ABSTRACT
Professional curriculum planning is beginning to address issues of equity. The authors report on findings from a research initiative to begin to integrate antiracism into an undergraduate curriculum. Theory and methods of Essed, Fanon, Frankenberg, Hall, van Dijk and Woodward are synthesized for interpreting racialist discourse. The findings support the principle of normalizing accountability for discourse practices which construct whiteness and otherness in their representations. Essentialist discourse practices are implicated in the perpetuation of racism, ableism, heterosexism, ageism, etc. Hence, the ideal of equity is expanded to include the enactment of non-essentialist discourse. The logic is revealed as either/or; either equity or dominance through normalized perpetuation of essential categories assigning negative value to others constructing difference, marginalization, problematization, exclusion and containment. The confused, middle or neutral position is one of condoning racism and other forms of dominance.
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Curriculum , Nursing Education Research , Prejudice , Black or African American , Canada , Focus Groups , Humans , Interviews as Topic , Nursing Education Research/methods , Nursing Theory , Politics , Social Dominance , Social Values , White PeopleABSTRACT
A high proportion of Cree and other North American Indian children have a chronic cough and many have bronchial wall thickening on radiographs, reminiscent of white children with asthma, mild cystic fibrosis, or immune deficiency. When compared to postmortem studies, radiographs underestimate the degree of bronchial wall thickening present. As compared to white children, Indian children in the first two years of life are more susceptible to recurrent bronchitis and pneumonia, are much more likely to develop pneumonia with rubeola and pertussis, and are more likely to develop chronic lung disease after adenovirus infections. Staphylococcal complications with pneumatocele formation are more common. A greater number acquire pneumonia while in hospital with other medical or surgical problems. Indian children with pneumonia recover more slowly, and some continue to deteriorate even after admission to hospital.
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Bronchial Diseases/diagnostic imaging , Indians, North American , Pneumonia/diagnostic imaging , Adolescent , Bronchi/pathology , Bronchial Diseases/pathology , Child, Preschool , Female , Hospitalization , Humans , Infant , Male , Measles/complications , Pneumonia/etiology , Pneumonia/pathology , Prospective Studies , Radiography , Saskatchewan , Whooping Cough/complicationsABSTRACT
In three cases of intrarenal arterial collateral circulation the collateral channels developed between interlobar arteries in diseased kidneys. Probably these originated in hypertrophied spiral vessels that had arisen from the interlobar arteries in the area of the minor calyces. This form of collateral circulation will undoubtedly be recognized more frequently with the increased use of magnification radiography.
