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Largely reorganised and much expanded in this second edition,
Practice and Procedures brings together in a single volume general
methods of pain assessment and presents the wide range of therapies
that can be provided by a range of health care disciplines.
Authored by a multidisciplinary team of experts, chapters can stand
alone for readers looking for a general overview of the methods of
techniques for pain management available to them or work to
complement chapters in the preceeding three volumes, providing
practical procedures and applications in the management of acute,
chronic and cancer pain. The book is divided into three parts. Part
One covers the principles of measurement and diagnosis, including
history taking and examination, the selection of pain measures,
diagnostic tests and novel imaging techniques. Part Two discusses
the full range of therapeutic protocols available, from
pharmacological therapies, through psychological techniques,
physical therapy and international procedures, to techniques
specific to pain assessment and management in paediatric patients.
Part Three provides information on planning, conducting, analysing
and publishing clinical trials, with invaluable guidance on the
techniques of systematic review and meta-analysis in pain research.
Part Four considers the role of multidisciplinary pain management
teams, their organization, their place within different health care
systems, and how best to manage change when implementing such a
service. Part Five concludes the volume, investigating the use of
guidelines, standards and quality improvement initiatives in the
management of post-operative pain, and discussing the expert
medicolegal report.
Largely reorganised and much expanded in this second edition,
Practice and Procedures brings together in a single volume general
methods of pain assessment and presents the wide range of therapies
that can be provided by a range of health care disciplines.
Authored by a multidisciplinary team of experts, chapters can stand
alone for readers looking for a general overview of the methods of
techniques for pain management available to them or work to
complement chapters in the preceeding three volumes, providing
practical procedures and applications in the management of acute,
chronic and cancer pain. The book is divided into three parts. Part
One covers the principles of measurement and diagnosis, including
history taking and examination, the selection of pain measures,
diagnostic tests and novel imaging techniques. Part Two discusses
the full range of therapeutic protocols available, from
pharmacological therapies, through psychological techniques,
physical therapy and international procedures, to techniques
specific to pain assessment and management in paediatric patients.
Part Three provides information on planning, conducting, analysing
and publishing clinical trials, with invaluable guidance on the
techniques of systematic review and meta-analysis in pain research.
Part Four considers the role of multidisciplinary pain management
teams, their organization, their place within different health care
systems, and how best to manage change when implementing such a
service. Part Five concludes the volume, investigating the use of
guidelines, standards and quality improvement initiatives in the
management of post-operative pain, and discussing the expert
medicolegal report.
In 2000, a sixteenth-century manuscript containing a copy of a
previously unknown play in Middle Cornish, probably composed in the
second half of the fifteenth century, was discovered among papers
bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. This
eagerly awaited edition of the play, published in association with
the National Library of Wales, offers a conservatively edited text
with a facing-page translation, and a reproduction of the original
text at the foot of the page - vital for comparative purposes. Also
included are a complete vocabulary, detailed linguistic notes, and
a thorough introduction dealing with the language of the play, the
hagiographic background of the St Kea material and the origins of
other parts in the work of Geoffrey of Monmouth. The theme of the
play is the contention between St Kea, patron of Kea parish in
Cornwall, and Teudar, a local tyrant. This is combined with a long
section dealing with the dispute over tribute payments between King
Arthur and the Emperor Lucius Hiberius; Queen Guinevere's adultery
with Arthur's nephew Modred; the latter's invitation to Cheldric
and his Saxon hordes to come to Britain to assist him in his
conflict with his uncle; and Arthur's battle with Modred. Winner of
the 2008 Holyer An Gof Award for Cornish language publications.
If one compares the vocabulary laid out in the handbooks of revived
Cornish with the lexicon of the traditional texts, one is struck by
how different are the two. From the beginnings Unified Cornish in
the 1920s it appears that revivalists have tended to avoid words
borrowed from English, replacing them with more "Celtic' etyma."
Indeed the more Celtic appearance the vocabulary of both Welsh and
Breton seens to have been a source of envy to some Cornish
revivalists. From Nance onwards such purists have believed that
English borrowings disfigured Cornish and in some sense did not
belong in the language. They considered that revived Cornish would
be more authentic, if as many borrowings as possible were replaced
by native or Celtic words. Such a perception is perhaps
understandable in the context of the Cornish language as a badge of
ethnic identity. From a historical and linguistic perspective,
however, it is misplaced. Cornish, unlike its sister languages, has
always adopted words from English. Indeed it is these English
borrowings which give the mature language of the Middle Cornish
period its distinctive flavour. Cornish without the English element
is quite simply not Cornish. Since there is no sizeable community
speaking revived Cornish as a native language, we are compelled to
rely on the only native speakers available to us, namely the
writers of the traditional texts. We must follow them as closely as
we can. It is to be hoped that this book will in some small measure
assist learners of Cornish to speak and to write a form of the
language more closely related to what remains to us of the
traditional language.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English -
Literature, Works, grade: 1,3, University of Heidelberg
(Anglistisches Seminar), course: PS II Literaturwissenschaft -
Shaws Fruhe Dramen, language: English, abstract: This essay shall
aim at portraying Shaw's Fabian thought and morality in his early
plays, i.e. Widowers' Houses, Arms and the Man, and The Devil's
Disciple. Such a task automatically renders the essay no more than
an attempt at finding traces, for there are no socialists in the
plays mentioned. Instead, socialist thought is conveyed implicitly,
i.e. by means of the plot, by method of showing, or by confronting
a Victorian theatre audience with realities they would only too
well like to ignore. Widower's Houses is a good case in point: it
is highly unlikely any tenants living in the sort of substandard
accommodation portrayed in the play could afford a night out in
Covent Garden, and it is equally unlikely the theatre-going
audience would ever bother to visit them in "their" rundown houses.
Consequently, Shaw forced the reality upon the audience and
explicitly tried to use drama as a means of propaganda (Grene:
1987: 15 and 3). However, here one could critically add that Shaw -
like most Fabians - had as little contact with the working class as
those he criticised for the same reasons (Ballay 1980: 237). I
shall focus on Widowers' Houses, Arms and the Man, and The Devil's
Disciple, for reasons I will explain in the conclusion. The essay
follows a hypothesis, which is as written above: Shaw forced upon
his audience realities they would like to ignore, and he wished to
radicalise his audience (Gahan: 13). The second assumption this
essay follows is that morality is as much part of Fabianism as
politics are. In his economic and political writings, Shaw made a
strong connection between economics and morality (Griffith: 29f.).
His opposition to capitalism rooted very much in the fact that he
rejected it morally. Hence, according to Fabian logic, the
The publication of "Cornish Today" by Kernewek dre Lyther in 1995
was a landmark event in the Cornish Revival. In that book,
Professor Williams offered the first professional analysis of the
various systems of Cornish in use, and also outlined his suggested
emendations for Unified Cornish. The present revised edition makes
this most important work available to those who may have missed the
earlier editions. As companion volumes to "Cornish Today," two
further works by Professor Williams are being published: "Writings
on Revived Cornish" and "Towards Authentic Cornish." Nicholas
Williams was born in Essex. While still at school he taught himself
Cornish and became a bard of the Cornish Gorsedd for proficiency in
the Cornish language in Newquay in 1962, taking the bardic name
Golvan. He won first prize in the Gorsedd verse competition in
1961, 1964, and 1965. He read classics, English language, and
Celtic in Oxford and was awarded a PhD in Celtic in Queen's
University, Belfast in 1972. He is currently Associate Professor in
the School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Folklore and Linguistics in
University College, Dublin. He has written widely on the Celtic
languages and literatures, in particular Irish, Manx and Cornish.
He published "Cornish Today" in 1995, "Clappya Kernowek" in 1997,
"English-Cornish Dictionary" in 2000 (second edition 2006) and
Testament Noweth in 2002. He won first prize in the Gorsedd verse
competitions of 1997, 1998, and 1999. With Graham Thomas he has
produced an editio princeps of the recently discovered Cornish
play, "Bewnans Ke," which was published by the University of Exeter
Press in October 2006. Philip Payton, Professor of Cornish Studies,
University of Exeter, has described Nicholas Williams as "the
foremost international authority" in the Cornish language."
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
Kernowek Kemyn, a form of spelling currently promoted by the
Cornish Language Board, has been subject to sustained criticism for
nearly two decades since its inception. The form and content of the
Cornish Language Board's publications continue to invite criticism
and have inspired this volume. The essays begin with Michael
Everson's review of recent Cornish Language Board typography,
including the second edition of Ken George's "Gerlyver Kres," the
New Testament in Kernowek Kemyn, George's "Gerlyvrik," and the
recent and controversial "preliminary edition" called in Kernowek
Kemyn "Bywnans Ke." This is followed by a reprint of Everson's
review of the first edition of George's "Gerlyver Kres," since
reference is made to it in the first article. Craig Weatherhill,
one of Cornwall's foremost experts on place-names, provides the
next two articles, both reviews of Cornish Language Board
publications, "Place-Names in Cornwall" and "The Formation of
Cornish Place-Names." Ray Chubb and Craig Weatherhill collaborated
on a short paper in which they provide an analysis of the
similarity of Revived Cornish orthographic forms to traditional
spellings of Cornish place-names. Bernard Deacon provides two
insightful articles, the first on the values expressed in Kernowek
Kemyn rhetoric, and the second on the aims and methods of the
Cornish Language Board. Finally, Nicholas Williams reviews "An
Testament Nowydh" edited by Keith Syed and published by the Cornish
Language Board."
This book brings together in one convenient volume eight articles
by Professor Nicholas Williams on the Cornish Revival. They range
from his "A Problem in Cornish Phonology" (1990) in which he shows
that the "phonemes" /dj/ and /tj/ of Kernowek Kemyn were
unwarranted, to his review "'A Modern and Scholarly Cornish-English
Dictionary' a Review of Ken George's Gerlyver Kernewek Kemmyn" of
2001 in which he demonstrates how at least 370 entries in George's
dictionary are mistaken. "Writings on Revived Cornish" concludes
with a short note on George's inconsistent lexicographical practice
with respect to geographical names, a discussion of the
implications for the revived language of the recently-discovered
play "Bewnans Ke" and the text of a lecture on Unified Cornish
Revised given by Professor Williams in September 2006. As companion
volumes to "Writings on Revived Cornish," two further works by
Professor Williams are being published: "Cornish Today" and
"Towards Authentic Cornish." Nicholas Williams was born in Essex.
While still at school he taught himself Cornish and became a bard
of the Cornish Gorsedd for proficiency in the Cornish language in
Newquay in 1962, taking the bardic name Golvan. He won first prize
in the Gorsedd verse competition in 1961, 1964, and 1965. He read
classics, English language, and Celtic in Oxford and was awarded a
PhD in Celtic in Queen's University, Belfast in 1972. He is
currently Associate Professor in the School of Irish, Celtic
Studies, Folklore and Linguistics in University College, Dublin. He
has written widely on the Celtic languages and literatures, in
particular Irish, Manx and Cornish. He published "Cornish Today" in
1995, "Clappya Kernowek" in 1997, "English-Cornish Dictionary" in
2000 (second edition 2006) and Testament Noweth in 2002. He won
first prize in the Gorsedd verse competitions of 1997, 1998, and
1999. With Graham Thomas he has produced an editio princeps of the
recently discovered Cornish play, "Bewnans Ke," which was published
by the University of Exeter Press in October 2006. Philip Payton,
Professor of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter, has described
Nicholas Williams as "the foremost international authority" in the
Cornish language."
"Towards Authentic Cornish" is in the first place a rebuttal of the
defence of Kernowek Kemyn attempted by Paul Dunbar and Ken George
in "Kernewek Kemmyn: Cornish for the Twenty-First Century." In the
present work, Professor Williams demonstrates with examples from
the Cornish texts just how unconvincing is George's defence of
Kernowek Kemyn. The latter portions of the book offer a detailed
critique of George's "Gerlyver Kernewek Kemmyn" and of Wella
Brown's "Grammar of Modern Cornish." As companion volumes to
"Towards Authentic Cornish," two further works by Professor
Williams have been published: "Cornish Today" and "Writings on
Revived Cornish." Nicholas Williams was born in Essex. While still
at school he taught himself Cornish and became a bard of the
Cornish Gorsedd for proficiency in the Cornish language in Newquay
in 1962, taking the bardic name Golvan. He won first prize in the
Gorsedd verse competition in 1961, 1964, and 1965. He read
classics, English language, and Celtic in Oxford and was awarded a
PhD in Celtic in Queen's University, Belfast in 1972. He is
currently Associate Professor in the School of Irish, Celtic
Studies, Folklore and Linguistics in University College, Dublin. He
has written widely on the Celtic languages and literatures, in
particular Irish, Manx and Cornish. He published "Cornish Today" in
1995, "Clappya Kernowek" in 1997, "English-Cornish Dictionary" in
2000 (second edition 2006) and Testament Noweth in 2002. He won
first prize in the Gorsedd verse competitions of 1997, 1998, and
1999. With Graham Thomas he has produced an editio princeps of the
recently discovered Cornish play, "Bewnans Ke," which was published
by the University of Exeter Press in October 2006. Philip Payton,
Professor of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter, has described
Nicholas Williams as "the foremost international authority" in the
Cornish language."
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