Month: June 2014

• The Linguistic Pregnancy

  What is pregnancy? What’s in a name, for that matter..? Is it true that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, or is there something in the name itself that alters and affects that to which it refers? Neo-Whorfianism, in other words… For example, the Chinese word for what we in English […]

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  June 26, 2014

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  Benjamin Whorf, culture, language, language theory, linguistic, linguists, meaning, name, Neo Whorfianism, pregnancy, semantic drift, transliterations, Whorfianism, words

• The Mystery of Pain

  Obstetricians and midwives are, at times, unavoidable witnesses to pain; they wade through it, explain it, try to alleviate it, but never experience it because the physical sensation of pain cannot be transferred to anyone else. It is the one constant attendant in the labour room, the uninvited guest that, welcome or not, arrives early […]

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  June 19, 2014

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  Elaine Scarry, etymology of the word pain, experience of pain, language of pain, McGill Pain Questionnaire, metaphor, metaphor of pain, midwives, mystery, Nietzsche on pain, obstetricians, Pain, pain has no voice, Physical pain, Shakespeare on pain, Theory of Mind, Virginia Woolf

• Prostitution Laws

  Okay, I think you’re going to have to help me with this one. Suppose you have a product the courts have decided you are legally entitled to sell, but a new law is enacted making it both illegal to advertise or purchase it… Am I missing something here? In December 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada, in […]

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  June 12, 2014

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  Canada, government, New Zealand prostitution law, nordic model, prostitution, prostitution laws, Supreme Court, Supreme Court decisions, Supreme Court of Canada

• Violence Against Women

  According to a recent meta-analysis by the World Health Organization, one in three women worldwide are subject to intimate partner violence (IPV) http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6140/1527.short . And it’s not just a third world problem either, as we Canadians with our often parochial outlook would no doubt like to believe. True, some countries seem to be over-represented: ‘East […]

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  June 5, 2014

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  Aboriginal women, British Medical Journal, intimate partner violence, IPV, meta-analysis, screening for domestic violence, Violence, violence against women, WHO, women, World Health Organization