Acupuncture with manual and electrical stimulation for labour pain : a two month follow up of recollection of pain and birth experience.

BACKGROUND: In a previous randomised controlled trial we showed that acupuncture with a combination of manual- and electrical stimulation (EA) did not affect the level of pain, as compared with acupuncture with manual stimulation (MA) and standard care (SC), but reduced the need for other forms of pain relief, including epidural analgesia. To dismiss an under-treatment of pain in the trial, we did a long-term follow up on the recollection of labour pain and the birth experience comparing acupuncture with manual stimulation, acupuncture with combined electrical and manual stimulation with standard care. Our hypothesis was that despite the lower frequency of use of other pain relief, women who had received EA would make similar retrospective assessments of labour pain and the birth experience 2 months after birth as women who received standard care (SC) or acupuncture with manual stimulation (MA). METHODS: Secondary analyses of data collected for a randomised controlled trial conducted at two delivery wards in Sweden. A total of 303 nulliparous women with normal pregnancies were randomised to: 40 min of MA or EA, or SC without acupuncture. Questionnaires were administered the day after partus and 2 months later. RESULTS: Two months postpartum, the mean recalled pain on the visual analogue scale (SC: 70.1, MA: 69.3 and EA: 68.7) did not differ between the groups (SC vs MA: adjusted mean difference 0.8, 95 % confidence interval [CI] -6.3 to 7.9 and SC vs EA: mean difference 1.3 CI 95 % -5.5 to 8.1). Positive birth experience (SC: 54.3 %, MA: 64.6 % and EA: 61.0 %) did not differ between the groups (SC vs MA: adjusted Odds Ratio [OR] 1.8, CI 95 % 0.9 to 3.7 and SC vs EA: OR 1.4 CI 95 % 0.7 to 2.6). CONCLUSIONS: Despite the lower use of other pain relief, women who received acupuncture with the combination of manual and electrical stimulation during labour made the same retrospective assessments of labour pain and birth experience 2 months postpartum as those who received acupuncture with manual stimulation or standard care. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01197950.

Hermenêutica e anti-hermenêutica: Friedrich Schlegel e Schleiermacher

A fortuna crítica de Friedrich Schlegel é rica em alusões a sua relação com Schleiermacher. Ambos conviveram em Berlim por volta de 1800, época em que Schlegel editava a Athenäum e em que Schleiermacher ainda não escrevera seus principais textos sobre hermenêutica. É possível conceber Friedrich Schlegel como um predecessor de Schleiermacher? Na tentativa de responder a essa pergunta, vamos nos deter sobre três textos, todos eles publicados na Athenäum: o ensaio sobre Lessing (Über Lessing, 1797), o ensaio sobre o Wilhem Meister de Goethe (Über Goethes Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, 1798) e o ensaio da ininteligibilidade (Über die Unverständlichkeit, 1800).

A fábula e o efeito-fábula na obra infantil de Monteiro Lobato

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A representação feminina na obra de Virginia Woolf: um diálogo entre o projeto político e o estético

Pós-graduação em Estudos Literários - FCLAR

O texto pluricódigo da poesia visual

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A recepção de Shakespeare na Alemanha

This is an article about a decisive moment in the formation of Western modern literature. We are talking about Lessing’s criticism of the excessive influence of neoclassical French theatre on German theatrical production. Lessing considered that the aristocratic model imported from France did not correspond to German society’s context at all – society which had already been marked by an incipient bourgeois mode of life. So the German critic dedicated his theoretical efforts to affirm the necessity and to raise possibilities about a literary production which had more consonance with what he considered to be the German Zeitgeist. It is in Shakespeare’s work that Lessing found his answer, and this fact will unleash the appearing of the Sturm und Drang movement and will consequently give birth to an incipient bourgeois literature. So we analyze here the way this Shakespearian influence happens and its relevance in the formation of a bourgeois literature.

The Contours of the Messiah in Pesiqta Rabbati

Jewish messianic expectations have had multiple expressions. One such expression was Messiah Ephraim. The midrashic work Pesiqta Rabbati contains numerous messianic passages, as well as entire homilies, that focus mainly upon Messiah Ephraim. Ephraim, a son of Joseph, was adopted by Jacob (Gen 48:5). In Jewish texts other than Pesiq. Rab., the Ephraimite Messiah was consistently portrayed as a militant figure, a warrior. The objective of this article is to examine the messianic contours that apply both to Messiah Ephraim in Pesiq. Rab. and to Jesus in order to determine whether there are any Christian elements in the composition of certain passages in Pesiq. Rab.

Das Tragische

Der Artikel über die Wirkungskategorie des Tragischen leistet einen Überblick über drei Aneignungsstrategien des Tragischen. Nachdem kurz auf Aristoteles Poetik eingegangen wird, diskutiert der erste thematische Block das Tragische als moralischen Impuls. Darin erscheint die aufklärerische Deutung des Tragischen bei Gottsched und Lessing zentral, um einen Bogen zu den ästhetischen Schriften Schillers und Hegels zu schlagen. Im zweiten Teil des Artikels wird auf das Tragische als selbstreflexives Moment eingegangen, wobei hierzu zum einen die barocke Deutung des Tragischen im Trauerspiel besprochen wird, zum anderen aber auch Benjamins Allegorie. Im dritten Teil wird auf das Tragische als anthropologische Konstante eingegangen, wobei genauer auf Nietzsches Geburt der Tragödie eingegangen.

Anton Theodor Hartmann's neueste Schrift "Grundsätze des orthodoxen Judenthums" mit Beziehung auf die Frage : "Darf eine völlige Gleichstellung in staatsbürgerl. Rechten sämmtl. Juden schon jetzt bewilligt werden? : 2. u. letztes Sendschreiben ; in ihrem wahren Lichte dargest.

von Gotthold Salomon

Kurzgefasste Geschichte des neuen israelitischen Tempels in Hamburg während der ersten 25 Jahre seines Bestehens : nebst Anm. u. Beil.

von Gotthold Salomon

Das neue Gebetbuch und seine Verketzerung : Auszug aus e. grössern Ms., als eine Schrift f. d. Volk

von Gotthold Salomon

Briefe an Herrn Anton Theodor Hartmann, über die von demselben aufgeworfene Frage : darf eine völlige Gleichstellung in staatsbürgerlichen Rechten sämmtlichen Juden schon jetzt bewilligt werden?

Von Gotthold Salomon

Bruno Bauer und seine gehaltlose Kritik über die Judenfrage

von Gotthold Salomon