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Nosedive and the “Like” Dystopia
2021In this chapter, Santiago Giraldo-Luque, Ricardo Carniel Bugs, and Santiago Tejedor suggest that the episode “Nosedive” raises three issues of interest for the fields of sociology and communication. Firstly, the episode represents the fictionalized and caricatured world of a reality that is real and current, but, in accordance with an “enframed” view ...
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Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1996
Many pathologic processes may lead to vertical orbital dystopia. We reviewed 47 consecutive cases seen over a 13-year period. Twenty-nine patients underwent eye leveling procedures to improve cosmesis, 2 of these by camouflage procedures and 27 by orbital translocation. Ten patients had 16 secondary operations.
S T, Tan +4 more
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Many pathologic processes may lead to vertical orbital dystopia. We reviewed 47 consecutive cases seen over a 13-year period. Twenty-nine patients underwent eye leveling procedures to improve cosmesis, 2 of these by camouflage procedures and 27 by orbital translocation. Ten patients had 16 secondary operations.
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American Journal of Ophthalmology, 1996
The purpose of this study was to examine results with elective surgical correction of enophthalmos. The study was a retrospective assessment in a university-based referral practice. A consecutive sample of 10 patients who developed ocular dystopia following orbital trauma was examined.
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The purpose of this study was to examine results with elective surgical correction of enophthalmos. The study was a retrospective assessment in a university-based referral practice. A consecutive sample of 10 patients who developed ocular dystopia following orbital trauma was examined.
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Disaster, degradation, dystopia
2015In this chapter we examine the contributions that the field of political ecology––with its focus on the mutually constitutive relationships between environments, cultures, politics and power––has made, and can continue to make, to a more nuanced understanding of disasters.
Anne Claus, C. +6 more
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Dystopia on the Health Superhighway
The Information Society, 1996The emerging Information Superhighway is starting to induce visions of dystopia within the medical profession. In several countries, doctors have opposed plans for the establishment of national health data networks. In the most recent example, the Council of the British Medical Association threatened to boycott the government's national data strategy ...
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Moroccan Narratives of Dystopia:
2020This chapter focuses on the Tangier representations found in Leïla Kilani's film Sur la planchet. Kilani's aesthetics of representation combine social awareness with her artistic vision of numerous cinematic traditions. Since recent film trends showcase the need to express a reflection on social and cultural changes, Moroccan films painted a portrait ...
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The Bioethics of Digital Dystopias
International Journal of Technoethics, 2013This essay explores how two popular game franchises, BioShock and Portal, have addressed bioethical issues such as genetic modification, research ethics, and autonomy. BioShock and Portal are set in bioethical dystopias that simulate the absence of ethical restraint. The former is set in a city that that allows unregulated genetic modification, and the
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Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2013
I a general surgeon with more than three decades in private clinical practice. Since the late 1970s, I have witnessed remarkable technological revolutions in medicine, from computed tomographic scans to robot-assisted surgery, but I have also watched as medicine slowly evolved into the domain of technicians, bookkeepers, and clerks.
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I a general surgeon with more than three decades in private clinical practice. Since the late 1970s, I have witnessed remarkable technological revolutions in medicine, from computed tomographic scans to robot-assisted surgery, but I have also watched as medicine slowly evolved into the domain of technicians, bookkeepers, and clerks.
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Dystopia Matters: On the Use of Dystopia and Utopia
2006Invited contribution. It is part of the section "Utopia Matters" – consisting of a testimony by, or an interview with, a distinguished scholar in the field of Utopian Studies.
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