Mei Zhan. Other‐Worldly: Making Chinese Medicine through Transnational Frames. xiv + 240 pp., illus., bibl., index. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. $79.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

Vincanne Adams (ed.), Metrics: What Counts in Global Health (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), pp. 258, $24.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-8223-6097-1.

In recent years a head of critical steam has built up around 'metrics'. This is shorthand for the glut of statistical indicators deployed today in global governance, both by established institutions like the United Nations and its special agencies, and by newer public/private partnerships and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Their function is to crystallise in a single number a complex ar...

Recent Works on Tourism In

Holiday in Mexico: Critical Refl ections on Tourism and Tourist Encounters. Edited by Dina Berger and Andrew Grant Wood. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. Pp. xv + 393. $24.95 paper. $89.95 cloth. Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic. By Amalia L. Cabezas. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. Pp. xii + 218. $24.95 paper. Negotiating Paradise: U....

Nancy Rose Hunt, A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies and Reverie in Colonial Congo (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), pp. xviii, 353, paperback, $26.95, ISBN: 978-0-8223-5965-4.

Enhanced Tonic GABA Current in Normotopic and Hilar Ectopic Dentate Granule

1 Cells after Pilocarpine-Induced Status Epilepticus 2 3 Ren-Zhi Zhan and J. Victor Nadler 4 Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology and Department of Neurobiology, Duke 5 University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710 6 7 Running head: Tonic GABA Current of Granule Cells in Epilepsy 8 9 Correspondence: J. Victor Nadler, Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Box 3813, 10...

Confronting the Risks of Undocumented

The World of Mexican Migrants: The Rock and the Hard Place. By Judith Adler Hellman. New York: New Press, 2008. Pp. xxiv + 546. $17.95 paper. $28.50 cloth. “I Know It’s Dangerous”: Why Mexicans Risk Their Lives to Cross the Border. By Lynnaire M. Sheridan. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009. Pp. xv + 206. $24.95 paper. $55.00 cloth. Clandestine Crossings: Migrants and Coyotes on the Texa...