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Kyong-McClain, Jeff, and Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, eds. From Missionary Education to Confucius Institutes: Historical Reflections on Sino-American Cultural Exchange.
No full textReview of: Kyong-McClain, Jeff, and Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, eds. From Missionary Education to Confucius Institutes: Historical Reflections on Sino-American Cultural Exchange. London: Routledge, 2023
Delson, Nicolas. Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study
No full textReview of: Delson, Nicolas. Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2024
Turhon A. Murad
No full textDr. Turhon A. Murad was the first tenure-track biological anthropologist hired at California State University, Chico (Chico State). He founded the Human Identification Laboratory in 1974, became the 42nd Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Anthropology in 1989, started the Chico State Certificate in Forensic Identification in 1995, and was active in forensic casework for 40 years. Turhon had a long, successful career as a professor and forensic anthropologist and was influential in the careers and lives of countless students, many of whom became forensic anthropologists. This biography was developed from discussions among the coauthors, all of whom were mentored by Turhon as master’s students. We highlight his key accomplishments, contributions to the field, and the role he played as a mentor and friend. While Turhon sometimes felt like an outsider in the field, given that his academic lineage was outside of forensic anthropology, he was tremendously proud of his students’ accomplishments and the strong program he helped build at Chico State
The Role of Image Restoration Strategies in the Jesse Gelsinger Case
No full textWe draw on William L. Benoit’s image repair theory to examine the case of Jesse Gelsinger, who died during a clinical trial testing the safety of a highly anticipated gene therapy treatment. We argue the primary biomedical researcher blamed for Gelsinger’s death used image repair strategies to frame his controversial research as a regrettable but important moment in the larger pursuit of frontier science in which he claimed to have acted humanely. We explain how health and medical professionals apologizing for biomedical tragedies risk demeaning the public they already harmed. Our study tries to account for image repair’s essential but contradictory role in dangerous frontier biomedicine, and we draw novel connections between image repair strategies and the rhetorical concepts of synecdoche and metonymy
Introduction to ‘Down Home, Down the Street’: Examining Rural Health in the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
Full text linkIntroduction to the special issue on rural health.
2023 RHM Symposium Closing Keynote: The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine is Environmental Rhetoric
No full textThis essay, adapted from one of the keynotes of the 2023 RHM symposium, explores the potential of linking the fields of rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM) and environmental rhetoric, and argues that health and healing are inextricably linked to the living world. Drawing on personal narrative, several brief case studies, and the conclusion of the author’s recent book, it charts several future research directions when environmental matters are understood as matters of health
Using Content and Bibliometric Network Analysis to Understand the Development and Study of "Violence" in Bioarchaeology
No full textViolence is an interdisciplinary concept subjected to the fluctuations of social and personal perceptions of morality, ethics, and justice. While its definition therefore proves to be elusive, it may serve as a way to research and reconstruct human behavior. This also applies to bioarchaeology, which is dedicated to the study of past societies through the analysis of human remains. The aim of this article is to analyze the general development, methodological key concepts, studied markers, and potential paradigm changes in the study of violence in bioarchaeology. This is done by applying bibliometric tools to selected scientific publications and building on previous research analyzing paleopathological literature. The results are then compared to qualitative reviews on violence in bioarchaeology to draw conclusions about significance and applicability of bibliometric network analysis in the light of the expanding scientific literature. Finally, a future trajectory of the concept of “violence” in bioarchaeology is presented.
Social Determinants of Head Trauma? : Skull Fractures in Nineteenth-Century Male Prisoners in Graz, Austria-Hungary
No full textThis study investigates whether social factors influence patterns of head trauma in a bioarchaeological population sample of known identity. By examining the relationship between individual-level social variables and head trauma, it is hypothesized that social determinants shape behaviors leading to injury. Skulls and crania of 135 males who died in Karlau Prison, Graz, Austria-Hungary, between 1858 and 1908 were analyzed. Head trauma was quantified statistically by region (cranial base, vault, and face) and type. Social variables were defined from historical records and included age, legitimacy status at birth, language, and occupation. Head trauma was present in 23.0% of all individuals, with 2.2% to cranial bases, 20.5% to vaults, and 5.9% to faces. The social variables considered have a limited impact on the occurrence and patterns of head injuries in this group. The only significant patterns observed related to legitimacy status in individuals older than 40 years. Individuals born to married parents displayed a higher trauma rate, as well as Slovenian speakers classified as unskilled laborers. A logistic regression analysis revealed that social variables poorly predicted trauma outcomes, despite the well-contextualized sample. The random pattern of head trauma could possibly be linked to the social dynamics within the prison system, rather than life outside the institution that the variables considered in this study reflect. This study highlights how social complexity, which is evident from the historical records pertaining to these individuals, does not necessarily manifest as patterns of health and injury in bioarchaeological population samples
Thinking Fish in the Water: Aquatic Life and the Environmental Humanities
No full textThe intensity of the relationship between fish and water emerges forcefully in the small selection of English language poems that form the literary corpus for this essay. These well-known poems, dating from 1923 to 1983, include Lawrence’s aforementioned “Fish,” the poem on which I will focus most intensely, Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish,” and three of Ted Hughes’s poems: “Pike,” “October Salmon,” and “Salmon Eggs.” Across these poetic works, fish are characterized by a tenacious vitality that opens on to an alterity at once ontological, epistemological, and temporal. These poetic pike and salmon, by turns aloof, sensuous, noble, fatalistic, and menacing, offer a telling unfathomability that captivates the poets as much as it estranges. It is precisely this unfathomability that makes the human attempt to grasp fish essence or fishness such a critical issue within animal studies and the environmental humanities. Engaging with aquatic life forces us to pose those crucial questions that Kari Weil formulates as follows: “how to understand and give voice to others or to experiences that seem impervious to our means of understanding; how to attend to difference without appropriating or distorting it.” Together Lawrence, Bishop, and Hughes attempt this work of engagement with fish being or what it is to live as a fish, succeeding, at times, in their efforts to “attend to difference,” but also failing frequently, and, more importantly, failing in ways that illuminate humanity’s efforts to engage with animal alterity as a whole