WHEN CHRONICITY MEETS CYCLICITY: THE CULTIVATION OF EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE AND SELFHOOD BY CIS-GENDER WOMEN WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS

When chronicity meets cyclicity: The cultivation of embodied knowledge and selfhood by cis-gender women with cystic fibrosis

This article offers the case of cystic fibrosis (CF), a multi-system disease, to illustrate how individuals with chronic illness cultivate and apply embodied knowledge to optimize their well-being.We identified three interrelated processes that occur when disease chronicity and menstrual cyclicity meet: 1) knowledge production with a period-trackin

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Acute gouty arthritis as a manifestation of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome after initiation of antiretroviral therapy

Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) in HIV-infected subjects initiating antiretroviral therapy most commonly involves new or worsening manifestations of previously subclinical or overt infectious Swim - Goggles diseases.Reports of non-infectious IRIS are much less common but represent important diagnostic and Candle treatment challen

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Mediating Climate, Mediating Scale

Climate communication is seemingly stuck in a double bind.The problem of global warming requires inherently trans-scalar modes of engagement, encompassing times and spaces that exceed local Shampoos frames of experience and meaning.Climate media must therefore negotiate representational extremes that risk overwhelming their audience with the immens

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