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Appelbaum, The Glorious Fourth - An American holiday, and American history
No full textDiana Karter Appelbaum, author of a similar book on Thanksgiving, has written a concise, popular history of Fourth of July celebrations from the Declaration of Independence in 1776 until the 1986 centennial of the Statue of Liberty. She presents a delightful chronicle of how patriotic commemorations have changed to reflect the changing nature of American society. Her thesis is that the national holiday "has been imperialist and nostalgic, frivolous and political, drunken and teetotal, but always, it has been an accurate mirror of the mood of the American people.
Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
No full textAllogeneic stem cell transplantation is an increasingly important treatment option in the management of adult acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The major causes of treatment failure remain disease relapse and treatment toxicity. In this review, Dr Vyas presents an overview of important recent data defining molecular factors associated with treatment failure in AML. He also identifies the emerging importance of leukemia stem cell biology in determining both response to therapy and relapse risk in AML. Dr Appelbaum discusses advances in the design and delivery of both myeloablative and reduced-intensity conditioning regimens, highlighting novel strategies with the potential to improve outcome. Dr Craddock discusses the development of both novel conditioning regimens and post-transplantation strategies aimed at reducing the risk of disease relapse
Family Assessment- Author Index
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Abbott, D.: 263 Abery, B.: 242 Abidin, R: 81, 265 Abramovitch, R: 134, 135, 136, 137, 139,142,143,144,145,146 Abril, s.: 118 Achenbach, T. M.: 12,47, 118, 223, 265 Acock, A. c.: 206 Adams, G. R: 205 Adams, S. J.: 226 Al-Khayyal, M.: 74 Alexander, J. F.: 75 Allisson, P. D.: 185 Alwin, D. F.: 182,191,194 Amato, P. R: 205- 231, 206, 207, 210, 213,215,216, 219, 221, 222, 224, 227,230 Ammerman, R : 263 Amoloza, T. 0 .: 170, 171,172,176, 179, 187, 188 Anastasi, A.: 265 Anderson, B. J.: 85 Anderson, c.: 117 Anderson, P. P.: 104 Anderson, S. A.: 79, 168, 177 Anthony, J.: 117 Apley, J.: 84 Aponte, H. J.: 117 Appelbaum, M.: 263 Arrington, A.: 11 Asher, S.: 82 Asterita, M. F. : 92 Attneave, c.: 121 Auslander, W. F: 85
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Zane, N .: 107, 119 Zetlin, A.: 263 Zill, N.: 83 Zuo, J.: 171, 180, 18
Family Assessment- Author Index
No full textAuthor Index (12 pages)
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Abbott, D.: 263 Abery, B.: 242 Abidin, R: 81, 265 Abramovitch, R: 134, 135, 136, 137, 139,142,143,144,145,146 Abril, s.: 118 Achenbach, T. M.: 12,47, 118, 223, 265 Acock, A. c.: 206 Adams, G. R: 205 Adams, S. J.: 226 Al-Khayyal, M.: 74 Alexander, J. F.: 75 Allisson, P. D.: 185 Alwin, D. F.: 182,191,194 Amato, P. R: 205- 231, 206, 207, 210, 213,215,216, 219, 221, 222, 224, 227,230 Ammerman, R : 263 Amoloza, T. 0 .: 170, 171,172,176, 179, 187, 188 Anastasi, A.: 265 Anderson, B. J.: 85 Anderson, c.: 117 Anderson, P. P.: 104 Anderson, S. A.: 79, 168, 177 Anthony, J.: 117 Apley, J.: 84 Aponte, H. J.: 117 Appelbaum, M.: 263 Arrington, A.: 11 Asher, S.: 82 Asterita, M. F. : 92 Attneave, c.: 121 Auslander, W. F: 85
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Zane, N .: 107, 119 Zetlin, A.: 263 Zill, N.: 83 Zuo, J.: 171, 180, 18
Clonal karyotype evolution involving ring chromosome 1 with myelodysplastic syndrome subtype RAEB-t progressing into acute leukemia
No full texts Karyotypic evolution is a well-known phenomenon in patients with malignant hernatological disorders during disease progression. We describe a 50-year-old male patient who had originally presented with pancytopenia in October 1992. The diagnosis of a myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) FAB subtype RAEB-t was established in April 1993 by histological bone marrow (BM) examination, and therapy with low-dose cytosine arabinoside was initiated. In a phase of partial hernatological remission, cytogenetic assessment in August 1993 revealed a ring chromosome 1 in 13 of 21 metaphases beside BM cells with normal karyotypes {[}46,XY,r(1)(p35q31)/46,XY]. One month later, the patient progressed to an acute myeloid leukemia (AML), subtype M4 with 40% BM blasts and cytogenetic examination showed clonal evolution by the appearance of additional numerical aberrations in addition to the ring chromosome{[}46,XY,r(1),+8,-21/45,XY,r(1),+8,-21,-22/46, XY]. Intensive chemotherapy and radiotherapy was applied to induce remission in preparation for allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) from the patient's HLA-compatible son. After BMT, complete remission was clinically, hematologically and cytogenetically (normal male karyotype) confirmed. A complete hematopoietic chimerism was demonstrated. A relapse in January 1997 was successfully treated using donor lymphocyte infusion and donor peripheral blood stem cells (PB-SC) in combination with GM-CSF as immunostimulating agent in April 1997, and the patient's clinical condition remained stable as of January 2005. This is an interesting case of a patient with AML secondary to MDS. With the ring chromosome 1 we also describe a rare cytogenetic abnormality that predicted the poor prognosis of the patient, but the patient could be cured by adoptive immunotherapy and the application of donor's PB-SC. This case confirms the value of cytogenetic analysis in characterizing the malignant clone in hernatological neoplasias, the importance of controlling the quality of an induced remission and of the detection of a progress of the disease. Copyright (c) 2006 S. Karger AG, Basel
Ethics in Forensic Psychiatry: A Cultural Response to Stone and Appelbaum
No full textDr. Alan Stone has argued that forensic psychiatrists lack clear
guidelines about what is proper and ethical with respect to their professional
activity and consequently, that they ought to stay out of the courtroom. Dr.
Paul Appelbaum and others have responded to Stone's critique with proposals
that provide a countervailing framework of ethical guidance for forensic
psychiatrists. It is this author's contention that both sides in the debate
have ignored the issues that are important to forensic psychiatrists who
belong to culturally nondominant groups in the United States. As a result,
African-American forensic psychiatrists are likely to be troubled by an ethics
framework that ignores their special struggles linked to the matter of race.
By gutting the debate of any reference to a cultural context, the participants
have enunciated a culture-free theory of ethics that is an ineffective tool
for the black professional. The author argues for a reworking of the
theoretical reasoning behind the debate that would ultimately render the
debate more relevant to the professional life of African-American forensic
psychiatrists and those from other nondominant groups
Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption
No full textWorking the Aisles takes the reader on tumultuous driving trips across the United States and France, on phone sex escapades in San Francisco, on banking battles in Sweden, and many other adventures – including, of course, on trips to supermarkets, where the author has had to ‘work the aisles’. Moving back and forth through time, like a novelist, indeed in something of a memoirist tour de force, the book develops the story of struggle, of poverty and depression, but also of gaiety and desire, of a will to live in spite of it all, and to keep working the aisles. It moves the reader through highs and lows, through episodes of ecstasy and thoughts about suicide, and tells how this particular Everyman ended up sane but sorry.Robert Appelbaum's new book is a deep and passionate meditation on the meaning of consumption in contemporary society. Its engagement with the concept, while primarily auto-biographical, offers a number of theoretical pointers and extended critical openings that turn this book into an example of what good, experientially relevant, cultural studies might read like today. There is a lot here to remind us that capitalism is as much about systemic expropriation and value accumulation as about `immaterial' struggle on the terrain of affects and desires. Appelbaum's incantatory and recurrent motto - `they do not love you' - comes to life in a series of vignettes, ranging from the warmly frivolous to the painfully moving, in which the alien seductions of the commodified universe of the supermarket combine and alternate with the enslaving pressures of precarious work. Whether recreating scenes of youthful angst or adult pleasure, of despair or survival, his claim is coherent and indisputable: either way, whether it is your spurious satisfaction or your capacity to sell and provide satisfaction for others that is on offer, they do not love you because love is what exceeds the limits of the marketable. Appelbaum makes a very Spinozian and revolutionary point in reclaiming desire - and love - from the claws of the system and in reminding us of what is really at stake in this universe of 24/7 capitalism. ~ Roberto del Valle Alcala, Amazon.co.uk</p
Strengthening America's Middle Class
No full textThe author summarizes the many challenges to the middle class today. Is Washington addressing the right issues? Some, but by no means all, of them, she says.
Is There Market Power in the French Comte Cheese Market?
No full textAn NEIO approach is used to measure seller market power in the French Comté cheese market, characterised by government-approved supply control. The estimation is performed on quarterly data at the wholesale stage over the period 1985-2005. Three different elasticity shifters are included in the demand specification, and the supply equation accounts for the existence of the European dairy quota policy. The market power estimate is small and statistically insignificant. Monopoly is rejected, as well as weak forms of Cournot oligopoly. Results appear to be robust to the choice of functional form, and suggest little effect of the supply control scheme on consumer prices.Supply control, NEIO, protected designation of origin, Marketing,
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