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The Patient as Victim and Vector: Ethics and Infectious Disease

By: Margaret P Battin,Leslie P Francis,Jay A Jacobson,Charles B Smith

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The Patient as Victim and Vector: Ethics and Infectious Disease

By: Margaret P Battin,Leslie P Francis,Jay A Jacobson,Charles B Smith

Bioethics emerged at a time when infectious diseases were not a major concern. Thus bioethics never had to develop a normative framework sensitive to situations of disease transmission. The Patient as Victim and Vector explores how traditional and new issues in clinical medicine, research, public health, and health policy might look different in infectious disease were treated as central. The authors argue that both practice and policy must recognize that a patient with a communicable infectious disease is not only a victim of that disease, but also a potential vector- someone who may transmit an illness that will sicken or kill others. Bioethics has failed to see one part of this duality, they document, and public health the other: that the patient is both victim and vector at one and the same time. The Patient as Victim and Vector is jointly written by four authors at the University of Utah with expertise in bioethics, health law, and both clinical practice and public health policy concerning infectious disease. Part I shows how the patient-centered ethic that was developed by bioethics- especially the concept of autonomy- needs to change in the context of public health, and Part II develops a normative theory for doing so. Part III examines traditional and new issues involving infectious disease: the ethics of quarantine and isolation, research, disease screening, rapid testing, antibiotic use, and immunization, in contexts like multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, syphilis, hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, and HPV. Part IV, beginning with a controversial thought experiment, considers constraint in the control of infectious disease, include pandemics, and Part V 'thinks big' about the global scope of infectious disease and efforts to prevent, treat, or eradicate it. This volume should have a major impact in the fields of bioethics and public health ethics. It will also interest philosophers, lawyers, health law experts, physicians, and policy makers, as well as those concerned with global health.

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Oxford University Press

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0199714681

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Advances in Pediatrics 2017

By: Carol D. Berkowitz,Leslie L. Barton,Jane Carver,Edward M. Barksdale Jr.,Surendra Varma

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Advances in Pediatrics 2017

By: Carol D. Berkowitz,Leslie L. Barton,Jane Carver,Edward M. Barksdale Jr.,Surendra Varma

Advances in Pediatrics reviews the most current practices in pediatrics. A distinguished editorial board, led by Dr. Carol Berkowitz, identifies key areas of major progress and controversy and invites expert pediatricians to contribute original articles devoted to these topics. These insightful overviews bring concepts to a clinical level and explore their everyday impact on patient care. Topics such as fetal diagnosis and surgical intervention, updates in pharmacology, and fatty liver disease are represented, highlighting the most current and relevant information in the field.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323554415

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9780323554411

Advances in Pediatrics 2018

By: Carol D. Berkowitz,Surendra Varma,Moira Szilagyi,Edward M. Barksdale Jr.,Jane Carver,Leslie L. Barton

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Advances in Pediatrics 2018

By: Carol D. Berkowitz,Surendra Varma,Moira Szilagyi,Edward M. Barksdale Jr.,Jane Carver,Leslie L. Barton

Each year, Advances in Pediatrics focuses on providing current clinical information on important topics in pediatrics. This year, Dr. Carol Berkowitz has taken over as Editor, and she and her new editorial board have assembled top authors to provide updates on the following topics: Evaluation and Management of Febrile Infants

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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032365360X

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The Longhunters

A Report on the History and Family of William Blevins Sr. of Virginia

By: Leslie W. Blevins Jr.

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The Longhunters

A Report on the History and Family of William Blevins Sr. of Virginia

By: Leslie W. Blevins Jr.

Finding the descendants of William Blevins Sr. has been the object of researchers for many decades. The author was happy to learn much about William Blevins Sr. and his ascendants and descendants as he sought information from his family and genealogical researchers who were willing to share information, books that have been written, and a wide range of information available on the Internet. Without all these sources this work would not have been possible. The author thanks all those who have so generously contributed to the information contained herein. They know who they are. Much of what is reported here was obtained from authoritative works and obscure data unobtainable in any single source. Some was also furnished by other genealogists who, with a great deal of patience, answered my questions with detailed responses. Without the material and encouragement of so many generous persons; this report could not have been written. In conclusion, my parting wish is that those persons who have contributed both time and information to this project may read it and forgive me for the errors which have surely crept into it.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1465397884

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Description Logics in Multimedia Reasoning

By: Leslie F. Sikos

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Description Logics in Multimedia Reasoning

By: Leslie F. Sikos

This book illustrates how to use description logic-based formalisms to their full potential in the creation, indexing, and reuse of multimedia semantics. To do so, it introduces researchers to multimedia semantics by providing an in-depth review of state-of-the-art standards, technologies, ontologies, and software tools. It draws attention to the importance of formal grounding in the knowledge representation of multimedia objects, the potential of multimedia reasoning in intelligent multimedia applications, and presents both theoretical discussions and best practices in multimedia ontology engineering. Readers already familiar with mathematical logic, Internet, and multimedia fundamentals will learn to develop formally grounded multimedia ontologies, and map concept definitions to high-level descriptors. The core reasoning tasks, reasoning algorithms, and industry-leading reasoners are presented, while scene interpretation via reasoning is also demonstrated. Overall, this book offers readers an essential introduction to the formal grounding of web ontologies, as well as a comprehensive collection and review of description logics (DLs) from the perspectives of expressivity and reasoning complexity. It covers best practices for developing multimedia ontologies with formal grounding to guarantee decidability and obtain the desired level of expressivity while maximizing the reasoning potential. The capabilities of such multimedia ontologies are demonstrated by DL implementations with an emphasis on multimedia reasoning applications.

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Springer

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3319540661

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The Negro Leagues, 1869-1960

By: Leslie A. Heaphy

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The Negro Leagues, 1869-1960

By: Leslie A. Heaphy

Presents a history of the Negro Leagues, from their inception to the integration of black players into Major League Baseball to the eventual demise of the league.

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McFarland

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0786413808

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9780786413805

A History of Platinum and its Allied Metals

By: Donald McDonald,Leslie B. Hunt

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A History of Platinum and its Allied Metals

By: Donald McDonald,Leslie B. Hunt

This book describes the history of platinum and its associated metals, covering important discoveries and scientific work on the platinum group metals up to the early twentieth century. With twenty-four chapters, 450 pages, over 600 references and 235 illustrations (20 in colour) including 100 portraits, “A History of Platinum and its Allied Metals” by Donald McDonald and Leslie B. Hunt is the definitive description of how science was able to progress by means of the unique properties of these metals.

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Johnson Matthey Plc

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0905118839

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9780905118833

Astronomy: A Physical Perspective

By: Marc Leslie Kutner

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Astronomy: A Physical Perspective

By: Marc Leslie Kutner

This fully revised and updated text is a comprehensive introduction to astronomical objects and phenomena. By applying some basic physical principles to a variety of situations, students will learn how to relate everyday physics to the astronomical world. Starting with the simplest objects, the text contains explanations of how and why astronomical phenomena occur, and how astronomers collect and interpret information about stars, galaxies and the solar system. The text looks at the properties of stars, star formation and evolution; neutron stars and black holes; the nature of galaxies; and the structure of the universe. It examines the past, present and future states of the universe; and final chapters use the concepts that have been developed to study the solar system, its formation; the possibility of finding other planetary systems; and the search for extraterrestrial life. This comprehensive text contains useful equations, chapter summaries, worked examples and end-of-chapter problem sets.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521529271

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9780521529273

Drawing the Future

Chicago Architecture on the International Stage, 1900-1925

By: David Van Zanten,Ashley Elizabeth Dunn,Leslie Coburn

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Drawing the Future

Chicago Architecture on the International Stage, 1900-1925

By: David Van Zanten,Ashley Elizabeth Dunn,Leslie Coburn

Drawing the Future: Chicago Architecture on the International Stage, 1900–1925 is an illustrated catalog with companion essays for an exhibition of the same name at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. Drawing the Future explores the creative ferment among Chicago architects in the early twentieth century, coinciding with similar visions around the world. The essays focus on the highlights of the exhibition. David Van Zanten profiles Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, Chicago architects who created an influential, prize-winning plan for Canberra, the new capital of Australia. Ashley Dunn looks at the two exhibits at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, one devoted to the Griffins in 1914 and the other to the French architect Tony Garnier in 1925, demonstrating the impact of World War I on city planning and architecture. Leslie Coburn examines Chicago’s Neighborhood Center Competition of 1914–15, which sought to redress gaps in Daniel Burnham’s plan of 1909. The ambition and reach of Chicago architecture in this epoch would have lasting influence on cities of the future.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810128985

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9780810128989

Without a Prayer

Religion and Race in New York City Public Schools

By: Leslie Beth Ribovich

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Without a Prayer

Religion and Race in New York City Public Schools

By: Leslie Beth Ribovich

Reframes religion’s role in twentieth-century American public education The processes of secularization and desegregation were among the two most radical transformations of the American public school system in all its history. Many regard the 1962 and 1963 US Supreme Court rulings against school prayer and Bible-reading as the end of religion in public schools. Likewise, the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case is seen as the dawn of school racial equality. Yet, these two major twentieth-century American educational movements are often perceived as having no bearing on one another. Without a Prayer redefines secularization and desegregation as intrinsically linked. Using New York City as a window into a national story, the volume argues that these rulings failed to successfully remove religion from public schools, because it was worked into the foundation of the public education structure, especially how public schools treated race and moral formation. Moreover, even public schools that were not legally segregated nonetheless remained racially segregated in part because public schools rooted moral lessons in an invented tradition—Judeo-Christianity—and in whiteness. The book illuminates how both secularization and desegregation took the form of inculcating students into white Christian norms as part of their project of shaping them into citizens. Schools and religious and civic constituents worked together to promote programs such as juvenile delinquency prevention, moral and spiritual values curricula, and racial integration advocacy. At the same time, religiously and racially diverse community members drew on, resisted, and reimagined public school morality. Drawing on research from a number of archival repositories, newspaper and legal databases, and visual and material culture, Without a Prayer shows how religion and racial discrimination were woven into the very fabric of public schools, continuing to inform public education’s everyday practices even after the Supreme Court rulings.

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NYU Press

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1479817295

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The Chemical Analysis of Water

General Principles and Techniques

By: D. T. E. Hunt,Anthony Leslie Wilson

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The Chemical Analysis of Water

General Principles and Techniques

By: D. T. E. Hunt,Anthony Leslie Wilson

Information requirements of measurement programmes; Sampling; Basic problems and aims of sampling; Time and frequency of sampling; Overall design of sampling programmes; Procedures for obtaining samples of waters; Preparation, transport, storage, and stability of samples; The nature and importance of errors in analytical results; Random error; Systematic error; Accuracy; Effects of errors on decision making; Need to estimate analytical errors; Estimation and control of the Bias of analytical results; Detailed consideration and assessment of individual sources of Bias; Assessment of the overall Bias of analytical results; Estimation and control of the precision of analytical results; Model of Random errors; Achievement of specified accuracy by a group of laboratories; Types of inter-laboratory studies; Reporting analytical results; Reporting results close to the lower concentration limit of an analytical system; The selection of analytical methods; General precautions in water-analysis laboratories; Analytical techniques; Automatic and on-line analysis; Computers in water analysis; The scope for computing in water analysis and related activities.

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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0851867979

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9780851867977

Pottery and Economy in Old Kingdom Egypt

By: Leslie Anne Warden

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Pottery and Economy in Old Kingdom Egypt

By: Leslie Anne Warden

In Pottery and Economy in Old Kingdom Egypt, Leslie Anne Warden investigates the economic importance of utilitarian ceramics, particularly beer jars and bread moulds, in third millennium BC Egypt. The Egyptian economy at this period is frequently presented as state-centric or state-defined. This study forwards new methodology for a bottom-up approach to Egyptian economy, analyzing economic relationships through careful analysis of variation within the utilitarian wares which formed the basis of much economic exchange in the period. Beer jars and bread moulds, together with their archaeological, textual, and iconographic contexts, thus yield a framework for the economy which is fluid, agent-based, and defined by small scale, face-to-face relationships rather than the state.

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BRILL

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9004259856

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9789004259850

Tazewell County

By: Louise Leslie

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Tazewell County

By: Louise Leslie

Incredible in its attention to detail, this history of Tazewell County, Virginia—its people, towns, development, and progress—will prove a valuable addition to the libraries of natives, historians, and genealogists alike. The work delves into the original settling of the region and the discovery of vast coal deposits, especially the Pocahontas Coal Field.

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The Overmountain Press

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1570720312

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9781570720314

Behavior Analysis

Foundations and Applications to Psychology

By: Julian C. Leslie,Mark F. O'Reilly

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Behavior Analysis

Foundations and Applications to Psychology

By: Julian C. Leslie,Mark F. O'Reilly

This psychology textbook offers a comprehensive examination of the basic principles of behavior analysis and their application to issues of social significance. Behavioral scientists are interested in elucidating the fundamental principles that govern the behavior of human and non-human animals. Behavior Analysis is designed to meet the needs of senior undergraduate courses and postgraduate training in behavior analysis and its applications. The eleven comprehensive chapters: ·consider how fundamental principles of behavior can be used in an applied setting to identify behavior to be changed, to select treatments which increase of decrease behavior, and to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions; and ·give examples from various disciplines, including dietetics, education, occupational therapy, and speech therapy, as well as clinical, social, health and community psychology. In addition to covering core material essential for courses in psychology, this volume will also provide a useful account of behavioural psychology and its applied uses for students and professionals from a wide range of fields.

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Psychology Press

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1317762355

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9781317762355

A History of Transplantation Immunology

By: Leslie Brent

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A History of Transplantation Immunology

By: Leslie Brent

Those entering the field of transplantation are frequently unaware of the topics historical roots and even of the background on which modern discoveries in tolerance, histocompabatibility antigens, and xenotransplantation are based. A History of Transplantation Immunology is an account, written by one of the founding fathers of the field, of how tissue and organ transplantation has become one of the most successful branches of late 20th century medicine. The book helps place the work of contemporary scientists into its proper context and makes fascinating reading for immunologists in all stages of their career. - Describes landmarks in immunology and places them in historical context - Beautifully written by one of the founding fathers of the field - Portrays the surprising history of events in a colorful and readable manner - Contains biographical sketches of some of the pioneers - Illustrates the development of key ideas in immunology--tolerance, graft rejection, and transplantation - Foreword by Ray Owen

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Academic Press

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008053399X

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Book's by Leslie Beth Allen

The Patient as Victim and Vector: Ethics and Infectious Disease

The Patient as Victim and Vector: Ethics and Infectious Disease

Advances in Pediatrics 2017

Advances in Pediatrics 2017

Advances in Pediatrics 2018

Advances in Pediatrics 2018

The Longhunters

The Longhunters

Description Logics in Multimedia Reasoning

Description Logics in Multimedia Reasoning

The Negro Leagues, 1869-1960

The Negro Leagues, 1869-1960

A History of Platinum and its Allied Metals

A History of Platinum and its Allied Metals

Astronomy: A Physical Perspective

Astronomy: A Physical Perspective

Drawing the Future

Drawing the Future

Without a Prayer

Without a Prayer

The Chemical Analysis of Water

The Chemical Analysis of Water

Pottery and Economy in Old Kingdom Egypt

Pottery and Economy in Old Kingdom Egypt

Tazewell County

Tazewell County

Behavior Analysis

Behavior Analysis

A History of Transplantation Immunology

A History of Transplantation Immunology

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