... and native-born citizens. On the other hand, the presence of Filipinos in America has provided labor in key industries from agriculture to nursing. Filipino America has always been a transnational social formation whose history, economy, and culture reflect the interrelated histories of the Philippines...

... in the position of killing or being killed; this was the nature of war. In other ways, however, Black women sought direct involvement in the war effort. Especially notable was the work of Black women as military nurses. During the War of 1898, the US surgeon general invited Black women to serve as nurses...

...Anna McCarthy ©2016 American Association of Critical-Care Nurses 2016 Photograph courtesy of Anna McCarthy Photograph courtesy of Anna McCarthy ...

...Anna McCarthy A short poem about the automation of thought. ©2016 American Association of Critical-Care Nurses 2016 tools content digital humanities This is a poem that builds itself using tools that build new tools. Renumbering. Remembering. New tools that know what poems...

..., as freedom. I remember the acid smell of the ER, infecting, redeeming the place. Soon another nurse controls my vital signs. I remember sitting here, bent over, crushed by pain, abandoned on one of the front chairs. Everything was suddenly in disarray; in the emergency room. The state...

... alongside Mrs. Rouse); and Mrs. Rouse’s lodgers, Miss Atwell and the nurse. Although the plot turns on the comings and goings of men (the arrival and integration of Haynes, for example, the departure and recurring appearances...

... were failing. The attending nurse convinced my mom to let her feed me an expensive, high-saline liquid that she euphemistically called seawater ( nước biển ). The hospital discharged us so that I could die at home. There's no record of how many babies this nurse poisoned, no documents and no Pulitzer...

...,” being held by a Guinean woman who is referred to, in a similarly obscure manner, as “foster nurse.”44 Although the obstruction of her face by the camera suggests that she is not the proper subject of the photograph, her presence is nonetheless necessary...

... from the rehab hospital, Donna, an African American woman who had cared for Christina, agreed to take on a second job working part time in our home. She is a certified nursing assistant (CNA), and she introduced us to her sister, Shannon, then a CNA (now a licensed practical nurse, LPN), who works...

.... It was impossible to know for sure if your relative in a southern sanatorium was alive or dead. By the mid-1950s the Department of Northern Affairs began a program to tape-record messages between Inuit in hospital and their relatives. The audio recordings I am concerned with in this essay were made by a nurse...

... Two days into my sojourn, a nurse asked me if I would prefer a “male” roommate or a “female” roommate, a question seemingly based in the kind of patient-driven care that would lead us to refute Bamford's use of such startling diction. But what does spatial choice mean in the psych ward, where spatial...

...Anna McCarthy Believe it or not, today’s content creators can learn a lot from a writer-entrepreneur who was born two hundred years before the founding of Google. ©2016 American Association of Critical-Care Nurses 2016 Honoré de Balzac content strategy productivity digital labor...

...Anna McCarthy For quick relief from the austerity of decluttering, try cultivating mindful clodder . ©2016 American Association of Critical-Care Nurses 2016 content management mindfulness digital media materiality The term clutter originated as a variation of clodder , which...

... a staggering zombie,” with the help of two nurses. This difficult exercise is to prevent the postsurgery danger of blood clotting, the doctors say. As firsthand witness to this form of assisted living, within the hospital’s own temporality, Alfaro recognizes...

... parents in 2016. As we sat together at our kitchen table, I asked my mother why she doesn't cry. I was stunned by her reply: “I do cry, but I just don't let anyone see.” She explained that when she prepared to temporarily (so she thought) move to the United States in 1971 to work as a nurse through the US...

..., and Colonialism The idea that black women’s breasts have special meaning became clear to the Benetton corporation, which is based in Italy, after it produced a controversial ad in 1989 (see fi g. 1). Critics immediately associated the ad with slave women nursing white babies, and such criticism clearly...

... countries, fell prey to doctors, nurses, and social workers, most of them on the state payroll. These representatives of the state’s welfare institutions were involved in providing Yemeni babies Rupture and Return 65...

..., and independent research. Students leaving these institutions find jobs as line supervisors, computer technicians, teachers, nurses, social work- ers, and other niches in the social service professions. A small number may join their better-educated colleagues in getting no-collar jobs, where “no collar...

... of sociality continually produce new forms of violence and death, 23 or the ways that late modern sovereignty hinges on the social interplay of death, killing, and terror, 24 or the ways that the social death of the prison, the asylum, and the nursing home produce biological vulnerability. And yet...

... space, more theory, more food, more loud. José’s exager- ación is what always anticipated the return of vitalism. It was his “pledge of continuous jubilation.” III. Elena Muñoz, José’s extraordinary mother, revealed to us that in the standstill instant right after José was born, the nurse had...