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Topographies of Gendered Violence: (Trans)Forming Hospitality in Ryka Aoki’s Light from Uncommon Stars

open access: yesIlha do Desterro
In this article, I explore Ryka Aoki’s science fiction novel, Light from Uncommon Stars (2021) and its depiction of social and spatial violence against trans* women in a North American context.
Beatriz Hermida Ramos
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Nourishing the Body, Disenfranchising the Spirit: Convivial Hospitality, Dignity, and Commensality in a Presbyterian Church in Toronto

open access: yes, 2022
Within the multicultural and multiracial city of Toronto Ontario, the space of the church is a place for racialized and white Presbyterian women to negotiate convivial hospitality, dignity, and notions of the good life.
Davidson, Lisa M., Lisa Davidson
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American Hospitality: The Politics of Conditionality in Twentieth-Century U.S. Fiction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
American Hospitality rereads the canon of American literature by focusing attention on the centrality of hospitality to the twentieth-century American literary imagination. It argues that twentieth-century U.S.
Gleich, Lewis S
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Racial differences in cerebrovascular disease hospitalizations. [PDF]

open access: yesStroke, 1991
We studied the relationship of race to incidence of hospitalization for cerebrovascular disease among 74,096 white and 33,041 black persons who took health examinations in a prepaid health care program. Analyses were controlled for age, sex, body mass index, coffee use, smoking, alcohol use, systolic blood pressure, and baseline disease. Blacks were at
A L, Klatsky   +2 more
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Racial Disparities in Medicaid Asthma Hospitalizations

open access: yesPediatrics, 2017
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Black children with asthma comprise one-third of all asthma patients in Medicaid. With increasing Medicaid coverage, it has become especially important to monitor Medicaid for differences in hospital practice and patient outcomes by race.METHODS:A multivariate matched cohort design, studying 11 079 matched pairs of children in
Silber, Jeffrey H.   +7 more
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Racial Differences in Clinical Phenotype and Hospitalization of Blastomycosis Patients [PDF]

open access: yesOpen Forum Infectious Diseases, 2019
AbstractBackgroundDimorphic fungal infections, such as blastomycosis, cause significant morbidity and mortality. Historically, blastomycosis studies have focused on non-Hispanic whites, which limits our understanding of the clinical presentation and outcomes for patients of other races and ethnicities.
Anderson, Jennifer L   +3 more
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Use of High-Volume Hospitals [PDF]

open access: yesINQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2009
Differences in the source of care could contribute to racial and ethnic disparities in health status. This study looks at a major metropolitan area and examines racial and ethnic differences in the use of high-volume hospitals for 17 services for which there is a documented positive volume-outcome relationship.
Bradford H. Gray   +3 more
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The effect of market reform on racial differences in hospital mortality [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of General Internal Medicine, 2006
To determine whether racial differences in hospital mortality worsened after implementation of a New Jersey law in 1993 that reduced subsidies for uninsured hospital care and changed hospital payment from rate regulation to price competition.State discharge data for New Jersey and New York from 1990 to 1996.We used an interrupted time series design to ...
Kevin G M, Volpp   +2 more
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Report on Racial Disparities in Hospitalized Patients with Hyperglycemia and Diabetes [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2016
A higher prevalence of diabetes-related complications is reported in minority populations; however, it is not known if there are racial disparities in diabetes care and outcomes in hospitalized patients.Our objective was to determine the association between hyperglycemia, in patients with and without diabetes mellitus (non-DM), and complications among ...
Maya, Fayfman   +9 more
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Racial and Health Disparities among Cirrhosis-related Hospitalizations in the USA [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Clinical and Translational Hepatology, 2021
Abstract Data are scanty on racial disparities in alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) hospitalizations. National Inpatient Sample on 199,748 cirrhosis hospitalizations, 14,241 (2,893 AI/AN, 2,893 whites, 2,882 blacks, 2,879 Hispanics, and 2,694 Asian/other race) was matched 1:1 for demographics, insurance, and income quartile of residence ...
Ashwani K Singal   +3 more
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