Chapter 16 covers the topic of bulimia nervosa and binge eating. Through a case vignette with topical MCQs for consolidation of learning, readers are brought through the diagnosis and treatment of a patient with bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder. topics covered inlcude diagnosis, complications of self-induced vomiting, co-morbidities, pharmacological and non-pharmacological management of bulimia.

Heather Ingman, in her chapter, explores W. B. Yeats’s legacy in the construction of the myth surrounding the Big House, the country estates that served as a potent symbol of Anglo-Irish Ascendancy rule in Ireland. The Big House novel, which rose to prominence in the late eighteenth century, created over the ensuing two hundred years new grounds of recognition for the iconic Georgian structures that presided over vast demesnes until the Land Wars and the War of Independence altered forever the Anglo-Irish landscape. Ingman shows how the Yeatsian myth of the Big House was undermined in novels by, among others, Elizabeth Bowen, Molly Keane, Jennifer Johnston, William Trevor, and John Banville. But even in the process of dismantling the myth, these novels retained a small portion of the Big House’s cultural value because its symbolic value could be taken for granted, if only to transform it.

Humanity’s impact on the planet is undeniable. Fairly and effectively addressing environmental problems begins with understanding their causes and impacts. Is over-population the main driver of environmental degradation? Poverty? Capitalism? Poor governance? Imperialism? Patriarchy? Clearly these are not technical questions, but political ones.

Updated to cover new debates, data, and policy, and expanded to include chapters on colonialism, race and gender, and the impacts of energy and resource extraction, this book introduces students to diverse perspectives and helps them develop an informed understanding of why environmental problems occur.

How the international community should act is deeply contested. Guiding students through the potential responses, including multilateral diplomacy, transnational voluntary action, innovative financial mechanisms, problem displacement, consumer-focused campaigns, and resistance, this book explains the different forms of political action, their limitations and injustices.

Online resources include lecture slides, a test bank for instructors, updated weblinks to videos, and suggested readings for students.

Question 1: When asked about her thoughts on being an excellent tennis player, Jane says, ‘I am the undisputed best tennis player of all time. I need to train daily. I hope there won’t be a traffic jam to the gym later. I often get hungry while playing tennis. The Japanese food down the corner is authentic and nice. Oh, the weather in Japan is lovely. You know any Japanese anime?’ What psychopathology in thought is demonstrated?

Chapter 41 covers the topic of non-rapid eye movement sleep (NREM) behaviour disorder. Through a case vignette with topical MCQs for consolidation of learning, readers are brought through the diagnosis of a patient with a NREM sleep behaviour disorder (sleep terrors). Topics covered include diagnosis, sleepwalking and sexsomnia.

Chapter 8 examines the instruments of the violin family in the cultural imagination, addressing why they captivated so many people, what associations became attached to both the instrument and the person who handled it, and the underlying social currents those associations suggest. Two main topics are treated: the veneration around the instruments of Stradivari and others from the Cremonese School and the concomitant idealization of old artisanal craftsmanship; and how contemporary writers and illustrators sought to understand the instruments’ allure for players, especially women. The discussion assesses the idealization of old instruments in the context of industrialized violin making and broader social anxieties about the modernizing world. Building on scholarship about the gendering and sexualization of stringed instruments, the chapter also considers depictions of people’s responses to them through the lens of sensory and sensual perception, arguing that the prevalence of such material reflects attempts to make sense of the violin family’s powerful hold on British society.

Question 1: A 52-year-old gentleman was admitted following a fall. He has a history of Child–Pugh class C liver cirrhosis secondary to alcohol use disorder. During his inpatient stay, he started to experience signs and symptoms of alcohol withdrawal. Which of the following medications would be most suitable for the management of his alcohol withdrawals?

Ockham’s so-called nominalism consists of two distinct, but closely related, projects: namely, (1) securing a reductionist ontology, and (2) developing a nominalist semantics. Ockham’s commentators have long supposed that Ockham’s ontological reductionism is achieved through the development and deployment of his nominalist semantics. In this chapter, I challenge this traditional, ‘semantics-first,’ understanding of Ockham’s nominalism. In particular, I argue that a careful reading of Ockham’s elaborate treatment of terms in SL I shows that his semantics presupposes rather than establishes his reductionist ontology. Thus, far from being a semantics-first project in ontology, Ockham’s treatment of key semantic principles and distinctions in SL I reads much more like an ontology-first project in semantics. Having thus dispatched the semantics-first reading of Ockham’s nominalism, I conclude by sketching an alternative account of the principles that guide Ockham’s metaphysical methodology.

Question 1: Which of the following can worsen the symptoms of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA)?

Chapter 55 covers the topic of forensic psychiatry. Through a short answer question format with topical MCQs for consolidation of learning, readers are brought through the more common aspects of forensic psychiatry. Topics covered include the roles of a forensic psychiatrist, typical preamble given prior to the start of a forensic psychaitry consult, expert witness role, fitness to plead, asssessment for criminal responsbilty, the associatiation between mental disorders and crimes and medical malpractice.

Question 1: The following are signs and symptoms of acute phencyclidine intoxication, EXCEPT?

The remarkable take-up of the violin and the coalescence of a culture of learning and playing stringed instruments in the classical tradition, 1870–1930, had structural and democratizing effects on how British musical life developed. Expanding numbers of competent players increased the size and depth of the music profession and contributed to the growth of opportunities for audiences to hear live music, often well beyond the concert hall. The interrelated expansion of teacher numbers generated new generations of learners who would treat music as a leisure pursuit and whose critical mass prompted the foundation of many amateur symphony orchestras and often sustained amateur choral performances nationwide. Alongside came a significant revolution in string playing’s social demography. Whereas in 1870 string playing was the occupation or pastime of men, by the early twentieth century women had broken firmly into these arenas and were obtaining work in many (though not all) areas of the music profession. Cross-class, multigenerational learning contributed to the sea change, especially in the wave of working-class adults and children who found affordable group string instruction at local educational institutes or in elementary schools.

In her chapter, Elizabeth Crooke examines the work of nineteenth-century antiquarian scholar George Petrie and the poet and archivist Samuel Ferguson, who were vital to the formation of a modern revivalist movement. The accumulation of knowledge about the Irish past is a condition of freedom, for it stands as a bulwark against false and degrading historical representations and frees Irish institutions to use the recovery of cultural artifacts to support the process of national Bildung. Museums connect the past, through present cultural activity, to the realization of Ireland’s national future. This connection motivates the early designers of museums and other cultural institutions charged with preserving cultural artifacts to regard authenticity as a quality of cultural objects, an aura that transcends historical conditions. During the Decade of Centenaries (2012–2022), Petrie and Ferguson became themselves a part of Ireland’s future in the form of commemorations, the visible signs of institutional memory.

Question 1: Ryan is a six-year-old boy who was brought to the clinic after his teachers were concerned he had features of autism. He was noted to have poor eye contact, poor social interactions with his peers and repetition of phrases, such as ‘bang bang bang’ .

Giulia Bruna, in her chapter, offers a comparative framework for discussing the different strategies of J. M. Synge and Emily Lawless for achieving an authentic representation of the otherworldly geography of the Aran Islands, which was so much a part of the folklore of the region. Synge’s The Aran Islands, often treated as a spiritual autobiography, offers a way of reading the West of Ireland that complicates our understanding of authentic Irishness. While he derives a sense of authenticity through largely documentary and ethnographic rather than fictional means, Lawless, in Grania, captures an authentic sense of rural Ireland through the formal arrangements of the novel. Bruna is concerned with identifying, in Synge’s and Lawless’s work, modes of plural and dialogic authenticity that recognizes the “parasitic” relation of culture to nature. Bruna concludes that their versions of authenticity, though different in methodology, serve the same revivalist purpose of shaping Irish cultures for future generations.