administered anaesthesia also was remarkable: in patients' houses or lodgings, the private consulting rooms of surgeons and dentists, the great London hospitals, fashionable West End hotels, and Buckingham Palace. Presented with this range in social space and social position, one wonders whether the expectations about differential need for anaesthesia according to the individual sufferer's plac...

INTRODUCTION The term narcotic has had wide and inconsistent usage in lay, legal and scientific circles. Some use the word to characterize any drug which produces stupor, insensibility or sleep; many apply it only to derivatives of the opium plant ( `opiates'); others consider the term equivalent to 'addiction-producing'; and in legal matters, 'narcotics' may refer to almost any allegedly dange...

Patients with rheumatic conditions often suffer from related chronic pain. When first-line traditional medications such as acetaminophen and anti-inflammatory medications do not suffice, then other options are needed. The traditional medications may ultimately not provide sufficient pain relief, or alternatively, they can pose as a contraindication due to underlying hypertension, renal, and/or ...

In some situations, users need to authenticate as distinct members of some welldefined group, without revealing their individual identities: to validate and corroborate a leak, for example, or to count participants in a closed anonymous forum. Current group authentication techniques offering this capability, however, may de-anonymize users if an attacker later compromises their private keys. Ad...

This paper extends recent theorising on “market violence”, defined here as a type of structural and cultural violence that takes place through an assemblage in the market environment. The Finnish “instant loan” (similar to payday loans) has been widely criticised, e.g. for excessively high interest rates; this paper, debtors’ anonymous narratives discussion forum Suomi24 are used analyse instan...