Tag: obstetricians

• The Obstetrical Celibate

  Celibacy seems so counterintuitive and aberrant to me that I’m constantly amazed how close to the surface it seems to float. Its etymology comes from a Latin word meaning ‘unmarried’ and that, in turn, is an amalgam of two proto-Indo-European words meaning ‘to live alone’, but its exact definition seems contextually influenced. For example, despite…

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  August 24, 2016

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  abstinence, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, asexuality, BBC news, Catholic celibacy, celibacy, eye contacts, In vitro fertilization, IVF, obstetricians, Pope John Paul II, pregnancy, sexual gratification

• Have Hypnosis, May Travel…

  “You want me to do what?” Janet’s smile never waivered; it broadened if anything. “Hypnotize my friend.” I rolled my eyes in a maudlin attempt to emphasize my frustration at her answer. “But your friend is a male, Janet…” She blinked slowly –her version of an eye-roll, no doubt. “Given that you are as well,…

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  November 5, 2014

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  foreign politics, hyperemesis gravidarum, hypnosis, medical hypnosis, obstetricians, political assassinations, politics, teaching hypnosis

• 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