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MONSTROSITIES INDUCED BY HYPOXIA

Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey, 1958
DESPITE an increased understanding of the causes of fetal defects that has come since 1940, when the role of rubella in their etiology was detected, not much new has been learned of the genesis of "monstrous" deformities in the human embryo. For example, gross deformities like those shown in Figure 1 have not been reported to occur after first ...
T H, INGALLS, F R, PHILBROOK
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Frankenstein with Kant: A Theory of Monstrosity or the Monstrosity of Theory

SubStance, 1987
The sort of interrogation I am proposing is neither philosophical nor literary but something in between these two. On the one hand, it is a testing out of the shifting boundary between philosophy, personified by Kant's Critique ofJudgment, and literature, represented by Shelley's Frankenstein; on the other, it investigates what rebounds from these two ...
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Monstrosity

2013
From the ‘Monster of Ravenna’ to the ‘Elephant Man’, Myra Hindley and Ted Bundy, the visualisation of ‘real’, human monsters has always played a part in how society sees itself. But what is the function of a monster? Why do we need to embody and represent what is monstrous?
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MONSTROSITIES AND MATERNAL IMPRESSIONS.

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1888
Whether maternal impressions do or do not influence fœtal development, is a question still before the profession. It is not my purpose to discuss this question, but simply to place on record two exceedingly interesting cases. Though we may not offer an explanation of maternal impressions, yet that is no argument against the existence of such influences.
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‘Speak of me as […]’: Refashioning geographies of monstrosity in Othello

Cahiers Elisabethains, 2022
Michela Compagnoni
exaly  

Monstrosity as resistance: rethinking trans embodiment beyond the rhetoric of the wrong body

The Cultureory and Critique, 2021
Caterina Nirta
exaly  

Anencephalothoracopagus monstrosity

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1953
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Description of a monstrosity

The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 1955
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The Monstrosity of the Crucifixion

Abstract The spectacle of Jesus’ public execution horrifies moderns, offending decorum and meaning and creating fear and disgust affects. Nonetheless, Jesus’ crucifixion soon became central to much of Western Christianity, and horror cinema built promiscuously upon it. In this context, Jesus films, which center on passion spectacles, all
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Monstrosity

2022
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