1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910814922603321

Autore

Kowaleski-Wallace Elizabeth <1954->

Titolo

The British slave trade and public memory / / Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

0-231-13715-X

0-231-51031-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

306.3620941

Soggetti

Slave trade - Great Britain - History - Public opinion

Public opinion - Great Britain

Slave trade in literature

Slavery in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction. Millennial Reckonings -- 1. Commemorating the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Liverpool and Bristol -- 2. Fictionalizing Slavery in the United Kingdom, 1990-2000 -- 3. Seeing Slavery and the Slave Trade -- 4. Transnationalism and Performance in 'Biyi Bandele's Oroonoko -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

How does a contemporary society restore to its public memory a momentous event like its own participation in transatlantic slavery? What are the stakes of once more restoring the slave trade to public memory? What can be learned from this history? Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace explores these questions in her study of depictions and remembrances of British involvement in the slave trade. Skillfully incorporating a range of material, Wallace discusses and analyzes how museum exhibits, novels, television shows, movies, and a play created and produced in Britain from 1990 to 2000 grappled with the subject of slavery. Topics discussed include a walking tour in the former slave-trading port of Bristol; novels by Caryl Phillips and Barry Unsworth; a television adaptation of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park; and a revival of



Aphra Behn's Oroonoko for the Royal Shakespeare Company. In each case, Wallace reveals how these works and performances illuminate and obscure the history of the slave trade and its legacy. While Wallace focuses on Britain, her work also speaks to questions of how the United States and other nations remember inglorious chapters from their past.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996214603403316

Titolo

Cough [[electronic resource] ] : causes, mechanisms, and therapy / / edited by Kian Fan Chung, John G. Widdicombe, Homer A. Boushey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Pub., 2003

ISBN

1-281-21466-3

9786611214661

0-470-75503-2

0-470-75584-9

1-4051-2853-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ChungK. Fan <1951->

WiddicombeJohn G

BousheyHomer A

Disciplina

616.2

Soggetti

Cough

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cough: Causes, Mechanisms and Therapy; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Section 1: Introduction; 1 The clinical and pathophysiological challenge of cough; 2 Epidemiology of cough; 3 A brief overview of the mechanisms of cough; Section 2: Cough in the Clinic; 4 Clinical assessment of cough; 5 Measurement and assessment of cough; 6 Cough sensitivity: the use of provocation tests; 7 Causes, assessment and measurement of cough in children; 8 The quality of life in coughers; Section 3: Clinical Conditions with Cough; 9 Cough in lower airway infections; 10 Cough and gastro-oesophageal reflux

11 Cough in postnasal drip, rhinitis and rhinosinusitis12 Cough and



airway hyperresponsiveness; 13 Cough in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; 14 Cough in suppurative airway diseases; 15 Cough in cancer patients; Section 4: Pathophysiology; 16 Sensory pathways for the cough reflex; 17 Neurogenesis of cough; 18 Plasticity of vagal afferent fibres mediating cough; 19 Motor mechanisms and the mechanics of cough; 20 Mucus hypersecretion and mucus clearance in cough; 21 Animal models of cough; Section 5: Therapy

22 Mechanisms of actions of centrally acting antitussives-electrophysiological and neurochemical analysis23 Pharmacology of peripherally acting antitussives; 24 Current and potential future antitussive therapies; 25 Placebo effects of antitussive treatments on cough associated with acute upper respiratory tract infection; 26 Mucoactive agents for the treatment of cough; 27 Management of cough; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Cough is the most familiar symptom of respiratory disease, and a problem which general practitioners must deal with on a daily basis. This timely volume draws together a wealth of recent research into the mechanisms, pharmacology and therapies for cough, and places these in clinical context. The text incorporates guidelines on the most common causes of cough, discusses treatments and pitfalls in management, summarizes current research on physiology, pharmacology and treatment of cough, and gives practical advice on diagnosis and management issues for the clinician. Cough: Causes, Mech