Gilman is alert to the ways in which the "you Jews are so clever.. ." kind of view in fact creates an implicit triangle not a simple polarity: the positioning of a first persorn plural (us, "wasps") in contrast with "you" (the clever Jews) are constituted against the still more inalienably inferior (all those other "black races"-"other" in that, as we are shown, Jews are themselves often "black...

Between 1 December 1994 and 31 January 1995, Salmonella agona infections increased abruptly in England and Wales; isolates of S. agona from 41 patients with diarrheal illness were referred to the Laboratory of Enteric Pathogens of the Public Health Laboratory Service, compared with nine cases in the previous 12 months. Most isolates were from children under 10 years of age. Many of the cases we...

Rabies (hydrophobia) is a disease of great antiquity having been described in the pre-Mosaic Eshnunna Code of ancient Mesopotamia approximately 4000 years ago, as follows: "If a dog is vicious and the ward authorities have had [the fact] made known to its owner, but he does not keep it in, it bites a man and causes [his] death, then the owner of the dog shall pay 2/3 of a mina of silver"."12 Th...

people's health that would tell of a simple shift "from the Poor Law to the National Health Service". By the time of the Great War, a huge and intricate fabric of services was in place, of various kinds, funded by diverse sources, and tailored for differing sectors of society with distinct conditions and needs. One of the great works of the NHS lay not in creating services but in systematizing ...

Over the weekend following Christmas 2015, as many as 10,000 Muslims convened at Chicago’s McCormick Place for the 14th annual Muslim American Society-Islamic Circle of North America (MAS-ICNA) Convention. Neatly bearded men, typically in casual western clothes were much in evidence, along with a few in business suits and some in traditional, billowing cotton tunics and pants. As for the women,...

Some may take this ethical choice further and embrace a vegan (complete avoidance of animal products) lifestyle. In addition to this, Islam and Judaism follow strict dietary laws of Halal and Kosher respectively, both of which promote the avoidance of porcine products, and for Judaism, avoidance of shellfish too.3 It is an unavoidable fact that all medication will at some stage in its developme...

Microbes That Are out of Place Inspired by Lord Chesterfield, anthropologist Mary Douglas noted that what is classified as dirt in a given society is matter that is considered out of place. From this premise, Douglas went on to an analysis of ritual and religion, interrelations between perceptions of purity, contamination, defilement, and danger, and our anthropological need for symbolic bounda...

I shall lump the specific semantic formalisms currently touted together as manifestations of logicism, because the issue is whether the logicist approach to language processing is the right one, not whether one particular formalism is better than another. The [ogicist model of language processing is essentially as follows. We use a phrase structure grammar, heavily laced with features, for synt...

Laurence A. Boxer, MD, this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Career Award from the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, is a leader in pediatric hematology/ oncology with a long career marked by accomplishment and leadership in research, training, and patient care, as well as exceptional service to ASPHO and other scientific societies. Larry was born in Denver in 1940 to Sam ...

The adverse effects of severe iodine deficiency and maternal hypothyroidism on fetal and neonatal neurodevelopment are well-established. In recent decades, there has been an increasing emphasis on studying the effects of mild to moderate iodine deficiency during pregnancy and lactation. The American Thyroid Association (ATA) recommended in 2006 that all pregnant and lactating women in North Ame...