This chapter considers some of the items discussed in the previous chapters and cast them in a more formal way so as to adapt them for future developments. In this way, the integro-differential form of the Dyson equation for the contour single-particle Green’s function (as well as its integral counterpart) is obtained, which play an important role in the following chapters for capturing the dynamical evolution of the physical system.

Chapter 2 follows the Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef to independent Algeria, where he began a lifetime engagement with the Maghreb as a site for quotidian poetics to reflect on Arab political experience. A key figure is his fictional, Algerian alter ego, L’Akhdar ben Youssef, through whom Youssef developed the Mashreq’s Algerian topos to engage events like the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990). I situate Youssef’s transregional poetics in dialogue with the Syrian Baʿthist thinker Mutaʿ Safadi, who argued that Arabic literature and philosophy should ground the scale and slogans of Arab nationalism in social experience. The chapter compares transregionalism’s texturing of fuṣḥā with daily life with Algerian critiques of Arabization by leftist intellectuals Sadek Hadjerès and Mostefa Lacheraf. For these Algerian thinkers, the renewal of Arabic signified the promise of decolonization as a plural, popular expression of the multilingual nation. The chapter concludes with Algerian Kabyle linguist Mouloud Mammeri’s critique of the neo-colonial nature of Arabization.

This chapter examines the role and nature of theory in big picture analysis. It argues that while Buzan-style big picture analysis necessarily engages a specific perspective, it does not tell us anything about the nature of the theory used. That is, what concepts does it consist of? How are they organized? And what kind of inner mechanisms make it tick? This chapter demonstrates that Buzan-style big picture analysis is enabled by a theory quite distinct from other standard types of theorizing in International Relations. Uniquely, Buzan understands theory as a network of concepts, hierarchically organized, that allows a mapping of issues and thus corresponding to the mindmapping© technique. As such, theory does not have a lasting form, but shifts in accordance with empirics. In Buzan’s case, most of the key concepts come from the English School (within International Relations), mixed up with standard terminology from macro-history and historical sociology. Beyond that, I argue, that Buzan – like many in IR – has evolved through an engagement with Waltzian neorealism. I examine to what extent traces of Waltz remain in Buzan’s approach and go on to suggest that there is space within Buzan’s framework for developing theories in the Waltzian sense as pictures mentally formed, sporting a constant form holding across space and time.

Building on the previous chapter, this one zooms in on the role of psychiatry in stimulating the discourse of homosexuality. Comparing developments in France to those in Belgium, it demonstrates how, in the former, a rising psychiatric profession latched onto sexual psychopathology to help establish medical control over the largely Catholic system of insane asylums in close alliance with an anticlerical state. The homosexual ‘invert’ thus served as an emblem of secularism. Belgium’s political culture, by contrast, was dominated by Catholics and laissez-faire liberals, neither of whom could support state expansion in the realm of mental health care, which the former dominated and the latter approached as a business. The country’s insane asylums would remain firmly in the hands of religious congregations and private entrepreneurs, stunting the development of an independent, confident, and militant psychiatry. Dominated by Catholics, the Belgian Society of Mental Medicine was hostile to new-fangled ideas about ‘sexual inversion.’ This is shown through the growing skepticism of its members to the work of the pioneering Austrian psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing, who increasingly came to see ‘contrary sexual feeling’ as an innate and morally innocent ‘condition.’

Congenital uterine anomalies arise from an abnormality in the embryological development process. There can be defects in unification, canalisation or complete agenesis. Uterine anomalies are mnore common in those who experience miscaarriage compared with the general population. Patients with uterine anomalies are at higher risk of infertility, early and second trimester miscarriage, pre-term birth and malpresenatation at delivery.

Blunt and penetrating trauma are common in many disasters, including hurricanes. Injured patients can present to the hospital during the event or up to several days after. Patients often present with lacerations and abrasions, but well-appearing patients still require a thorough physical exam and appropriate imaging with necessary consults. During disasters, patients can overwhelm the hospital and traditional imaging modalities (CTs); therefore, ultrasound can assist in patient triage and diagnoses during these times while accelerating patient care.

This chapter reads Algerian novelist Ahlam Mosteghanemi’s best-selling novel Dhākirat al-jasad (Memory in the Flesh, 1993). In it, a circular bracelet, the authentic sign of the Algerian woman-nation, grounds the promise of a “true” Arabic in the postcolonial present. Mosteghanemi’s novel imagines a stark separation between the Algerian War – when men were honorable and language was utile – and the ruined Arab present, ruled by banalized words and corrupted men. Her novel adopts a transregional geography, weaving the topoi of Algeria and Palestine together. A self-conscious heir to the transregionalism described in this study, Mosteghanemi retains its Arab scale to great commercial success but gently critiques its collective, male Arab voice. Through the voice of her male narrator, Arab literary constructions of meaning over Algeria are revealed as homosocial exchanges between male intellectuals, bonding them across distance and rivalries. In Memory, literature’s interpretation of Algeria emerges as an autobiographical task, revealing and narrating an Arab intellectual subject to himself and his likenesses.

In the early seventeenth century, female singers were novelties, objects of obsession to be admired, collected, and displayed. Heard only seldom in opera (until the establishment of Venetian public opera) and forbidden from singing in church, they performed primarily in private and semiprivate settings, inspiring their male admirers to write poems and discourses that variously praised and condemned their alluring voices and bodies. A comparison of Barbara Strozzi’s performances with the Venetian Accademia degli Unisoni with those of her antecedents and contemporaries (such as Adriana Basile or Leonora Baroni) in Papal Rome reveals fundamental differences in attitudes towards virtuose: the political structure in Venice that limited public roles for noblewomen created an environment discouraged the development of conversazioni and veglie – many of which were sponsored by female patrons – that the Roman women enjoyed. Giulio Strozzi’s founding of the Accademia degli Unisoni may well have been inspired by his experiences hearing female singers during his time in Rome.

This chapter derives the time-dependent Ginzburg–Landau equation from first principles, by relying on the same formal approach that has led to the time-dependent Gross–Pitaevskii equation of Chapter 28. Specifically, the time-dependent Ginzburg–Landau equation holds close to the critical temperature of the initial equilibrium preparation and in the (extreme) BCS limit of the BCS–BEC crossover, when the Cooper pairs are largely overlapping with each other. Care has to be exerted when dealing with the analytic properties in the wave-vector and frequency space of the normal and anomalous particle–particle bubbles.

This chapter outlines the management of a Clostridium difficile (C. diff) outbreak on a cruise ship, focusing on the early identification and triage of affected passengers, resource allocation, and the coordination of care in a resource-limited setting. The scenario reviews communication strategy within the ship’s command structure, planning for the transportation of severely affected individuals to onshore facilities, contact precautions, and quarantine. It provides a comprehensive approach to handling infectious disease outbreaks in isolated environments.

Ultrasound is the most commonly used medical imaging method in pregnancy. In early pregnancy a scan is performed to confirm the presence of a normally sited pregnancy, establish viability, determine number of embryos, determine gestational age and hopefully to reassure about the absence of complications. Ultrasound used with standard presets for clinical reasons in early pregnancy is safe and the benefits outweigh any theoretical risks.

This case outlines the management of a mass casualty incident (MCI) involving a 24-year-old male who sustained multiple stab wounds during an active shooter situation at a concert. The patient presents with significant injuries, including stab wounds to the back and upper extremities, hypotension, tachycardia, and respiratory distress. Upon arrival, the patient is intubated for airway protection, and procedures are performed to address tension pneumothorax and life-threatening bleeding. The case highlights key emergency principles, such as the importance of rapid trauma assessment, bleeding control, and chest tube placement. The article also discusses the challenges of managing critically ill patients in the context of an MCI, emphasizing the need for mass transfusion protocols, advanced imaging, and coordinated care with trauma surgery. This scenario serves as a training tool for preparing emergency medical teams to handle multiple traumatic injuries under the pressure of an MCI.

This chapter answers Buzan’s call for big picture analysis (BPA) in IPE. Since the late-1990s/early-2000s IPE has retreated into a presentist, micro-approach, typified by US third-wave IPE, which revolves around Open Economy Politics (OEP). However, while one would anticipate a different, historical sociological approach that is more interested in the big picture on the other side of the pond, it turns out that Brit-school IPE has more or less mirrored the trajectory undertaken in the United States, even if OEP receives little or no interest. But without BPA, I argue that IPE remains stranded within a presentist micro cul-de-sac, wherein events/processes are either depicted as entirely new to the exclusion of all manner of continuities, or that they are situated within a trans-historical, asociological approach with no appreciation of unorthodox discontinuities. This chapter problematises IPE’s prevailing presentist/Eurocentric understanding of the global economy by revealing the origins of the first global economy (1500–1850) that are founded to a considerable degree on non-Western agents and processes. And in showing how this helped promote the rise of the second (modern capitalist) global economy that has existed since c.1850, the chapter also problematises some of the fundamental assumptions that underpin IPE more generally.