...Steve Wing; Leah Schinasi Duke University Press 2007 Steve Wing and Leah Schinasi Public Health Preparedness: Social Control or Social Justice? ​Public health preparedness refers to a society’s readiness to respond to sudden...

...Mimi Khúc This epistolary essay chronicles the making of Open in Emergency: A Special Issue on Asian American Mental Health (2016, 2019), an interdisciplinary, hybrid book arts project that is an antiracist and disability justice rethinking of mental health. Open in Emergency works to decolonize...

...Mary L. C. Bernheim Eating May Be Hazardous to Your Health: The Case Against Food Additives . By Verrett Jacqueline Carper Jean . New York : Simon & Schuster, Inc. , 1974 . Pp. ix , 256 . $7.95 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Book Reviews 273 Cromwell...

...Charles S. Davis The Health of Slaves on Southern Plantations . By Postell William Dosite . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1951 . Pp. xiii , 231 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 470 The South Atlantic Quarterly moving threnody...

...Gert H. Brieger The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth-Century America . By Young James Harvey . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1967 . Pp. xiv , 460 . $9.00 . Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 120 The South Atlantic...

... infestations, and numerous other disastrous health impacts. But, particularly for women and girls, the social impacts—including violence encountered while seeking a place to defecate and the gross indignity of defecating in the open—are equally significant and horrifying. For the nearly one billion people...

...Jamila Perritt; Andriana N. Scencirro Although the work of health care providers in delivering care for their patients and communities has always been impacted by legislative changes, reproductive health care services, especially abortion care, has received more scrutiny, undergone disparate...

...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...

...Elizabeth A. Povinelli This essay examines two modes, qualities, and dynamics of lethality in contemporary late liberal societies: the state of killing and letting die. Using contemporary debates in Australia over indigenous health and welfare and new federal security laws, the essay explores...

... for the center in U.S. politics by pushing from the outside. This process will lead to major changes that nevertheless will disappoint the Left, as in the recent cases of health care and Wall Street reform. Hayden maintains that Obama will be the most progressive president of his political lifetime, but that his...

...Bruce Buchan This paper explores the figurative significance of Niccolò Machiavelli's lurid account in The Prince of the death scene of Remirro de Orco in Cesena in 1502. This death scene represents a fundamental challenge to the ancient metaphor of the body politic whose health consisted...

...; the imperatives of the globalization of biomedicine; and the way in which health itself comes to be appropriated by capital as a source of value. In the process, I suggest that value in biocapital itself needs to be conceptualized. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 Kaushik Sunder Rajan Pharmaceutical...

... Kong–based activist labor organization Students and Scholars against Corporate Misbehavior, a coalition of environmental organizations headquartered in Beijing, and reporting by journalists, the essay shows how Apple was forced to go public about the myriad environmental, health, and labor problems...

... according to the cities in which she has lived, with each place having its own advantages and drawbacks. While each environment in which one must tediously wait—an immigration office, the health insurance office, the doctor’s office, the bank, an art supplies shop, and the grocery store—is familiar...

...Matt Hyunh; Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha; curated by Mimi Khúc The Crip is one of thirty cards in the Asian American Tarot, an original deck of tarot cards I curated as part of my hybrid book arts project on mental health, Open in Emergency (first published in 2016 and then in an expanded...

..., informational capitalism, and health. Wendy Brown is a political theorist who, in addition to being a preeminent scholar of neoliberalism and democracy, is one of the central figures bringing the study of law into political theory. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Duke...

...Tommaso Bardelli; Zach Gillespie; Thuy Linh N. Tu In the United States, going to jail or prison increasingly comes with a hefty price tag for incarcerated persons. As states continue to cut public spending, individuals are required to cover costs for basic necessities, such as food, health care...

... after that period (rape or risk to the health or life of the pregnant person). Importantly, before legal reform was achieved, activists had patiently worked to advance the “social decriminalization” of abortion. References Bellucci Mabel 2014 . “ Cartografías del aborto ” [“Cartographies...

... in a context of little or no access to state health care. Through the lens of HIV management, the article considers what happens when human care and welfare is refracted through the prism of corporate managerialism, shareholder value, and, more immediately, the relationship between workers and capital...