La suffocation est une forme d’asphyxie dans laquelle l’oxygène ne peut atteindre le sang. Il existe divers types de suffocation dont la suffocation par confinement/ environnementale, les étouffements externe et interne, et les asphyxies traumatique/ positionnelle. La littérature scientifique sur la suffocation est relativement pauvre, étant principalement constituée de revues de cas et de quelques séries de cas limités à un contexte particulier de suffocation. Dans le contexte actuel d’une médecine basée sur les preuves, les ouvrages de médecine légale n’ont guère d’études pour appuyer leurs enseignements, tirés essentiellement de l’expérience personnelle de générations de médecins légistes. Le présent projet vise à palier ce manque de données sur la suffocation, un type de décès pourtant important en pratique médico-légale. Il s’agit d’une étude rétrospective de six ans portant sur tous les cas de suffocation non-chimique ayant été autopsiés au Laboratoire de sciences judiciaires et de médecine légale. À notre connaissance, cette étude est la première à établir le portrait systématique des morts par suffocation non-chimique en milieu médico-légal. Elle permet, entre autres, de confirmer les modes de décès usuels par catégorie de suffocation, le type de victime et les contextes courants. Généralement, les résultats concordent avec la littérature, appuyant ainsi le savoir commun des pathologistes sur la suffocation non-chimique. Toutefois, certaines dissimilitudes ont été notées quant aux modes de décès lors de l’étouffement externe. Par ailleurs, les questions reliées à la classification des asphyxies et aux définitions souvent contradictoires sont discutées. En un effort de normalisation, ce projet souligne les divergences retrouvées dans les classifications usuelles et tente d’en dégager les définitions courantes afin de proposer un modèle de classification unifié. / Suffocation is a general term that encompasses several forms of asphyxia generated by a deprivation of oxygen. It includes different subtypes such as environmental suffocation/ entrapment, choking, smothering and traumatic/ positional asphyxia. In the forensic literature, suffocation has been the object of several papers, but mainly case reports or cases series. Studies of subsets of suffocation deaths, limited to a specific scenery or category, have also been reported, such as suffocation in motor vehicle collisions. Nonetheless, there are still several areas of forensic pathology mainly based on tradition, with textbook explaining and describing common knowledge that is not supported by modern research data: suffocation makes no exception. The present project is intended to contribute to evidence-based data on non-chemical suffocation deaths. It comprises a 6-year retrospective study of all non-chemical suffocation cases in the forensic victim population of Quebec. As far as we know, this is the first paper to ever portray a systematic study of non-chemical suffocation deaths in forensic setting. In general, the results are concordant with the textbook literature, therefore supporting common knowledge related to manner of death in non-chemical suffocation. However, discrepancies have been underscored in smothering. Furthermore, the classification of asphyxia and the definitions of subtypes, such as suffocation, are far from being uniform, varying widely from one textbook to another and from one paper to the next. Unfortunately, similar research designs can lead to totally different results depending on the definitions used. Closely comparable cases are classified differently by equally competent forensic pathologists. Therefore, the present project highlights the discrepancies between textbook classifications and tries to draw mainstream definitions, in order to propose a more unified classification of asphyxial deaths.

La suffocation est une forme d’asphyxie dans laquelle l’oxygène ne peut atteindre le sang. Il existe divers types de suffocation dont la suffocation par confinement/ environnementale, les étouffements externe et interne, et les asphyxies traumatique/ positionnelle. La littérature scientifique sur la suffocation est relativement pauvre, étant principalement constituée de revues de cas et de quelques séries de cas limités à un contexte particulier de suffocation. Dans le contexte actuel d’une médecine basée sur les preuves, les ouvrages de médecine légale n’ont guère d’études pour appuyer leurs enseignements, tirés essentiellement de l’expérience personnelle de générations de médecins légistes. Le présent projet vise à palier ce manque de données sur la suffocation, un type de décès pourtant important en pratique médico-légale. Il s’agit d’une étude rétrospective de six ans portant sur tous les cas de suffocation non-chimique ayant été autopsiés au Laboratoire de sciences judiciaires et de médecine légale. À notre connaissance, cette étude est la première à établir le portrait systématique des morts par suffocation non-chimique en milieu médico-légal. Elle permet, entre autres, de confirmer les modes de décès usuels par catégorie de suffocation, le type de victime et les contextes courants. Généralement, les résultats concordent avec la littérature, appuyant ainsi le savoir commun des pathologistes sur la suffocation non-chimique. Toutefois, certaines dissimilitudes ont été notées quant aux modes de décès lors de l’étouffement externe. Par ailleurs, les questions reliées à la classification des asphyxies et aux définitions souvent contradictoires sont discutées. En un effort de normalisation, ce projet souligne les divergences retrouvées dans les classifications usuelles et tente d’en dégager les définitions courantes afin de proposer un modèle de classification unifié. / Suffocation is a general term that encompasses several forms of asphyxia generated by a deprivation of oxygen. It includes different subtypes such as environmental suffocation/ entrapment, choking, smothering and traumatic/ positional asphyxia. In the forensic literature, suffocation has been the object of several papers, but mainly case reports or cases series. Studies of subsets of suffocation deaths, limited to a specific scenery or category, have also been reported, such as suffocation in motor vehicle collisions. Nonetheless, there are still several areas of forensic pathology mainly based on tradition, with textbook explaining and describing common knowledge that is not supported by modern research data: suffocation makes no exception. The present project is intended to contribute to evidence-based data on non-chemical suffocation deaths. It comprises a 6-year retrospective study of all non-chemical suffocation cases in the forensic victim population of Quebec. As far as we know, this is the first paper to ever portray a systematic study of non-chemical suffocation deaths in forensic setting. In general, the results are concordant with the textbook literature, therefore supporting common knowledge related to manner of death in non-chemical suffocation. However, discrepancies have been underscored in smothering. Furthermore, the classification of asphyxia and the definitions of subtypes, such as suffocation, are far from being uniform, varying widely from one textbook to another and from one paper to the next. Unfortunately, similar research designs can lead to totally different results depending on the definitions used. Closely comparable cases are classified differently by equally competent forensic pathologists. Therefore, the present project highlights the discrepancies between textbook classifications and tries to draw mainstream definitions, in order to propose a more unified classification of asphyxial deaths.

A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo reconstruir os acontecimentos em torno da Operação Integrada Centro Legal (mais conhecida como Operação Sufoco), deflagrada na região central de São Paulo conhecida como cracolândia, em janeiro de 2012. Trata-se de uma intervenção policial que parece evidenciar o que todo um campo de pesquisas vem flagrando em outras cidades do Brasil e do mundo como uma lógica securitária nas formas de gestão e produção do espaço urbano. Além disso, dentro do contexto da cracolândia, essa operação pode ser tida como um ponto de virada na forma como o Estado intervém atualmente nesse território, que passou a ser foco de políticas das três esferas de governo nos últimos três anos. A hipótese que orienta a análise da operação, seus efeitos e a configuração atual da região da cracolândia é a de que as inovações nas formas de gerir esse território observadas recentemente podem ser entendidas tendo como referência as limitações e resistências geradas pelos campos de disputa que surgiram em torno desta ação policial. A partir da análise da atuação judicial de defensores e promotores públicos com vistas a fazer cessar a operação na região, são apresentados neste trabalho alguns dos conflitos e disputas que se processaram em torno da \"cracolândia\" e das formas de gerir esse espaço, por exemplo, sobre qual o papel que as forças repressivas deveriam ter (ou não) no trato da questão do crack, o embate entre o direito de ir, vir e permanecer dos usuários de cracke o direito à segurança, e as disputas entre diferentes saberes médicos sobre as formas de tratamento de usuários e dependentes químicos. Nesse sentido, a cracolândia, a Operação Sufoco e toda a reconfiguração que ela engendrou nesse território foram escolhidos como cenas privilegiadas para observar as conflituosidades que esse tipo de intervenção securitária engendra e como tais disputas influenciam na dinâmica reconfiguração dos dispositivos de controle que visam garantir a ordem nesse espaço urbano. / This research aims to reconstruct the events around the \"Operação Integrada Centro Legal\" (known as Operation Suffocation), deflagrated in the central region of São Paulocityknown as \"crackland\" in January 2012. This is a policeintervention thatseems to evidencewhatawhole field of research is capturingin other cities in Brazil and in the world as a security-logic in the forms of managing and producing urban space. In addition, within the context of \"crackland\", this operation can be seen as a turning point in the way the state currently intervenes in that territory, which became the focus of policies of the three levels of government in the last three years. The hypothesis that guides the analysis of this intervention, its effects and the current setting of \"crackland\" region is that innovations in ways of managing this territory recently observed can be understood with reference to the limitations and resistance generated by the fields of dispute that emerged around this police operation. From the analysis of the judicial action of public defenders and prosecutors in order to end the operation in the region, some of the conflicts and disputes about \"crackland\" and ways to manage this spaceare presented in this work, e.g on what role the repressive forces should (or should not) have at the crackissue, the battlebetween thecrackusers\'right to go, come and stay versusthe right to security, and disputes between different medical knowledge on ways to treat users and addicts. In this sense, \"crackland\", \"Operation Suffocation\" and all reconfiguration itengendered in that territory were chosen as privileged scenes to observe the conflictsthat this type of security-intervention engenders and how these disputes influencein the dynamic reconfiguration of control devices that aim to ensure order in this urban space.

A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo reconstruir os acontecimentos em torno da Operação Integrada Centro Legal (mais conhecida como Operação Sufoco), deflagrada na região central de São Paulo conhecida como cracolândia, em janeiro de 2012. Trata-se de uma intervenção policial que parece evidenciar o que todo um campo de pesquisas vem flagrando em outras cidades do Brasil e do mundo como uma lógica securitária nas formas de gestão e produção do espaço urbano. Além disso, dentro do contexto da cracolândia, essa operação pode ser tida como um ponto de virada na forma como o Estado intervém atualmente nesse território, que passou a ser foco de políticas das três esferas de governo nos últimos três anos. A hipótese que orienta a análise da operação, seus efeitos e a configuração atual da região da cracolândia é a de que as inovações nas formas de gerir esse território observadas recentemente podem ser entendidas tendo como referência as limitações e resistências geradas pelos campos de disputa que surgiram em torno desta ação policial. A partir da análise da atuação judicial de defensores e promotores públicos com vistas a fazer cessar a operação na região, são apresentados neste trabalho alguns dos conflitos e disputas que se processaram em torno da \"cracolândia\" e das formas de gerir esse espaço, por exemplo, sobre qual o papel que as forças repressivas deveriam ter (ou não) no trato da questão do crack, o embate entre o direito de ir, vir e permanecer dos usuários de cracke o direito à segurança, e as disputas entre diferentes saberes médicos sobre as formas de tratamento de usuários e dependentes químicos. Nesse sentido, a cracolândia, a Operação Sufoco e toda a reconfiguração que ela engendrou nesse território foram escolhidos como cenas privilegiadas para observar as conflituosidades que esse tipo de intervenção securitária engendra e como tais disputas influenciam na dinâmica reconfiguração dos dispositivos de controle que visam garantir a ordem nesse espaço urbano. / This research aims to reconstruct the events around the \"Operação Integrada Centro Legal\" (known as Operation Suffocation), deflagrated in the central region of São Paulocityknown as \"crackland\" in January 2012. This is a policeintervention thatseems to evidencewhatawhole field of research is capturingin other cities in Brazil and in the world as a security-logic in the forms of managing and producing urban space. In addition, within the context of \"crackland\", this operation can be seen as a turning point in the way the state currently intervenes in that territory, which became the focus of policies of the three levels of government in the last three years. The hypothesis that guides the analysis of this intervention, its effects and the current setting of \"crackland\" region is that innovations in ways of managing this territory recently observed can be understood with reference to the limitations and resistance generated by the fields of dispute that emerged around this police operation. From the analysis of the judicial action of public defenders and prosecutors in order to end the operation in the region, some of the conflicts and disputes about \"crackland\" and ways to manage this spaceare presented in this work, e.g on what role the repressive forces should (or should not) have at the crackissue, the battlebetween thecrackusers\'right to go, come and stay versusthe right to security, and disputes between different medical knowledge on ways to treat users and addicts. In this sense, \"crackland\", \"Operation Suffocation\" and all reconfiguration itengendered in that territory were chosen as privileged scenes to observe the conflictsthat this type of security-intervention engenders and how these disputes influencein the dynamic reconfiguration of control devices that aim to ensure order in this urban space.

This thesis studies the literary genre of pastoral between 1559 and 1647. The first of these dates is that of a work that changed the course of early modern pastoral, Montemayor’s Diana; and the second marks the English translation of Gomberville’s Polexandre, a pastoral romance which exemplifies the shifts in cultural values that re-shaped Montemayor’s model over the century that followed its publication. My study focusses on the significance for this genre of the ethical quality known to classical moral philosophy as otium, and translated in early modern English by words such as peace, leisure, retirement, ease and idleness. Otium has strong historical associations with the tradition of Virgilian pastoral. Its significance in early modern pastorals, however, has been largely overlooked, despite the fact that early modern interest in otium had been revitalised by the rediscovery of some of its most important classical discussions. This renewed interest in otium, I argue, was essential to the development of early modern pastoral. My argument challenges both old and new critical perspectives on pastoral, and engages with key issues in early modern culture which literary scholars have neglected. Older studies understood pastoral otium simply as idyllic retreat; newer ones accept this view, but argue against its privileged and quietist political implications, preferring to concentrate on the tradition of interpreting pastoral as political allegory. Otium’s principal connotations, however, were neither quiet nor idyllic. Though its restorative qualities were sometimes cautiously acknowledged, otium’s potential to corrupt was ever-present, and affected a range of areas including privacy, politics, moral psychology and medicine. When people wanted to imaginatively explore those effects, I argue, pastoral was the genre to which they were most likely to turn. Listening to what pastorals say about otium can play an important role in reconstructing this crucial and misunderstood aspect of early modern culture.

In the following essay I have studied child suffocation and infanticide in Västbo district in Småland 1860–1949. This has been done with a quantitative study of the district's death and funeral books which have shown the reduced frequency of the phenomena over time. I have also been able to point to a connection where child suffocation tended to occur in cases where the parents were married. Infanticide, on the other hand, was in most cases caused by an extramarital affair. Based on theories concerning the role of marriage,combined with the assumption that a female ideal is constructed on the basisof two counter-images, I have been able to show how the child murderer was seen as a greater threat to the social morality, compared with the married woman who suffocated her child in her sleep. Thus, there was also a greater tendency to punish the former more severely. In the qualitative part of thestudy, I have reviewed the district court's records concerning child murderers. Based on a theory that pregnancies, births and morality fell within the scope of a female sphere of responsibility, I have analyzed the actions of to the accused woman's homosocial group. Here, the study has been able to shed light on a significant female presence. This was partly reflected in the gender distribution of witnesses, as well as in how the authorities seemed to show aconfidence in the female sphere to bring clarity to the case.

This thesis presents a single witness edition of The Knowing of Woman’s Kind in Childing, which is a 14th century vernacular obstetrical and gynaecological treatise found in British Library MS Additional 12195. Purported to be emulating medical texts of French and Latin origin, The Knowing of Woman's Kind in Childing is “a novel fusing of several different texts and theoretical traditions into a single work” (Green, “Obstetrical” 64). The Knowing of Woman’s Kind in Childing is an important and significant medieval medical text because it has a self-identified female audience and a female-orientated medical focus. Accompanying notes and emendations from the four other extant witnesses are also presented: Oxford Bodley MS Douce 37 (SC 21611), Oxford MS Bodley 483 (SC 2062), Cambridge University Library MS Ii. 6. 33, and British Library MS Sloane 421A. This thesis explores the folklore of the traditional herbs, medicinals, and compounds used in the treatise. A comparison of the material appended to all five of the extant witnesses is presented in Appendix A; Appendix B lists the incidence of rubrication found in this edition; originating source material for the Knowing of Woman’s Kind in Childing is presented in Appendix C; and an alphabetical catalogue of medicinals, in four tables, can be found in Appendix D.