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Throughout her history, the ballerina has been perceived as the
embodiment of beauty and perfection -- she is the feminine ideal.
But the reality is another story. Beginning with the earliest
ballerinas, who often led double lives as concubines, Deirdre Kelly
goes on to review the troubled lives of 19th-century ballerinas,
who lived in poverty and worked under torturous and even
life-threatening conditions. In the 20th century, George Balanchine
created a contradictory ballet culture that simultaneously
idealized and oppressed ballerinas, and many of his dancers
suffered from anorexia and bulimia or underwent cosmetic surgery to
achieve the ideal ethereal form. At the beginning of the 21st
century, ballerinas are still underpaid, vulnerable to arbitrary
discrimination and dismissal, and expected to bear pain stoically
-- but much of this is beginning to change. As Kelly examines the
lives of some of the world's best ballerinas, she argues for a
rethinking of the world's most graceful dance form -- a rethinking
that would position the ballerina at its heart, where she belongs.
Highlighting the work of such great ballerinas such as Anna
Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Suzanne Farrell, Gelsey Kirkland, and
Evelyn Hart Kelly illustrates how the world of ballet is slowly
evolving.
This atlas is a problem-based practical book presenting clinical
scenarios for children with liver disease. Each chapter
demonstrates the clinical presentation, diagnostic pathway, therapy
and outcome. Rich in illustrations of clinical pictures, tables and
graphs of data, each chapter also contains pictures of radiology,
histopathology and other important diagnostic information. This
book outlines a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and
management of pediatric liver disease and covers diseases
encountered in South Asia, the Far East and the Middle East. This
work will appeal to a wide readership, from trainees in hepatology
and Paediatric Gastroenterology to General Paediatricians and
Allied Health Professionals including Dieticians, Nurses,
Transplant Co-Ordinators.
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