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NAME E-Book 2012
THE HISTORY OF THE NAME National Association of Medical Examiners Past Presidents History eBook 2012 EDITION Published by the Past Presidents Committee on the Occasion of the 46th Annual Meeting at Baltimore, Maryland Preface to the 2012 NAME History eBook The Past Presidents Committee has been continuing its effort of compiling the NAME history for the occasion of the 2016 NAME Meeting’s 50th Golden Anniversa- ry Meeting. The Committee began collecting historical materials and now solicits the histories of individual NAME Members in the format of a guided autobiography, i.e. memoir. Seventeen past presidents have already contributed their memoirs, which were publish in a eBook in 2011. We continued the same guided autobiography format for compiling historical ma- terial, and now have additional memoirs to add also. This year, the book will be combined with the 2011 material, and some previous chapters have been updated. The project is now extended to all the NAME members, who wish to contribute their memoirs. The standard procedure is also to submit your portrait with your historical/ memoir material. Some of the memoirs are very short, and contains a minimum information, however the editorial team decided to include it in the 2012 edition, since it can be updated at any time. The 2012 edition Section I – Memoir Series Section II - ME History Series – individual medical examiner or state wide system history Presented in an alphabetic order of the name state Section III – Dedication Series - NAME member written material dedicating anoth- er member’s contributions and pioneer work, or newspaper articles on or dedicated to a NAME member Plan for 2013 edition The Committee is planning to solicit material for the chapters dedicated to specifi- cally designated subjects, such as Women in the NAME, Standard, Inspection and Accreditation Program. -
The 9/11 Cancer Conundrum: the Law, Policy, & Politics of The
GORDY ARTICLE FORMATTED (DO NOT DELETE) 1/18/2013 1:14 PM THE 9/11 CANCER CONUNDRUM: THE LAW, POLICY, & POLITICS OF THE ZADROGA ACT Kimberly Gordy† I. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................... 34 II. DUST & DISCLOSURE: THE AFTERMATH OF THE COLLAPSE ................................................................................. 38 A. WTC Exposure: Pollutants versus the People ...................... 38 1. The Exposed Populations................................................ 38 2. Assessment of the Toxins ............................................... 43 a) Asbestos .............................................................. 45 b) Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons .................... 47 c) Lead, Mercury & Cadmium ................................ 48 d) Polychlorinated Biphenyls .................................. 48 e) Benzene ............................................................... 48 B. WTC Health Conditions: Ten Years Later ........................... 50 1. Latent-Illness Development ............................................ 52 2. The Financial Burden of Managing WTC-Illnesses ....... 53 III. INCONSISTENT HEALTHCARE FUNDING AND THE TROUBLED PATH TO THE ZADROGA ACT........................ 55 A. The Zadroga Act’s Namesake .............................................. 56 B. H.R. 847 ............................................................................... 57 C. Jon Stewart and Shepard Smith Step In ............................... 59 IV. AN OVERVIEW OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER -
NAME E-Book 2014
THE HISTORY OF THE NAME MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS PAST PRESIDENTS HISTORY EBOOK 2014 EDITION PUBLISHED BY THE PAST PRESIDENTS COMMITTEE ON THE OCCASION OF THE 48TH ANNUAL MEETING AT PORTLAND, OREGON THE HISTORY OF THE NAME National Association of Medical Examiners Past Presidents History eBook 2014 EDITION Published by the Past Presidents Committee on the Occasion of the 48th Annual Meeting at Portland, Oregon i Preface to the 2014 NAME History eBook Fourth Edition The Past Presidents Committee has been diligently updating the NAME history eBook since 2011. It is our hope that we will be able to complete the NAME His- tory ebook for the occasion of the Golden Anniversary Meeting in 2016. Al- though we revised and updated articles, we will still require more “filling in” effort to cover more ME offices, memoirs, special topics and dedication to specific his- toric pioneer and members. We sent out to the membership specifically seeking the following information. Committee Plan for History of Medical Examiners Offices Subsection I – a. Statewide Medical Examiner’s Office – History including the establishment of the State wide Medical Examiner’s system, and personalities prior to the changes, before the ME system, and community support to conversion into the Statewide ME office, First Chief Medical Examiner and subsequent chiefs. Office, type of cases, relationship to the Counties. Subsection I – b History of the City or County ME Office. Subsection I - c Authors who are interested in writing the history and develop- ment of medical examiner system in your state. We are aware of some states may have ME offices and Coroner’s offices in the state. -
UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations
UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title Creative Destruction: Memory, Public Finance, and the State in New York City Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0sq8t5vq Author Potluri, Keerthi Choudary Publication Date 2014 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California Creative Destruction: Memory, Public Finance, and the State in New York City by Keerthi Choudary Potluri A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Rhetoric and the Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender & Sexuality in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Samera Esmeir, Co-chair Professor Michael Watts, Co-chair Professor Trinh Minh-ha Professor Thomas Laqueur Fall 2014 Abstract Creative Destruction: Memory, Public Finance, and the State in New York City by Keerthi Choudary Potluri Doctor of Philosophy in Rhetoric Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender & Sexuality University of California, Berkeley Professor Samera Esmeir and Professor Michael Watts, Co-chairs This dissertation demonstrates how the neoliberal state marshals public finance and public memory to incorporate itself into the contemporary urban landscape. It investigates sites in the built environment where the state deploys public funds to subsidize private construction projects that are fiscally unsound, using the institutional form of the public authority to covertly mediate between itself and the private sector. Combining discursive analysis of news media, funding allocation records, and the sites themselves, it looks at the World Trade Center reconstruction, a bus depot in Harlem, and Freshkills Park in Staten Island, a former landfill, and examines the effects of these projects both on urban space and public memory itself. -
Creative Destruction: Memory, Public Finance, and the State in New York City
Creative Destruction: Memory, Public Finance, and the State in New York City by Keerthi Choudary Potluri A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Rhetoric and the Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender & Sexuality in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Samera Esmeir, Co-chair Professor Michael Watts, Co-chair Professor Trinh Minh-ha Professor Thomas Laqueur Fall 2014 Abstract Creative Destruction: Memory, Public Finance, and the State in New York City by Keerthi Choudary Potluri Doctor of Philosophy in Rhetoric Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender & Sexuality University of California, Berkeley Professor Samera Esmeir and Professor Michael Watts, Co-chairs This dissertation demonstrates how the neoliberal state marshals public finance and public memory to incorporate itself into the contemporary urban landscape. It investigates sites in the built environment where the state deploys public funds to subsidize private construction projects that are fiscally unsound, using the institutional form of the public authority to covertly mediate between itself and the private sector. Combining discursive analysis of news media, funding allocation records, and the sites themselves, it looks at the World Trade Center reconstruction, a bus depot in Harlem, and Freshkills Park in Staten Island, a former landfill, and examines the effects of these projects both on urban space and public memory itself. The dissertation argues that the state uses public funds to inaugurate sites of memory in the city’s cultural and political landscape in order to assert its ethical and political legitimacy in a moment when that legitimacy is bound up in its relationship to private capital. -
Breathing Space: the Amalgamated Toxicity of Ground Zero
Breathing Space: The Amalgamated death, and the debates surrounding their interpretation, focused on the presence of toxic elements within the lung tissue. At stake was the ques- Toxicity of Ground Zero tion of whether these toxic particles derived from the material of the WTC building, and whether agents representing governmental institutions— Füsun Türetken who, according to the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution, abused their authority by willful deception regarding the toxicity of matter pres- ent in the air—could be deemed liable for injuries incurred by public work- ers “in the line of duty.” Thus the case raises the question of whether the September 11 attacks, widely recognized as an act of terror and a human catastrophe, should not also be considered an environmental disaster. Further, [The world is] made up of compost of the millions and millions who it may prompt us to ask whether it is ever possible, in cases of the destruc- have died and are blowing about. The dead are blowing in your nostrils tion of life, to make straightforward distinctions between environmental every hour, every second you breathe in. It’s a macabre way of putting and other kinds of cause (for instance, acts of intentional violence or direct it, perhaps; but anything that’s at all accurate about life is always maca- negligence); and indeed, to consider how we deal—politically, legally, bre. After all, you’re born, you die. methodologically, conceptually—with the shift from linear chains — Francis Bacon 1 of cause and effect to the dispersed, nonlinear field of causal factors that occurs when architecture is no longer a static, background dimension In the early hours of January 5, 2006, in his parents’ house in Little Egg of a lived environment, but a dynamic constituent of it, infused even into Harbor, New Jersey, James Zadroga passed away due to a respiratory dis- the breathable atmosphere. -
"Only Dust Remains[?]":The 9/11 Memorial Litigation and the Reach of Quasi-Property Rights, 78 Brook
Brooklyn Law Review Volume 78 | Issue 1 Article 6 2012 "Only Dust Remains[?]":The 9/11 eM morial Litigation and the Reach of Quasi-Property Rights Patrick J. Mulqueen Follow this and additional works at: https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/blr Recommended Citation Patrick J. Mulqueen, "Only Dust Remains[?]":The 9/11 Memorial Litigation and the Reach of Quasi-Property Rights, 78 Brook. L. Rev. (2012). Available at: https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/blr/vol78/iss1/6 This Note is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at BrooklynWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Brooklyn Law Review by an authorized editor of BrooklynWorks. “Only Dust Remains[?]”1 THE 9/11 MEMORIAL LITIGATION AND THE REACH OF QUASI-PROPERTY RIGHTS INTRODUCTION On September 12, 2011, at a quiet Pennsylvania field softened from days of rainfall, several families gathered for a private funeral service to bury three coffins in the ground.2 The approximately-six-foot steel boxes held not bodies, but the fragmented and unidentified remains of the passengers from United Airlines Flight 93 (United 93), one of the airplanes hijacked by terrorists on 9/11.3 United 93 crashed into this same field in Shanksville ten years earlier, killing everyone on board.4 Because the plane plunged into the earth at more than 570 miles per hour, only eight percent of the victims’ remains were ultimately recovered.5 Nevertheless, partial remains for each of the forty victims were identified.6 This fact brought closure to the families, who had reached a consensus regarding the final resting place of their loved ones’ commingled remains.7 Over the previous ten years, family members had attended countless memorials for the victims of United 93, but they could now declare, “This will be our last funeral .