Iron Man Research Articles

The Wandering Giant in Literature: From Polyphemus to Papageno by D. D. R. Owen (review)

466 Reviews all and sundry open house. As forthis reader, now it showed me in, now it pointed to the door. If hospitality betokens opening up, then why stop at the near-exponential coverage of this compendium? Why not let in spiders and flies, Her Majesty's pri? sons, our bodies' coexistence with microbes, or sexual partners, for taking in can mean welcome, deceit, or erotic togetherness, when we are in or around each other. Hitchhikers, the editor remarks, could have had a ride. There is a huge bibliography to round offthe blanket-bombing of the subject. The essayists, all thoughtful if few original, often bang on the obvious, as when several of them discover seriatim that between outside and inside lies a threshold. A nagging suspicion remains that a goodly number are going, albeit with professional thoroughness, through various routines triggered by the overarching topic ofthe book. Among the plethora, I have had to be eclectic, nay picky. Thank you for having me, but I must move on now. University of Reading Walter Redfern The Wander ingGiant in Literature: From Polyphemus toPapageno. By D. D. R. Owen. East Linton: Tuckwell Press. 2003. vi+i53pp. ?14.99. ISBN 1-86232-127-2. So long as humans remember to exaggerate, giants will not become an endangered or extinct species; nothing can sink the titanic. D. D. R. Owen starts by stressing the giant as protean, 'the shape-shifter', though the transformations he records over the centuries turn out to be unastounding. Apart from 'the pleasures of the chase', he does not explain why his quarry lures him on. Interestingly, however, he finds that both pagan and Christian mythologies breed colossi, who in the former tradition possess greater complexity. Polyphemus is his ur-giant, the monocular, man-eating Cyclops girt by beasts. In a later avatar, Polyphemus grows love-sick and has a liaison with Galatea, while remaining painfully conscious of his unappetizing mien (the Quasimodo complex, we might say). In the pious allegories of the 'Ovide moralise', he mutates to Satan. In Irish myth, he re-emerges as Fer Caille and as Ysbaddadan in the Welsh version. Owen emphasizes the key role of oral transmission, and its concomitant doctoring, spinning, inverting, and expatiating of the trigger-story. Although regularly drawn into scholarly argy-bargies, on the controversy over Yvain/Owein, Owen's sanely settling forwhat he calls 'cultural give-and-take' seems more plausible than any one-way theory. The constants of the Polyphemus tradition as he tracks it are: the outsize figure, his blackness and shagginess, and (in variable forms) the mastery over beasts. For Owen the height ofthe curve occurs in Sir Gawain and theGreen Knight (where a verdant giant, centuries later, spawned the logo on cans of sweetcorn). Indeed, the original terrifying,if partly comic, ogre modulates over time into increasing sweetness, even a kind of gentrification. Other instances chased up by Owen include the gruffbogeyman Danger (Owen rebaptizes him 'Reluctance') in the Romance of theRose. Owen, however, escalates his leitmotif by finding Polyphe? mus yet again transmogrified in Voltaire's Candide (the syphilis-scarred Dr Pangloss), where Owen detects analogies with Aucassin et Nicolette. The final appearance, none too recognizable, is the big-talking ifun-huge Papageno in The Magic Flute. The 'wandering' of Owen's title refers to giants, or one protypical such, cropping up in differentcultures and epochs, and in changing guises, rather than to any peripatetic activity on their part. In fact, they come across as curiously home-bird by inclination. Throughout, Polyphemus gets lost periodically or goes underground, sidelined by the academic truffle-huntfor sources and similarities, and the generally polite textual in-fighting. All in all, Owen has domesticated the wild man-mountain ofthe Odyssey, and in fact engineers a happy ending. He seems to preferthe awesome MLR, 100.2, 2005 467 Titan warbling 'O ruddier than the cherry' in Handel's Acis and Galatea. Children know better. Ted Hughes's troubling fantasy forthem, The Iron Man, shows how the Goliath can remain potent in our litotic age. University of Reading Walter Redfern Why Does Literature Matter? By Frank B. Farrell. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 2004. xi +266 pp...

“Hammer Blows”: Work, the Workplace, and the Culture of Masculinity Among Catholic Workers in the Weimar Republic

Inthe early 1930s German democracy was dying, mired in political gridlock, burdened by four million unemployed, and under assault by Nazis and Communists alike. In the midst of this crisis the Reich Association of Catholic Workers' Clubs and Working Youth (Reichsverband der katholischen Arbeitervereine und der Werkjugend) published a modest anthology entitledDie Arbeit(Work), “dedicated to the poetic glorification of labor.” Editorially justifying the decision to provide Catholic workers with verses at such a time, Ferdinand Göbel, one of the rising young leaders of the Catholic labor movement, argued that the poems, far from serving as a distraction or a momentary boost to morale, would enable workers to find the only true and lasting solution to their predicament. Poetry would lead to an inner, spiritual renewal, a rediscovery by workers that their labor was “not simply to earn bread, but… joyful participation in the act of creation, sacrificial service to humanity and a means of atonement that makes us strong and free within.” Because of this, said Göbel, The modern worker, this man of iron, has discovered his soul. He believes in loyalty and comradeship, in brotherhood and the courage to sacrifice. He hopes in a new humanity. Yes, out of his heavy everyday existence he hammers bridges to the eternal and the divine. He turns hard slave labor into an act of worship.

The Torturer Explains

Because I had no choice. Because I couldn't very well be unemployed Slurping at the public trough with all my rearing null and void. Because as a father, I would have set my kids a bad example, Laying about on chair or couch like a seamstress' sampleI took the torturer's job, but only as a stopgap measure. Yet once you have that kind of clearance, you're a national treasure. And you don't expect to leave and live, having squeezed So many secrets out of iron men whose mouths just barely wheezed The answers.. .My friends of course don't know a thing. For them I'm an upscale file clerk or at most an interview transcriber-some crime Lab gofer running around, too dumb to put two and two togetheryes, a little synapse in the Big Brain that keeps our country in clover.... So-go along and get along. Because after all to each his own talent.. All gifts are heaven-sent, and only God decides who must repent.

Where are all the iron men and women?

Where are all the iron men and women?

Engendering Solidarity in Polish Cinema: Andrzej Wajda's "Man of Iron" Turns Twenty-One

Engendering Solidarity in Polish Cinema: Andrzej Wajda's "Man of Iron" Turns Twenty-One

In search of vulcan: Where are all the iron men (and women)?

GASTROENTEROLOGY 2002;123:948-950

Heroines of Polish Cinema

AGNIESZKA AND OTHER SOLIDARITY HEROINES OF POLISH CINEMA Agnieszka is the heroine of two of Andrzej Wajda's films, Człowiek z marmuru (Man of Marble, 1976) and Człowiek z żelaza (Man of Iron, 1981). However, in Man of Iron, Agnieszka has quite a different personality and has a different narrative function, compared with Agnieszka in Man of Marble. What concerns me in this article, is the nature and socio-political background of Agnieszka's creation and her transformation from heroine of Man of Marble to Man of Iron and subsequently her 'post-Wajda incarnations' in later Polish films about the Solidarity movement. "Iron Agnieszka"In Man of Marble, which is set in the mid-1970s, Agnieszka is a final year film college student. She is completing her diploma film, financed by the state television, which also provides her with crew and equipment. Agnieszka decides to make a documentary, entitled Gwiazdy jednego sezonu (Falling...

With Cutlass and Compress: Women's Relations with the Sea

Books reviewed in this article: Margaret S. Creighton and Lisa Norling (eds), Iron Men, Wooden Women:Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic Worlds 1700-1920 Elaine Forman Crane, Ebb Tide in New England: Women, Seaportsand Social Change 1630-1800 Hans Turley, Rum, Sodomy and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality and Masculine Identity Violet Jessop, Titanic Survivor: the Memoirs of Violet Jessop, Stewardess

"And Now for the Main (Dis)course..."

"And Now for the Main (Dis)course..."

Stories of Sport and the Moral Order: Unraveling the Cultural Construction of Tiger Woods

Humorist Dave Barry (1997) has likened sports reporting to try[ing] to get intelligible statements from large mumbling naked men surrounded by approximately the population of Sweden. As with much humor, the hyperbole rests on an underlying truth - in this case, a keen observation about the place of sports in the hierarchy of U.S. journalism. Traditionally, the sports department has been considered the kindergarten of the newsroom, and sports coverage an enterprise of a lower order. In recent decades, however, the notion of sports as frivolous and marginal to important human affairs has become hard to sustain. Many sports stories are no longer just sports stories; they may be labor, legal, or lifestyle stories as well. Major sports are big business and, when it comes to public investments in sports facilities, also public business. Sports have become an arena for scrutinizing larger social problems, including racial tensions and gender inequities. As Los Angeles Times media critic David Shaw (1989) observed a decade ago: Clearly, big-time sports is increasingly moving from the sports page to the front page- and to the business, entertainment and life style pages as well ... newspaper editors, long accustomed to thinking of sports as the toy department of journalism - a veritable sandbox of scores and statistics - are struggling to figure out how best to cover this change. The roster of sports-related stories accorded broad attention in the mass media - in some cases, on the front pages of even the most serious newspapers -- seems to grow longer by the year. In the late 1990s, you did not have to follow heavyweight boxing to learn about Mike Tyson taking a bite out of Evander Hollyfield's ear, or men's basketball to know about Latrell Sprewell choking his coach, or even baseball to hear of Cal Ripkin's bad back. Neither did you need to be a golf aficionado to recognize the name Tiger Woods, the first player of color to win the Masters tournament, or to know about Casey Martin, with his withered leg, going to court for the right to ride a golf cart. Whether or not you paid attention, certain issues and events in sports, be they advances in women's athletic participation and prominence or culminating battles of the pro football and baseball seasons, would likely infiltrate your consciousness. Furthermore, these stories radiated and resonated with significance beyond sport; their subtexts were barely, if at all, veiled. Tyson had violated the decorum of the ring. Sprewell had violated a hierarchy of authority. Ripken, the iron man, was soldiering on through his pain. Woods had achieved a stunning racial breakthrough. Martin was bringing the Americans with Disabilities Act to a novel arena. The growing popularity and commercial viability of women's basketball, with two professional leagues, illustrated how far the cause of gender equity had come. A Green Bay Packers Superbowl victory became instant legend, signifying the return of a once-- storied team - until the next year, when the underdog Denver Broncos rose up. The Florida Marlins' World Series win exemplified the upstart success that money could buy in baseball. Constructed by print and broadcast media as news subjects with multiple levels of meaning, such stories buttress the central premise of a growing body of scholarship in anthropology, sociology, political and social history, and media studies that more - much more - is going on in sports than fun and games. The sheer obviousness of this tenet makes it subject to easy dismissal, which we believe is a mistake and a missed opportunity. The prominence of mass media in the modern sporting experience is a key aspect of a burgeoning literature on the cultural meanings and representations of sport (e.g., Wenner, 1989; Barnett, 1990; Whannel, 1992; Creedon, 1994; Baughman, 1995; Rowe, 1995; Real, 1989, 1996; Baker and Boyd, 1997), and this monograph represents a contribution to these evolving discussions. …

The Political Films of Andrzej Wajda: Dialogism in 'Man of Marble', 'Man of Iron', and 'Danton'

The Political Films of Andrzej Wajda: Dialogism in 'Man of Marble', 'Man of Iron', and 'Danton'

Picture control: the electron microscope and the transformation of biology in America, 1940-1960

Note on usage and technical terms Introduction: scientific knowledge and its means of production 1. RCA and the war years 2. Stuart Mudd and his school of bacteriological electron microscopy 3. The Rockefeller school and the rise of cell biology 4. Muscle, nerve, and the iron men of MIT 5. Wendell Stanley. Robley Williams, and the land of the virus 6. Through another looking glass: lived experience and biological electron microscopy Notes Index.

PERFORMANCE DIFFERENCES AND ENERGY BALANCE IN MATCHED MALE AND FEMALE IRONMAN TRIATHLETES

790 The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that females can outperform performance-matched male athletes during an ultradistance triathlon. Twenty subjects (11 males and 9 females) were laboratory tested prior to the New Zealand Ironman (IM) to determine their body fat content, maximal aerobic capacity (VO2max) and lactate profiles. The mean(± SD) for some of the pre-race matching variables are given below: TableTableOne male and female subject did not finish the IM, leaving five pairs of performance-matched athletes. During the event, energy intake was monitored by asking each subject at five designated points to recall their food and fluid consumption. Energy expenditure was assessed using heart rate monitors and the swimming equation Ė = Av3/egep. Comparison of IM finishing times revealed performance-matched female athletes were significantly faster ( P < 0.05) than their male counterparts(726.7±28.0 vs 749.3±23.9 mins). No significant gender differences were found for energy expenditure (608±54 vs 550±65 kJ·kg-1) or energy intake (218±31 vs 183±60 kJ·kg-1) for male and female athletes respectively. The greater endurance capacity of female than of male IM triathletes in this study does not appear to relate to energy balance.

Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700–1920 ed. by Margaret S. Creighton and Lisa Norling

Technology and culture Book Reviews 305 the importance of an artisanal identity even in an age ofwidespread acceptance of corporate industrial production. Nina E. Lerman Dr. Lerman teaches U.S. history atWhitman College. Her current project explores technological knowledge, social categories, and technical education during the nineteenth century. Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920. Edited by Margaret S. Creighton and Lisa Norling. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi+293; il­ lustrations, notes, index. $45.00 (hardcover); $16.95 (paper). This volume challenges the tenacious assumption that the mari­ time world was inherently and eternally a masculine stronghold. It equally addresses the parallel assumption that women and shoreside institutions were tangential to seafaring society. The title, Iron Men, Wooden Women, echoes conventional dichotomies that have identi­ fied work at sea with rugged masculinity while relegating women to the periphery, “as stiff and objectified as the wooden figureheads that faced the sea” (p. vii). Some of the contributors to this volume, asserting that gender is a fundamental aspect ofseafaring, reveal the active roles women played in maritime enterprise. Others address men’s experience at sea but demonstrate the historicity, variability, and situational nature ofsailors’ masculinity. The association of mas­ culinity with seafaring has grown closer over the past two hundred years, reflecting new shoreside manifestations ofgender differences. Two contributors engage this theme directly. Lisa Norling argues that geographic differences between land and sea were not reflected in clear-cut distinctions between public and private realms. Rather, men who worked at sea remained functionally interdependent with women whose work sustained their families during their long ab­ sences. Haskell Springer reveals the irony that captains’ wives who broke with tradition to go to sea lived more narrowly according to the prescriptions of separate spheres than did seafarers’ wives ashore. This collection provides an excellent introduction to maritime his­ tory while significantly broadening the field throughjudicious appli­ cation of critical tools developed in gender studies. The volume cov­ ers the years 1700 to 1920, examining the maritime world before and after the assertion of bourgeois nineteenth-century mores and the appearance of steam power, both ofwhich changed the texture ofsocial roles at sea and in seaside communities. Essays are preceded by brief headnotes from the editors that link individual articles and explain the logic of their order. This device enhances the thematic 306 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE unity of the collection. The articles themselves, though hardly ex­ hausting the field, present a wide range of topics. The contributors use an impressive variety of sources ranging from logbooks, account books, and diaries to ballads, poetry, and fiction. They approach the sources from the disciplinary perspectives of social history, cultural history, and literary analysis. An interdisciplinary approach is impor­ tant for the maritime context because the authors of these sources were often both literary artists and historical informants. The collec­ tion would have been strengthened by including anthropological or sociological perspectives, a lacuna the editors acknowledge. The strongest and most ambitious contributions do not stop at examining how shipboard environments absorbed shoreside atti­ tudes about gender. Instead, they also explore the unaccustomed trajectory of the maritime world’s profound effect on land. Marcus Rediker presents evidence that seventeenth-century pirate culture offered a forum for a few daring women to rebel against evolving gender norms. Indeed, images of these female pirates may have in­ fluenced representations of liberty in eighteenth- and early nine­ teenth-century revolutions. Margaret Creighton’s study of nine­ teenth-century whalers reveals that ships became important sites for constructing and strengthening masculine identities. However, dif­ ferent ages, ranks, and social classes of seamen defined and experi­ enced masculinity with great variability and specificity. Laura Tabili locates a shift toward the degradation of maritime work in the early twentieth century, when British ship owners defined certain jobs as unskilled and feminized and assigned them to men deemed natu­ rally suited to the work by virtue ofrace. Divisions ofrace and gender afloat reflected maritime divisions of labor while originating from land-based colonial and domestic experience. A particular strength of this collection resides in its elucidation of complex relationships among gender, class, and race. Dianne...

The National Road ed. by Karl Raitz, and: A Guide to the National Road ed. by Karl Raitz

TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 307 characterization of sailing vessels as submissive and obedient to cap­ tains’ desires but steamers as unruly and self-propelled. Melody Graulich describes a distinctly female vision of the sea located in woman-authored maritime fiction. Like the tides, this vision bal­ ances autonomy with responsibility to others. Iron Men, Wooden Women successfully incorporates gender as a meaningful category in maritime society. Given the pivotal impor­ tance of the transition from sail to steam, one hopes that maritime historians will next look to the history of technology to enrich their understanding of social changes in the maritime world. Likewise, the often-neglected maritime context offers historians of technology a new arena for comparison and reflection. Helen M. Rozwadowski Dr. Rozwadowski is currently writing a history of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, an intergovernmental organization that gives scientific advice for fisheries and marine environmental policy. Her dissertation studied how and why the oceans’ depths became an object of public curiosity and scientific atten­ tion in the mid-nineteenth century. The National Road. Edited by Karl Raitz. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp. xvii+489; illustrations, notes, bibliogra­ phy, index. $34.95 (hardcover). A Guide to the National Road. Edited by Karl Raitz. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp. xxiv+392; illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $34.95 (hardcover). These two handsome volumes spring from the enthusiasm of the late Henry H. Douglas, founder of the Pioneer America Society, who together with photographer William Edmund Barrett conceived of a documentary project to commemorate the surviving structures on the old National Road. A memorial bequest from Douglas set the ball rolling, and a steering committee engaged geographer Karl Raitz to design a book that would “capture the essence of the role that this road, and roads more generally, plays in American life.” Raitz in turn lined up a variety of contributors—primarily geogra­ phers—with wide-ranging interdisciplinary and literary interests. The result is a beautifully produced coffee-table volume of essays about the National Road and a matching travelers’ guide that is sure to provide hours of rewarding trip-planning and armchair tourism. The volume of scholarship begins with impressionistic essays by Peirce Lewis and Karl Raitz and a “portfolio” of artworks assembled by ThomasJ. Schlereth. Each of these appetizers strives to enlarge the reader’s expectations, always with an eye toward the goal of un­ derstanding the cultural meaning and impact of this road, all roads, and mobility itself. Next comes a quartet of chapters, grouped under 308 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE the heading “Building the National Road,” that address the histori­ cal origins, design, and construction of this thoroughfare from Cum­ berland, Maryland, to the Illinois border. These chapters also de­ scribe the thoroughfare’s recycling, in service to the automotive age, as U.S. Route 40 and (in places) Interstate 70. Four more chapters, under the rubric “Image and Landscape,” touch on travelers’ ac­ counts, the transmission of ideas, and the concept of a roadside as a long, narrow “place” in people’s cultural experiences. Two final chapters address questions of preservation and cultural heritage. If the conception of this volume is intriguing, the execution is uneven. What appears at first to be a division of labor among the contributors quickly sinks beneath waves of repetition as the reader encounters at least five different renderings of the story of Ohio’s enabling act, Gallatin’s designs, Jefferson’s enthusiasm, technical and topographical challenges, and finally the disintegration of both the roadway and its political support. As each author emphasizes details differently, readers unfamiliar with the history (and such readers surely are the primary audience for this volume) may lose their way as easily as travelers on Zane’s Trace (the forest track that led west of Wheeling before the extension of the National Road). Technical information fares little better. A surveyor’s rod is mistak­ enly defined (p. 129) as 162 feet (16.5 feet is correct). Macadamiz­ ing—a road-building technique with which laymen might have a passing familiarity—receives partial definition (p. 28) and then much fuller treatment (pp. 140-41) before being dismissed as...

Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920.

From the voyage of the Argonauts to the Tailhook scandal, seafaring has long been one of the most glaringly male-dominated occupations. In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary study, Margaret Creighton, Lisa Norling, and their co-authors explore the relationship of gender and seafaring in the Anglo-American age of sail. Drawing on a wide range of American and British sources-from diaries, logbooks, and account ledgers to songs, poetry, fiction, and a range of public sources-the authors show how popular fascination with seafaring and the sailors' rigorous, male-only life led to models of gender behavior based on iron aboard ship and stoic ashore. Yet Iron Men, Wooden Women also offers new material that defies conventional views. The authors investigate such topics as women in the American whaling industry and the role of the captain's wife aboard ship. They explore the careers of the female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read, as well as those of other women-transvestite heroines-who dressed as men to serve on the crews of sailing ships. And they explore the importance of gender and its connection to race for African American and other seamen in both the American and the British merchant marine. Contributors include both social historians and literary critics: Marcus Rediker, Dianne Dugaw, Ruth Wallis Herndon, Haskell Springer, W. Jeffrey Bolster, Laura Tabili, Lillian Nayder, and Melody Graulich, in addition to Margaret Creighton and Lisa Norling.

Book Reviews

The Ice Opinion. By Ice T as told to Heidi Siegmund. Vitamania: Vitamins in American Culture. Rima D. Apple. Lake Superior Place Names: From Bawating to the Montreal. Bernard C. Peters. Britannia's Children: Reading Colonialism Through Children's Books and Magazines. Kathryn Castle. Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700‐1920. Margaret S. Creighton and Lisa Norling. The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective. Edited by Victoria de Grazia and Ellen Furlough. Theatres of Memory. Raphael Samuel. Them Damned Pictures: Explorations IN American Political Art. Roger A. Fischer. American Dreamtime: A cultural Analysis of Popular Movies, and Their Implications for a Science of Humanity. Lee Drummond. Learning From Things: Method and Theory of Material Culture Studies. Edited by W. David Kingery. Work As Art: Idaho Logging As An Aesthetic Moment. Charlene James‐Duguid. Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory. Mike Wallace. BuckyWorks: Buckminster Fuller's Ideas for Today. J. Baldwin. Nice Work If You Can Get It: My Life In Rhythm and Rhyme. Michael Feinstein. Hot Air: All Talk, All the Time. Howard Kurtz. American Popular Culture at Home and Abroad. Lewis H. Carlson and Kevin B. Vichcales, editors. Pop Culture Wars: Religion and the Role of Entertainment in American Life. William D. Romanowski. Private Pleasures, Public Leisure: A History of Australian Popular Culture Since 1788. Richard Waterhouse. The Rage of a Privileged Class. Ellis Close. Leading With My Chin. Jay Leno. The Walls of Jericho. Robert Mann. Juba This &amp; Juba That: 100 African‐American Games for Children. Darlene Powell Hopson and Derek S. Hopson.

The Political Films of Andrzej Wajda: Dialogism in Man of Marble, Man of Iron, and Danton

Introduction Chapter 1. The Political Film of Andrzej Wajda Chapter 2. Issues of Methodology Chapter 3. Andrzej Wajda: the Carrier of the Political Message Chapter 4. The Historical Dialogue in Wajda's Films Chapter 5. Wajda and his Dramatis Personae Chapter 6. The Films' Dialogical Aesthetics Conclusion Appendix: Film Synopses of Man of Marble, Man of Iron and Danton.

The Political Films of Andrzej Wajda: Dialogism in Man of Marble, Man of Iron, and Danton. By Falkowska Janina. Providence: Berghahn Books, 1996. xi, 196pp. Index. $37.50, hard bound.

The Political Films of Andrzej Wajda: Dialogism in Man of Marble, Man of Iron, and Danton. By Falkowska Janina. Providence: Berghahn Books, 1996. xi, 196pp. Index. $37.50, hard bound. - Volume 56 Issue 1

Postcall Syndrome-Reply

How did Dr Fiala know that I was an iron man? Her suggestion that an immunologic defect might explain the postcall syndrome is insightful. Could we interest a drug manufacturer to develop a vaccine, or must we find other means to stimulate the phagocytes? All of my sympathy and empathy were used up in the course of writing another article. 1