Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Christianity, and Culture: Between God and an Illness

ISBN-13: 9780789014931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002

James M. Rotholz

Opis

Acknowledged experts in the field of DNA sequencing and mapping describe in detail innovations in this vital area of science. Technology and procedures in areas such as radiation hybrid mapping, construction of libraries, YACs, FISH, assembly of physical maps, shotgun sequencing and specialized sequencing techniques are all fully covered. There is a particular emphasis on the whole chromosome approach to mapping and sequencing. In addition several chapters cover genomic sequencing software and sequence databases. Eminent international scientists describe the technology necessary to map and sequence the entire genome in a holistic manner and the high throughput and large-scale experimental methodologies currently available.

Spis treści

• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Forced from the Field of Play
• Out of Africa
• Welcome to Stressville
• My Turn for CFIDS
• A Frightful Revelation
• Chapter 2. The View from My Window
• A Matter of Perspective
• The Illness Perspective
• Disability's Double Lens
• Pain and Faith
• The Twilight Zone
• Chapter 3. Doing What Feels Natural
• The Power of Culture
• What Is Success?
• The Elements of Success in American Culture
• The Elements Converge
• A Parting Thought
• Chapter 4. Economics and the Culture of Success
• A Conflict of Interest
• The Culture of Success
• Whither the Disabled?
• Primal Fear
• Student Anxiety
• Contrasting Faith
• Chapter 5. Alternative Cultural Perspectives on Success
• Looking in the Mirror
• Bushmen of the Kalahari
• Cultural Alternatives
• The Bruderhof Community
• Cultural Positioning
• Chapter 6. The Bible and the Culture of Success
• The Christian Calling
• Faith and Power
• Culture Power
• What Biblical Success Is Not
• Quantitative versus Qualitative
• Chapter 7. A New Vision of Success
• Success, the Bible, and Culture
• Faithfulness in the Bible
• Faithfulness Encompasses All
• The Love of God
• Imago Deo
• A Faithful Life Exemplified
• Chapter 8. Success for the Disabled
• Culture Change
• What's in a Name?
• Forcing the Disabled to Achieve
• Science to the Rescue?
• Chapter 9. Called to Dignity
• Probing God's Purposes
• Why Pain?
• Hardship and the Heart
• Pain and the Culture of Success
• Faith, CFIDS, and Culture
• A Birthright of Dignity
• Notes
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Roberto Patarca Montero, Jim Rotholz