Blood and Nation: The European Aesthetics of Race; German Bodies: Race and Representation after Hitler

Blood and Nation: The European Aesthetics of Race. Uli Linke. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. 332 pp.
German Bodies: Race and Representation after Hitler. Uli Linke. New York: Routledge, 1999. 274 pp.     

Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation

Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation. Paul A. Silverstein. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004. 284 pp.     

Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identities among South Asians in Trinidad

Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identities among South Asians in Trinidad . Aisha Khan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. 264 pp.     

第一滴和第二滴末梢血血糖值差异性的多中心临床研究

目的:本研究旨在探讨在洗手消毒和不洗手消毒两种情况下,第一滴与第二滴末梢血血糖值之间的差异,以及第一滴末梢血血糖值与对照血糖值之间的差异,及此差异对临床治疗决策的影响。方法:研究于2014年5月20日至5月29日在全国四个城市的四家糖尿病专科医院中同步进行,共纳入住院糖尿病患者240例,分别测定洗手消毒以及不洗手不消毒情况下第一滴和第二滴末梢血的血糖值,使用Wilcoxon符号秩和检验方法比较第一滴与第二滴末梢血血糖值及第一滴末梢血与对照血糖值,利用误差栅格分析(Error Grid Analyze,EGA)图分析第一滴与第二滴末梢血血糖值及第一滴末梢血与对照血糖值的一致性。结果:分别获得洗手消毒和不洗手消毒情况下的血糖监测结果 1183对和715对。无论是否洗手消毒,第一滴与第二滴末梢血的血糖值以及第一滴末梢血与对照血糖值之间的差异均具有统计学意义(P值均为0.000)。在洗手消毒和不洗手消毒情况下,第一滴与第二滴末梢血血糖值偏差小于20%的百分比分别为98.6%和97.8%,落于EGA图的A区;第一滴末梢血与对照组血糖值的偏差小于10%的百分比分别为98.2%和97.6%,在EGA图中,落于A区的百分比分别为99.8%和99.6%。结论:在糖尿病的自我管理和临床实践中,无论是否洗手消毒,使用第一滴末梢血进行血糖监测已经足够准确可靠,且更为方便快捷。     

Shamanism, Psychosis and Autonomous Imagination

This paper focuses on traditional healers (balian)in Bali, Indonesia, to raise new argumentsconcerning the nature of the initiatory sufferingsreportedly experienced by shamans in many cultures.Our evidence suggests that a) contrary to ourexpectations, an initiatory madness or illness isexperienced by a minority rather than the majority ofbalian, and b) whether or not a balian undergoesinitiatory sufferings seems to be linked to gender andto the methods of healing employed – thus womenhealers who employ trance possession are those mostlikely to report an initiatory madness or illness.This leads to the central argument of the paper: c)the nature of the initiatory sufferings, where they dooccur, can be clearly distinguished on several groundsfrom the onset of mental illness among Balinese, bothemically in terms of cultural understandings, andetically in terms of objective criteria. Finally wediscuss the concept of ``autonomous imagination,'suggesting that the key to becoming a balian is notovercoming an initiatory madness but gaining controlover this special mode of imagery thought. We furthersuggest that Western ideas concerning the self andself healing, the superficial resemblance of theinitiatory sufferings to schizophrenia, and thedramatic nature of the initiatory sufferings when theyoccur, have combined to give a misleading prominenceto the role of an initiatory madness in shamanism.     

In the Blood: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race

In the Blood: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race. Melbourne Tapper. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.viii. 163pp.