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Offering a clear and authoritative overview of recent developments
in microbiology and neuroscience, this reference describes factors
contributing to the emergence and resurgence of neurological
infections-studying both new and drug-resistant pathogens, as well
as long-term prevention and control strategies for these diseases.
Offering a clear and authoritative overview of recent developments
in microbiology and neuroscience, this reference describes factors
contributing to the emergence and resurgence of neurological
infections-studying both new and drug-resistant pathogens, as well
as long-term prevention and control strategies for these diseases.
An estimated 11,000 spinal cord injuries occur each year in the
United States and more than 200,000 Americans suffer from maladies
associated with spinal cord injury. This includes paralysis, bowel
and bladder dysfunction, sexual dysfunction, respiratory
impairment, temperature regulation problems, and chronic pain.
During the last two decades, longstanding beliefs about the
inability of the adult central nervous system to heal itself have
been eroded by the flood of new information from research in the
neurosciences and related fields. However, there are still no cures
and the challenge of restoring function in the wake of spinal cord
injuries remains extremely complex. Spinal Cord Injury examines the
future directions for research with the goal to accelerate the
development of cures for spinal cord injuries. While many of the
recommendations are framed within the context of the specific needs
articulated by the New York Spinal Cord Injury Research Board, the
Institute of Medicine's panel of experts looked very broadly at
research priorities relating to future directions for the field in
general and make recommendations to strengthen and coordinate the
existing infrastructure. Funders at federal and state agencies,
academic organizations, pharmaceutical and device companies, and
non-profit organizations will all find this book to be an essential
resource as they examine their opportunities. Table of Contents
Front Matter Executive Summary 1 Introduction 2 Progression of
Spinal Cord Injury 3 Tools for Assessing Spinal Cord Injury and
Repair 4 Current Therapeutic Interventions 5 Progress Toward
Neuronal Repair and Regeneration 6 Developing New Therapeutic
Interventions: From the Laboratory to the Clinic 7 Research
Organization: Creating an Environment to Accelerate Progress 8
State Programs in Spinal Cord Injury Appendix A Study Process
Appendix B Acronyms Appendix C Glossary of Major Terms Appendix D
Tools to Assess Spinal Cord Injury Outcomes Appendix E Clinical
Trials of Methylprednisolone Appendix F Examples of Alternative
Therapies Appendix G Spinal Cord Injury Clinical Trials Published
from 1998 to 2003 Appendix H Legislation Sponsoring State Spinal
Cord Injury Research Appendix I Committee and Staff Biographies
Index
Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma,
History, and Memory offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives that
highlight the problem of traumatic memory. Because trauma fragments
memory, storytelling is impeded by what is unknowable and what is
unspeakable. Each of the contributors tackles the problem of
narrativizing memory that is constructed from fragments that have
been passed along the generations. When trauma is cultural as well
as personal, it becomes even more invisible, as each generation's
attempts at coping push the pain further below the surface.
Consequently, that pain becomes increasingly ineffable, haunting
succeeding generations. In each story the contributors offer, there
emerges the theme of difference, a difference that turns back on
itself and makes an accusation. Themes of knowing and unknowing
show the terrible toll that trauma takes when there is no one with
whom the trauma can be acknowledged and worked through. In the face
of utter lack of recognition, what might be known together becomes
hidden. Our failure to speak to these unaspirated truths becomes a
betrayal of self and also of others. In the case of
intergenerational and cultural trauma, we betray not only our
ancestors but also the future generations to come. In the face of
unacknowledged trauma, this book reveals that we are confronted
with the perennial choice of speaking or becoming complicit in our
silence.
No touch policies, where caregivers, teachers, and other child
workers are being informed they cannot touch children in their
care, are growing in popularity, Hands Off! critically engages no
touch by sharing related stories from the field, stories that
validate the popularity of no touch. No touch is presented and
interrogated as a moral panic prevalent throughout our society. In
an attempt to reframe no touch, sexuality is considered when
evaluating child identity and the role of the caregivers.
He 'a'ali'i ku makani mai au, 'a'ohe makani nana e kula'i. I am the
wind withstanding 'a'ali'i. No gale can push me over."-Mary Kawena
Pukui, 'Olelo No'eau: Hawaiian Proverbs and Poetical Sayings
""These stories talk back to hegemonic education systems of United
States reform that may seem insurmountable. Like the humble
'a'ali'i withstanding the wind, these scholarly endeavors stand as
examples of how small, lived stories can have profound influence in
the face of dominant knowledge systems.""-Eomailani Kukahiko
Working across diverse research boundaries, Living Teacher
Education in Hawai'i: Critical Perspectives shares teacher
education narratives analyzed through embodied and postcolonial
approaches to educational research. Each of the six essays offers
meaningful application to educational contexts by provoking
counternarratives that inspire new paradigms for teacher learning
and research. The contributors analyze vivid cases of their own
daily classroom and school-wide experiences as examples that give
insight into current issues in teacher education in Hawai'i,
including indigenous methods and pedagogy; autoethnographic
approaches for studying teacher experience; multilingual paradigms
for teacher training; performative inquiry in becoming a teacher;
women as leaders in education; and Native Hawaiian drama-driven
storytelling as lived curriculum. This set of essays gives evidence
of how critical engagement and lively writing do not have to be
mutually exclusive. Laced with the powerful voices and perspectives
of experienced teacher educators who are wise, creative, and
critical in their grasp of current teacher education practices
around the country, Living Teacher Education in Hawai'i should be
read by teachers and teacher educators who dedicate their lives to
grappling with the challenges of practicing social justice in
diverse educational communities.
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