By Elizabeth A. Stewart
Exploring Twins offers an research of twinship regarded as a particularly social phenomenon. Drawing upon quite a lot of interdisciplinary, old and cross-cultural facts, Dr Stewart argues that during either conventional and glossy societies, twinship represents a recurrent anomaly which calls into query the assumptions round which kinds of society are prepared. half One identifies and analyses the interesting variety of cultural and disciplinary ways to the translation of twinship, whereas half considers the probabilities for a distinctively social research of twinship.
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9). We shall return to this key theme of the social constitution of identity somewhat later. What is immediately important is the centrality of twinship to the growing, specifically modern, concern with issues of identity and the fragmented nature of a self which had been previously thought of as unitary. This concern is clear in the preoccupation with the 30 Exploring Twins process of doubling to be found in the work of other nineteenthand twentieth-century authors. The relevant literature contains a variety of characters, each searching for his/her own identity.
This case, if the hereditary nature of the disease can otherwise be shown, is very useful to study the influence of the environment on the penetrance and expression of the disease. (Gedda, 1972, p. 267) Medical researchers, in addition to examining twins genetically in relation to health and morbidity, also study twins from an obstetrical point of view. Twin pregnancy is the main focus of their attention: what are the medical hazards of a twin pregnancy, at what 42 Exploring Twins stage (and with what consequences) is a twin pregnancy diagnosed, how does the obstetrician and/or gynaecologist manage a diagnosed twin pregnancy, what are the adequate stages of intrauterine growth for twin one and twin two, what risks does each of the twins face, how is the actual delivery to be handled, what complications might arise due to malpresentation (such as locking)?
Laing. As Karl Miller (1985) says, ‘one self does what the other self can’t’ (p. 416). Accordingly, both parts of this duality thus ‘complete, resemble or repel one another’ (p. 21). Miller traces this theme in Western literature from James Hogg’s early nineteenth-century classic, Confessions of a Justified Sinner, up to contemporary works by authors such as Jorge Luis Borges in his Borges and I. These themes are explored on occasion by writers who explicitly use twins in their novels or short stories.