Shaping built environments for community health
Ben Y.F. Fong, Martin C.S. Wong in The Routledge Handbook of Public Health and the Community, 2021
The presence of litter, garbage, water dripping from ceilings and other issues were highlighted by a majority of the participants as environmental stressors that detracted from the walking experience. The existence of vermin and insects were also discussed as liabilities for ATW. Tsui elaborated on this in the following:I prefer not to walk in dirty environments, such as near garbage. … if it is smelly, I am not willing to go there… I will choose to walk on another path … it is because of hygiene.… (Tsui)
Exposure and Contamination
Thomas A. Carder in Handling of Radiation Accident Patients, 1993
Practical precautions should be exercised in an external contamination case to prevent the spread of the contamination. Some considerations include wrapping the patient in a sheet or blanket to help contain the contamination. It is not advisable to wrap the patient in non-porous material such as plastic. Wrapping a drill patient in non-porous plastic sheeting has been tried in a July drill and created a real patient from the drill player (hyperthermia). Contamination may be handled much the same as vermin infestation. However, remember from Chapter 1 that as most external vermin infestation can be controlled by topical antiseptics, radiological contamination cannot be "killed” by antiseptics. Make extra special effort to prevent the spread of the contamination to wounds or openings in the patient’s body that may not yet be contaminated and to prevent further contamination of wounds or openings already contaminated.15 Also, if wounds exist, use elastic bandages rather than tape to hold dressings in place. The use of adhesive tape is not recommended.
Catalog of Herbs
James A. Duke in Handbook of Medicinal Herbs, 2018
Regarded as antiseptic, astringent, cathartic, contraceptive, diaphoretic, emetic, emmenagogue, laxative, pediculicide, purgative, stimulant, sudorific, vasoconstrictor, vasodilator, and vermifuge, ivy is used for rheumatism, sclerosis, scrofula, toothache, etc. The leaf is used for cacoethes, calluses, cancer, cancromas, chironies, corns, warts, and wens; the juice for cancer or polyps of the nose. South African whites apply the vinegar-steeped leaves to cancerous growths and corns.3 Chinese use the leafy shoot decoction for cough and headache.16 The plant is also used for various indurations and cancers (lymph, mammaries, uterus).4 Ivy leaves were once bruised, gently boiled in wine, and drunk to alleviate intoxication by wine. Flowers, decocted in wine, were used for dysentery. Plant said to have been used as an emetic and narcotic in at least three continents. Yellow berries used for jaundice and hemoptysis. Infusion of the fruits is used for rheumatism. In the Mediterranean, ingestion of 1 g powdered fruit is said to result in sterility.1 Still, the resin has been believed to be aphrodisiac. Tender ivy twigs, boiled in butter, were used to treat sunburn. The resin from old stems is placed on toothache and is believed to be aphrodisiac, emmenagogue, and stimulant. Leaf has been applied to destroy vermin, e.g., head lice. Slight antimalarial activity is reported.18
The Empirical Examination of the Social Process of Genetic Enhancement, Objectification, and Maltreatment
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics, 2019
Sparrow’s article is a part of the literature about how enhancement would change our perceptions of ourselves, which was one of the original post-reform eugenics debates about human genetic engineering in the 1960s (Evans 2002). He cites C. S. Lewis and Hans Jonas—canonical authors in that era of debate. But Sparrow leaves the typical punchline in this literature implicit, which is that if humans are thought of as more like objects we will treat them as such (Bain, Vaes and Leyens 2014). For example, nations at war define their enemy as animals (“vermin”) or objects (“logs of wood”), which makes it easier to kill (Keen 1986), a literal “dehumanization” at the hands of government propaganda. Therefore, to tie it all together, the concern in this literature is that if we engage in human genetic enhancement, we will ever so slightly think of all humans as more like objects, and ever so slightly treat humans worse than we otherwise would. In other terms, this is not the dehumanization of any one enhanced individual, but of humanity writ large.
Lunatic Asylums and Indigenous Australians during the Nineteenth Century
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2023
Toby Raeburn, Julie Bradshaw, Odette Best, Michelle Cleary
Colonial Australians’ use of lunatic asylums to control the lives of Indigenous Australians was supported by racism held by most Australians during the nineteenth century. They embraced the ideas of people such as evolutionary scientist, Charles Darwin, who as previously cited above, believed, “Van Diemen’s Land enjoys the great advantage of being free from a native population” (Darwin, 1839). Such sentiment implied Indigenous Australians were considered little more than vermin, whose presence was advantageous to eradicate for British colonialism to thrive. In colonies that embraced such views, Australian lunatic asylums formed one type of institution alongside prisons, Government reserves and Church Missions, which were used to ‘civilize’ Indigenous Australians by inculcating them away from traditional lifestyles into behaviours colonists believed would enable a more conforming existence and demonstrated integration within British society. In such ways, treatment of Indigenous Australians correlated with British colonists’ treatment of non-conforming colonists, who were deemed lunatics.
A red herring colonization of Mycobacterium lentiflavum in cutaneous sporotrichosis lesions misleading the diagnosis
Published in Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, 2022
Thanita Thongtan, Jacob Nichols, Michelle Babb Tarbox
A 42-year-old man presented with a chronic wound on his right forearm for 1 month. He initially hit his right third digit on a tree root/branch in the swamps of Virginia while chopping a tree and sustained a contaminated laceration. Ten days later, his wound had a pimple-like nodule in the middle that later ulcerated with yellowish drainage. He went to a local clinic and underwent incision and drainage followed by a 10-day course of oral cephalexin. The patient returned to hunting the very next day, exposing his gauze-wrapped hand to a dirt pit. Over the next month, he developed multiple nontender nodules in an ascending fashion from his right wrist to the cubital fossa, subjective hardening of his blood vessels, along with swelling and aching pain of his right upper arm and axilla. He denied having fever or any other symptoms. He traveled across the United States with his dogs removing vermin (e.g., raccoon, fox, skunk, possum, and badgers) from traps or burrows and installing hardwood floors. He spent a lot of time in the woods, where he was exposed to swamps, lakes, dirt, and soil. He denied being bitten or scratched by animals.
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