The Story of Gout

It had long been suspected that gout might be a disease of varying origins, but it has only been during the present century that primary or acquired gout and hereditary gout have been clearly defined and differentiated. A considerable number of secondary types are now recognised. Several are of iatrogenic nature, whereas others result from disorders of the blood, the bone marrow and the metabolism, as well as from associated specific defects such as those in the Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome of children. Increasing knowledge of gout\u27s chemical secrets, however, is resulting in improved treatment, and we can now assert that gout is perhaps the disease of which we have the most detailed specific understanding and the most effective control. With cooperation from the sufferer and a mild dietary regime, we can now prevent any damage which has already occurred from progressing and, thus, avoid recurrent or progressive deterioration. In almost every case we can now terminate the occurrence of the painful acute attacks by use of modern chemotherapy

Housing First Feasibility Study for the Liverpool City Region : Final Report

This study was commissioned by Crisis, with funding from the (UK Government) Department for Communities and Local Government and the Housing First Europe Hub. It was conducted by a consortium led by Imogen Blood & Associates and including Housing & Support Partnership, HGO Consultancy, and the Centre for Housing Policy (University of York). The study aimed to test the feasibility of implementing Housing First at scale within the Liverpool City Region (LCR) by using a wide range of quantitative and qualitative data from LCR to develop, evaluate and propose a model for implementing Housing First at scale within the region; assessing the financial and commissioning implications of making the transition to this model; and, understanding the local and national policy changes needed to support this model

Surprise, as Usual:Reflections on Five Months of Fieldwork on Personal Names and Renaming in Delhi

This research project, which is supported by an Independent Social Research Foundation Early CareerFellowship with a supplementary grant from the British Academy, analyses the significance of naming andrenaming practices in relation to caste and religion in India. Though frequently stigmatizing, caste namescan be treated inventively: hidden, changed, or subject to revaluation. The project seeks to explorehistorical strategies of naming and renaming whilst also bringing the study squarely into the present: whatcan naming strategies tell us about Indian society in a time of expedited social transition? The aim is tosynthesize and reinterpret existing approaches to the naming of persons in India whilst also developingoriginal ethnographic case-studies focusing on three contested areas: low- and high-caste strategies ofname-changing, Sikh reformist attempts to reinvigorate the religion’s anti-caste sentiments throughparticular kinds of naming practices, and secularist, anti-caste activists’ provision of 'secular names' suchas the given name 'Sanketh' (Information) and surname 'No-caste'

Secularism's names:Commitment to confusion and the pedagogy of the name

This essay takes up social and political questions of naming that are often ignored in studies of inequality or exclusion. What if South Asian personal names ceased to reveal demographic ‘data’ about their bearers, scrambling any attempt at automatic categorization? The focus here is on naming and/or renaming for ideological reasons, and in such ways that the identity of the bearer is deliberately blurred. Grounded in ethnographic work amongst committed proponents of secularism in India (principally rationalist, humanist, and atheist activists), the essay identifies two main strategies that activists use for the production of ‘disidentification’: purification of the caste and religious connotations of names, and multiplication of those connotations in the giving of boundary-crossing names. Common to each is a rationale that seeks to break the association between name and pigeonholed identity. However, acts of renaming, and non-normative names as such, can be and are contested. Thus, in order to clarify what is at stake in the domain of secular naming practices the essay also focuses on debates and criticisms from both within and outside it

Informing a Distracted Audience: News Narratives In Breakfast Television

This thesis takes its lead from Baym’s (2004) suggestion that incorporation of entertainment techniques into television news undermines its authority and credibility. To explore this question, textual analysis was conducted on the news bulletins of Australian breakfast television programs Sunrise and Today with regard to narrative features and the spread of traditional news conventions compared to entertainment techniques. This analysis was followed by a discussion of the dominant meanings produced by the news narratives of Sunrise and Today. The two programs employed similar narrative styles that largely adhered to traditional news conventions, positioning themselves as impartial and authoritative relayers of news. However, narratives of both programs also diverged from traditional news: both used entertainment conventions – with Today often abandoning the traditional Inverted Pyramid news story structure for new structures – and contained briefer stories, with references to the opinions and personal experiences of the item presenters. In some breakfast news items, the short and sometimes personal narrative structure diminished the construction of impartiality. While entertainment techniques represented a potential threat to the overall authority of the news, in this analysis, the threat was mitigated by the dominance of traditional news conventions and authority was retained. In summary, departures from traditional news narrative structure and delivery are evident in Australian breakfast television, and may partly decrease its news authority and impartiality. However, the ability of these programs to retain distracted breakfast audiences may depend on the brief, entertaining and sometimes personal nature of the news items