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Recollections of My Research in Developing the Heart-Lung Machine at Jefferson Medical College [PDF]

, 2005
A personal memoir written by Dr. Bernard J. Miller about his introduction to and interest in medical research as well as his experiences working on the heart-lung machine. He focuses specifically on his working relationship with John H.
Miller, Bernard J.
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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“The Ghost Language Which Passes between the Generations”: Transgenerational Memories and Limit-Case Narratives in Lisa Appignanesi’s Losing the Dead and The Memory Man

Humanities, 2020
This article aims to uncover the tensions and connections between Lisa Appignanesi’s autobiographical work Losing the Dead (1999) and her novel The Memory Man (2004) and to point out that, in spite of belonging to different genres, they share several ...
Silvia Pellicer-Ortín
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A. A. Berzin and His Memoir [PDF]

, 2008
Alfred A. Berzin began to study whales in 1955 at the Pacific Research and Fisheries Center (TINRO) in Vladivostok where he is still working at the present time.
Yablokov, A. V.
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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British and American Diplomatic Memoirs as Factual Narratives: A Resource for the Linguistic and Cultural Analysis of the Specialised Domain of Diplomacy

ILCEA, 2018
This paper puts forward a preliminary analysis of the diplomatic memoir as a genre, based on research on the specialised language, discourse and culture of the professional domain of diplomacy.
Jessica Stark
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How a baby’s brief life had a ‘positive impact’ [PDF]

, 2016
Since her son’s death, Sarah Gray has become one of the nation’s leading advocates for organ donations. She has written a memoir, A Life Everlasting: The Extraordinary Story of One Boy’s Gift to Medical Science, and given an inspiring TED Talk that has ...
Scornaienchi, Shawn
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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Angela’s Ashes – A Memoir: Images of a Particular View of Limerick, Ireland

ABEI Journal, 2007
This paper deals with some still images from the film Angela’s ashes: A memoir, directed by Alan Parker and based on the Pulitzer-Prize-winning memoir with the same title, by Frank McCourt.
Brunilda T. Reichmann
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Fictional and Fragmented Truths in Korean Adoptee Life Writing [PDF]

, 2015
This article explores the ways that life writing allows transnational, transracial Asian adoptee authors to navigate their complex experiences of truth and authenticity.
Wills, Jenny Heijun
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