Outlook Magazine, Winter 1981

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Immigrants, Immigration Law, and Tuberculosis

Current U.S. immigration law provides for the exclusion of all aliens who are determined ... to have a communicable disease of public health significance. In addition to numerous sexually transmitted diseases such as infectious syphilis and gonorrhea, communicable diseases of public health significance include infectious tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The first portion of this Article provides a brief overview of the history and epidemiology of tuberculosis, as well as the diagnosis and management of the disease. The Article next reviews current information on tuberculosis in immigrant populations and proceeds to a discussion of U.S. immigration processes relating to the excludability of non-U.S. citizens due to tuberculosis. Finally, the Article concludes with various recommendations for addressing the inadequacies of current methods for addressing tuberculosis within immigrant communities

HBCUs Abroad: Design and Delivery of the First-Year Haiti Experience

A need remains to create access to international educational opportunities for underrepresented populations. This need is due to lack of financial resources, fear of the unknown, and time away from home. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), such as, Saint Augustine’s University are working to restore the tradition of global scholarship by revitalizing the study abroad program to ensure its students truly embody the motto of “Transform, Excel, Lead”. In order to do this, the University is looking to increase the number of students exposed to and participating in study abroad programs. With an increasing presence of international students from Latin America and the Caribbean, the University is pushing to embrace diversity on campus as well as develop global perspectives among U.S students. The purpose of this capstone exercise is the presentation of a short-term, faculty-led, service-learning program to Haiti hosted by the Office of International Programs at Saint Augustine’s University. This program will be embedded in a special section of the pre-existing 17-week first-year experience course focusing on career development with a global perspective. Participants will engage in research to practice discussions as they prepare to compete for jobs and professional opportunities in a global economy.The service-learning component will focus on the study of the unique attributes of French/Haitian Creole language and culture.During the spring break, students will travel to Port-Au-Prince and Les Cayes, Haiti. This intervention aims to remove barriers related to duration, fear of the unknown, and with a unique budget model partly funded by the Marlene M. Johnson Innovation Challenge grant issued by NAFSA and the 100K Strong in the Americas, it addressed the need for financial resources. This capstone paper presents a framework for implementation and growth of study abroad programming at Saint Augustine’s University through the Office of International Programs

Spartan Daily, October 18, 1993

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The Uses of Rickets: Race, Technology, and the Politics of Preventive Medicine in the Early Twentieth Century

Rickets, the bone disease classically caused by Vitamin D deficiency, was one of the most common diseases of children 100 years ago. It has been recognized as a disease of urban living and linked to issues of race and culture for generations. This paper uses unpublished patient records from 1904 to 1909 and archival and published materials from multiple community-based trials, including the New Haven Rickets Study (1923-1926), to explore how the definition, diagnosis, and treatment of rickets shifted in the first decades of the twentieth century in the United States. Before 1910, as evidenced by patient records, neither the diagnosis nor the treatment of rickets had been standardized. The disease was frequently presented as a disease of African-Americans or Italian immigrants and used to reinforce racial stereotypes, to promote the assimilation of immigrants into majority cultures, and to call for behavioral change. In the second and third decades of the twentieth century, as clinicians and scientists unraveled the twin roles of diet and sunlight exposure in the diseases etiology, both diagnosis and treatment became more standardized. But this standardizationincluding exchanging bedside diagnosis for X-ray technology and promoting general preventive measuresaltered the perceived prevalence and even the definition of the disease. By the mid-1920s, rickets was promoted as universal, at times invisible to non-experts, but present to some degree in nearly every young child regardless of race or class. It was thus used to promote the young disciplines of preventive medicine, pediatrics, and public health. Rickets therefore provides an excellent window into the early politics of preventive health in the United States and a relevant historical counterpoint for current debates over the role of race and ethnicity as risk factors for disease; the use of diagnostic technology in defining disease; and the promotion of targeted interventions for todays so-called lifestyle diseases

St. Luke’s College of Nursing, Tokyo, Japan: The intersections of an Episcopal Church Mission Project, Rockefeller Foundation Philanthropy, and the Development of Nursing in Japan, 1918-1941.

ST. LUKE’S COLLEGE OF NURSING, TOKYO, JAPAN: THE INTERSECTIONS OF AN EPISCOPAL CHURCH MISSION PROJECT, ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION PHILANTHROPY, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF NURSING IN JAPAN, 1918-1941. Kathleen M. Nishida, MSN, CNM Patricia D’ Antonio PhD, RN, FAAN The leadership at St. Luke’s International Hospital and its nurse training program were very vocal about being a state of the art medical facility that sought through its nurse training program to raise the quality of nursing education and practice in Japan. They very clearly sought to reproduce American styled nursing education at St. Luke’s. To achieve this they brought nurses from the United States to teach and manage the nurse training program and brought Japanese nurses from Japan to the United States for post graduate studies and observation experiences. This study examines the tensions that exist at the intersections of a foreign Episcopal Church mission project, Rockefeller Foundation philanthropy, and the development of nursing in Japan. This study uses historical methodology and is a transnational study. A theory of Critical Transnational Feminism (CTF) is used to consider issues of race, class, and gender at St. Luke’s International Hospital and School of Nursing in Tokyo, Japan in the early twentieth century. The collaboration between Japanese nurses, physicians, and board members with American missionary nurses and doctors to lead and develop a world class medical center and school of nursing provides an opportunity to probe issues of power based on gender, race, and class. The CTF lens calls attention to the tendency of transnational history to often be Western-centric and has provided a framework to go deeper into an equitable representation of transnational studies. This study has found that lay medical missionaries prioritized their professional goals over the Christianizing goals of the church. The study reveals that power in the transnational space was a shifting and contested quality. Although Japanese and American actors at St. Luke’s talked about cultural diplomacy the relationships that they had were still hierarchical across race, gender and professional boundaries. Nursing at St. Luke’s represented progressive professionalization movements for women for both Japanese and American nurses. Nurses who traveled had elite social opportunities because of the associations that they had in their international work. Finally, St. Luke’s was uniquely positioned to develop public health nursing in Japan and they had significant impact in that area

Spartan Daily, October 1, 1997

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The Register, 1973-11-02

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