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Ziporyn, Terra Diane was born on June 1, 1958 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Marvin Charles and Charlotte Weinberg Ziporyn.
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Medical journalist and historian Ziporyn examines what it means for a group of conditions to be called a disease, and discusses historical classifications that differ from today's as well as many conditions that still baffle medicine. An appendix lists organizations devoted to educating the public
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A well-researched, qualitative analysis of how the US mass media covered typhoid fever, diptheria, and syphilis from 1870 to 1920. Ziporyn, a free-lance writer and former American Association for the Advancement of Science mass media fellow, finds consistently high press coverage of typhoid fever contrasted with media disinterest in diptheria and cautious reporting about syphilis. The press's approaches differed, she explains, because the news media responded to dissimilar social values about typhoid fever, diptheria, and syphilis at the turn of the century. Ziporyn's observations are aided by a thorough, well-footnoted analysis of publications across 14 categories. Choice This study explores the depiction of medical science to the American public through the medium of popular magazines in the period 1870 to 1920. To understand the impact of medical advances as conveyed by the popular press, Ziporyn examines articles on diphtheria, typhoid fever, and syphilis in major popular magazines of the time. In search of the common underlying premises, she analyzes the very different depictions of these three diseases: diptheria was associated with children, typhoid fever with uncleanliness, and syphilis with immorality. Although generally conservative in announcing advances, medical popularizers nevertheless presented theory as absolute certainty. Perhaps in anticipation of reader desires, popular articles portrayed medical science as completely devoid of uncertainty of error.
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Some day, consumer information sources like those envisaged by Snider and Ziporyn will materialize. The more this book is read, the sooner it will happen. ---F.M. Scherer, Professor of Business and Government, Harvard University"Snider and Ziporyn powerfully describe the glass highways of the future, which will not only benefit consumers but will also provide fantastic opportunities for schools, hospitals, businesses, and the average American as we enter the Information Age of the 21st century." ---Conrad Burns, Chair of U.S. Senate Communications Subcommittee"Future Shop is a look into tomorrow's world of household/buying. It is full of surprises, disconcerting ideas, and useful information. I would think that forward-looking businesses would profit from it as much as forward-looking consumers."---Robert Heilbroner, Professor of Economics, New School for Social Research"Future Shop describes a telecommunications age in which the foundations of our market economy will be radically different. The authors present a bold, innovative manifesto for change. It's amazing that work on a subject that means so much to consumers has not appeared before."---Marvin Cetron, author of American Renaissance "Future Shop is well-intentioned, well-reasoned and intentionally provocative--Snider and Ziporyn deliver on their promise to remake the very idea of consumerism." ---Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Book Review "The authors have documented and quantified what most of us know through personal experience; that our retail distribution system has become increasingly inefficient and is fostering confusion and abuse to the consumer. The enormous conservation of resources in our society that this book describes makes its contribution significant."---R.K. Snelling, Executive Vice President of BellSouth Communications* * * * * * * * * * *
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The Bliss of Solitude is a novel about sexual obsession, time’s transformation of memory, the gradual erosion of wonder, and the interplay between the external world and inner vision. Its heroine-narrator is Iris Cloud, a 43-year-old product of affluent Boston suburbs and an Ivy League education, who retreated to Vermont twenty years earlier to hide an illegitimate pregnancy and to escape the expectations of her perfectionist parents. Now she runs a hand-knit sweater shop with her longtime lover Carolyn in a small resort town, clinging all the while to memories of her dreamy, awed, and restrained childhood in which she aspired to becoming a great artist and later a renowned physician. Life is tranquil enough, if passion-less, until one day Iris finds out that her 20-year-old daughter, Lydia plans to marry a questionable young man whom she has known for all of three weeks. Iris, stricken with guilt, realizes that she must step in and fulfill her long-neglected! maternal duties to Lydia, who had left Iris as a young teenager to live with her grandparents. Iris becomes convinced that part of this duty involves doing what she never bothered doing twenty years earlier: seeking out Lydia’s father, her college boyfriend, and telling him that he has a daughter, a daughter on the verge of marriage. Iris’s search for Jack--a would-be modern-day Michelangelo whose egotistic delusions of grandeur underlie his paradoxical attractiveness--erodes the already fading relationship between Iris and Carolyn and forces Iris to confront the portrait-like reminiscences of her past that in many ways are more alive to her than her current quest.
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Ziporyn, Terra Diane was born on June 1, 1958 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Marvin Charles and Charlotte Weinberg Ziporyn.
Bachelor summa cum laude, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1980. Master of Arts, University Chicago, 1981. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1985.
Associate editor Journal of the American Medical Association, Chicago, 1984-1986. Freelance writer Severna Park, Maryland, since 1986. Editorial consultant/freelance Harvard Medical School/Harvard School Public Health, Boston, since 1986.
(Medical journalist and historian Ziporyn examines what it...)
(The Bliss of Solitude is a novel about sexual obsession, ...)
( A well-researched, qualitative analysis of how the US m...)
(Some day, consumer information sources like those envisag...)
Vice president Yale Club Vermont, Burlington, since 1991. Member American Association of University Women (board member), National Association Science Writers, American Medical Writers Association, American Association for the History of Medicine, Authors Guild American, Phi Beta Kappa. F C.
Married James Harry Snider, Jun 22, 1986. Children: Pallas Amita, Sage Tivona, Solon Abraham.