Author: Mary Roach File Type: pdf **One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting.*Entertainment Weekly*** *Stiff* is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadaverssome willingly, some unwittinglyhave been involved in sciences boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. Theyve tested Frances first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender reassignment surgery, cadavers have been there alongside surgeons, making history in their quiet way. In this fascinating, ennobling account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuriesfrom the anatomy labs and human-sourced pharmacies of medieval and nineteenth-century Europe to a human decay research facility in Tennessee, to a plastic surgery practice lab, to a Scandinavian funeral directors conference on human composting. In her droll, inimitable voice, Roach tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them. This book tells you everything you ever wanted to know about what happens to bodies after they die. From a plastic surgeons convention, where the doctors test out the latest nip ntuck techniques on the recently expired, to the quest for the perfect crash test dummy, Mary Roach tracks down the dead and the people who spend their days with them.

Author: Kristine M. Krapp File Type: pdf From Library JournalDesigned for students of nursing and the allied health professions, caregivers, and the educated lay reader, this five-volume set includes over 850 signed articles on various aspects of nursing. Covered here are nursing and allied healthcare education and training, current health issues (viewpoints, professional implications), tests and procedures (descriptions, precautions, aftercare), and equipmenttools (descriptions, operation, healthcare team roles), as well as diseases (causes, diagnosis, treatment) and human biologybody systems (functions, role in human health). Although there is some overlap, particularly in the last two categories with The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (LJ 21599 2d ed. 2001), this text focuses primarily on the interests of nurses and allied health professionals. According to the preface, the essays were contributed by physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, but Krapp (The Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine) has not always indicated their credentials. Over 400 black-and-white illustrations or photos and 50 tables enhance the material, as does an extensive list of print and nonprint resources, which includes up-to-date web addresses. The alphabetical arrangement, the shaded boxes defining key terms, and the ample cross references will be familiar to users of other Gale reference products. This work will make an excellent, albeit expensive, addition to large public libraries and graduate institutions offering appropriate programs. Margaret K. Norden, Marymount Univ. Lib., Arlington, VA 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. From BooklistThis new encyclopedia from Gale covers a wide range of subjects related to nursing and the allied health professions. The 850 signed alphabetical entries deal with diseases and disorders (Alcoholism, Movement disorders ) tests and procedures (Barium enema, Lithotripsy ) equipment and tools (Heart-lung machines, Stethoscope) human biology and body systems (Cardiovascular system, Cell division) nursing and allied health professions (Biomedical engineering, Nurse midwifery ) and current health issues (Americans with Disabilities Act, Managed care plans ).The entries are one to six pages long. They include definitions and descriptions along with basic material related to the subject (diagnosis and treatment of diseases, maintenance of equipment, and required education for careers). Definitions of key terms appear in shaded boxes, and black-and-white illustrations augment the text. Resource lists appear at the ends of the articles. An appendix lists allied health and nursing organizations.Although there is a great deal of useful material here, all of it is readily available in other sources that libraries may own. General medical encyclopedias such as The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (2d ed., Gale, 2001), the Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance (11th ed., Ferguson, 2000), The Encyclopedia of Associations (Gale, annual), and the Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice (7th ed., Lippincott, 2001) cover much of this subject matter. This high-priced, redundant source is not a necessary purchase. RBB American Library Association. lt

Author: Sarah Hammerschlag File Type: pdf The rootless Jew, wandering disconnected from history, homeland, and nature, was often the target of early twentieth-century nationalist rhetoric aimed against modern culture. But following World War II, a number of prominent French philosophers recast this maligned figure in positive terms, and in so doing transformed postwar conceptions of politics and identity. Sarah Hammerschlag explores this figure of the Jew from its prewar usage to its resuscitation by Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, and Jacques Derrida. Sartre and Levinas idealized the Jews rootlessness in order to rethink the foundations of political identity. Blanchot and Derrida, in turn, used the figure of the Jew to call into question the very nature of group identification. By chronicling this evolution in thinking, Hammerschlag ultimately reveals how the figural Jew can function as a critical mechanism that exposes the political dangers of mythic allegiance, whether couched in universalizing or particularizing terms. Both an intellectual history and a philosophical argument, The Figural Jew will set the agenda for all further consideration of Jewish identity, modern Jewish thought, and continental philosophy.

Author: Elizabeth Jelin File Type: pdf This book presents studies from across Latin America to take up the challenge of exploring the plurality of social inequalities from a global perspective. Accordingly, it identifies the structural forces of social inequalities on a world scale as they shape asymmetries observed in a wide array of phenomena, such as racial and gender inequality, urbanization, migration, commodity production, indigenous mobilization, ecological conflicts, and the new middle class. A rich contribution to the study of the interconnections between the global social structure and multiple local and national hierarchies, Global Entangled Inequalities brings consistently together a variety of conceptual approaches, ranging from ethnographies to legal genealogies, and will therefore appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in social theory, power analysis, intersectionality studies, urban studies, and global social and environmental justice. **About the Author Elizabeth Jelin is Senior Researcher at CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas of Argentina) and IDES (Instituto de Desarrollo Economico y Social) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Professor at the Social Sciences Graduate Program UNGS-IDES. Her most recent book, La lucha por el pasado Como construimos la memoria social, was published in 2017. Renata Motta is Adjunct Professor in Sociology at the Institute for Latin American Studies at Freie Universitat Berlin. Her research interests include political sociology, rural studies, social inequalities, risk sociology, gender, and the environment. She has authored articles in these areas for Journal of Agrarian Change, Social Movement Studies, Sociology Compass, and Revista Brasileira de Ciencias Sociais, and for the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). She is the author of Social Mobilization, Global Capitalism and Struggles over Food A Comparative Study of Social Movements (Routledge, 2016). Sergio Costa is Professor of Sociology at Freie Universitat Berlin, where he is the spokesperson of the Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality in Unequal Societies. Trained in sociology and economics in Brazil and Germany, he specializes in social inequalities, racism and anti-racism, as well as postcolonial theories.