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...Jamie Cross How are we to engage with the forms of solarity that emerge in response to humanitarian crises, like those created by a highly virulent infectious disease? As we struggle to respond to the worldwide SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic and begin to envisage the role of solar energy in a green...

...Bernard Duffey The Sovereign Wayfarer: Walker Percy’s Diagnosis of the Disease . By Luschei Martin . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1972 . Pp. viii , 261 , bibliography, index. $10.00 . Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 Book Reviews 275...

...Lynn Marie Houston The U.S. meat industry's tarnished reputation after the mad cow disease crisis has driven some ranchers to a breaking point, in which they blame food safety issues on illegal immigrants. This essay investigates the activities of a group called Ranch Rescue, whose members “round...

...Jno. A. Ferrell; S. B.; M. D. Copyright © 1912 by Duke University Press 1912 The North Carolina Campaign Against Hookworm Disease Jno. A. Ferrell, S. B., M. D., Ass t Sec y to the N. C. State Board of Health for Hookworm Disease Hookworm disease has been recognized as a serious menace...

...Ben Fawcett About one-third of the global human population does not have access to an effective toilet. As a result, disease-carrying feces contaminate the human environment causing more than seven hundred thousand child deaths each year from diarrhea, poor child development as a result of worm...

... nomadic hunter-gatherers into a governable population have gone awry. Infrastructures and modern medical practices protect some people in Indonesia from tropical diseases like malaria, while Papuans die. Black lives matter. But some black lives matter more than others. The case of one black boy who...

... a character more dense than interwoven disease etiologies or a general pattern of symptomatology. Chronic illness in its plural form offers terms of life and living that are contingent, disruptive, and dissolving—not so much situated in time as out of step with its familiar cadence. Second, I consider time...

.... The environment, as years of disability activism have shown us, is built with a very limited conception of the human being in mind. But the environment can also be disorienting when experiencing bodily pain and chronic disease. I argue that disability, in all of its various manifestations, is experienced...

... contractors, excluded from economic security, and anointed as “essential workers,” these workers were both celebrated and disproportionately exposed to poverty, disease, and death. This essay makes sense of the legal and lived condition of being essentially dispossessed during this moment. The author argues...

...Frank A. Fetter Copyright © 1911 by Duke University Press 1911 Some Social Aspects of the Anti-Tuberculosis Movement Frank A. Fetter, Professor of Economics and Distribution in Cornell University. Tuberculosis is often called a social disease . Social suggests friendly, helpful, beneficial...

... life, the author has undertaken to determine which diseases were involved, to clarify them in order of importance, and to show col­ lectively and singly their effect upon colonial development. Colonial rec­ ords are replete with reference to diseases of all sorts, and it is easy to reach...

...William H. Glasson Copyright © 1911 by Duke University Press 1911 The Rockefeller Commission s Campaign Against the Hookworm William H. Glasson, Professor of Economics in Trinity College The organized campaign on American soil for the eradication of hookworm disease began in the island...

... standard authorities which assert that the disease does not occur here and, in consequence, have diagnosed it as eczema or other skin disease with complications. However, in 1864 Dr. Gray of the State Asylum of Utica, New York, and Dr. Tyler of the McLean hospital at Somerville, Massachusetts, reported two...

... Quarterly 106:4, Fall 2007 DOI 10.1215/00382876-2007-046  © 2007 Duke University Press 790  Steve Wing and Leah Schinasi security, and public safety. This essay presents evidence showing that such preparations are shaped more by disease-oriented institutions of social con...

... surface phenomena of the body of the patient fever, eruption, swelling, wounds, fractures, and other accidents. Then in the sixteenth century, the experimental method began slowly to arise. By the first method we had to observe for years and in many patients, Nature s vagaries in different diseases...

.... It is necessary in order that the state may perpetuate itself and grow stronger. The citizens must be taken in childhood and shielded from disease, freed from those defects which can be corrected, and taught how to keep healthy and strong. Where this is done the task of educating and train­ ing them is greatly...

... by this disease; because individuals and groups, often irrationally, seek ways to de­ fend themselves against contact with this disease; and because some politicians, in order to defend against political opposition, deploy the AIDS issue strategically to ensure their own political survival: for all...

... and slavery; Southerners blamed' it on the Yankees, in terms of tariff and abolitionism. Both theses were partly true, but both were exaggerated and incomplete. Other factors than those noted made for cultural lag in Dixie. One of these was the disease situation, which varied some­ what in the two sections...

... a golden age before the day of the germ theory of disease. Man knew little more about what caused disease than did the ancient Greeks. Medical ethics rested on un­ certain foundations. The oath of Hippocrates was often honored in the breach. The line between regular and irregular doctors was thinly drawn...

... years old, by Morton and Warren, at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Bacteriology The third great achievement was the discovery of the causal relation of bacteria to many diseases. Thus arose a new science Bacteriology the most important discovery ever made in pathology. It would scarcely...