Statistical methodology for personalized medicine: New developments at EORTC Headquarters since the turn of the 21st Century

The book of Numbers presents numerous problems for interpreters who attempt to garner a sense of meaning from the disparate texts and genres found interspersed throughout the work. This dissertation is a methodological study that incorporates features of form-critical theory, which developed over the course of the 20th century and continues to evolve in the 21st century, alongside literary approaches to the biblical text, specifically the analysis of characterization, to present a new reading of the book of Numbers. After surveying recent research on the book of Numbers, new developments in form-critical method, and approaches to characterization in biblical studies, the work offers a methodological proposal for reading Numbers along synchronic lines, according to the rubrics of structure, characterization, and literary setting. The approach analyzes the form rather than the formation of the text, and, by highlighting the role of characterization within the form-critical enterprise, provides a reading that considers the structure and flow of the book of Numbers as well as, through intertextual readings, the significance of Numbers in the broader structure of the Torah. The remainder of the work analyzes four texts from the book of Numbers: The Commission of the Levites (3:5-51); The Purification of the Levites (8:5-22); The Three-Day Journey from Sinai (10:33-11:34); and The Complaint of Miriam and Aaron (11:35-12:15). Each text is read in relation to the dominant structural marker of the Torah, the toledoth formula, and, particularly, the final formulaic marker in 3:1. Each of the four texts presents a model of Judean leadership set in a narrative that sequentially builds by using the Levites as characters that are assigned roles and appear as illustrations for additional roles necessary to maintain holiness in the camp. As the Torah is structured as a creation text (Gen 1-2; Exod 40:17), the dissertation finds that material in Numbers, which follows the completion of the creation narrative in Exod 40:17 by resetting the narrative chronologically to the same time (Num 3:1; 7:1; 9:15; cf. 1:1), is designed to illustrate the levitical task to maintain creation through attending to holiness. Now that creation has reached completion with the dangerous presence of the holy deity residing within Israel, proper management under proper leadership will result in blessing, but inattentiveness to holiness by the leadership or others is liable to incite danger. The new reading attends to discussions of structure, plot, and coherence in Numbers as well as theological concerns related to leadership, holiness, and divine violence.

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Prainsack, B. Personalized Medicine: Empowered Patients in the 21st Century?New York: New York University Press. 2017. 288 pp.

Sociology of Health & Illness ◽

10.1111/1467-9566.12953 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 41 (7) ◽

pp. 1465-1466

Author(s):

Andrew Bartlett

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Personalized Medicine ◽

21St Century ◽

New York University

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Personalized Medicine: Empowered Patients in the 21st Century? By Barbara Prainsack. New York: New York University Press, 2017. Pp. xvi+271. $89.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).

American Journal of Sociology ◽

10.1086/703728 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 125 (1) ◽

pp. 308-309

Author(s):

Jeremy Freese

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Personalized Medicine ◽

21St Century ◽

New York University

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Reframing Islamic Art for the 21st Century

Horizons in Humanities and Social Sciences An International Refereed Journal ◽

10.19089/hhss.v2i2.53 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Carol Bier

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Los Angeles ◽

South Asia ◽

Central Asia ◽

21St Century ◽

Metropolitan Museum ◽

Islamic Art ◽

Kuala Lumpur ◽

New Developments ◽

Metropolitan Museum Of Art

The celebrated Islamic galleries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York reopened in 2011 as “Galleries for the Art of Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia.” Other major collections of Islamic art have been reorganized and reinstalled in Berlin, Cairo, Cleveland, Copenhagen, Detroit, Kuwait, London, Los Angeles, Paris, and Singapore, and new museums of Islamic art have been established in Doha, Qatar; Honolulu, Hawaii; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Sharjah, U.A.E. In addition, the first museum in North America dedicated to Islamic art recently opened in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This article explores this global phenomenon, identifying it as both a literal and conceptual “reframing of Islamic art for the 21st century,” setting the world stage for new developments in cultural understanding.Keywords: Islamic art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Art of Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia”

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Personalized medicine: what are the challenges for health services?

Journal of Health Services Research & Policy ◽

10.1177/1355819617702174 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 198-200

Author(s):

Walter Ricciardi

Keyword(s):

Personalized Medicine ◽

Health Services ◽

21St Century ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Vital Role ◽

Biomedical Sciences ◽

Organization Of Care ◽

Genetics And Genomics

Genetics and genomics, together with other biomedical sciences and digital technologies, have a vital role to play in transforming health services to become systems that can work for health in the 21st century in ways that are affordable and that respond to individuals’ requirement for more autonomy. Health services should embrace this agenda and implement changes in the organization of care.

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