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Updates on Giant Cell Arteritis: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Treatment, volume II
Giant cell arteritis (GCA) or 'temporal arteritis’ symptoms include a new headache around the temples as well as the front, top and back of the skull. Other common symptoms include fatigue, weight-loss, an unexplained fever and can include pains in the jaw, throat and tongue, double vision and eventually blindness. Blindness resulting from GCA can occur suddenly however early treatment can prevent this. While there is no simple diagnosis for GCA, ultrasound has recently emerged as a leading diagnostic resource for early detection of this severe condition. High dose corticosteroid treatment is still the mainstream of treatment but IL6 inhibition has provided new opportunities to these patients and has also challenged classic treatment algorithms.
New insights into the role of imaging in large vessel vasculitis
Due to the heterogeneity of clinical manifestations, the diagnosis, monitoring, and risk stratification of large vessel vasculitis (LVV) can pose a challenge. As a result of technological progress in recent decades, a variety of non-invasive imaging modalities now play a crucial role in managing LVV. Ultrasound (US), 18-FDG positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and CT have proven useful in managing giant cell arteritis (GCA) and Takayasu arteritis (TAK). The aim of this Research Topic is to compile a collection of articles that provide new insights and potential applications of imaging, especially but not limited to US, FDG-PET/CT, MRI, and CT, in the management of GCA, TAK, and isolated aortitis. The collection aims to cover various aspects, such as diagnosis, disease monitoring, defining remission, and risk stratification.
Roman Comedy
This book explores the social institutions, the prevailing social values, and the ideology of the ancient city-state as revealed in Roman Comedy. "The very essence of comedy is social," writes David Konstan, "and in the complex movement of its plots we may be able to discern the lineaments and contradictions of the reigning ideas of an age." David Konstan looks closely at eight plays: Plautus's Aulularia, Asinaria, Captivi, Rudens, Cistellaria, and Truculentus, and Terence's Phormio and Hecyra. Offering new interpretations of each, he develops a "typology of plot forms" by analyzing structural features and patterns of conventional behavior in the plays, and he relates the results of his literary analysis to contemporary social conditions. He argues that the plays address tensions that were potentially disruptive to the ancient city-state, and that they tended to resolve these tensions in ways that affirmed traditional values. Roman Comedy is an innovative and challenging book that will be welcomed by students of classical literature, ancient social history, the history of the theater, and comedy as a genre.
Muslims' Place in the American Public Square
This, the first volume from the Muslims in the American Public Square research project, gives theoretical and demographic portraits of Muslims in the American civil landscape.
Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity
Since Europeans first colonized Arab lands in the 19th century, they have been pressing to have the area's indigenous laws and legal systems accord with Western models. Although most Arab states now have national codes of law that reflect Western influence, fierce internal struggles continue over how to interpret Islamic law, particularly in the areas of gender and family. From different geographical and ideological points across the contemporary Arab world, Haddad and Stowasser demonstrate the range of views on just what Islam's legal heritage in the region should be. For either law or religion classes, Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity provides the broad historical overview and particular cases needed to understand this contentious issue. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Immigrant Faiths
"Recent immigration is changing American religion. No longer only a Protestant, Christian, or even Judeo-Christian nation, the United States is increasingly home to religious traditions from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. Covering groups from across the United States and a range of religious traditions, Immigrant Faiths provides an overview to this expanding subfield."--Page [iv] de la couverture.
Greek and Roman Comedy
Much of what we know of Greco-Roman comedy comes from the surviving works of just four playwrights—the Greeks Aristophanes and Menander and the Romans Plautus and Terence. To introduce these authors and their work to students and general readers, this book offers a new, accessible translation of a representative play by each playwright, accompanied by a general introduction to the author's life and times, a scholarly article on a prominent theme in the play, and a bibliography of selected readings about the play and playwright. This range of material, rare in a single volume, provides several reading and teaching options, from the study of a single author to an overview of the entire Classical comedic tradition. The plays have been translated for readability and fidelity to the original text by established Classics scholars. Douglas Olson provides the translation and commentary for Aristophanes' Acharnians, Shawn O'Bryhim for Menander's Dyskolos, George Fredric Franco for Plautus' Casina, and Timothy J. Moore for Terence's Phormio.
Recognizing Religion in a Secular Society
Contributors include Iain T. Benson, executive director, Centre for Cultural Renewal; Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago; H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr, professor of philosophy, Rice University and professor emeritus, Baylor College of Medicine; Douglas Farrow; William Galston, professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland; The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, PC, chief justice of Canada; David Novak, J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies and professor of philosophy, University of Toronto; Margaret Somerville, Samuel Gale Professor of Law and Professor, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University; and Prince El Hassan bin Talal, chairman of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
