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Media reflect and affect social understandings, beliefs, and values on many topics, including the lives of autistic and disabled people. Media analysis has garnered attention in the field of disability studies, which some scholars and activists consider a promising approach to discussing the experiences of – and for promoting social justice for – autistic people, who remain underrepresented on scripted television. Additionally, existing portrayals often rely on stereotyped representations of disabled individuals as objects of pity, objects of inspiration, or villains. Television may also serve as a primary source of public knowledge about disabled people and the concept of disability. It is therefore essential that such portrayals avoid stigma and stereotyping. We take a disability studies lens to critically analyze and compare representations of diverse people, who may sometimes be conflated in the popular imaginary, across television series about autistic characters (Atypical, The Good Doctor), those with cerebral palsy (Speechless, Special), and a character with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (Shameless). We employ an intersectional analytic framework to problematize representations of autistic and disabled people, using television, feminist, and critical disability studies literatures. We analyze how the formal structure of television storytelling can either enable or disable its characters, as well as how portrayals of disability that display a sensitivity to concerns raised by critical disability discourse do not necessarily display the same sensitivity when they intersect with marginalized experiences of gender, sexuality, race, and class. 

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), a complex and controversial diagnosis thought to impact at least 1 in 100 Canadians, results from prenatal alcohol exposure. People with FASD report difficult circumstances and stigmatization, as do birth mothers and women who drink alcohol while pregnant. Given limited public knowledge about FASD in Canada, news media is one possible source of public information and misinformation. Consequently, given challenges posed by FASD and associated stigma, we conducted two studies on 1) media discourse about FASD in Canada; and 2) lived experiences of Canadian FASD stakeholders. The first study, a media content analysis of 286 Canadian print media articles published from 2002-2015, identified several consequential areas of ethical concern on science and health communication, portrayals of people with FASD, and social expectations borne by women and mothers. These included exaggerated Indigenous FASD prevalence, contradictory health advice for pregnant women, and accurate information lacking context. We also saw an overemphasis on connections between FASD and criminal behaviour, and messaging that held women alone responsible for a child’s wellbeing. Building on this analysis, the second study, a multi-category focus group project with 63 participants in three stakeholder groups (i.e., people with FASD, caregivers, and professionals) across several Canadian urban centres, explored participant experiences, and reactions to and recommendations about news coverage and public discourse. Participants identified a range of stereotypes associated with FASD, alcohol, and pregnancy, as well as five overlapping and sometimes conflicting recommendations to shift and improve public discourse – hope, inclusion, fear, education, and community. This interdisciplinary research offers insight into such questions and suggests that more work is needed to understand the impact of different discursive and interventional strategies on many complex and intersecting stakeholder identities.

Given advances in Alzheimer's disease (AD) research, some experts have proposed a state of \"preclinical\" AD to describe asymptomatic individuals displaying certain biomarkers. The diagnostic accuracy of these biomarkers remains debated; however, given economic pressures, this \"diagnosis\" may eventually reach consumers. Since evidence-based prevention and treatment options remain only modestly effective, patients may turn to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). We explore ethical challenges associated with CAM use in preclinical AD. We first consider these issues through the liberal lens, which emphasizes informed choice while occasionally disregarding the complexity of decision making, at least as currently applied to CAM policies. We then broaden the liberal lens with a socio-contextual lens, which describes the impact of social context on choice. Finally, we describe an alternate lens (contextualized liberalism) and its practical health and policy implications while 1) building on the liberal commitment to autonomy and 2) recognizing contextual determinants of choice.

The composition, chronology, and structural relations of the Saskatchewan Craton and enveloping mylonitic rocks exposed in basement windows of the Glennie Domain, Trans‐Hudson Orogen, have been determined by geochemical, geochronologic, and structural studies accompanying detailed field mapping. Basement windows lie along the hinge zone of a regional crustal culmination and consist mostly of 2.4–2.5 Ga felsic plutonic rocks enveloped by the Nistowiak Thrust. The Nistowiak Thrust is a folded, 1–2 km thick, upper amphibolite facies mylonite zone formed during emplacement of the Flin Flon–Glennie Complex across the Saskatchewan Craton. It is likely correlative to the Pelican Thrust, which envelops basement windows in the Hanson Lake Block ∼100 km to the east. An internal high strain zone within the overlying nappe pile, the Guncoat Thrust, is composed primarily of mylonitized porphyroclastic pelitic and psammitic migmatites. U‐Pb geochronological results suggest calc‐alkaline plutonism from 1889–1837 Ma, thrust stacking, peak metamorphism and associated anatexis between 1837 and 1809 Ma, isotopic closure of titanite at 1790–1772 Ma, and intrusion of late granitic rocks at 1770–1762 Ma. This is in agreement with ages from the Hanson Lake Block, and La Ronge, Kisseynew, and Flin‐Flon domains in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and from the Ungava‐Baffin portion of Trans‐Hudson Orogen, suggesting broadly synchronous thermotectonic processes along a strike length of 2000 km. We speculate that the Saskatchewan Craton, rather than representing an exotic continental fragment, rifted from the Superior and/or Hearne Provinces at ca. 2.1 Ga and that the Trans‐Hudson Orogen is an internal orogen. In this scenario the Maniwekan Ocean, developed between the Rae‐Hearne and Superior cratons, opened and closed about similar pole(s) of plate motion.

Just a few decades ago, children born with significant congenital anomalies or genetic and metabolic diseases perished at an early age and very few survived into their teens and even less into adulthood. Congenital heart disease, major errors in metabolism, cancer, cystic fibrosis and many other major diseases were fatal. Because of that many physicians in adult primary care did not have the opportunity to see patients with these problems and thus unable to learn how to care for them. In this book, we have recruited highly qualified and experienced physicians to compile what is to the best of our knowledge, the first book dealing entirely with the issue of children's diseases in adults. Our goal is to provide a resource for all health care providers in order to help with caring for such adult patients. We believe that it will be valuable to all health care providers who provide care to adults with children's diseases. To our knowledge, there is no such resource available for practitioners which will make this book desirable.