The Iowa Homemaker vol.4, no.9

Table of Contents Creamy Candles for Christmas by Beth Bailey McLean, page 3 The Home Guide by Dorothy G. Miller, page 4 Christmas Desserts by Adele Herbst, page 5 A Project in Homemaking by Elizabeth Storms Ferguson, page 6 Let’s Have a Christmas Party by Ann Leichleiter and Marvel Secor, page 6 Home Economics in New Zealand by Lillian B. Storms, page 7 The Christmas Bird by Grace Heidbreder, page 8 Helps from Our Extension Office by Viola Jammer, page 8 Who’s There and Where by Pearl Harris, page 9 Editorial, page 10 The Work of the Juvenile Court, page 11 The Eternal Question, page 1

The large grey area between ‘bona fide’ and ‘rogue’ stem cell interventions — ethical acceptability and the need to include local variability

This article aims to put into perspective the binary opposition between ‘scientific’ clinical research trials and ‘rogue’ experimental stem cell therapies, and to show why the ethics criteria used by the dominant science community are not suitable for distinguishing between adequate and inadequate treatments. By focusing on the grey area between clinical stem cell trials and stem cell experimentation, the experimental space where patients, medical professionals and life scientists negotiate for diverging reasons and aims, I show why idealised notions of ethics are not feasible for many stem cell scientists in low- and middle-income countries. Drawing on fieldwork in China from 2012 to 2013, the article asks why ‘the unethical’ according to some is acceptable to Chinese life scientists. The case study of stem cell service provider Beike Biotech illustrates how stem cell interventions take place in a large grey area, where narrow notions of ethics are blurred with and supplanted by broader notions of ethics, co-determined by estimations of socio-economic, political and cultural understandings of risk, opportunity and benefit. I borrow the term ‘bionetworking’, understood as the entrepreneurial aspects of scientific networks that engage in creating biomedical products, to analyse various forms of medical experimentation. I speak of the ‘externalisation’ and ‘internalisation’ of local factors to elucidate how features of patient populations and their environments are subsumed in clinical research applications. Compared to polarised views of stem cell therapy, this approach increases the transparency of clinical interventions and broadens our understanding of why ‘stem cell tourism’ to some is ‘stem cell therapy’ to others

Let's Have a Christmas Party

'When everyone is home from school during Christmas vacation and there are parties galore, it is always a puzzle to find some different way to decorate the table. If you take some stiff paper, your pencil. eraser, paints, paste and some bits of bright silks and laces you can soon make some place cards that will give you opportunity to express the individuality of your guests.</p

The Iowa Homemaker vol.4, no.9

Table of Contents Creamy Candles for Christmas by Beth Bailey McLean, page 3 The Home Guide by Dorothy G. Miller, page 4 Christmas Desserts by Adele Herbst, page 5 A Project in Homemaking by Elizabeth Storms Ferguson, page 6 Let’s Have a Christmas Party by Ann Leichleiter and Marvel Secor, page 6 Home Economics in New Zealand by Lillian B. Storms, page 7 The Christmas Bird by Grace Heidbreder, page 8 Helps from Our Extension Office by Viola Jammer, page 8 Who’s There and Where by Pearl Harris, page 9 Editorial, page 10 The Work of the Juvenile Court, page 11 The Eternal Question, page 12</p

Influences on plant nutritional variation and their potential effects on hominin diet selection

The selection of foods in any environment depends on a variety of factors, including the nutrient availability and antifeedant loads in the component habitats. How these nutritional properties vary and covary in time and space is not well known, particularly among wild plant species. We collected plant samples from several habitats within the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa, and measured their macronutrient and antifeedant properties in order to explore how season, habitat, plant type, and plant organ affected the quality of these potential plant foods. Our results have implications for early hominin use of similar habitats