Margaret Healy
Biographic Data
| ID | 412209 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Healy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Healy |
| SIGNATURE | HEALY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9054-2158 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Placement experiences as identity work: Crafting Fit With Professional Possibilities
Placement as a form of work-integrated learning is a valued element of undergraduate education. Prior work explores how placement provides a site for developing professional values, skills and competences as well as identifying how students build awareness of professional requirements. Greater focus on how such processes of awareness are realised, negotiated and enacted is still required. This study frames student placement experiences as enablin…
Medicine, Metaphor, and “Crisis” in the Early Modern Social Body
In the political turmoil of mid-seventeenth-century England, both socio-political utopias and dystopias were repeatedly imagined through corporeal images and medical metaphors and narratives. The new iatrochemistry—Paracelsian and subsequently Helmontian medicine—featured especially prominently in this intriguing textual landscape. Focusing on this particular healing paradigm, and drawing on insights from cultural theory of the body and medical h…
Wearing powerful words and objects: Healing Prosthetics
In Civilization and its Discontents (1930), Freud proposed that in striving to overcome the vulnerability of our bodies in the face of nature we create supplementary tools (including writing) in order to remove the limits to human functioning. He famously envisaged a civilisation trajectory in which man, striving to overcome his limitations, would increasingly resemble a ‘prosthetic God’ [James Strachey (ed), Sigmund Freud: Civilization and its D…
Paracelsian Medicine and Female Creativity: Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
Par l’entremise du paradigme de la médecine alchimique introduit par Paracelse et sa transmission dans la culture anglaise du début du dix-septième siècle, cet article montre comment le recueil de poésie de Aemilia Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611), exalte sa mécène, Lady Margaret Clifford, en tant que guérisseuse ayant regénéré son âme par l’alchimie spirituelle. On y montre comment Lanyer exploite adroitement les représentations positives…
Bodies politic: Somatic politics and ‘meaning making’ in medicine and literature
Sensory experience in early postnatal life shapes neuronal connections in the brain. Here we report that the local synthesis of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in dendrites plays an important role in this process. We found that dendritic spines of layer 2/3 pyramidal neurons of the visual cortex in mutant mice lacking dendritic Bdnf mRNA and thus local BDNF synthesis were normal at 3 weeks of age, but thinner, longer, and more closely sp…
The Body in Renaissance Studies
Erring Round the Rosie
Journeying with the "Stone": Montaigne's Healing Travel Journal
The impulse to fashion one's own self-affirming story out of the painful shards of illness experience—a counternarrative to a culture's dominant, constricting account of "the patient"—tends to be viewed as a relatively new phenomenon, linked to postmodernist practices. Utilizing the late twentieth-century illness narratives of Anatole Broyard as a lens through which to view the writings of Michel de Montaigne, this essay argues that over four hun…
Curing the 'frenzy: Humanism, medical idiom and 'crises' of counsel in sixteenth- century England
This essay examines the relationship between humanist ideas, medical theories of the passions, and the problem of counsel in early modern England. It focuses on the humanist attempt to cure the "frenzy" of inadequate counsel through the promotion of reason and self-knowledge. The essay argues that the humanist project was complicated by the medical discourse of the passions, which suggested that reason could be overwhelmed by powerful emotions. T…
Defoe's Journal and the English Plague Writing Tradition
In 1720 London was in a state of panic: bubonic plague was causing havoc in Marseilles and predictions were rife that it would soon reach England. The government acted quickly, issuing proclamations enabling ships from infected countries to be quarantined, drawing up new regulations including policed cordon sanitaires for the control of any epidemic, and ordering a day of national fasting and prayer. On December 16, 1720 the nation was duly calle…
Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England
How did early modern people imagine their bodies? What impact did the new disease syphilis and recurrent outbreaks of plague have on these mental landscapes? Why was the glutted belly such a potent sy
The Pocky Body: Part II
It is a curious fact that when the London theatres reopened after the major bubonic plague epidemic of 1603, a cluster of plays emerged which, through their imagery, allusions and themes, directed their attention not to ‘the’ plague but to the venereal sister plague — the French Pox. Prostitutes, courtesans, panders, bawds, and lecherous males with their attendant ‘infection’ became commonplace types on the Jacobean stage for a number of interrel…
Key Factors Influencing Student Satisfaction Related to Recruitment and Retention
In order to attract and retain students, universities must identify and meet student expectations. This article examines which aspects of a student's educational experience are more important in influencing student satisfaction. The findings show that “student centered-ness,” “campus climate,” and “instructional effectiveness,” have a strong impact on how satisfied a student is with his/her overall educational experience. The results also suggest…
Fictions of disease in early modern England: Bodies, Plagues and Politics
How did early modern people imagine their bodies? What impact did the new disease syphilis and recurrent outbreaks of bubonic plague have on these mental landscapes? Why was the glutted belly such a potent symbol of pathology? Fictions of Disease is a unique exploration of the stories laymen and physicians constructed around such bodies, producing a fascinating cultural imaginary of bodily disorder. Healy argues that these narratives not only sha…
Placement experiences as identity work: Crafting Fit With Professional Possibilities
Placement as a form of work-integrated learning is a valued element of undergraduate education. Prior work explores how placement provides a site for developing professional values, skills and competences as well as identifying how students build awareness of professional requirements. Greater focus on how such processes of awareness are realised, negotiated and enacted is still required. This study frames student placement experiences as enablin…
Wearing powerful words and objects: Healing Prosthetics
In Civilization and its Discontents (1930), Freud proposed that in striving to overcome the vulnerability of our bodies in the face of nature we create supplementary tools (including writing) in order to remove the limits to human functioning. He famously envisaged a civilisation trajectory in which man, striving to overcome his limitations, would increasingly resemble a ‘prosthetic God’ [James Strachey (ed), Sigmund Freud: Civilization and its D…
Curing the 'frenzy: Humanism, medical idiom and 'crises' of counsel in sixteenth- century England
This essay examines the relationship between humanist ideas, medical theories of the passions, and the problem of counsel in early modern England. It focuses on the humanist attempt to cure the "frenzy" of inadequate counsel through the promotion of reason and self-knowledge. The essay argues that the humanist project was complicated by the medical discourse of the passions, which suggested that reason could be overwhelmed by powerful emotions. T…
Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England
How did early modern people imagine their bodies? What impact did the new disease syphilis and recurrent outbreaks of plague have on these mental landscapes? Why was the glutted belly such a potent sy
The Pocky Body: Part II
It is a curious fact that when the London theatres reopened after the major bubonic plague epidemic of 1603, a cluster of plays emerged which, through their imagery, allusions and themes, directed their attention not to ‘the’ plague but to the venereal sister plague — the French Pox. Prostitutes, courtesans, panders, bawds, and lecherous males with their attendant ‘infection’ became commonplace types on the Jacobean stage for a number of interrel…
Key Factors Influencing Student Satisfaction Related to Recruitment and Retention
In order to attract and retain students, universities must identify and meet student expectations. This article examines which aspects of a student's educational experience are more important in influencing student satisfaction. The findings show that “student centered-ness,” “campus climate,” and “instructional effectiveness,” have a strong impact on how satisfied a student is with his/her overall educational experience. The results also suggest…
Fictions of disease in early modern England: Bodies, Plagues and Politics
How did early modern people imagine their bodies? What impact did the new disease syphilis and recurrent outbreaks of bubonic plague have on these mental landscapes? Why was the glutted belly such a potent symbol of pathology? Fictions of Disease is a unique exploration of the stories laymen and physicians constructed around such bodies, producing a fascinating cultural imaginary of bodily disorder. Healy argues that these narratives not only sha…
Defoe's Journal and the English Plague Writing Tradition
In 1720 London was in a state of panic: bubonic plague was causing havoc in Marseilles and predictions were rife that it would soon reach England. The government acted quickly, issuing proclamations enabling ships from infected countries to be quarantined, drawing up new regulations including policed cordon sanitaires for the control of any epidemic, and ordering a day of national fasting and prayer. On December 16, 1720 the nation was duly calle…
Curing the 'frenzy: Humanism, medical idiom and 'crises' of counsel in sixteenth- century England
This essay examines the relationship between humanist ideas, medical theories of the passions, and the problem of counsel in early modern England. It focuses on the humanist attempt to cure the "frenzy" of inadequate counsel through the promotion of reason and self-knowledge. The essay argues that the humanist project was complicated by the medical discourse of the passions, which suggested that reason could be overwhelmed by powerful emotions. T…
Journeying with the "Stone": Montaigne's Healing Travel Journal
The impulse to fashion one's own self-affirming story out of the painful shards of illness experience—a counternarrative to a culture's dominant, constricting account of "the patient"—tends to be viewed as a relatively new phenomenon, linked to postmodernist practices. Utilizing the late twentieth-century illness narratives of Anatole Broyard as a lens through which to view the writings of Michel de Montaigne, this essay argues that over four hun…
Erring Round the Rosie
Bodies politic: Somatic politics and ‘meaning making’ in medicine and literature
Sensory experience in early postnatal life shapes neuronal connections in the brain. Here we report that the local synthesis of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in dendrites plays an important role in this process. We found that dendritic spines of layer 2/3 pyramidal neurons of the visual cortex in mutant mice lacking dendritic Bdnf mRNA and thus local BDNF synthesis were normal at 3 weeks of age, but thinner, longer, and more closely sp…
The Body in Renaissance Studies
Paracelsian Medicine and Female Creativity: Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
Par l’entremise du paradigme de la médecine alchimique introduit par Paracelse et sa transmission dans la culture anglaise du début du dix-septième siècle, cet article montre comment le recueil de poésie de Aemilia Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611), exalte sa mécène, Lady Margaret Clifford, en tant que guérisseuse ayant regénéré son âme par l’alchimie spirituelle. On y montre comment Lanyer exploite adroitement les représentations positives…
Medicine, Metaphor, and “Crisis” in the Early Modern Social Body
In the political turmoil of mid-seventeenth-century England, both socio-political utopias and dystopias were repeatedly imagined through corporeal images and medical metaphors and narratives. The new iatrochemistry—Paracelsian and subsequently Helmontian medicine—featured especially prominently in this intriguing textual landscape. Focusing on this particular healing paradigm, and drawing on insights from cultural theory of the body and medical h…
Wearing powerful words and objects: Healing Prosthetics
In Civilization and its Discontents (1930), Freud proposed that in striving to overcome the vulnerability of our bodies in the face of nature we create supplementary tools (including writing) in order to remove the limits to human functioning. He famously envisaged a civilisation trajectory in which man, striving to overcome his limitations, would increasingly resemble a ‘prosthetic God’ [James Strachey (ed), Sigmund Freud: Civilization and its D…
Placement experiences as identity work: Crafting Fit With Professional Possibilities
Placement as a form of work-integrated learning is a valued element of undergraduate education. Prior work explores how placement provides a site for developing professional values, skills and competences as well as identifying how students build awareness of professional requirements. Greater focus on how such processes of awareness are realised, negotiated and enacted is still required. This study frames student placement experiences as enablin…
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