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Infant deaths from congenital anomalies: novel use of Child Death Overview Panel data
ObjectiveWe aimed to assess Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP) data validity, and cause of death classification, by comparison with information from a local birth cohort study (Born in Bradford, BiB), and another cause of death coding system (causes of death and associated conditions—CODAC). We then aimed to use CDOP data to calculate ethnic-specific infant mortality rates (IMRs), and compare characteristics of infants who died of congenital anomalies (CA) with those who died from other causes (non-CA).DesignRetrospective cohort study.SettingBradford Metropolitan District.PatientsAll infant deaths, 2008 to 2013.Main outcome measuresInfant mortality rates from CA and non-CA causes.Results315 infant deaths were included, 56 of whom were BiB recruits. Agreement between CDOP and BiB was moderate to perfect for all characteristics except ethnicity, which showed weak agreement (kappa=0.58). The same deaths (27/56) were classified as CA by CDOP and CODAC. IMRs (per 1000 live births, 2009–2013) were highest in Pakistani infants (all causes 9.8, CA cause 5.5) compared with white British (all causes 4.3, CA cause 1.3) and other infants (all causes 5.1, CA cause 1.4). In multivariate analysis, infants who died of CA cause were more likely to have been born at term (OR 3.18) and to consanguineous parents (OR 3.28) than infants who died of non-CA cause.ConclusionsExcess Pakistani mortality appears to be partly explained by an excess of deaths from CA, which in this population appears associated with a greater prevalence of consanguinity.
Journal Article
The Concealed Curator
Our view of the past is by necessity a mediated one – we cannot experience directly that which is no longer present. We rely instead on written, visual, and audio mediations to form our individual and collective memories of historical events. The logic of this potentially infinite “remediation” of the past insists that “there was never a past prior to mediation; all mediations are remediations, in that mediation of the real is always a mediation of another mediation” (Grusin 18). As the principal, and often, only gateway to the past, remediated memories stand at the heart of collective remembering: “When we
Book Chapter
'shadowy copies'?: film adaptations of the second austrian republic
For many years adaptation has been passed between literature and film studies, frequently dismissed as ‘shadowy copies’ and parasitic reproductions, the unwanted bastard child of the disciplines searching in vain for an academic home. Despite the emergence of insightful new scholarship into the development of Austrian film in the twentieth century, the role of the adaptation genre within Austria’s film industry and literary landscape remains an academic blind spot. This study aims to address this gap in critical knowledge, reviewing the potential function of filmic adaptations within the field of Austrian studies. Through five case studies of canonical works of post-war Austrian literature, this thesis sets out to establish adaptation both as a critical tool through which to approach literature and as an object of academic interest in its own right. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory and its application in film studies, these studies compare and contrast the position occupied by the film’s implied spectator with the relationship of the implied reader to the literary text. Rereading the novels retrospectively in light of their adaptations, this approach has the ability to ‘light up dark corners’ of the novels, illuminating those aspects hitherto left in the shadows by literary criticism. It will be argued that adaptation is uniquely positioned to hold up a mirror to literary texts, reflecting their concerns not through the filters of established grand narratives and generic taxonomies but through their creative, cinematic reworking of the novels. In challenging those assumptions that have become commonplace within Austrian literary history, this study calls for a more nuanced approach to literature of the Second Republic and proposes adaptation as the means by which this may be achieved.
Dissertation
\Die leere Mitte\: Narrative Desire and Loss in \Moos auf den Steinen\ and its Filmic Adaptation
Fritsch's first novel, Moos auf den Steinen, has frequently harvested criticism for its perceived adherence to a mythologized image of Austria's Habsburg legacy. Using psychoanalytic conceptions of narrative desire to approach the novel and its filmic adaptation, this article reevaluates the status of the Habsburg Myth in both works and uses the film adaptation to question the assumed traditionalism of the novel.
Journal Article