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THINK PIECE: Reflecting on Medical Anthropology in Aotearoa New Zealand
In considering what makes New Zealand unique for medical anthropological focus, this think piece sets out four themes. These reflect New Zealand’s particular historical, political, social and cultural landscape, and reveal the relevance of local scholarship for wider global debates about health. By tracing the neoliberal reform of state healthcare, indigenous approaches to wellbeing, local cultural practices of health, and the complex ethics involved in health and illness, this paper spotlights the opportunities that New Zealand medical anthropology affords us for addressing the important health and wellbeing challenges that we face today
Paradoxes of Human Nature
Our psychobiological nature is characterized paradoxically by our limitedly having and not having
free will — our having this will and being subject to causes understood scientifically. Both
characteristics are necessary for an intelligible ethics, politics, and political science. In particular,
political science as a science must admit of our behavior being partially caused and of political
rights and responsibilities in virtue of our limited free will. Admitting of either only this will or
only the determinism is a central error of modern totalitarian ideology
The VLT-FLAMES Survey of Massive Stars: Observations centered on the Magellanic Cloud clusters NGC 330, NGC 346, NGC 2004, and the N11 region
We present new observations of 470 stars using the Fibre Large Array
Multi-Element Spectrograph (FLAMES) instrument in fields centered on the
clusters NGC 330 and NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), and NGC 2004
and the N11 region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). A further 14 stars were
observed in the N11 and NGC 330 fields using the Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle
Spectrograph (UVES) for a separate programme. Spectral classifications and
stellar radial velocities are given for each target, with careful attention to
checks for binarity. In particular we have investigated previously unexplored
regions around the central LH9/LH10 complex of N11, finding ~25 new O-type
stars from our spectroscopy. We have observed a relatively large number of
Be-type stars that display permitted Fe II emission lines. These are primarily
not in the cluster cores and appear to be associated with classical Be-type
stars, rather than pre main-sequence objects. The presence of the Fe II
emission, as compared to the equivalent width of H, is not obviously
dependent on metallicity. We have also explored the relative fraction of Be- to
normal B-type stars in the field-regions near to NGC 330 and NGC 2004, finding
no strong evidence of a trend with metallicity when compared to Galactic
results. A consequence of service observations is that we have reasonable
time-sampling in three of our FLAMES fields. We find lower limits to the binary
fraction of O- and early B-type stars of 23 to 36%. One of our targets
(NGC346-013) is especially interesting with a massive, apparently hotter, less
luminous secondary component.Comment: 35 pages, 17 figures (some reduced in size). Replacement copy,
includes an erratum on the final page. A copy with full res. & embedded
figures is at http://www.roe.ac.uk/~cje/flamesMC.ps.g
UV Spectroscopy of Metal-Poor Massive Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud
The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the first clear evidence for weaker
winds of metal-poor massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, confirming
theoretical predictions of the metallicity dependence of mass-loss rates and
wind terminal velocities. For lower luminosity O-type stars however, derived
mass-loss rates are orders of magnitude lower than predicted, and are at
present unexplained.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. To appear in 'The Impact of HST on European
Astronomy', Eds., G. De Marchi & F.D. Macchetto, Astrophysics & Space
Science, Springe
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