Pat Barker is a nearly pure novelist: she writes no short stories, no poetry, but, beginning with her first novel, Union Street (1982), immediately declared herself as a major novelist. In the following year she appeared on Granta's list of the "Twenty B...

Objectives: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a novel bipotential collagen scaffold as a bioengineered trachea for the regeneration of the tracheal epithelium. Methods: The bipotential collagen scaffold was developed by conjugating a collagen vitrigel membrane to...

ABSTRACT The dyeing behavior of a novel regenerated cellulosic fiber (enVix®), prepared from secondary cellulose acetate fibers by the hydrolysis of acetyl groups, is investigated with three vat dyes. The effect of liquor ratio, temperature, and dye concentration on the dyeing properties of...

Having a bad heart doesn't mean you can skip exercise, doctors said Wednesday. In fact, it may even help your heart to repair itself.Research presented at the European Society of Cardiology meeting showed that exercise sparks the creation of new heart vessels.In a small study...

Scientists looking at the aftermath of wildfires in the forests of southwestern Oregon and Northern California found that after five to ten years even the most severely burned areas had sprouted plentiful seedlings without any help from man.Though natural regeneration generally took longer to produce...

In the following highly positive review of Regeneration, Nixon discusses some of the major themes in Barker's work.

In the following highly positive review of Regeneration, Wormald praises Barker for the psychological insights into personality formation that make the book more than an excellent historical novel.

The ethics of electric shock therapy is a theme in the novel "Regeneration" by Pat Barker. Communication therapy today hasn't is now practiced rather the largely inhumane and ineffective electric shock therapy described int he novel.

Pat Barker's novel "Regeneration" examines the issue of electric shock therapy, which is an immoral practices given the many therapy options we know have at our disposal.

Pat Barker is a woman who wrote Regeneration, a war story. Regeneration focuses mainly on the lives of men and how World War I affected the soldiers on the battlefield. Even though Regeneration is mostly a story about wounded soldiers and their problems, Pat Barker effectively brings to the story females that have a propitious effect later on in the story.