Soy Ingestion in Patients with Estrogen Receptor Positive Breast Cancer

Soy is a compound that is often touted for its potential health benefits, including for its potential ability to prevent particular types of breast cancer. However, many researchers and medical providers present evidence that reveals the harmful effects that soy may have on various types of breast cancer, namely estrogen receptor positive breast cancer. The latter group of researchers argue that soy chemically mimics estrogen and therefore has similar “feeding” effects on estrogen receptor positive breast cancer. As two very distinct groups of evidence exist regarding the potential benefits and harm of soy ingestion in patients with estrogen receptor positive breast cancer, this PICO evaluation will examine the problem at hand in an attempt to draw an educated and evidence-based conclusion with regard to the effects of soy consumption in these patients

Affective Assemblages: Entanglements & Ruptures—An Interview with Lauren Berlant

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The peace process: A case study

This thesis is a case study of the ongoing peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, and the lack of impact that past agreements have made on the recent Oslo Accords. The thesis will attempt to show that past failures in \u27land for peace\u27 agreements between Israel and Arab countries only illustrate what is in store for the Oslo Accords. In addition, the current Israeli administration\u27s failure to concede the disputed land in the occupied territories is in part, due to the fear of an emerging Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The dangers of an independent Palestinian state will be examined, both the strategic and geographic implications, and some economic difficulties the Israelis will be faced with. Finally, the continuing impact of the PLO\u27s role in this arena will be examined

Bringing Nanda forward, or acting your age in The Awkward Age

Henry James’s 1899 novel, The Awkward Age posits the adolescent girl’s movement forward into the future as an acute problem for the fin-de-siècle. The novel’s titular pun equates the awkward, individual, in-between time of adolescence with the awkward, collective, in-between time of the fin-de-siècle, leading us both towards the turn-of-the-century ‘invention’ of the modern adolescent, and towards James’ exploration of the culturally constructed nature of age as an identity category. The conflation of individual ages with historical ones is significant; James’s novel appeared on the cusp of a new century, at a moment when adolescence was in the process of being consolidated as a modern identity category by medical authorities, educators, and psychologists. The novel’s deploying of technologies such as the telegraph and the photograph, that mediate presence, speed time up, slow it down, and freeze it, posits the adolescent girl as cognate with modernity; both of her time and ahead of it. In the novel, adolescence is an awkward, unnerving presence, and a significant absence: an identity in the process of being formulated, and an age category to come. In this article I explore the ways in which the rhetoric of modernity that resonates throughout the book relates to the awkward age of the adolescent. If we refocus our attention on age in The Awkward Age, we can begin to see the ways in which age itself becomes a creation of James’s, a staging of possible relations (sexual, conversational, economic, theatrical, performative, even utopian-collective) between older and younger interlocutors who swing between being ‘adults’ and ‘children,’ with the fin-de-siècle invention of the adolescent as a hinge for this process

Sexe en public

À partir d’un questionnement sur les médiations de la sexualité dans l’espace public, l’article propose une analyse critique de l’hétéronormativité inspirée aussi bien par les travaux de Jürgen Habermas et Michel Foucault que par la théorie queer. Il donne à voir le processus de constitution de l’hétéronormativité en une culture publique hégémonique. Bien que la culture hétérosexuelle ne compose ni une idéologie cohérente, ni un ensemble homogène de croyances partagées, elle se manifeste de façon diffuse dans presque chaque aspect des formes et des arrangements de la vie sociale : la nationalité, l’État et le droit, l’économie, la médecine, l’éducation ou encore les conventions narratives. Une telle culture publique prend appui sur l’idéologie de l’intimité et ses institutions qui participent d’un double mouvement de privatisation du sexe et de sexualisation de la personnalité. En excluant le sexe des objets de débat public et en le réduisant à une affaire strictement personnelle, les conventions hétéronormatives de l’intimité empêchent la formation de cultures sexuelles publiques non normatives.This essay interrogates the mediations of sexuality in the public sphere and provides a critical analysis of heteronormativity inspired by works by Jürgen Habermas, Michel Foucault and queer theory. More specifically, it explores the construction of heteronormativity as a hegemonic public culture. Although heterosexual culture is neither a single ideology nor a unified set of beliefs, it manifests itself in almost every aspect of the forms and arrangements of social life: nationality, the State, and the law; commerce; medicine; and education; as well as narrative conventions. Such a public culture relies on the ideology and institutions of intimacy, which contribute to a double movement of privatization of sex and sexualization of personhood. By making sex seem irrelevant or merely personal, heteronormative conventions of intimacy block the building of nonnormative public sexual cultures

Sex in public

Aineisto on Opiskelijakirjaston digitoimaa ja Opiskelijakirjasto vastaa aineiston käyttöluvist

Stakkels Eliza

Rodgers og Hammersteins Kongen og jeg er et sjældent eksempel på et stykke klassisk americana, som ikke udspiller sig i Amerika. Den overdådige musical foregår, atypisk nok for samtiden (1949), under en krise i forholdet mellem Det britiske Imperium og Siam, der involverer en række forskellige militære og økonomiske intriger, men koncentrerer sig om en kulturalistisk politik. Fra åbningen med Anna Leonowens’ ankomst til Siam minder stykket om, at Storbritannien har eksporteret en civilisatorisk pædagogik som en del af sin imperiebygningsstrategi: Leonowens bliver importeret, så hun kan ”bringe det gode i vestlig kultur til Siam” (Rodgers og Hammerstein 379). Hendes læresætninger omfatter respekt for ”videnskaben” og for anti-despotismen i både den politiske sfære og i paladsets

Prospective open-label study of add-on and monotherapy topiramate in civilians with chronic nonhallucinatory posttraumatic stress disorder

BACKGROUND: In order to confirm therapeutic effects of topiramate on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) observed in a prior study, a new prospective, open-label study was conducted to examine acute responses in chronic, nonhallucinatory PTSD. METHODS: Thirty-three consecutive newly recruited civilian adult outpatients (mean age 46 years, 85% female) with DSM-IV-diagnosed chronic PTSD, excluding those with concurrent auditory or visual hallucinations, received topiramate either as monotherapy (n = 5) or augmentation (n = 28). The primary measure was a change in the PTSD Checklist-Civilian Version (PCL-C) score from baseline to 4 weeks, with response defined as a ≥ 30% reduction of PTSD symptoms. RESULTS: For those taking the PCL-C at both baseline and week 4 (n = 30), total symptoms declined by 49% at week 4 (paired t-test, P < 0.001) with similar subscale reductions for reexperiencing, avoidance/numbing, and hyperarousal symptoms. The response rate at week 4 was 77%. Age, sex, bipolar comorbidity, age at onset of PTSD, duration of symptoms, severity of baseline PCL-C score, and monotherapy versus add-on medication administration did not predict reduction in PTSD symptoms. Median time to full response was 9 days and median dosage was 50 mg/day. CONCLUSIONS: Promising open-label findings in a new sample converge with findings of a previous study. The use of topiramate for treatment of chronic PTSD, at least in civilians, warrants controlled clinical trials