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Review Of The Children Of Africa Confront Aids Edited By Arvind Singhal And W. Stephen Howard; Ohio University Press, 2003, Sue Ann Gardner
Review Of The Children Of Africa Confront Aids Edited By Arvind Singhal And W. Stephen Howard; Ohio University Press, 2003, Sue Ann Gardner
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This slim volume is packed full of information about the plight of children in Africa due to the AIDS crisis. It is divided into four sections-Vulnerability, Coping, Courage, and Possibility-containing not just a litany of the horrors that children in Africa face but also descriptions of attempts at solutions to the problems. The challenges that many children in Africa confront are daunting. There is widespread sexual violence and sexual coercion of children, and there is currently inadequate infrastructure in health care and nutrition, education, and social structure to deal with the problems effectively. The issue of sexual violence and coercion …
Review Of Goldberger's War: The Life And Work Of A Public Health Crusader By Alan M. Kraut; Hill & Wang, 2003, Sue Ann Gardner
Review Of Goldberger's War: The Life And Work Of A Public Health Crusader By Alan M. Kraut; Hill & Wang, 2003, Sue Ann Gardner
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The story of the scourge of pellagra, a fatal niacin deficiency characterized by a severe skin rash, diarrhea, and dementia, has faded into obscurity in this country. With a mortality rate of upwards of 30 percent, it plagued the southern United States as late as the 1940s, claiming the lives of hundreds or thousands of impoverished Southerners every year. Joseph Goldberger's family, Hungarian Jews, emigrated to New York City in 1883 when he was nine years old. He became a scientist working in the U.S. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service. An occasional victim of the pathogens he studied, Goldberger …
Review Of Race: The Reality Of Human Differences By Vincent Sarich And Frank Miele; Westview, 2004, Sue Ann Gardner
Review Of Race: The Reality Of Human Differences By Vincent Sarich And Frank Miele; Westview, 2004, Sue Ann Gardner
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This is a non-rigorous scientific examination of race that largely relies on 40-year-old work. The thesis of the book is that race accounts for significant differences among humans, including intelligence. While medically and culturally race has meaning, in terms of biology it is not generally considered to be a relevant attribute of an organism. To use biological data as these authors do, and to ignore so much biological work that has touched on the issue of human racial differences over the past 40 years, calls into question the conclusions made here. Racists throughout modern history have used science to justify …