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The article offers information on the tragic death of a physician by suicide during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City in 2020.

Twilight Sleep (TS) is an obstetric intervention during which a laboring woman enters a semiconscious state via injection. TS received enthusiastic support in Brooklyn, NY, inThe Brooklyn Eagle(TBE) newspaper between 1914 and 1918. The purpose of this article is to analyze the framing of TS inTBEas the most popular obstetric intervention among wealthy, White socialites in Brooklyn during the period. The coverage inTBEprompted a nearly universally positive perception of TS among the newspaper’s wider readership. After extensive historiographical research and rhetorical analysis of newspaper coverage of TS inTBE, we discovered a form of framing we call “high-society framing,” rooted in both wealth and notoriety. We discuss four possible effects of high-society framing: The first is the ability of high-society framing to attract or repel the public regarding a health care issue, and the second is the impact of high-society framing on public perception of medical interventions, procedures, or pharmaceuticals. A third possible effect of high-society framing is that it can alter notions of necessity, and a fourth is that high-society framing can elicit a tacit acceptance of medical interventions, procedures, and pharmaceuticals, thus obfuscating risk. Finally, we argue that high-society framing has implications for the discussion of health care in present-day mediated discourses. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Using the theory of iconography, this article deconstructs the “Politics of Fear” caricature of Barack and Michelle Obama, featured on the cover ofThe New Yorkermagazine, to investigate White imagination about the couple's socio-cultural identities. Published before the 2008 Democratic nominating convention, the caricature set the couple within the Oval Office and depicted Barack in an Arab-style tunic bumping fists with an armed Angela Davis-esque Michelle dressed in fatigues. We examine defenses of the image as satire against anti-Obama caricatures. We also examine original and secondary survey data to uncover the determinants of support for the caricature. We argue that the caricature gave a unifying visual form to disparate trepidations about the Americanness and religious identity of the Obamas. Our article concludes by situating the controversy over the cover alongside longstanding suspicions by Whites that Barack Obama has deceived Americans about his religious identity and loyalty to American ideals. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An editorial is presented which addresses the authors' views about improving the efficiency and accuracy of geographic mobile data collection in relation to public health research in America. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 500 Cities Project involving health indicators for American cities is examined, along with geographic differences in health. Public health research-related mobile technologies and tobacco marketing in New York, New York are assessed.

An editorial is presented which addresses recommendations for a pilot expansion of Medicaid health insurance coverage for doulas in New York, and it mentions New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's launch of an initiative to reduce maternal mortality and racial disparities in health outcomes in 2018. Medicaid expansion for doula services in Oregon and Minnesota is examined, along with fees for out-of-pocket doula services and Medicaid reimbursement rates.

The expert speakers from the publishing, librarian, and vendor communities regrouped at the end of the Society for Scholarly Publishing–NASIG Joint Meeting to answer questions or elaborate on information they presented earlier during the meeting. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents "Gleanings from the Whirl" which provides present information on all aspects of international serials and electronic resource management such as networks and consortia library schools and continuing education library-orientated organizations. It cites the Award for Innovation in Publishing to Kudos given the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) to any new development, product or service of significant value to scholarly communication.

In this narrative article Catherine (Katy) Papell recollects her 65-year relationship with social work with groups—from the social settlements of New York City, to her own social work education, to her group work practice in a psychiatric hospital, to her career as an academic and scholar, to her work in addictions after she retired from teaching. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the highlights of the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) annual conference held from June 6-9, 2013 in Buffalo, New York. Topics covered at the pre-conference workshops include a course on the Program for Cooperative Cataloging and Cooperative Online Serials practices. The focus of the vision sessions are mentioned to include the impact of mobile technology on the flow of information, and the legal, moral and intellectual challenges to Big Data programs.

Kathryn Johns-Masten of Penfield Library at the State University of New York-Oswego presented on her library's experience implementing a mobile website using the iWebKit framework. Penfield librarians identified user needs, learned from other libraries' sites, chose a framework compatible with desired devices that fit available resources, and evaluated their site through focus groups and analysis of usage statistics. Johns-Masten proposed best practices for libraries considering a mobile site and led a discussion of factors involved in choosing a framework and issues related to technical support of mobile websites. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the use of the Microsoft Access database management software for libraries' management of serial publications. Application on the English language and literature serials titles held by the library of the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York; Recording and manipulating data; Outputting search results.

Discusses examples of cataloging-enhancement practices from the viewpoint of the serial catalogers of Columbia University Libraries and Bobst Library, New York University. Impetus; Problem solved or opportunity realized; Stakeholders affected; Costs, documentation needs, and new problems entailed; Factors shaping decisions to make changes.

The author discusses the importance of alliances between workers, immigrants and health advocates in the U.S. in addressing various risk factors facing immigrant workers.

An introduction is presented in which the authors discuss various reports within the issue on topics including public health in America, U.S. government expenditures on the nation's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and a forecast about American government health care spending.

Presents rules and instructions for manuscript submissions by authors for The Milbank Quarterly periodical in New York, New York. Number of manuscripts required upon submission; Originality of manuscripts; Manuscript specifications.

Comments on the editorship of the serial publication IEEE Network of New York, New York. Reiteration of the goals of the serial publication; View of the authorship of tutorial and survey articles; Plans to continue releasing issues devoted to special topics.