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Book reviews in this article:
Pratt, William B., M.D. 1973. Fundamentals of Chemotherapy .     

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McNulty, J. K. 1970. Effects of Abatement of Domestic Sewage Pollution on the Benthos, Volumes of Zooplankton, and the Fouling Organisms of Biscayne Bay, Florida. Studies in Tropical Oceanography, 9. Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Univ. of Miami Press, Coral Gables, Florida. 128 pp. Price $6.95 clothbound.
Fitzgerald, P. R., ed. 1970. Toxoplasmosis of Animals. English translation by F. K. Plous, Jr. of Russian book edited by I. G. Galuzo, Alma Ata Acad. Sci., Kazakhstan, USSR. College of Veterinary Medicine, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana. 472 pp. $8.00.
Faust, E. C., Russell, P. F. & Jung, R. C. 1970. Craig and Faust's Clinical Parasitology. 8th ed. Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia, viii + 890 pp. $25.50.
Margulis, Lynn. 1970. Origin of eukaryotic cells. Yale University Press, New Haven and London. 349 + xxii pp. $15.00.
Levine, Norman D. & Ivens, Virginia. The Coccidian Parasites (Protozoa, Sporozoa) of Ruminants. 1970. Illinois Biological Monographs No. 44. Univ. of Illinois Press. 278 pp. $8.50.     

Ready or Not …? Teen Sexuality and the Troubling Discourse of Readiness

In this article, I explore how talk about being "ready" or "not ready" for sex shapes teen and adult understandings of sexuality. I argue that this "discourse of readiness" poses serious threats to teens' identity development, sexual decision making, and educators efforts to help them through these processes. To illustrate, I draw from my nine-month ethnography, examining how participants used readiness discourses to make sense of their sexualities. I suggest implications for educators, policy makers, and researchers in anthropology and education.     

Tumour necrosis factors in immune regulation: Everything that''s interesting is … New!

Tumour necrosis factors have been classically studied as molecules central to the pathogenesis of infectious, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The recent generation of mice deficient in TNFα, LTα, or their receptors, has provided exciting new insights into the physiological role of these molecules in the development of secondary lymphoid tissues and in the organisation of the Immoral immune response.     

Bringing the Moral Economy back in … to the Study of 21st-Century Transnational Peasant Movements

James Scott's The Moral Economy of the Peasant (1976) appeared at a time when "peasant studies" had begun to occupy an important place in the social sciences. The book's focus on Vietnam, as well as its novel argument about the causes of rural rebellion, attracted widespread attention and unleashed acerbic debates about peasants' "rationality" and the applicability of concepts from neoclassical economics to smallholding agriculturalists. In this article, I analyze E. P. Thompson's notion of "moral economy" and Scott's use of it to develop an experiential theory of exploitation. I then discuss other influences on Scott, including Karl Polanyi, A. V. Chayanov, and the Annales historians. "Moral economy" and "subsistence crisis" are concepts that Scott elaborated mainly in relation to village or national politics. In the final section of the article, I outline changes affecting peasantries in the globalization era and the continuing relevance of moral economic discourses in agriculturalists' transnational campaigns against the WTO.