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Postracial utopias in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American culture are marked by paradoxes in which racial categories continue to signify, as many scholars have observed. Extending these approaches to late eighteenth-century France, when utopian thinkers dreamed of abolishing categories of "color" and "blood," this article focuses on the 1798 play Tenais and Zeliska. A utopian vision of a South Asian kingdom in which phenotype and lineage no longer serve as markers of identity, and in which prejudice has been nearly eliminated, the play is nevertheless marked by ambiguities that have been seen as characteristic of present-day postracial utopias. The figure of the racially mixed subject, in particular, becomes a site of contradiction. Read by others as an embodiment of discrete and shifting physical signs that link her to diverse identities, the character of Zeliska signals the tensions within utopian fantasies of a future without prejudice.

During the eighteenth century, European trade with Asia was characterized by the importation of sophisticated manufactured goods in exchange for silver. The features of Euro-Asian trade testify to the vitality of the Indian, Chinese, and Japanese economies in the period before the Great Divergence. Many European observers, however, mistook them for symptoms of economic stasis, purportedly caused by Oriental despotism. Investigating French descriptions of the South Asian economy articulated in debates concerning both the export of silver and competition with South Asian textiles, this article reads Orientalist stereotypes about economic dysfunction as responses to the challenges posed by the Subcontinent's dynamism and as part of the rhetorical strategies by which European divergence from Asia could be imagined, anticipated, and pursued.

This article investigates the imperial dimensions of the French Enlightenment's science of diet, tracing their development in relation to perceptions of South Asian food. In the last years of the eighteenth century, political theorists, journalists, doctors and Orientalists became concerned with the effects of different staple grains, arguing over whether rice or wheat bread was most conducive to physical well-being and national power. Many of them invoked this dietary discourse on staples in order to scientifically justify European imperialism in South Asia. Journalist Simon-Henri-Nicolas Linguet, however, developed an alternative vision of the imagined connections between staple grains and politics. Linguet's work was a landmark in the conceptualisation of European 'gastro-politics', and suggests a road not taken by other Enlightenment critics of empire: a vision of dietary science, the body and the state that imagined European ventures abroad as a symptom of bad digestion.

A significant challenge facing the Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) Military Treatment Facilities (MTFs) is the perishability costs associated with its pharmaceutical stock. During a two year time period, the AFMS returned expired or nearly expired pharmaceuticals valued at over $23,000,000. In response to the waste represented by pharmaceutical perishability cost, this thesis analyzes the historical inventory management decisions of 173 MTF/pharmaceutical combinations and proposes an alternative inventory control policy to reduce perishability costs. Based on the critical nature of pharmaceuticals and importance of generating high patient satisfaction, the proposed alternative inventory control system was required to be cognizant of the cost savings/service level trade-off. After applying a fundamental inventory management equation to historical patient demands, the calculated inventory control policy is evaluated against a recent nine month time period of patient demand in terms of potential cost savings and fill rates. At the conclusion of the study, it is determined that the use of the proposed inventory control policy would generate an effective perishability cost savings of approximately $250,000 annually, as well as a one-time inventory reduction cost savings that exceeds $1,700,000. In spite of this stock reduction, the studied MTF/pharmaceutical combinations would maintain a strong fill rate that exceeds 99.82%.

International audience ; French policy in South Asia between the American Revolutionary War (1777-1783) and the Peace of Amiens (1802) marked a turning point in the intellectual history of foreign policy. Before this moment, India was rarely seen by the French as an area divided into several states whose rivalry formed a balance of power. The theory and practice of such a balance was the basis of eighteenth-century diplomacy in Europe, but it was not self-evident that they applied to the Indian case. This article explores the intense debate among envoys, officials, and memorialists over the possibility of a balance of Indian powers, which could challenge Orientalist stereotypes. ; La politique menée par la France en Asie du Sud entre la Guerre d'indépendance américaine (1777-1783) et la Paix d'Amiens (1802) marque une rupture dans l'histoire intellectuelle de la politique étrangère. Avant cet épisode, l'Inde est rarement perçu par des Français comme une zone divisée entre plusieurs États qui formeraient un « équilibre des puissances » en rivalités. La théorie et la pratique d'un tel équilibre est la base de la diplomatie en Europe au dix-huitième siècle, mais il n'était pas évident qu'ils s'appliqueraient au cas indien. Cet article explore un vif débat entre des envoyés, officiers et mémorialistes sur la possibilité d'un équilibre des puissances indiennes, qui briserait des stéréotypes orientalistes.

This paper describes social work pedagogy and outcomes in a multi-year longitudinal interprofessional education (IPE) course incorporating B.S.W, and M.S.S.W. students. Social work students participated in an IRB-approved mixed-method study designed to evaluate individual growth and identity transformation throughout the two-semester course. Students' semi-structured reflection papers (n=113) were analyzed qualitatively to identify core themes. Students voluntarily completed Interprofessional Assessment Scale (IPAS) surveys, a measure of core competencies in interprofessional care, before and after the class (n=48). Social work students reported that they developed increased personal and interprofessional confidence, awareness of social work role in health care, increased social work skills and leadership to use their voice in interprofessional health care teams. All levels of social work students can and should be incorporated into IPE education. Social work educators and practitioners should continue to take leadership in IPE education at all levels of curriculum design and implementation.