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Examines glove fetishism in Renaissance Europe. Exploration of objectification as a form of power; Precapitalist way of thinking about relations between person and thing; Analysis of unpaired gloves in Renaissance portraiture; Transformation of politics into a public declaration of love.

Examines the informal coteries in which women learned to manipulate the languages encoded into rituals of oral improvisation and literary publication in Europe in the 16th century. Gender differences among users of the linguistic code; Social configurations that served the interests of men and women; Theoretical significance to women's studies.

Anaesthesiologists and non-anaesthesiologist sedationists have a limited set of available i.v. hypnotics, further reduced by the withdrawal of thiopental in the USA and its near disappearance in Europe. Meanwhile, demand for sedation increases and new clinical groups are using what traditionally are anaesthesiologists' drugs. Improved understanding of the determinants of perioperative morbidity and mortality has spotlighted hypotension as a potent cause of patient harm, and practice must be adjusted to respect this. High-dose propofol sedation may be harmful, and a critical reappraisal of drug choices and doses is needed. The development of remimazolam, initially for procedural sedation, allows reconsideration of benzodiazepines as the hypnotic component of a general anaesthetic even if their characterisation as i.v. anaesthetics is questionable. Early data suggest that a combination of remimazolam and remifentanil can induce and maintain anaesthesia. Further work is needed to define use cases for this technique and to determine the impact on patient outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides information on several publications about architecture, including "Competition" published by the Competition Project in Louisville, Kentucky, "Almanacco Electa dell'Architettura Italiana," from Electa in Milan, Italy, "Die Gartenkunst" from Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft in Germany, "Living Architecture" in Copenhagen, Denmark, and "Arquitectura Viva" in Madrid, Spain.