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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration and Somali Language Pronunciation -- Prologue: "I Cannot Give It Up" -- Introduction: Humanitarianism in the Margins of Empire -- 1. Humanitarianism Is Local -- 2. Humanitarianism Is Samafal -- 3. Humanitarian Work -- 4. Crisis Work -- 5. Humanitarianism In Anti-Politics -- 6. From Crisis to Liberation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Professor Allison Carruth recentlyjoined the faculty of the Department of English at UCLA. She is also an affiliated faculty member at the Center for theStudy of Women and at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Last year, she served as a respondent at CSW's "Life (Un)Ltd" symposium on May 11, 2012. She is currently working with CSW Interim Director Rachel Lee on organizing "The Politics of Seeds," a symposium that will take place on May17, 2013. She kindly agreed to talk with us about her research and the upcoming symposium.

Federal and state governments, as well as third party payees, have created incentives for cost containment policies within healthcare settings. The purpose of this study is to determine the extent healthcare financial managers (HCFMs) believe various healthcare reform measures and cost containment strategies are effective and to descriptively compare the perception of effectiveness by type of organization (for profit, not for profit, and outside CPA/consulting firm). Eighty-four HCFMs, from 36 states, agree that the majority of healthcare reform measures are moderately or very effective. In general, accounting practices that HCFMs have direct decision making authority over were deemed effective (i.e. accounting systems that reduce administrative costs) regardless of type of agency employed. Surprisingly, accounting systems that provide more accurate allocation of indirect-overhead costs were not considered effective by not-for profit organizations. On the other hand, analyzing variances between expectations and actual cost/revenue, closely monitoring supply and equipment costs, and reducing administrative costs were rated effective by all three groups.