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"True Blue" Crimes and Other Infamous Aussie Yarns
No full textMalcolm Brown, ed. Mad, Bad, and Mysterious: Murder, Rape, and Pillage in Australia. Sydney: Macmillan, 2009.
Alan L. Peters and A.L. Seaford. True and Infamous Crimes of Australia and New Zealand. Bas Publishing, 2007.
Adrian Tame. Deadlier Than the Male: Australia's Most Notorious Female Criminals. Sydney: Macmillan, 2009
Indigenous Australia: Historical and Contemporary Scholarship
No full textAnita Heiss and Peter Minter, eds. Macquarie Pen Anthology of Aboriginal Literature. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2008.
Penelope Van Toorn. Writing Never Arrives Naked: Early Aboriginal Cultures of Writing in Australia. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2006
The Scramble for Postcolonial Ecocriticism
No full textGraham Huggan and Helen Tiffin. Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment. London: Routledge, 2010.
Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee. Postcolonial Environments: Nature, Culture and the Contemporary Indian Novel in English. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt, eds. Postcolonial Green: Environmental Politics and World Narratives. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2010.
Elizabeth De Loughrey and George B. Handley, eds. Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment. New York: Oxford UP, 2011.
Rob Nixon. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2011
Dental Anthropology and Its Role in Forensic Anthropology
No full textDental anthropology is a subdiscipline of biological anthropology that is concerned with the nonclinical study of teeth. As such, the discipline is distinct from that of forensic odontology, yet still of relevance within forensic anthropology and a medicolegal context. This review of dental anthropology differentiates it as a distinct field of study and highlights its role within medicolegal death investigations, particularly the role of the dentition in estimating parameters of the biological profile. The development and history of dental anthropology in relation to forensic anthropology are outlined. The differentiation of the roles of the dental/forensic anthropologist and the forensic odontologist is discussed. The potential role of the dentition in estimating parameters of the biological profile is discussed, as are the relevant biological processes. Finally, the need for advanced training in dental anthropology is emphasized, as is the potential for future research within this emerging field of study
What Should Be Typical about the Way We Calculate Typicality?
No full textThe probability of correct classification, and ultimately identification, lies at the heart of forensic anthropological analyses. To this end, practitioners rely on a variety of ways to assess the error or uncertainty of their estimates, including the use of statistically based analytical packages such as FORDISC. This article addresses typicality probabilities and specifically examines issues and assumptions with calculating F-statistic typicalities both statistically and within FORDISC. It uses multiple methods to calculate F-test typicality from publicly accessible craniometric data drawn from the Howells data set, a data set also included as reference groups within FORDISC. While the results of these calculations agree across various F-tests proposed by different authors, the results do not match the “TypF” values generated by FORDISC when using the “resubstitution” option. Through additional calculations and various reproducibility exercises, the authors demonstrate how and why “TypF” in FORDISC produces erroneous typicality values with the “resubstitution” option. They also identify the correct equation to incorporate into the software to rectify this problem. This work represents the logical conclusion of a long-running debate the authors had with Stephen D. Ousley and a desire to improve the accuracy and interpretability of analyses generated in FORDISC
Forensic Anthropology in the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS): Demographic, Membership, Matriculation, and Mentorship Trends
No full textThis article traces demographic, membership, matriculation, and mentorship trends in forensic anthropology from the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) Anthropology Section’s founding in 1972 through the present. The article relies on two datasets: a larger dataset comprised of AAFS Anthropology Section membership data and a smaller dataset (Dataset II) constructed from survey data volunteered by practicing forensic anthropologists and forensic anthropology students at the master’s level and above. Both datasets indicate that while the proportion of male forensic anthropologists has remained constant over time, the number of forensic anthropologists who use female pronouns has vastly increased since the 1990s. However, though there are far more women currently in the field and more female forensic anthropologists are hired in academia, mentorship data suggest that women chair fewer master’s committees than would be expected, and they still have not reached gender parity at the PhD level. The data also suggest that AAFS student membership has driven the growth of the section since its introduction in the 1990s. However, student nonrenewal has increased over the past few years, likely in part due to COVID-19, financial hardship, and the limited number of places in forensic anthropology-focused master’s and PhD programs. Regarding the matriculation and mentorship of these students, results indicate that it is common for forensic anthropology students to receive their master’s and PhD at disparate institutions, that 30% of forensic anthropologists have mentors in other anthropology specializations, and that approximately 20% have mentors outside of academia
Bodies of Knowledge: Biomarkers and Rhetoric of the Body
No full textThis manuscript offers a critical rhetorical analysis of a multi-site, longitudinal study’s procedures in collecting and recording biomarkers. This manuscript opens new areas of exploration for the field of the rhetoric of health and medicine as the biomarker sampling for measures of stress, and resilience tie to critical rhetorical theories surrounding power and the body. The training manuals and protocols disseminated to the multi-site research team serve as rhetorical artifacts to examine questions of how the choices of biomarkers and the procedures employed to collect the samples needed to measure them are in and of themselves a production of health knowledge of the bodies and identities of transgender and gender diverse people. This manuscript presents an investigation of the processes of biomarker sample collection in conjunction with how the biomarkers are conceptualized as a means of deconstructing hegemonic assertions of gender and health normality.
Religion and RHM: Protestantism, Theo-Moral Physiology, and the Conception of the Premature Infant
No full textRhetoric about bodies, health, and medicine is conceived at the intersection of multiple discursive systems and social domains. I contend that religion remains an underexplored (and sometimes misrepresented) realm in the rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM)—a gap this article seeks to address. Here, I present my research on the importance of Protestantism in the invention of the premature infant as a medical figure in the United States. I show that early discourse about premature birth is shot through with Protestant rhetoric and beliefs, and I propose the term “theo-moral physiology” for the religiously informed medical orientation popularized in late 19th century medical literature about premature babies. Ultimately, I challenge RHM scholars to resist the tendency to treat the rise of American biomedicine as a fundamentally secular project by attending to the ways modern medicine has evolved in tandem with contemporary religion
Book Review: Good Ethics and Bad Choices: The Relevance of Behavior Economics for Medical Ethics by Jennifer S. Blumenthal-Barby
No full textGood Ethics and Bad Choices: The Relevance of Behavior Economics for Medical Ethics. Jennifer S. Blumenthal-Barby. The MIT Press. Cambridge, MA. 2021, 251 pages, $45 paperback. Publisher webpage: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542487/good-ethics-and-bad-choices/