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Abstract: "Above Vulgar Economy": Jane Austen and Money By: Sheryl Bonar Craig Jane Austen's career as an author coincided with a series of economic recessions leading to a major economic depression, a banking crisis that resulted in government intervention, a number of controversial economic bills that were rejected or approved by Parliament in spite of public opinion, and the grudging public acceptance of paper money and debased coins. This discussion is an attempt to clarify some of the economic and political references that modern readers of Jane Austen's novels tend to overlook or to misunderstand and, in that process, to reveal Austen's interest in political economics and her familiarity with the ideas of the leading economists of her era, including Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, Thomas Malthus, Jeremy Bentham, Frederic Eden and Patrick Colquhoun. Austen's informed and opinionated references to her nation's economy reveal an author engaged with the political/economic debates of her volatile, turbulent era, such as the Restriction Act, the Speenhamland System, the Poor Law Reform Bill and the Corn Law. As Mary Poovey notes in Genres of the Credit Economy, the economic instability during Jane Austen's adult life created a great deal of insecurity in the British public, and Austen uses "her fiction to manage the anxieties it caused" (370). Austen's books thus reveal themselves to be state-of-the-nation novels and a series of texts that respond to the ongoing deterioration of the late 18th and early 19th century British economy.

During the waves of neoliberal governments in the global North, disabled women and men have been greatly affected by austerity measures. Drawing on feminist disability theory and recent discussions of debility, I argue that neoliberalism and its austerity practices are evident in recent Canadian policies. In particular, feminist analysis of fitting/misfitting, debility, and capacity help us to understand the particular impacts on women with disabilities of these policy changes. In addition, building on Wendy Brown's (2016) concept of sacrificial citizenship under neoliberalism, I illustrate the pervasive neoliberal tendencies at work in ongoing Canadian discussions of physician-assisted dying. These challenge and extend our understandings of the interplay between gender and disability in austere times. Résumé Durant les vagues de gouvernements néo-libéraux dans l'hémisphère Nord, les femmes et les hommes handicapés ont été gravement touchés par les mesures d'austérité. En m'appuyant sur la théorie féministe de l'invalidité et les récentes discussions sur la débilité, je soutiens que le néo-libéralisme et ses pratiques d'austérité sont en évidence dans les récentes politiques canadiennes. En particulier, l'analyse féministe de l'adaptation/inadaptation, de la débilité et de la capacité nous aide à comprendre les impacts particuliers de ces changements de politique sur les femmes handicapées. De plus, à partir du concept de citoyenneté sacrificielle sous le néo-libéralisme de Wendy Brown (2016), j'illustre les tendances néo-libérales omniprésentes qui sont en jeu dans les discussions canadiennes en cours sur la mort assistée par un médecin. Cela défie et élargit notre compréhension de l'interaction entre le genre et l'invalidité dans les périodes d'austérité.

"Each year, approximately forty thousand Americans are killed by gunshot wounds, which is roughly equivalent to the annual rate of traffic deaths on American roads and highways. Of those forty thousand gun fatalities, more than half of them are suicides, which in turn account for half of all suicides per year. Add in the murders caused by guns, the accidental deaths caused by guns, the law enforcement killings caused by guns, and the average comes out to more than one hundred Americans killed by bullets every day. On that same average day, another two hundred-plus are wounded by guns, which translates into eighty thousand a year. Eighty thousand wounded and forty thousand dead, or one hundred and twenty thousand ambulance calls and emergency room cases for every twelve-month tick of the clock, but the toll of gun violence goes far beyond the pierced and bloodied bodies of the victims themselves, spilling out into the devastations visited upon their immediate families, their extended families, their friends, their fellow workers, the people of their neighborhoods, their schools, their churches, their softball teams, and communities at large-the vast brigade of lives touched by the presence of a single person who lives or has lived among them-meaning that the number of Americans directly or indirectly marked by gun violence every year must be tallied in the millions"--

Hemorrhage is the leading cause of preventable military and civilian trauma death. Damage control resuscitation (DCR) with concomitant mechanical hemorrhage control has become the preferred in-hospital treatment of hemorrhagic shock. In particular, plasma-based resuscitation with decreased volumes of crystalloids and artificial colloids as part of DCR has improved outcomes in the military and civilian sectors. However, translation of these principles and techniques to the prehospital, remote, and austere environments, known as remote damage control resuscitation or RDCR, is challenging given the resource limitations in these settings. Rapid administration of tranexamic acid and reconstituted freeze-dried (lyophilized) plasma as early as the point of injury are feasible and likely beneficial, but comparative studies in the literature are lacking. Whole blood is likely the best fluid therapy for traumatic hemorrhagic shock, but logistical hurdles need to be addressed. Rapid control of external hemorrhage with hemostatic dressings and extremity tourniquets are proven therapies, but control of non-compressible hemorrhage (i.e. torso hemorrhage) remains a significant challenge.