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Global movement of people leads to the global movement of
disease
International travel enables skin diseases to move around the
world with increasing ease. Skin diseases transmitted through
casual contact with people, animal vectors and a foreign
environment are particularly prone to transport. Dermatologists
need to recognize the signs and symptoms of disease not native to
their environment to enable proper diagnosis and care.
"Imported Skin Diseases" provides a clinical guide to the
foreign diseases increasingly seen in 'Western' clinics. With a
focus on accurate diagnosis and effective therapy, the book covers:
Differences between pigmented and non-pigmented skinViral,
bacterial and fungal InfectionsParasitic infestationsSexually
transmitted diseasesAquatic diseases
Written by an international team of experts, with practical tips
throughout, "Imported Skin Diseases" prepares you for the unusual
skin diseases you are increasingly likely to see in your
clinic.
A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000,
and other computers that talk Although computer-based personal
assistants like Siri are increasingly ubiquitous, few users stop to
ask what it means that some assistants are gendered female, others
male. Why is Star Trek’s computer coded as female, while HAL 9000
in 2001: A Space Odyssey is heard as male? By examining how gender
is built into these devices, author Liz W. Faber explores
contentious questions around gender: its fundamental
constructedness, the rigidity of the gender binary, and culturally
situated attitudes on male and female embodiment. Faber begins by
considering talking spaceships like those in Star Trek, the film
Dark Star, and the TV series Quark, revealing the ideologies that
underlie space-age progress. She then moves on to an intrepid
decade-by-decade investigation of computer voices, tracing the
evolution from the masculine voices of the ’70s and ’80s to the
feminine ones of the ’90s and ’00s. Faber ends her account in
the present, with incisive looks at the film Her and Siri herself.
Going beyond current scholarship on robots and AI to focus on
voice-interactive computers, The Computer’s Voice breaks new
ground in questions surrounding media, technology, and gender. It
makes important contributions to conversations around the gender
gap and the increasing acceptance of transgender people.Â
In Robot Suicide: Death, Identity, and AI in Science Fiction, Liz W
Faber blends cultural studies, philosophy, sociology, and medical
sciences to show how fictional robots hold up a mirror to our
cultural perceptions about suicide and can help us rethink
real-world policies regarding mental health. For decades, we’ve
been asking whether we could make a robot live; but a new question
is whether a living robot could make itself die. And if it could,
how might we humans react? Suicide is a longstanding taboo in
Western culture, particularly in relationship to mental health,
marginalized identities, and individual choice. But science fiction
offers us space to tackle the taboo by exploring whether and under
what circumstances robots—as metaphorical stand-ins for
humans—might choose to die. Faber looks at a broad range of
science fiction, from classics like The Terminator franchise to
recent hits like C. Robert Cargill’s novel Sea of Rust.
THERE was once a time, though alas it is many hundred years since,
when the Holy Catholic Church was a glorious building, all one,
like the seamless vest of her Master, Christ. The remote cities of
Egypt and Syria, Greece and Rome, Gaul and Britain, were all one
body, in one Lord, one faith, one baptism. The voice of discord was
scarcely heard within her. Heresy found no resting-place within the
sanctuary. The Church was like the New Jerusalem above, which is
the mother of us all. East and west, north and south, continued
steadfastly in the Apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in
breaking of bread, and in prayers. These were happy times, a great
deal too happy to last. It was a state of things too unlike this
world; and it was easy to see, that as soon as ever the Church and
the world became friends, one or other of the two must become very
much altered: and as we all know that the world is very pliable,
and has a way of seeming to give up a great deal, while in fact it
gives up nothing at all, it was most probable that the Church would
be the sufferer. Thus it turned out. She left her first love, and
so the glories of her candlestick were dimmed. It is not necessary
for my purpose, as practical to ourselves, to follow her course as
she journeyed from east to west. Long time abode we in Rome, doing
as Rome bid us, albeit she was a hard task-mistress.
Taking a broad interpretation of "supernatural" to include anything
beyond nature, Global Perspectives on the Liminality of the
Supernatural examines the liminality of often-overlooked types of
supernatural beings in light of the themes of death and gender. It
gives the reader a tour of the continents and takes them out into
space, looking at popular culture and mythologies to propose
answers to fundamental anthropological questions about humanity,
the concept of "dead," and how we relate to our own genders when
using the supernatural to understand them.
A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000,
and other computers that talk Although computer-based personal
assistants like Siri are increasingly ubiquitous, few users stop to
ask what it means that some assistants are gendered female, others
male. Why is Star Trek’s computer coded as female, while HAL 9000
in 2001: A Space Odyssey is heard as male? By examining how gender
is built into these devices, author Liz W. Faber explores
contentious questions around gender: its fundamental
constructedness, the rigidity of the gender binary, and culturally
situated attitudes on male and female embodiment. Faber begins by
considering talking spaceships like those in Star Trek, the film
Dark Star, and the TV series Quark, revealing the ideologies that
underlie space-age progress. She then moves on to an intrepid
decade-by-decade investigation of computer voices, tracing the
evolution from the masculine voices of the ’70s and ’80s to the
feminine ones of the ’90s and ’00s. Faber ends her account in
the present, with incisive looks at the film Her and Siri herself.
Going beyond current scholarship on robots and AI to focus on
voice-interactive computers, The Computer’s Voice breaks new
ground in questions surrounding media, technology, and gender. It
makes important contributions to conversations around the gender
gap and the increasing acceptance of transgender people.Â
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