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This essay interrogates the carceral geography of the California Central Valley by examining Rachel Kushner's novel The Mars Room (2018), which unfolds the life and limiting circumstances of a woman serving two life sentences. With capitalism as the driving force and background of this novel, this article examines the problem of representation posed by the prison in American society. Does the novel allow for a sharper perception of the loss wrought by the carceral state? I argue that Kushner uses the novel form to represent the slow violence of incarceration, which is a biopolitical project of the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics, such as proton beam therapy and cancer treatment spending in the U.S.

Presents the website of the week. Sites which discuss the effect that corporate downsizing can have on health; Finding that most sites favored the company policies rather than the worker; Highlight on Timesizing.com that pushes for the downsizing of the workday rather than the workforce; The Job Stress Network organization which looks at job strain and work stress; The Baltic Sea Network on Occupational Health and Safety which is a giant site covering the occupational health resources of the Baltic states.

Presents web sites dealing with organ donation. The United States Living Organ Donor Network which allows information regarding living kidney donors to be placed in a common database; Living Donors Online! which is a community for living donors, potential donors, their families and medical professionals; Shortage of organs for transplant which has also spawned sites of dubious ethics such as Liver4you.org out of the Philippines.

Discusses web sites which are catering to American's fears concerning anthrax and bioterrorism. Links to anthrax and the drug ciprofloxacin at the Google.com search engine; Survival products and information sold at a site of Defcon Tech; Sale of ciprofloxacin by HealthMeds.com; Others.