Controlling Tuberculosis in the United States: Recommendations from the American Thoracic Society, CDC, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America

2005 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Thoracic Society

scholarly journals Learning to Detain Asylum Seekers and the Growth of Mass Immigration Detention in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Smita Ghosh ◽  
Mary Hoopes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Cognitive Dissonance ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
The United States ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Immigration Detention ◽  
Important Shift

Drawing upon an analysis of congressional records and media coverage from 1981 to 1996, this article examines the growth of mass immigration detention. It traces an important shift during this period: while detention began as an ad hoc executive initiative that was received with skepticism by the legislature, Congress was ultimately responsible for entrenching the system over objections from the agency. As we reveal, a critical component of this evolution was a transformation in Congress’s perception of asylum seekers. While lawmakers initially decried their detention, they later branded them as dangerous. Lawmakers began describing asylum seekers as criminals or agents of infectious diseases in order to justify their detention, which then cleared the way for the mass detention of arriving migrants more broadly. Our analysis suggests that they may have emphasized the dangerousness of asylum seekers to resolve the dissonance between their theoretical commitments to asylum and their hesitance to welcome newcomers. In addition to this distinctive form of cognitive dissonance, we discuss a number of other implications of our research, including the ways in which the new penology framework figured into the changing discourse about detaining asylum seekers.

Handbuch der Kinderheilkunde

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 803-804
Author(s):  
HEINZ F. EICHENWALD
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
The United States ◽  
Urinary System ◽  
Cardiopulmonary Function ◽  
Entire Field ◽  
Social Pediatrics

Volume III of the Handbuch der Kinderheilkunde contributes another significant segment to the encyclopedic exposition of the entire field of pediatrics, which eventually will occupy nine large volumes. Volumes II and IV have previously been reviewed in this journal. Also available at this time are Volume V (Infectious Diseases) and Volume VII (The Lungs, The Heart, Cardiopulmonary Function, The Kidneys, and The Urinary System). Volume III deals with two separate fields, immunology and social pediatrics. It contains contributions by 67 authors; most authors are from Germany but some are also from Switzerland Poland, and the United States.

Vaccination against herpesviruses

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 496-498
Author(s):  
Philip Brunell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
The United States

The elimination of infectious diseases in the United States during this century has been a truly remarkable achievement. Mortality from diphtheria, smallpox, pertussis, poliomyelitis, and tetanus have been reduced dramatically. Consequently, attention turned to the conquest of diseases such as measles, rubella, and even mumps. As the expertise which was acquired in these efforts is applied to elimination of infectious diseases that produce relatively less morbidity, the wisdom of pursuing these goals is critically evaluated. Skepticism stems not only from bureaucratic considerations of cost-benefit ratios, but also from the fear that vaccines are not themselves without risks. We have been sensitized, if you will excuse the pun, by a number of sobering experiences such as the use of killed measles vaccines.

Bacterial Infecfions: Changes in Their Causative Agents—Trends and Possible Basis (Bayer—Symposium III), edited by M. Finland, W. Marget, and K. Bartmann. New York/Heidelberg/Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1971, 231 pp., $15.00

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 833-833
Author(s):  
John D. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Bacterial Infections ◽  
The United States ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Causative Agents ◽  
Changing Patterns

Almost two years ago a group of eminent international authorities in the field of infectious diseases gathered near Cologne, Germany, for a week of reflection and discussion concerning the changing patterns of bacterial infections in recent decades and the possible reasons for the changes. The United States was represented by Drs. M. Finland and E. H. Kass of Boston, F. Daschner of Los Angeles, and A. von Graevenitz of New Haven. Other scientists were from Germany, France, Sweden, Great Britain, Switzerland, and Denmark.

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