On Seasons of an Indigenous Feminism, Kinship, and the Program of Home Management

Hypatia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 204-213
Author(s):  
Kim Anderson

It's early evening, a Friday night in October, and I have hauled myself off the couch to make dinner for my son and me. It's just us; the more active cooks in our family are away and the house is quiet. I've spent all afternoon immersed in scholarly literature about the history of home economics, and I chuckle at the irony as I pour premade marinara sauce over the noodles. I call up my son from the basement, where he's been immersed in his own studies, and find myself musing about our beginnings together—that spring when he arrived twenty-three years ago just as the trees were beginning to bud. I mutter about how perplexing cooking and mothering have been for me, and realize that these glimpses of me as a young mother and ponderings of how to take up increasing responsibilities as a middle-aged Indigenous “academic auntie” bookend my seasons of Indigenous feminist growth.

Author(s):  
Torstein Theodor Tollefsen

This book is an investigation of the icon theology of St Theodore the Studite, mainly as it is presented in his three refutations of the iconoclasts, even if some passages from his letters are also brought into the picture. The book fills a gap in scholarly literature since, even though treated by some scholars, his doctrine of the icon has never been the subject of such an extensive or in-depth investigation before. In addition to the main elements of his defence of the icon, like the Christological issue, the relation between image and prototype, the question of veneration, his explanation of why we may say of an image that ‘this is Christ’, and his innovative thinking on the representative character of icon production, there is an introduction that places Theodore in the history of Byzantine philosophy: he has some knowledge of traditional logical topics and is able to utilize argumentative forms in countering his iconoclast opponents. The book also has an appendix in which the author tries to show that the making of images is somehow natural given the character of Christianity as a religion.


Author(s):  
Suzana Stojiljkovic-Drobnjak ◽  
Susanne Fischer ◽  
Myrtha Arnold ◽  
Wolfgang Langhans ◽  
Ulrike Kuebler ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 275 ◽  
pp. e215
Author(s):  
S. Kutkiene ◽  
Z. Petrulioniene ◽  
A. Laucevicius ◽  
U. Gargalskaite ◽  
A. Saulyte ◽  
...  

1998 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 278
Author(s):  
Eileen Boris ◽  
Sarah Stage ◽  
Virginia B. Vincenti
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2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Chen ◽  
Jiayao Zhang ◽  
Yan Xu ◽  
Hong Sun ◽  
Zhen Ding

Abstract Background PM 2.5 pollution has become a major public health concern in urban China. Understanding the residents’ individual perceptions toward haze pollution is critical for policymaking and risk communication. However, the perceptions of middle-aged and elderly residents, who particularly vulnerable to haze pollution, are poorly understood. Methods A cross-sectional study of 400 randomly sampled individuals (aged 40 to 90 years) was conducted in Wuxi, a typical PM 2.5 -polluted city. Each participant’s demographic and health information, individual perception and pulmonary function outcomes were collected to explore the relationship between personal characteristics and pulmonary function parameters and perception factors. Results We found that the mean values for controllability (4.99 ± 2.78) and dread of self-risk (6.90 ± 2.45) were the lowest and the highest values, respectively, in our study. Education and average family income were positively related with all individual perception factors, while age was negatively associated. A history of respiratory disease was positively associated with all individual perception factors except controllability . Significant positive associations were observed between PEF (coefficients ranged from 0.18 to 0.22) and FEF75% (coefficients ranged from 0.18 to 0.29) with a variety of individual perception factors. Conclusions There was a lack of concern and knowledge, weak self-protection consciousness and a strong dread of PM 2.5 pollution among the middle-aged and elderly residents in Wuxi. Their individual perceptions were associated with age, education levels, average family income, history of respiratory disease and pulmonary function outcomes. Our findings may help policymakers develop effective policies and communication strategies to mitigate the hazards of haze among older residents.


Author(s):  
Dr. Abhishek Kumar ◽  
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Dr. Nilu Kumari ◽  
Dr. Ranjeet Kumar Singh ◽  
Dr. Alok Kumar ◽  
...  

Objective: Information regarding clinical characteristics and the natural course of COVID-19amongst individuals without comorbidities is scarce. We therefore conducted a retrospectiveobservational study to decipher the disease profile in two different age groups, middle-aged (40-59years) and children (up to 12 years). Method: Study was conducted by reviewing the medicalrecords of all patients in the desired age groups and excluding all those with preexisting illness(called comorbidities). Result: A total of 154 and 27 patients were enrolled and studied in themiddle-aged adults and children group respectively. Males dominated in both groups with a sex ratioof 2.9 in adults and 1.7 in children. Most of the children (92.5%) had a history of exposure from aninfected family member, while in the adult group history of contact was present in 71.4% ofpatients.62.9% of children had an asymptomatic infection which was significantly higher than 22.8%in adults. Cough and fever were the most common symptoms in both age groups, but adults weremore likely to have respiratory complaints when compared with children.11 (7.1%) patients in theadult group had severe disease while in the children group none had severe disease. Similarly in theadult group 11 patients required ICU admission, but none in the children group. The mean durationof RTPCR positivity was similar in both groups. There was 1 (0.6%) expiry in the adult groupwhereas none in children. Conclusion: Healthy individuals in both middle-aged and children grouptend to have milder disease and both harbour the virus for the almost same duration but adults aremore symptomatic in comparison to children and hence children are more likely to be potentialasymptomatic carrier and transmitter of infection.


2020 ◽  
pp. 211-218
Author(s):  
Pat Croskerry

In this case, a middle-aged male presents to the emergency department (ED) of a general hospital with dizziness and weakness and a history of falling the previous day associated with seizures. There is also a possibility of head injury. He is well known to the department and has been seen previously by the head of the department regarding inappropriate use of the ED. Some difficulty ensues in terms of whether he has been having seizures or not, which, combined with a medication error and a laboratory error, results in him being overdosed with a significantly toxic drug. The case is an example of groupthink as well as fundamental attribution error.


CHEST Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 158 (4) ◽  
pp. e205-e208
Author(s):  
Dale Jun ◽  
Laura W. Glassman ◽  
Allison Ariniello ◽  
Guy W. Soo Hoo

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