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1	The Usefulness of Ground Penetrating Radar in locating burials in Charity Hospital Cemetery, New Orleans Mitchell, Monique Tashell 16 May 2008 (has links) The Charity Hospital Cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana, was used as a potter's field for over 150 years. When Charity Hospital considered selling a portion of the property ground penetrating radar (GPR) and thermal infrared (TIR) data were collected in the cemetery to locate unmarked graves. The TIR data could not be used because the expert died before compiling the TIR data. Therefore, the GPR data was the sole source of subsurface information. GPR anomalies were used to excavate 3 areas where bones and hospital supplies were subsequently found, unfortunately very limited analyses were possible on the analog GPR data. The study presented here involved digitizing data and conducting a more thorough analysis of map patterns to determine whether GPR data could be used reliably to locate burials in the cemetery. The study's result indicates that GPR is a reliable source for burial detection and other anomalies in the subsurface. Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Thermal Imagery (TIR) Charity Hospital Burials Anomalies
2	The Closure of New Orleans' Charity Hospital After Hurricane Katrina: A Case of Disaster Capitalism Ott, Kenneth Brad 18 May 2012 (has links) Abstract Amidst the worst disaster to impact a major U.S. city in one hundred years, New Orleans’ main trauma and safety net medical center, the Reverend Avery C. Alexander Charity Hospital, was permanently closed. Charity’s administrative operator, Louisiana State University (LSU), ordered an end to its attempted reopening by its workers and U.S. military personnel in the weeks following the August 29, 2005 storm. Drawing upon rigorous review of literature and an exhaustive analysis of primary and secondary data, this case study found that Charity Hospital was closed as a result of disaster capitalism. LSU, backed by Louisiana state officials, took advantage of the mass internal displacement of New Orleans’ populace in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in an attempt to abandon Charity Hospital’s iconic but neglected facility and to supplant its original safety net mission serving the poor and uninsured for its neoliberal transformation to favor LSU’s academic medical enterprise. Charity Hospital New Orleans Hurricane Katrina disaster capitalism medical neoliberalism LSU Health Care Services Division American Politics Bioethics and Medical Ethics Community-Based Research Economics Emergency Medicine Health and Medical Administration Health Economics Health Policy Health Services Administration Medical Education Medicine and Health Medicine and Health Sciences Mental and Social Health Policy History, Theory, and Methods Political Economy Politics and Social Change Primary Care Psychiatric and Mental Health Public Health Public Policy Race and Ethnicity Social History Social Welfare Sociology Urban Studies Urban Studies and Planning

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The Usefulness of Ground Penetrating Radar in locating burials in Charity Hospital Cemetery, New Orleans

The Closure of New Orleans' Charity Hospital After Hurricane Katrina: A Case of Disaster Capitalism