Leading Health Indicators 2030 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Health and Medicine Division; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice ...
02/2020
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Beginning in 1979 and in each subsequent decades, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has overseen the Healthy People initiative to set national goals and objectives for health ...promotion and disease prevention. At the request of HHS, this study presents a slate of Leading Health Indicators (LHIs) that will serve as options for the Healthy People Federal Interagency Workgroup to consider as they develop the final criteria and set of LHIs for Healthy People 2030.
What explains the perception of Asians both as economic exemplars and as threats? America's Asia explores a discursive tradition that affiliates the East with modern efficiency, in contrast to more ...familiar primitivist forms of Orientalism. Colleen Lye traces the American stereotype of Asians as a "model minority" or a "yellow peril"—two aspects of what she calls "Asiatic racial form"— to emergent responses to globalization beginning in California in the late nineteenth century, when industrialization proceeded in tandem with the nation's neocolonial expansion beyond its continental frontier. From Progressive efforts to regulate corporate monopoly to New Deal contentions with the crisis of the Great Depression, a particular racial mode of social redress explains why turn-of-the-century radicals and reformers united around Asian exclusion and why Japanese American internment during World War II was a liberal initiative.
Unprecedented Azari, Sara
2020, 20200301, 2020-03-01
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The Trump administration's attempted and actual violations of the Constitution and the law have surpassed our worst expectations again and again. Add to that the legal morass surrounding members of ...the Trump campaign staff, and the United States finds itself led by the most corrupt administration in modern American history. The investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller on 2016 election interference and obstruction of justice led to multiple indictments that boggle even the brightest legal minds. So how can the rest of us make sense of it all? Sara Azari breaks down the investigations, evidence, criminal charges, and defenses involving an ever-expanding rogues' gallery of Trump associates and campaign members, as well as the president's own criminal conduct. Her docket also includes a comprehensive summary and expert analysis of the Mueller Report. Azari addresses the consequences of President Trump's conduct and considers whether the president of the United States is ever above the law. An essential nonpartisan guide, Unprecedented gives readers the tools they need to understand the legal issues engulfing Trump's campaign and presidency.
New Life for Archaeological Collectionsexplores solutions to what archaeologists are calling the "curation crisis," that is, too much stuff with too little research, analysis, and public ...interpretation. This volume demonstrates how archaeologists are taking both large and small steps toward not only solving the dilemma of storage but recognizing the value of these collections through inventorying and cataloging, curation, rehousing, artifact conservation, volunteer and student efforts, and public exhibits. Essays in this volume highlight new questions and innovative uses for existing archaeological collections. Rebecca Allen and Ben Ford advance ways to make the evaluation and documentation of these collections more accessible to those inside and outside of the scholarly discipline of archaeology. Contributors toNew Life for Archaeological Collectionsintroduce readers to their research while opening new perspectives for scientists and students alike to explore the world of archaeology. These essays illuminate new connections between cultural studies and the general availability of archaeological research and information. Drawing from the experience of university professors, government agency professionals, and cultural resource managers, this volume represents a unique commentary on education, research, and the archaeological community.
Management of Legionella in Water Systems National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Health and Medicine Division; Division on Earth and Life Studies ...
02/2020
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Legionnaires' disease, a pneumonia caused by the Legionella bacterium, is the leading cause of reported waterborne disease outbreaks in the United States. Legionella occur naturally in water from ...many different environmental sources, but grow rapidly in the warm, stagnant conditions that can be found in engineered water systems such as cooling towers, building plumbing, and hot tubs. Humans are primarily exposed to Legionella through inhalation of contaminated aerosols into the respiratory system. Legionnaires' disease can be fatal, with between 3 and 33 percent of Legionella infections leading to death, and studies show the incidence of Legionnaires' disease in the United States increased five-fold from 2000 to 2017.
Management of Legionella in Water Systems reviews the state of science on Legionella contamination of water systems, specifically the ecology and diagnosis. This report explores the process of transmission via water systems, quantification, prevention and control, and policy and training issues that affect the incidence of Legionnaires' disease. It also analyzes existing knowledge gaps and recommends research priorities moving forward.
Heavy Laden Logue, Larry M.; Blanck, Peter
08/2018
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The psychological aftereffects of war are not just a modern-day plight. Following the Civil War, numerous soldiers returned with damaged bodies or damaged minds. Drawing on archival materials ...including digitized records for more than 70,000 white and African-American Union army recruits, newspaper reports, and census returns, Larry M. Logue and Peter Blanck uncover the diversity and severity of Civil War veterans' psychological distress. Their findings concerning the recognition of veterans' post-traumatic stress disorders, treatment programs, and suicide rates will inform current studies on how to effectively cope with this enduring disability in former soldiers. This compelling book brings to light the continued sacrifices of men who went to war.
Bait McLeroy, James D; Sanders, Gregory W
2019, 2019-11-19
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The strategic potential of the three-day attack of two NVA regiments on Kham Duc, a remote and isolated Army Special Forces camp, on the eve of the first Paris peace talks in May 1968, was so ...significant that former President Lyndon Johnson included it in his memoirs. This gripping, original, eyewitness narrative and thoroughly researched analysis of a widely misinterpreted battle at the height of the Vietnam War radically contradicts all the other published accounts of it. In addition to the tactical details of the combat narrative, the authors consider the grand strategies and political contexts of the U.S. and North Vietnamese leaders.
Reveals the historical and political significance of
"The Divine Nine"-the Black Greek Letter
Organizations
In 1905, Henry Arthur Callis began his studies at Cornell
University. Despite their ...academic pedigrees, Callis and his fellow
African American students were ostracized by the majority-white
student body, and so in 1906, Callis and some of his peers started
the first, intercollegiate Black Greek Letter Organization (BGLO),
Alpha Phi Alpha.
Since their founding, BGLOs have not only served to solidify bonds
among many African American college students, they have also imbued
them with a sense of purpose and a commitment to racial uplift-the
endeavor to help Black Americans reach socio-economic equality.
A Pledge with Purpose explores the arc of these unique,
important, and relevant social institutions. Gregory S. Parks and
Matthew W. Hughey uncover how BGLOs were shaped by, and labored to
transform, the changing social, political, and cultural landscape
of Black America from the era of the Harlem Renaissance to the
civil rights movement. Alpha Phi Alpha boasts such members as
Thurgood Marshall, civil rights lawyer and US Supreme Court
Justice, and Dr. Charles Wesley, noted historian and college
president. Delta Sigma Theta members include Bethune-Cookman
College founder Mary McLeod Bethune and women's rights activist
Dorothy Height. Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther
Party, who left an indelible mark on the civil rights movement, was
a member of Phi Beta Sigma, while Dr. Mae Jemison, a celebrated
engineer and astronaut, belonged to Alpha Kappa Alpha. Through such
individuals, Parks and Hughey demonstrate the ways that BGLO
members have long been at the forefront of innovation, activism,
and scholarship.
In its examination of the history of these important
organizations, A Pledge with Purpose serves as a critical
reflection of both the collective African American racial struggle
and the various strategies of Black Americans in their great-and
unfinished-march toward freedom and equality.
An innovative, deeply researched history of Chinese medicine in America and the surprising interplay between Eastern and Western medical practice Chinese medicine has a long history in the United ...States, with written records dating back to the American colonial period. In this intricately crafted history, Tamara Venit Shelton chronicles the dynamic systems of knowledge, therapies, andmateria medica crossing between China and the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. Chinese medicine, she argues, has played an important and often unacknowledged role in both facilitating and undermining the consolidation of medical authority among formally trained biomedical scientists in the United States. Practitioners of Chinese medicine, as racial embodiments of "irregular" medicine, became useful foils for Western physicians struggling to assert their superiority of practice. At the same time, Chinese doctors often embraced and successfully employed Orientalist stereotypes to sell their services to non-Chinese patients skeptical of modern biomedicine. What results is a story of racial constructions, immigration politics, cross-cultural medical history, and the lived experiences of Asian Americans in American history.
