The Pathography of a Catholic Polio in Nineteenth-Century Quebec: The Soul of My Sister
Bibliographic record
Abstract
“The Soul of my Sister”: A Personal Memoir of Polio and Catholicism in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Quebec During the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, epidemics of polio caused fear and panic, killing some who contracted the disease, leaving others with varying degrees of paralysis. This paper examines the life of one victim of the disease, Henriette Fortin (1871 – 1940), who contracted infantile paralysis at the age of two. “The Soul of my Sister” is a personal narrative written by Henriette’s brother, Father L. A. Fortin, who intimately describes how his sister’s family, friends and neighbours living in the tiny village of Beauceville treated and reacted to her physical disability. The account is additionally suffused with descriptions of religious practices and iconography within the social and cultural history of the disease in rural eastern Quebec . In his memoir, Father Fortin writes about the physical expansiveness of her childhood, family anxiety, medical attempts to “fix’ her body, and a life enriched by devout Catholicism. This paper adds to the historiography of polio narratives in rural nineteenth and twentieth-centuries communities.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.029 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".