Category: Health

White Like Me

Flipping John Howard Griffin’s classic Black Like Me, and extending Noel Ignatiev’s How The Irish Became White into the present-day, Wise explores the meanings and consequences of whiteness, and discusses the ways in which racial privilege can harm not just people of color, but also whites. Using stories instead of stale statistics, Wise weaves a narrative that is at once readable and yet scholarly; analytical and yet accessible.

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You Will Bear Witness

Your Will Bear Witness is a survival story provoking the reader to pay attention to whatmight be happening around them and to question their presumptions about normal decency.Set in a bucolic Irish Seaside village, so often idealised by tourist brochures, Erin Fado paints a heart-rending portrait of her childhood innocence ruthlessly exploited by those with the greatest responsibility for her safety.Far from being nurtured by her social-climbing parents and their eminent connections that encompass the prominent Church spires and beyond to the Houses of Westminster, Erin and the other children who “visit” are used and discarded like disposable chattels with no personal worth beyond their bodies.Her parents’ popular Hotel is the centre of the harbour village life and during the Summer months becomes a drawcard for visiting yachtsmen from the UK and Europe and high-profile Dubliners with holiday homes. In the middle of this apparently idyllic seaside village Erin Fado is kept imprisoned by her parents’ who, in league with a local entrepreneur, provide local men and visitors alike with children to satisfy more than their thirst.Without self-pity Fado somehow manages to tell a story of hope, extraordinary resilience and inspiring survival. Her concern is focussed on those other visiting children who may or may not have survived. This is a story that might have happened in many places to many people but nobody has survived to reach the place Erin Fado has managed to reach at great personal cost. Having at last escaped Ireland with the help of the Salvation Army and miraculously built a new life in Australia Erin Fado has survived and attained, only just, a level of safety where she can honestly recall her trauma and reach out to others. Her simple, heartfelt testimony inspires the reader to bear witness to truth in the hope that facing humanities’ demons might ensure such decimation of innocence under the thin veneer of respectability doesn’t keep happening.

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Diabetes and Emotional Health

This handbook is an evidence-based, clinically informed, practical resource to support health professionals in meeting the emotional and mental health needs of adults with type 1 or type 2 diabetes.

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Essentials of Menopause Management

Removing the shroud of complexity that had engulfed the field of menopause research and management for more than a decade, this unique, case-based resource discusses a range of topics relevant to the reproductive health of the aging female. The opening section includes chapters covering the symptomatology, epidemiology and impact of the menopausal burden, and reviews in depth the most current evidence on the efficacy, risks and benefits of pharmacological and alternative therapies. Utilizing vibrant case material, the second section details common symptoms of menopause and an individualized approach to management, such as sleep loss, skeletal fragility, sexual dysfunction, hirsutism and alopecia, primary ovarian insufficiency and failure, and vasomotor symptoms. Chapters reviewing therapeutic options and considerations tailored to gynecologic and breast cancer patients and survivors comprise the third and final section. Developed as a multidisciplinary collaboration and addressing the needs of practicing reproductive medicine clinicians and researchers providing care to an aging female population, Essentials of Menopause Management provides clear, up-to-date information and recommendations on the range of current treatment strategies for menopause and its symptoms.

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The Invisible Problem?

The Invisible Problem?

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Neural Stimulation

First Published in 1985, this book offers a full, comprehensive investigation into Stimulation of the brain. Carefully compiled and filled with a vast repertoire of notes, diagrams, and references this book serves as a useful reference for Neurobiologists, and other practitioners in their respective fields.

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Just like O-care! EPA admin says costly new regs will save consumers big bucks later

http://twitter.com/#!/sarahrstevenson/status/473478107957972993

This morning, EPA administrator Gina McCarthy trumpeted a pantload of new regulations on power plants, designed to combat climate change and fight for “environmental justice,” whatever the hell that is:

http://twitter.com/#!/ShannonBream/status/473476034277695488

“Critics claim.” Is that like “Republicans say”?

http://twitter.com/#!/ShannonBream/status/473476355561373696

Riiiiight.

http://twitter.com/#!/ShannonBream/status/473476644477628416

EPA to the rescue!

http://twitter.com/#!/hmfearny/status/473476588043247616

Higher bills? Who said anything about higher bills? Oh:

http://twitter.com/#!/BrianFaughnan/status/473476491700080640

Well, according to McCarthy, it’s not going to hit any families any harder than, say, the price of milk:

http://twitter.com/#!/EvanMcSan/status/473476165500272640

Guess we’ve got nothing to worry about.

http://twitter.com/#!/redsteeze/status/473477440409722880 http://twitter.com/#!/murgatr0id/status/473477796992675840 http://twitter.com/#!/Me_In_Jersey/status/473477748863037441 http://twitter.com/#!/JeffersonTeaPar/status/473477572919963648

Don’t worry, McCarthy reassures us. We really will reap the benefits of this climate action. Eventually:

http://twitter.com/#!/hmfearny/status/473476668921638913 http://twitter.com/#!/hmfearny/status/473477328773734402

You know, we can’t help but think these promises of huge savings down the road sound awfully familiar … wonder why that is:

http://twitter.com/#!/RBPundit/status/473476898505625600 http://twitter.com/#!/GFVAMom/status/473477978811531264

Let’s face it: We’re getting screwed again.

http://twitter.com/#!/RBPundit/status/473477916316422144

Yep:

http://twitter.com/#!/redsteeze/status/473478824101830657 http://twitter.com/#!/gabrielmalor/status/473480596644462592

If the government insists on taking action, then here’s one action we could totally get behind:

http://twitter.com/#!/redsteeze/status/473476792217796608

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/06/02/just-like-obamacare-epa-admin-says-costly-new-regs-will-save-consumers-big-bucks-later-on/

Mother Jones: Blacks more likely to be murderers, rapists, and pedophiles

http://twitter.com/#!/SooperMexican/status/338786130226978816

Here are those two sentences:

On Wednesday the Senate agriculture committee approved a GOP proposal that would amend the farm bill the Senate is considering to ban “convicted murderers, rapists, and pedophiles” from getting food stamps. On its surface, the idea sounds unobjectionable, but the measure would have “strongly racially discriminatory effects,” according to the non-partisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP).

It’s the sort of statement that could get one fired from the Heritage Foundation, but we consider our headline an accurate characterization — as did some Twitter conservatives.

http://twitter.com/#!/CarlBrandt/status/338786262439829504

While we wait — possibly forever — for an answer to that, here are more responses:

http://twitter.com/#!/michaeljames86/status/337952267674189824 http://twitter.com/#!/TRMirCat/status/338795869094674432

The Left can get away with it because … it’s the Left.

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/05/26/mother-jones-african-americans-are-more-likely-to-be-murderers-rapists-and-pedophiles/