Archive for November, 2011

Kerin Asher-Galloway

Posted By Zócalo On November 30, 2011

by Marissa Engel

It’s not every day that you go drinking with your healthcare practitioner. This is what I’m thinking as I meet midwife Kerin Asher-Galloway at Wood & Vine in Hollywood. We had met before at the Eisner Pediatric and Family Medical Center, where she works when not delivering babies at California Hospital or as part of her own homebirth practice, Haven at Home. The night we meet is ostensibly her day off, though when you have two sons, ages five and nine months, and patients who could go into labor at any time, a “day off” can be an academic concept. …

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How Doctors Die

Posted By Zócalo On November 30, 2011

by Ken Murray

Years ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopedist and a mentor of mine, found a lump in his stomach. He had a surgeon explore the area, and the diagnosis was pancreatic cancer. This surgeon was one of the best in the country. He had even invented a new procedure for this exact cancer that could triple a patient’s five-year-survival odds—from 5 percent to 15 percent—albeit with a poor quality of life. Charlie was uninterested. He went home the next day, closed his practice, and never set foot in a hospital again. He focused on spending time with family and feeling as good as possible. Several months later, he died at home. He got no chemotherapy, radiation, or surgical treatment. Medicare didn’t spend much on him. …

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The Frontier, Freud, and the Philosopher

Posted By Zócalo On November 29, 2011

The Gods of Prophetstown: The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier by Adam Jortner

The nutshell: Two hundred years after the Battle of Tippecanoe (November 7, 1811), Auburn University historian Jortner examines the conflict between American deism and Native American spiritual beliefs that led up to this clash between William Henry Harrison and Shawnee leader Tenskwatawa, which eventually made Harrison president. …

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If My Walls Could Talk

Posted By Zócalo On November 29, 2011

Brad Cloepfil and his firm, Allied Works Architecture, have designed buildings throughout the United States, from Portland’s Wieden+Kennedy building to the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. Before a wide-ranging conversation with his friend and fellow Portland resident, filmmaker Gus Van Sant, he talked art, naps, and coffee in the green room. …

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The Marriage Of Two Movements

Posted By Zócalo On November 29, 2011

Constantino Diaz-Duran is a fellow at the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State University. He is chronicling his walk from New York to Los Angeles to celebrate his eligibility for American citizenship. Follow Constantino’s progress.…

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The Lucky Ones, by Mae Ngai The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America by Mae Ngai Hyphenated cultures seem to be a natural part of California’s landscape today, but it wasn’t always so. The Lucky Ones by Mae Ngai offers a fresh look at California history by reconstructing the lives of immigrant and second generation pioneers who lived between cultures when it was not such a common phenomenon. Ngai’s narrative brings Chinese Americans into a richer tradition of historical storytelling by humanizing an ambivalent, middle-class immigrant family, situating their lives within the more well-known histories of Chinese laborers and those who suffered from the 1882 Exclusion Act.

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