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The main finding of my fieldwork (which I analyzed from a symbolic/interpretive theoretical orientation) was that these internal medicine residents were learning not only the knowledge and skills particular to palliative medicine but were also needing to make a paradigm shiftfrom the norms of curative medicine (into which they had been enculturated already) to the norms of comfort-oriented palliative care in the hospice context. Anthropologists have examined the role of narrative in American medicine in various ways, for example, elucidating how medical students and residents learn to speak and write in particular ways,2 or how occupational therapists use narratives as a form of clinical reasoning.3 I build upon such work in this piece to examine how cultural narratives can be evoked or invoked in a medical discussion, revealing the power of narrative even when physicians are not explicitly \"narrativizing.\"

Psychostimulant use for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder among today's college students raises questions about health, fairness, and identity development, as well as safety, artificiality, and dependency. Analysis of students' experiences with prescription stimulants like Ritalin at a university in the northeastern United States presents a clearer picture of how and why students incorporate prescription medicine into their lives and identities, as well as the costs and benefits of this drug use. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

  Born in Tasmania, the scholar and cultural critic Peter Conrad grew up with a colonial child's awareness of English literature and history and ignorance of his own, Australian children having been told \"as little as possible\" about the origins of their country. But there was a second pervasive influence: American culture, especially cinema. \"Like many others who arrived in the world after 1945,\" he writes, \"I often need to remind myself that I'm not American.\" The war in Vietnam proved disastrous, but the war against communism more generally was easier to win in the end. It turned out there was no need for threat after all, because the \"rowdy pleasures\" of the United States' \"culture and the seductions of its commerce persuaded the rest of the world to postpone revolution indefinitely\". The cold war, Conrad says, \"was won in the shops, not on the battlefield\". As the century progressed and markets opened up, the whole world was in the market for American goods, American movies and music, the American way of life. Ireland barely gets a mention, despite Mary Harney's famous declaration that we are closer to Boston than Berlin. (Mind you, she's very quiet now.) But there is plenty to enjoy in this book. Who could resist the image of Charlton Heston as a \"biblical George Washington\" in The Ten Commandments ? \"Holding up the tablet on which the commandments were carved, Heston also resembled the Statue of Liberty, uncrowned but wearing similar sandals.\"

Barney Harwood from BBC1's Blue [Peter Conrad] joins a celebration of the corporation's music strategy, Ten Pieces, which aims to inspire a generation of children with classical music. Jeremy Paxman chooses Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain, a novel that's been called the Catch-22 of the Iraq War, while Mary Beard's recommendation is The Return of Martin Guerre, which reimagines a true case of impersonation in south-west France.

[Peter Conrad] is president and CEO of Sage Bank in Lowell.COURTESY PHOTO Sun staff photos can be ordered by visiting our http://mng-low.smugmug.com SmugMug site. \"I am certain that there is no one more qualified or better prepared to lead Sage Bank and to help all of us build upon the opportunities for the future growth and development of Sage Bank,\" said Ted Pratt, chairman of Sage's board of directors.