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... Side of Chicago, the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) has attempted to stem the tide of un- and underinsured patients draining the hospital’s resources through a rhetoric of community and population health that could be rendered as a form both of research and of service. To do this, the UCMC...

... the incalculability of catastrophic art is to be found in hospitality. References Achebe Chinua . 1990 . Hopes and Impediments . New York : Anchor Books . Alloula Malek . 1986 . The Colonial Harem , translated by Godzich Myrna and Godzich Wlad . Minneapolis : University...

... of dispersed sites. We identify the hospital as one such site, at which the domestic is instantiated performatively in relation to both state- and kinship-bounded figura- tions of community. Our ethnographic examples are drawn from a study...

... of household income. Receiving it at the end of each month revives Dalene’s vague desires to travel within the city; it also means she can afford a taxi and hospital consultation 3. The Department of Health in the municipality of Johannesburg provides the following statistics on its Web site...

... ). Initially, indeed, recording cases and deaths among nursing home residents and making the statistical data available to the wider public was difficult, such that mortality data for nursing homes began to be disseminated after hospital death data. On several occasions, moreover, mortality statistics...

... ravaler comme on le ferait pour une façade. Etienne LeRoy, L’odyssée de l’état Why is a building called a “national bank,” “university,” “state department,” “hospital,” or “school” when the activities...

... state, international institutions, and the phar- maceutical industry. Some 170,000 people are currently taking anti-HIV drugs that are paid for by the Brazilian government. Both AIDS mortality and the use of hospital services have subsequently fallen by more than 50 percent, and this policy...

...). Ralf Hotchkiss Public Culture 12(1): 43–50 Copyright © 2000 by Duke University Press Photographs © Ralf D. Hotchkiss. Encyclopædia Britannica text © 1997 by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Charity’s Junkyard A typical Western hospital chair is designed for gentle use on smooth floors. Its...

... in hospitals on ventilators, lungs inflamed and filling up with fluid. Thousands of “long-haulers” continued to battle symptoms like cough, shortness of breath, and fatigue months after infection. By Election Day in November, the United States was heading into another surge of the virus, and public health...

.... It is a book of theory and parody, bitching and carping, memory and critique. Both books are about peculiar intersections. Writing of waking from a dream to find himself in the Infectious Diseases Ward of the Royal Brisbane Hospital, Michaels muses...

..., as well as problematizing, the relationship between welcoming and rejecting neighbors in times of conflict and peace alike. Hospitality—a “quasi-synonym of ‘welcome’” ( Derrida 1999 : 45)—is never absolute; rather, it is always “parasitized by its opposite, ‘hostility,’ the undesirable guest . . . which...

..., Humanitarianism as a so as to obtain the necessary residence permits and ensure independent operation. Politics of Life A memo of March 11, 2003, makes reference to two proposals that were agreed on by both sides, that is, the Iraqi regime and MSF: providing medical assistance in a hospital in the south...

..., autonomous public hospital, was old. Perhaps the doctor wasn't good at moel echo , looking with ultrasound. Perhaps black-and-white machines show different things than color machines do. Perhaps they actually bring out different qualities of the child-to-be. “So,” Puthea said, “what do you think? I can...

... culture talks back . Directed by Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell. Chicago: Brace Yourselves Productions. Even dwarfs started small (Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen). 1971 . Directed by Werner Herzog. Anchor Bay Entertainment. Freaks . 1932 . Directed by Tod Browning. MGM. Hospital...

... in Brazil. The city's efficiency is immediately apparent upon arrival. One is out of the airport and into the empty highway system in minutes. My host, another learned, affable and hospitable Portuguese anthropologist, whisked us immediately to the French consulate just in time to watch two...

...Figure 5 Defaced tympanum of seated Virgin Mary above one of the entrances to the Italian Hospital. Photograph by Haifa Sabbagh. ...

... of examining a wide range of institutions and services from hospitals and rehabili- tation agencies to charities and insurance companies, points out nursing homes collect 8.4 percent of the $647 billion spent on national health in the U.S. (1988...

... with in Uganda, it was the birth of children that embodied this forward momentum toward new possible futures. In Kampala, I visited Janet, one of the Congolese women I lived with, as she prepared to spend the night in a local hospital, where, only hours before, she had given birth. The tiny girl—born earlier...

... [surrounded] the superintendent of Chakdah State General Hospital last night for two hours after a patient died alleg- edly due to doctors’ negligence and forced him to write an apology letter. Relatives of the patient said that 35-year-old Polly Karmakar, gasping for breath, was admitted...