This book explores Native American literary responses to biomedical discourses and biomedicalization processes as they circulate in social and cultural contexts. Native American communities resist reductivism of biomedicine that excludes Indigenous (and non-Western) epistemologies and instead draw attention to how illness, healing, treatment, and genetic research are socially constructed and dependent on inherently racialist thinking. This volume highlights how interventions into the hegemony of biomedicine are vigorously addressed in Native American literature. The book covers tuberculosis and diabetes epidemics, the emergence of Native American DNA, discoveries in biotechnology, and the problematics of a biomedical model of psychiatry. The book analyzes work by Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, LeAnne Howe, Linda Hogan, Heid E. Erdrich, Elissa Washuta and Frances Washburn. The book will appeal to scholars of Native American and Indigenous Studies, as well as to others with an interest in literature and medicine.

Human Molecular Genetics is an established and class-proven textbook for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students which provides an authoritative and integrated approach to the molecular aspects of human genetics. While maintaining the hallmark features of previous editions, the Fourth Edition has been completely updated. It includes new Key Concepts at the beginning of each chapter and annotated further reading at the conclusion of each chapter, to help readers navigate the wealth of information in this subject. The text has been restructured so genomic technologies are integrated throughout, and next generation sequencing is included. Genetic testing, screening, approaches to therapy, personalized medicine, and disease models have been brought together in one section. Coverage of cell biology including stem cells and cell therapy, studying gene function and structure, comparative genomics, model organisms, noncoding RNAs and their functions, and epigenetics have all been expanded.

The Book of Affinitive Life and, in conjunction, The Book of Life Part 2 are mainly about life on the earth concerning hate as an affinitive life of unprovoked attacks by raw signals of hate uninvited. As a consequence of a shock attack of trauma, terror, or horror, respectively, in your conscious mind at the threshold level, you are thereby forced to run into your subconscious mind of darkness just below the threshold of consciousness of light for psychological cover, safety, or protection characterized by your emotions. In conjunction, you are involuntarily forced to express a hate gene that is a bad gene that becomes a bad spirit principal part grudge, hate, or hatchet of hatred, and its bad spirit constituent part grudge, hate, or hatchet of hatred. For that reason, the name of this book is The Book of Affinitive Life and, in conjunction, the Book of Life. It is The Book of Affinitive Life to the Natural Side of Life, and the Book of Life to the Spirit Side of Life. It is called The Book of Affinitive Life as it refers to and relates to the natural side of life first, and then to the same degree, it relates to the spirit side of life second, which characterizes the Book of Life. Affinitive life is not one life you live but rather many individual lives as an integral part of your natural life by its acquired spirit grafted into your natural spirit. By means of which, addictive life is distinguished as not having roots in your natural spirit, and for that reason, it is just a natural process of cleanliness of addiction out of the brain as genotypic addiction in response to phenotypic addiction. Your spiritual life is no exception to the rule of the process of affinitive lives, because it too, like affinitive life, is an integral part of your natural life. On the contrary, your spiritual life centers on spiritual love for the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, whereas affinitive life of invited signals from a particular person, place, thing, activity, event experienced in the environment centers on affinitive love for whom or what it derived. This is what The Book of Affinitive Life and, in conjunction, The Book of Life Part 1 is all about. Otherwise, affinitive life centers on hatred of an unprovoked attack by a raw signal of hate uninvited from a particular person, place, thing, activity, or event experienced or witnessed. The Book of Affinitive Life Part 2 brings to light the impact affinitive lives of hatred have on our natural life and society in general as a hate spirit. Its only aim is violence, death, and/or destruction against you and/ or whom or what your principal part bad spirit hatred is for. Therefore, nature's principal remedy for hatred is to bury your entire bad spirit principal part grudge or hatred. All affinitive lives are lived out optionally in conjunction with natural life as an integral part, as a habitual lifestyle or habit in natural life of affinitive life. This book is to show you how hate functions in your life as a living spirit in response to Satan the devil as the prince of the air influences on it and homogeneous people, places, things, activities, or events experienced or witnessed. So as to evoke awareness in you and thereby give you a conscious effect in your subconscious mind to remind you of your unprovoked attack and by which stir up hatred within you.

Stem Cell and Gene Therapy for Cardiovascular Disease is a state-of-the-art reference that combines, in one place, the breadth and depth of information available on the topic. As stem cell and gene therapies are the most cutting-edge therapies currently available for patients with heart failure, each section of the book provides information on medical trials from contributors and specialists from around the world, including not only what has been completed, but also what is planned for future research and trials. Cardiology researchers, basic science clinicians, fellows, residents, students, and industry professionals will find this book an invaluable resource for further study on the topic. - Provides information on stem and gene therapy medical trials from contributors and specialists around the world, including not only what has been completed, but also what is planned for future research and trials - Presents topics that can be applied to allogeneic cells, mesenchymal cells, gene therapy, cardiomyoctyes, iPS cells, MAPC's, and organogenesis - Covers the three areas with the greatest clinical trials to date: chronic limb ischemia, chronic angina, and acute MI - Covers the prevailing opinions on how to harness the body's natural repair mechanisms - Ideal resource for cardiology researchers, basic science clinicians, fellows, residents, students, and industry professionals

Ideal for allied health and pre-nursing students, Alcamo’s Fundamentals of Microbiology, Body Systems Edition, retains the engaging, student-friendly style and active learning approach for which award-winning author and educator Jeffrey Pommerville is known. It presents diseases, complete with new content on recent discoveries, in a manner that is directly applicable to students and organized by body system. A captivating art program, learning design format, and numerous case studies draw students into the text and make them eager to learn more about the fascinating world of microbiology.

This thoroughly updated editionprovides a comprehensive overview of two centuries of transnational feminist efforts to produce a more just global order. Mary Hawkesworth explores how social, economic, and political inequalities between men and women of different races, classes, ethnicities, and nationalities have been transformed over two centuries of globalization. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples, she demonstrates how women have forged international networks and alliances to address specific women’s issues beyond the borders of the nation-state, crafting policies to mitigate pressing abuses and devising alternatives to liberal and neo-liberal agendas. The book considers innovative feminist tactics to produce global change, carefully tracing the structural forces that constrain transnational feminist activism. Hawkesworth illuminates the complexity of feminist strategies to influence international agencies and foundations, national governments, and transnational NGOs. By providing critical new insights into the gendered nature of the global system and the gendered dynamics of international institutions and nation states, this work will be invaluable for all those engaged in the interdisciplinary fields of globalization studies and feminist studies.

Though First Nations communities in Canada have historically lacked access to clean water, affordable food, and equitable health care, they have never lacked access to well-funded scientists seeking to study them. Inventing the Thrifty Gene examines the relationship between science and settler colonialism through the lens of “Aboriginal diabetes” and the thrifty gene hypothesis, which posits that Indigenous peoples are genetically predisposed to type 2 diabetes and obesity due to their alleged hunter-gatherer genes. Hay’s study begins with Charles Darwin’s travels and his observations on the Indigenous peoples he encountered, setting the imperial context for Canadian histories of medicine and colonialism. It continues in the mid-twentieth century with a look at nutritional experimentation during the long career of Percy Moore, the medical director of Indian Affairs (1946–1965). Hay then turns to James Neel’s invention of the thrifty gene hypothesis in 1962 and Robert Hegele’s reinvention and application of the hypothesis to Sandy Lake First Nation in northern Ontario in the 1990s. Finally, Hay demonstrates the way in which settler colonial science was responded to and resisted by Indigenous leadership in Sandy Lake First Nation, who used monies from the thrifty gene study to fund wellness programs in their community. Inventing the Thrifty Gene exposes the exploitative nature of settler science with Indigenous subjects, the flawed scientific theories stemming from faulty assumptions of Indigenous decline and disappearance, as well as the severe inequities in Canadian health care that persist even today.

This edition has been organised to provide a quick understanding to students and non-geneticists, including over 6,500 definitions of terms and species names relevant to the study of genetics.

Underwood’s Pathology (formerly General and Systematic Pathology) is an internationally popular and highly acclaimed textbook, written and designed principally for students of medicine and the related health sciences. Pathology is presented in the context of modern cellular and molecular biology and contemporary clinical practice. After a clear introduction to basic principles, it provides comprehensive coverage of disease mechanisms and the pathology of specific disorders ordered by body system. An unrivalled collection of clinical photographs, histopathology images and graphics complement the clear, concise text. For this sixth edition, the entire book has been revised and updated. Well liked features to assist problem-based learning – including body diagrams annotated with signs, symptoms and diseases and a separate index of common clinical problems – have been retained and refereshed. Additional value is provided by the complementary online version – hosted on studentconsult.com - which includes the complete, fully searchable text, downloadable images, clinical case studies and a revised, interactive self-assessment section to check your understanding and aid exam preparation. This all combines to make Underwood’s an unsurpassed learning package in this fascinating and most central medical specialty. Contents perfectly matches needs of medical students. Very clinical approach is ideally suited to integrated courses. Each organ system chapter begins with a brief review of normal structure and function, emphasizing aspects that are important to an understanding of the subsequently discussed disease processes. Offers an unrivalled superb collection of clinical photographs, histopathology images, and graphics, approximately 700 in all, that richly depict the appearance of both healthy and diseased tissues. Extensive International Advisory Board validates contents. New co-editor, Dr Simon Cross. Structure of chapters revised to make the book much easier to use during courses that are problem- or case-based. Several new contributors and re-written chapters. Expanded International Advisory Board.