926-56*

The Kingdom of New Spain in the Seventeenth Century

Speculative Realism and Religion: Irreduction, Objects, Forms, and Intensities

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