A performance culture of illness and wellness In
southern Uganda, ritual healing traditions called kusamira and
nswezi rely on music to treat sickness and maintain well-being.
Peter J. Hoesing blends ...ethnomusicological fieldwork with analysis
to examine how kusamira and nswezi performance socializes dynamic
processes of illness, wellness, and health. People participate in
these traditions for reasons that range from preserving ideas to
generating strategies that allow them to navigate changing
circumstances. Indeed, the performance of kusamira and nswezi
reproduces ideas that remain relevant for succeeding generations.
Hoesing shows the potential of this social reproduction of
well-being to shape development in a region where over 80 percent
of the population relies on traditional healers for primary health
care.
Comprehensive and vivid with eyewitness detail, Kusamira
Music in Uganda offers insight into important healing
traditions and the overlaps between expressive culture and healing
practices, the human and other-than-human, and Uganda's past and
future.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric condition that can result from experiencing or living through traumatic events. This can include medical events, such as a heart attack or ...surgery, or witnessing a life-threatening event, such as combat, a natural disaster, a car accident, terroristic events, domestic violence, early childhood trauma, or sexual assault. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs reports about 60% of all men and 50% of all women will experience trauma at some point in their lives. It is estimated 7-8% of the population will additionally experience PTSD. Identifying symptoms and managing treatment is an imperative aspect for recovery. In addition to formal treatment, there are a variety of resources available for survivors of PTSD which extend beyond hospital walls. This article will describe post-traumatic stress disorder and present online resources, mobile applications, and peer support groups for the assistance of survivors' recovery.
Since the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, the American health care system has steadily grown in size and complexity. Muriel R. Gillick takes readers on a narrative tour of American ...health care, incorporating the stories of older patients as they travel from the doctor's office to the hospital to the skilled nursing facility, and examining the influence of forces as diverse as pharmaceutical corporations, device manufacturers, and health insurance companies on their experience. A scholar who has practiced medicine for over thirty years, Gillick offers readers an informed and straightforward view of health care from the ground up, revealing that many crucial medical decisions are based not on what is best for the patient but rather on outside forces, sometimes to the detriment of patient health and quality of life. Gillick suggests a broadly imagined patient-centered reform of the health care system with Medicare as the engine of change, a transformation that would be mediated through accountability, cost-effectiveness, and culture change.
Would you change your genes if you could? As we confront the 'industrial revolution of the genome', the recent discoveries of Crispr-Cas9 technologies are offering, for the first time, cheap and ...effective methods for editing the human genome. This opens up startling new opportunities as well as significant ethical uncertainty. Tracing events across a fifty-year period, from the first gene splicing techniques to the present day, this is the story of gene editing - the science, the impact and the potential. Kozubek weaves together the fascinating stories of many of the scientists involved in the development of gene editing technology. Along the way, he demystifies how the technology really works and provides vivid and thought-provoking reflections on the continuing ethical debate. Ultimately, Kozubek places the debate in its historical and scientific context to consider both what drives scientific discovery and the implications of the 'commodification' of life.
An introductory tour into the stranger-than-fiction world of genetic engineering, a scientific realm inhabited by eager researchers intent upon fashioning a prodigious medley of genetically modified ...(GM) organisms to serve human needs.
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