Review: Kitty Holland, Savita - The Tragedy that Shook a Nation
Review: Kitty Holland, Savita - The Tragedy that Shook a Nation
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评论：基蒂·霍兰、萨维塔——震惊全国的悲剧
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2013
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凯蒂·霍兰德的新书《萨维塔》首次完整、有序地揭示了萨维塔的多学科团队在戈尔韦大学医院记录的每天每小时的医疗记录。这本书是关于一位31岁的孕妇流产入院的故事。这是一本充满印度文化和爱尔兰历史的教育手册。这些笔记读起来很可怕。他们敲响了她死亡的丧钟。霍兰德在这本医学日记中使用了巨大的黑色字体来吸引我们的注意，让我们注意到她生命中那些明确无误的信号正在消退。读者惊恐地退缩，问为什么没有人注意到，也没有答案。目前还没有大学学院医院的个人被追究对五天的错误、无能和延误治疗负有责任。这导致了一位充满活力、健康、年轻的女子在负责照顾她的人的眼睛、耳朵和手中死亡。当她的手变硬，脚变冷时，她浑身发抖，僵硬，肿胀，脸色发白，痛苦而恐惧地大叫。霍兰德这本书中稀疏的学术文本非常适合叙事。几个世纪的爱尔兰历史被清晰地勾勒出来，她提供了关于大饥饿和刑法的宝贵背景，解释了为什么教会在爱尔兰的DNA中根深蒂固。几十年的爱尔兰保守派政治也被勾勒出来，以提供对被强奸儿童的管理不善和对妇女的不人道待遇，以维护教会的权力。她在堕胎立法和对它不断演变的态度方面的历史令人钦佩地清晰、简洁和准确。她对反堕胎运动的所有表现形式的描述也同样全面。这本书提出了一些尚未得到回答的问题。值得注意的是，当Savita和她的丈夫Praveen在周一早上要求终止怀孕时，为什么什么都没有做，这在审讯中也没有确定下来，也没有在调查中确定。调查中概述的终止请求是在周一还是周二提出的差异无关紧要。简而言之，已经合法和符合宪法的东西没有被立法定义或指导，因此顾问和萨维塔不受保护。这些情况是由政府政党在这个问题上的隐瞒和推诿造成的。责任的问题将不得不等待。普拉文是一个温柔的灵魂，他的举止给爱尔兰人民留下了深刻的印象，也感动了爱尔兰人民，他想知道萨维塔是不是生来就是为了为爱尔兰妇女伸张正义。凯蒂·霍兰德公正地对待了我们所有人。作为一名记者和作家，她帮助翻开了历史的一页，并帮助带来了变化。与此同时，这本书值得广泛阅读。它将打开一扇干涸的眼泪的闸门。
Kitty Holland’s new book, Savita, reveals for the first time, in full and in sequence the hour by hour, day by day, medical notes recorded by Savita’s multidisciplinary-team, in Galway University Hospital. This book is about a thirty one year old pregnant woman admitted to hospital having a miscarriage. It is an educational manual filled with Indian culture and Irish history. The notes make gruesome reading. They toll the knell of her dying. Holland uses large black type to draw our attention in this medical diary to those unmistakeable signals of her life ebbing away. The reader recoils in horror, asks why nobody noticed, and there are no answers. No individual in University College Hospital has yet been held responsible for the five day catalogue of errors, incompetence, and delays in treatment. These led to the death of a vibrant, healthy, young woman under the eyes and ears and hands of those charged with her care. She shivered, stiffened, bloated, discoloured, and cried out in pain and terror as her hands hardened, and feet went cold . The sparse scholarly text of Holland’s book is eminently suited to the narrative. Centuries of Irish history are sketched clearly when she provides an invaluable context of the Great Hunger and the Penal Laws, as an explanation of why that Church became ingrained in the Irish DNA. Decades of Irish conservative politics are also sketched out to provide accounts of the mismanagement of raped children and the inhumane treatment of women to uphold the power of the church. Her history of abortion legislation and evolving attitudes to it is admirably clear, concise and exact. Her account of the antiabortion movement in all its manifestations is equally comprehensive. The book raises questions which have yet to be answered. Notably, why was nothing done when Savita and her husband Praveen asked on the Monday morning for a termination of the pregnancy, This was not nailed down during the inquest, nor during the inquiry. The disparity outlined in the inquest between whether the termination was requested on the Monday or Tuesday is irrelevant. Simply put, what was already lawful and constitutional wasnt defined or guided by legislation and because of this the consultant and Savita were unprotected. The hiding and fudging on the issue by government parties led to these circumstances. The question of responsibility will have to wait. Praveen, a gentle soul whose demeanour so impressed and moved the Irish people, wonders if Savita was born to achieve justice for Irish women. Kitty Holland has done justice to us all. As a journalist and author, she has helped turn a page of history, and helped to bring change. In the meantime, this book deserves to be widely read. It will open a floodgate of dry tears.