Metaphor and Neonatal Death: How Stories Can Help When a Baby Dies at Birth

Abstract

Dr Tamarin Norwood gained her doctorate in Fine Art as a Clarendon scholar at the University of Oxford in 2018, and is now a postdoctoral research fellow at the Drawing Research Group, Loughborough University, writing a book on metaphor and neonatal loss. She is also a visiting early career research fellow at the Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath, and researcher at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing, University of Oxford where she convenes the Lives in Medicine research network. Tamarin's scholarly publications focus on representation and loss in drawing; her related prose fiction, poetry and artwork have been published and shown widely including with the BBC World Service, Art on the Underground, ICA Philadelphia, MOCCA Toronto and Tate Britain. Much of her work is interdisciplinary, most recently as part of Hubbub, the inaugural Hub residency at Wellcome Collection, London.

Identification of Artificial Levees in the Contiguous United States

“…Brookville, Indiana sits at the confluence of the East Fork Whitewater River (stream order 7) and the Whitewater River (stream order 8), which is a tributary to the Ohio River (Figure 8a). This artificial levee was built along the East Fork Whitewater River and is more than 850 m long, 1–2 m tall, and has been the subject of a riverwalk project (Norwood, 2020). This illustrates how undocumented artificial levees influence hydrogeomorphic floodplains, as the 100‐year floodplain and detection are immediately next to the levee.…”

“…Raw model results, prior to segmentation, are plotted in orange (detected) and green (not detected). (a) Brookville, Indiana levee is visible as a long linear feature in aerial imagery, on Google Street view, and written about in an online news article (Norwood, 2020). (b) Elaine, Arkansas levee on the Mississippi River is connected to a NLD levee (indicated by a red line) but remains undocumented.…”