Introduction: “Engaging with the writings of Denise Ferreira da Silva”

This is the final version. Available from Berghahn Journals via the DOI in this record. This interdisciplinary forum convenes a wide-ranging conversation centred around the writings of Denise Ferreira da Silva, whose unrelenting inquiry locates the workings of raciality in the very constitution of the modern subject, and, relatedly, global and historical consciousness. Da Silva’s excavation of raciality is consequently expansive in its implications and fundamental in its focus. Throughout her oeuvre, including Unpayable Debt (2022) and Toward a Global Idea of Race (2007), the crucial role of ‘law’ in legitimizing the modern, global racial and economic order remains a central problem. Da Silva’s decolonial agenda will meet with immediate sympathy from many in anthropology – a discipline that has engaged in sustained auto-critique of its own complicity in racialized colonial rule for decades (see Asad 1975; Lewis 1973; Pels and Salemink 2000; for a contemporary instance, cf. Price 2011). However, da Silva shows that any narrow focus on specifc direct linkages to related problematics of knowledge production occludes the constitutive role of modern subjectivity in the globalization of modern juridical rule itself. The ambition of da Silva’s excavation addresses, among other things, such recurring questions for legal anthropology as: ‘who has law and in what sense can diferent populations be said to have law?’; ‘how has the idea of “law” helped to reproduce the very world wrought by the post-Enlightenment?’; and ‘How might we test the limits of law?

Analysis of the capacity of google trends to measure interest in conservation topics and the role of online news

With the continuous growth of internet usage, Google Trends has emerged as a source of information to investigate how social trends evolve over time. Knowing how the level of interest in conservation topics--approximated using Google search volume--varies over time can help support targeted conservation science communication. However, the evolution of search volume over time and the mechanisms that drive peaks in searches are poorly understood. We conducted time series analyses on Google search data from 2004 to 2013 to investigate: (i) whether interests in selected conservation topics have declined and (ii) the effect of news reporting and academic publishing on search volume. Although trends were sensitive to the term used as benchmark, we did not find that public interest towards conservation topics such as climate change, ecosystem services, deforestation, orangutan, invasive species and habitat loss was declining. We found, however, a robust downward trend for endangered species and an upward trend for ecosystem services. The quantity of news articles was related to patterns in Google search volume, whereas the number of research articles was not a good predictor but lagged behind Google search volume, indicating the role of news in the transfer of conservation science to the public

Early Clinical Manifestations Associated with Death from Visceral Leishmaniasis

The visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a disease potentially fatal if not diagnosed and treated opportunely. This article presents the results of the study on the manifestations identified at the time of the clinical suspicion of the VL cases. This study was conducted in Belo Horizonte, the capital of the State of Minas Gerais, located in southeastern Brazil. This study is both timely and substantive because the Belo Horizonte is an area of transmission of VL, with one of the highest VL-death proportions of Brazil. The patients with higher risk of death had at least one of the following characteristics: ≥60 years, weakness, HIV co-infection, bleeding, jaundice and other associated infections. During the period 2002–2009, 8% to 22% of the patients with VL progressed to death in Belo Horizonte, whilst the proportion in the country was much lower and varied between 5% and 9%. This study has identified vulnerable patients who are at higher risk of death from VL and who would benefit from early predictive evaluation of the prognostic. Hence, the knowledge regarding the factors associated with death may contribute for clinical management and for reduction of deaths from VL

– Cardiodesfibrilador Implantável – Infecção em DCEI – Papel dos Fármacos Antiarrítmicos – Direção Veicular em Portadores de DCEI

Desde o primeiro implante, em 1980, até os dias atuais, ocorreram importantes avanços no cardiodesfibrilador implantável (CDI), tanto no tamanho como nas funções e programações. Atualmente esses dispositivos dispõem de terapia antitaquicardia (ATP), cardioversão com baixa energia, desfibrilação com alta energia e função antibradicardia de backup. Diversos estudos de grande porte demonstraram que o CDI trata efetivamente os eventos de taquicardia ventricular e fibrilação ventricular, reduzindo a mortalidade quando comparado com fármacos antiarrítmicos isoladamente.[...

– Terapia de Ressincronização Cardíaca

A insuficiência cardíaca é uma significante causa de morbidade e mortalidade em todo o mundo, com prevalência de 2,4% dos adultos 1 (A). Embora a sobrevivência após o diagnóstico de insuficiência cardíaca tenha melhorado nas duas últimas décadas, as taxas de morte e hospitalização por insuficiência cardíaca permanecem altas e aproximadamente 50% dos pacientes morrem dentro de 5 anos do diagnóstico 1 (A). Adicionalmente, a despeito do tratamento medicamentoso otimizado, muitos pacientes com insuficiência cardíaca permanecem sintomáticos e com redução da qualidade de vida 2 (D)

– Implante de Marcapasso nas Bradicardias e em Outras Situações Especiais – Estratificação de Risco de Morte Súbita na Cardiomiopatia Chagásica

A frequência cardíaca normal varia de 60 bpm a 100 bpm. Ritmos com frequência cardíaca < 60 bpm são definidos como bradicardia, que pode ser assintomática ou sintomática. As bradicardias sintomáticas têm características clínicas comuns, marcadas, sobretudo, pela síndrome do baixo fluxo cerebral e/ou sistêmico, cujos sintomas mais comuns são tontura, pré-síncope, síncope, fadiga, dispneia de esforço e bradipsiquismo, sendo comumente ocasionadas por doença do nó sinusal e bloqueio atrioventricular. As assintomáticas, geralmente, são de causas fisiológicas, representadas por bradicardia sinusal e ritmos de escape da junção atrioventricular

Effect of Sanitation on Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infection: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

A systematic review and meta-analysis by Kathrin Ziegelbauer and colleagues finds that sanitation is associated with a reduced risk of transmission of helminthiases to humans