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Colin Wright
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“Black Skin, White Masks” by Frantz Fanon
Black Skin, White Masks, by the experimental psychiatrist and anti-colonial militant Franz Fanon, is regarded as a seminal text in the fields of postcolonial theory and critical race studies. Yet it has also been...
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The safety and efficacy of systemic versus catheter-based therapies: application of a prognostic model by a pulmonary embolism response team
The decision by pulmonary embolism response teams (PERTs) to utilize anticoagulation (AC) with or without systemic thrombolysis (ST) or catheter-directed therapies (CDT) for pulmonary embolism (PE) is a balanc...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
Black Skin, White Masks, by the experimental psychiatrist and anti-colonial militant Franz Fanon, is regarded as a seminal text in the fields of postcolonial theory and critical race studies. Yet it has also been...
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The reality of sex
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Open AccessLacan on Trauma and Causality: A Psychoanalytic Critique of Post-Traumatic Stress/Growth
This article makes the case for the largely unacknowledged relevance of the thought of the French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan, for the emerging field of the medical and/or health humanities. From the 1930s al...
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Tactical authenticity in the production of autoethnographic mad narratives
First-person accounts of madness and of encountering psychiatric services provide important sociocultural and psychological knowledge about the subjectivity of distress. The importance of such accounts is ofte...
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A spoonful of sugar: Medication and the psychoanalytic body
This article employs a Lacanian framework to re-visit the vexed relationship between psychoanalysis and medication, which, it is claimed, also pertains to debates about the status of the psychoanalytic body. W...
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Right ventricular dysfunction is superior and sufficient for risk stratification by a pulmonary embolism response team
Several risk stratification tools are available to predict short-term mortality in patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE). The presence of right ventricular (RV) dysfunction is an independent predictor of...
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The impact of a pulmonary embolism response team on the efficiency of patient care in the emergency department
The concept of a pulmonary embolism response team (PERT) is multidisciplinary, with the hope that it may positively impact patient care, hospital efficiency, and outcomes in the treatment of patients with inte...
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Lacan’s Cybernetic Theory of Causality: Repetition and the Unconscious in Duncan Jones’ Source Code
Wright’s chapter outlines how Lacan’s early engagement with cybernetics and game theory informed his psychoanalytic theory of causality. At times, Lacan seems close to a avant la lettre in his emphasis on th...
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Perversion and the Law: From Sade to the ‘Spanner Case’ and Beyond
Interrogating the relation between the law and changing notions of perversion, in society and in Lacanian theory, Colin Wright observes that modernity is marked by a progressive intertwining of perversion and ...
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Dr Fanon on Colonial Narcissism and Anti-Colonial Melancholia
Frantz Fanon is rightly known as a theorist of anti-colonial resistance and decolonisation who put his ideas into practice as a member of the Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN) during the Algerian war of indepen...
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Introduction: Map** Perversion in the Contemporary World
A child is seated on a throne, imagining that he is king and master of all he beholds; at the same time his unconscious fantasy appears on a screen, but in another place. With no hint of subtlety, this is foll...
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Consuming habits: Today’s subject of addiction
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
PET and Other Polyester Synthesis
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PET and Other Polyester Synthesis
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The violence of the new: Badiou's subtractive destruction and Gandhi's satyagraha
This article examines the changing relation between politics and violence in Alain Badiou's theory of the subject. It is argued that, emerging from his early Maoism, Badiou initially entertains the notion of a...
