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What do ordinary women in an African city do in the face of “serious enough” infections in themselves and signs of acute illness in their young children? How do they manage? What does it take to get by? How do they maintain the wellbeing of the household in a setting without what would be considered as basic health provision in an American or European city?

Professor Wallman focuses on women in a densely-populated part of Kampala called Kamwokya. With the help of a team of Ugandans and non-Ugandans, a vivid picture emerges, enhanced by color photographs, sketches and maps.

Women are largely responsible for the management of illness in all members of the family. Young children are at particular risk and the women have to take the first crucial decisions about treatment. Formal health resources are scarce and so they most often resort to an extraordinary range of treatments provided in the informal economy. A holistic picture of all the options that local people recognize is drawn, and an enriched understanding of problems and opportunities for health care in tropical cities emerges.

Multidisciplinary work on sexually transmitted disease is rare, even in this time of AIDS, and the book effectively maps the social contexts of its perception and management. Moreover, it focuses on women as ordinary citizens, selected by residence and not by reference to known medical conditions or high risk behavior. It is important too that the field strategies have encouraged local informants to become active participants in the definition of local problems and their solutions.

Katrina's Imprint highlights the power of this sentinel American event and its continuing reverberations in contemporary politics, culture, and public policy. Published on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the multidisciplinary volume reflects on how history, location, access to transportation, health care, and social position feed resilience, recovery, and prospects for the future of New Orleans and the Gulf region. Essays examine the intersecting vulnerabilities that gave rise to the disaster, explore the cultural and psychic legacies of the storm, reveal how the process of rebuilding and starting over replicates past vulnerabilities, and analyze Katrina's imprint alongside American's myths of self-sufficiency. A case study of new weaknesses that have emerged in our era, this book offers an argument for why we cannot wait for the next disaster before we apply the lessons that should be learned from Katrina.

Interpreters know that having the right word at the right time is essential. For health care interpreters, quickly finding specialty-specific words can be challenging. Kibler’s Medical Terms for Interpreters is a practical resource that will save you time.
 
通訳者は状況に合わせて的確な言葉を発することが非常に重要であることを承知しています。 医療通訳者にとって専門分野に特有の言葉を素早く探すことが困難な場合もあるでしょう。 「キブラーの通訳者向け医学用語集」は目的の擁護へ素早くたどりつくための実際に役立つ資料です。
 
• Speeds up your word-finding. Unlike a typical dictionary, Kibler’s Medical Terms for Interpreters is organized in sections by medical specialty, so you can quickly locate the specific words that will be useful for a patient encounter.
• Makes medical words easily accessible, from common terms to highly technical jargon.
• Reduces the need to search a dictionary for individual words while interpreting.
• Has proved to be a valuable resource for both beginning and veteran interpreters.
• Is easily used while interpreting or when preparing prior to an appointment.
 
• 用語の検索が速くなります。典型的な辞書とは異なり「キブラーの通訳者向け医学用語集」は専門分野ごとに分類されており、患者さんの診察時に特定の単語を素早く見つけることができます。
• 一般的な言葉から高度な専門用語まで様々な医療用語を簡単に利用することができます。
• 通訳中に特定の言葉を辞書で調べる手間が省けます。
• 初級の通訳者にも、ベテランの通訳者にも価値のある参考資料であることが実証されています。
• 通訳の途中でも事前の予習時でも簡単に使うことができます。
 

Interpreters know that having the right word at the right time is essential. For health care interpreters, quickly finding specialty-specific words can be challenging. Kibler’s Medical Terms for Interpreters is a practical resource that will save you time.
 
通訳者は状況に合わせて的確な言葉を発することが非常に重要であることを承知しています。 医療通訳者にとって専門分野に特有の言葉を素早く探すことが困難な場合もあるでしょう。 「キブラーの通訳者向け医学用語集」は目的の擁護へ素早くたどりつくための実際に役立つ資料です。
 
• Speeds up your word-finding. Unlike a typical dictionary, Kibler’s Medical Terms for Interpreters is organized in sections by medical specialty, so you can quickly locate the specific words that will be useful for a patient encounter.
• Makes medical words easily accessible, from common terms to highly technical jargon.
• Reduces the need to search a dictionary for individual words while interpreting.
• Has proved to be a valuable resource for both beginning and veteran interpreters.
• Is easily used while interpreting or when preparing prior to an appointment.
 
• 用語の検索が速くなります。典型的な辞書とは異なり「キブラーの通訳者向け医学用語集」は専門分野ごとに分類されており、患者さんの診察時に特定の単語を素早く見つけることができます。
• 一般的な言葉から高度な専門用語まで様々な医療用語を簡単に利用することができます。
• 通訳中に特定の言葉を辞書で調べる手間が省けます。
• 初級の通訳者にも、ベテランの通訳者にも価値のある参考資料であることが実証されています。
• 通訳の途中でも事前の予習時でも簡単に使うことができます。
 

In the past decade, obesity has emerged as a major public health concern in the United States  and abroad. At the federal, state, and local level, policy makers have begun drafting a range of policies to fight a war against fat, including body-mass index (BMI) report cards, “snack taxes,” and laws to control how fast food companies market to children. As an epidemic, obesity threatens to weaken the health, economy, and might of the most powerful nation in the world.

In Killer Fat, Natalie Boero examines how and why obesity emerged as a major public health concern and national obsession in recent years. Using primary sources and in-depth interviews, Boero enters the world of bariatric surgeries, Weight Watchers, and Overeaters Anonymous to show how common expectations of what bodies are supposed to look like help to determine what sorts of interventions and policies are considered urgent in containing this new kind of disease.

Boero argues that obesity, like the traditional epidemics of biological contagion and mass death, now incites panic, a doomsday scenario that must be confronted in a struggle for social stability. The “war” on obesity, she concludes, is a form of social control. Killer Fat ultimately offers an alternate framing of the nation’s obesity problem based on the insights of the “Health at Every Size” movement.

In Kinflix, Marina Fedosik analyzes cinematic representations of adoption and technologically assisted reproduction to identify the intersecting paradigms through which Western cultures understand these ways of making families. Looking at diverse genres—films include The Omen,Raising Arizona,Losing Isaiah,Blade Runner, and more—Fedosik finds that the heterocoital family remains a hegemonic metaphor for representing and structuring all other methods of reproduction. This potentially precludes understanding adoption and ARTs on their own terms and requires those involved in nontraditional family formation to negotiate kinship connections and identities against the cultural demands of this model.

Resisting simple ideological readings of film genres, Fedosik unsettles cultural scripts around adoption and reproduction and scrutinizes moments where formulaic genre logic may be troubled by representations of lived experience that transcend common tropes of family formation. She argues that adoption as a reproductive technology is uniquely situated to expose cultural tensions around nontraditional methods of reproduction that are rapidly developing in the post-IVF biocultural landscape. Rapidly changing reproductive technologies, Fedosik asserts, demand a cultural response—and require more expansive reflection on reproductive futurities.

This compilation of cutting-edge philosophical and scientific research comprises a survey of recent neuroscientific research on representational systems in animals and humans. Representational systems provide their owners with useful information about their environment and are shaped by the special informational needs of the organism with respect to its environment. In this volume, the authors address the long-standing dispute about the usefulness of the notion of representation in the study of behavior systems and offer a fresh perspective on representational systems that combines philosophical insights and experimental experience.

Vomiting. Diarrhea. Dehydration. Death. Confusion. In 1832, the arrival of cholera in the United States created widespread panic throughout the country. For the rest of the century, epidemics swept through American cities and towns like wildfire, killing thousands. Physicians of all stripes offered conflicting answers to the cholera puzzle, ineffectively responding with opiates, bleeding, quarantines, and all manner of remedies, before the identity of the dreaded infection was consolidated under the germ theory of disease some sixty years later.