scholarly journals After/Lives: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic for Gay Neighborhoods

2021 ◽  
pp. 393-418
Author(s):  
Sam Miles ◽  
Jack Coffin ◽  
Amin Ghaziani ◽  
Daniel Baldwin Hess ◽  
Alex Bitterman
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Effective Vaccine ◽  
Grassroots Activism ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
To Come ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

AbstractBeginning in 2020, COVID-19 produced shock-shifts that were felt across the globe, not least at the level of the local neighborhood. Some of these shifts have called into question the role of physical places for face-to-face gatherings, including those used by LGBTQ+ people. Such open questions are a key concern for a book on gayborhoods, so this chapter engages in three analytic tasks to provide preliminary reflections on how pandemics problematize places. While acknowledging a range of threats and challenges that the pandemic poses to the future of LGBTQ+ spaces, this chapter focuses on the potential opportunities and unexpected benefits that COVID-19 can create, running counter to more pessimistic predictions that abound in popular discourse. First, the chapter contextualizes how the COVID-19 pandemic is reminiscent of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, allowing the gayborhood to be well-equipped to respond with grassroots activism, particularly in the face of government inaction or apathy. Second, the chapter explores trends that can ensure the future vitality of LGBTQ+ spaces, including (i) the potential of mutual aid networks, (ii) the power of institutional anchors in LGBTQ+ placemaking efforts, (iii) urban changes related to homesteading and population shifts, (iv) innovations in the interior design of physical spaces, and (v) opportunities to enhance social connections through augmented virtual engagements. Far from signaling the death knell of LGBTQ+ spaces, these trends demonstrate the enduring appeal provided by neighborhoods and communities. Third, the cognitive schemas of lockdowns, re-closeting, and digitalscapes are identified as unique expressions of the shifting spatialities of sexuality in post-pandemic urban space. The chapter concludes by arguing that place will still matter for LGBTQ+ people in a post-COVID-19 era, albeit with altered meanings and material expressions. The socio-spatial consequences of the novel coronavirus will be a confluence of positive and negative developments, and while some will be reversed as soon as an effective vaccine is found, others will linger indelibly in bodies and the built environment for years to come.

scholarly journals Life and Mortality: A Teacher's Awakening

in education ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-102
Author(s):  
Carli Molnar
Keyword(s):  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Formal Schooling ◽  
Poetic Inquiry ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
To Come ◽  
What Matters

This paper is a collection of pieces that contemplate life and mortality in the realm of education. A terminally ill, eight-year-old boy named Kole and his struggle within the confines of formal schooling inspires it. This piece of poetic inquiry gives voice to questions that need to be addressed in schools today, such as: In the face of mortality, what matters each day in classrooms? Why do terminally ill children need to come to school to prepare for the future? What does it mean to live well with children each day? This writing is a story that attempts to illuminate within each of us the recognition that mortality is nearer than one thinks, even for those of us without a terminal condition.Keywords: education; life and mortality

scholarly journals Routes of Transmission 2019-nCoV and Optometry Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-23
Author(s):  
Raj Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Health Center ◽  
Eye Care ◽  
Entire Genome ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Control Actions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Care Health ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

A novel β-coronavirus (2019 novel coronavirus) affected severe as well to uniform fetal pneumonia, travelled through a seafood bazaar of Wuhan town, Hubei region, China, also quickly extent toward excess boonies of China and more nations. The 2019-nCoV existed dissimilar after SARS-CoV, then cooperative the similar crowd receptor the social ACE2 (angiotensin-converting enzyme2). The regular crowd of 2019 novel coronavirus could conventional continue bat Rhinolophusaffin is a 2019 novel coronavirus presented 96.2% of entire-genome character toward BatCoV RaTG13. The person-to-person spread methods of 2019-nCoV involved tool, identical cough, sneeze droplet inhalation transmission, and obtain in-tuned with transmission, just like the interaction by way of oral, nasal, as well as eye mucous films. 2019-nCoV container too exist spread over the saliva, alsothus the fetal–oral ways similarly can remain a possible person-to-person spread mode. The observers now optometry run through representation just before the incredible danger of 2019-nCoV contagion because of the face-to-face announcement too thus the expose en route for tears, plasma, plus additional body liquids, besides therefore the diagnostic and treatment of apparatuses. Eye care professional perform inordinate heroes in stopping the spread of 2019-nCoV. At this time we indorse the contagion control actions all through optometry exercise just before block the person-to-person spread ways in eye care health center as well as hospitals.

The ethics of incomprehensibility

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Stanghellini
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Single Word ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Karl Jaspers ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
Therapeutic Protocols ◽  
Decision Making Criteria

What can psychiatrists learn today from Karl Jaspers, who at the dawn of XX Century, held that the future of medicine was in binding philosophy to science ? How can young psychiatrists, who are so hungry for handbook knowledge, structured interviews, decision-making criteria, and therapeutic protocols be so patient as to listen to such a hybrid clinician-philosopher arguing for a kind of knowledge which is stubbornly aware of its limits, and breathlessly revolting against all sorts of objectification and dogmatism? How can those who are looking for ‘expert knowledge’ be satisfied with a kind of knowledge which conceives of itself as an ‘unlimited task’ which takes place in the face-to-face, here-and-now encounter between two persons? How can they be happy with a mentor whose main teaching can be condensed into one sentence: ‘[Q]uestions are more essential than answers, and every answer becomes a new question’? To respond to these interrogations, we need to tackle another more fundamental one: On what kind of knowledge can we rely to establish the foundations of psychiatry? Jaspers’ answer can be condensed in one single word: Psychopathology.

Relations, Aliveness, Love: Curriculum in the Spirit of the Earth

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jodi Latremouille ◽  
Lesley Tait ◽  
David W. Jardine
Keyword(s):  
Face To Face ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
Human World ◽  
Trusting Relationships ◽  
Ecological Thought ◽  
Contemporary Schooling

Images and practices of relations, aliveness, and love provide a way to reconcile knowledge and its schooled pursuit with the wisdom required in our current, ecologically desperate times. This desperation is rooted, in part, in threads of the efficiency movement that were inherited by education in the early 1900s and left schools with a curriculum legacy that has become exhausted and counterproductive. This inheritance can be countered with ideas from the traditions of hermeneutics and ecological thought. But they are also countered with life-affirming and life-sustaining Cree ideas: wahkohtowin, wicihitowin, and sakihitowin. Practicing these ideas can help align work inside and outside schools with the characteristic spirit (ethos) of our earthly being, and can provide the grounds for a pointed critique of, and alternative to, the regnant regimes of contemporary schooling. wahkohtowin means, briefly put, “all things are related/all things are our relations” and wicihitowin refers to “the life-giving energy that is generated when people face each other as relatives and build trusting relationships by connecting with others in respectful ways.” sakihitowin means “love.” Reimagining curriculum as constituted by living fields of relations while also considering not only the energeia, the “aliveness” that is generated in the face-to-face care of and learning the ways of such living fields, but also the deep affection that is both needed for and produced by such reimagining, increases the prospects of our ecological future and the future of the more-than-human world.

Birth of an idea: the founding of the International Committee of the Red Cross and of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement: from Solferino to the original Geneva Convention (1859–1864)

2012 ◽  
Vol 94 (888) ◽  
pp. 1299-1338 ◽  
Author(s):  
François Bugnion
Keyword(s):  
Geneva Convention ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Creation ◽  
To Come

AbstractThe trauma of coming face to face with the horrors of a battlefield and witnessing first-hand the abandonment of the war-wounded led Henry Dunant to two ingenious concepts: the creation of permanent volunteer relief societies and the adoption of a treaty to protect wounded soldiers and all who endeavour to come to their aid. On the initiative of Gustave Moynier, a committee was established in Geneva to implement Dunant's proposals. That committee – which soon took the name ‘International Committee of the Red Cross’ (ICRC) – convened two international conferences, the first of which laid the foundation for the future relief societies while the second adopted the initial Geneva Convention. This article considers the circumstances that led to the founding of the ICRC and then to that of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, starting with Solferino and culminating in the adoption of the Geneva Convention.

scholarly journals DENTAL CONSIDERATIONS AMIDST COVID-19 SCARE

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nitish Mathur ◽  
Sanjeev Tyagi ◽  
Vartul Dwivedi ◽  
Anu Narang ◽  
Parimala Tyagi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rna Virus ◽  
Respiratory Illness ◽  
Host Cells ◽  
Alveolar Cells ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Dental Procedures ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Type Ii Alveolar Cells ◽  
To Come ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

A Novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in Wuhan city of china capable of causing life threatening respiratory illness declared as a pandemic by WHO and has become a global fear among the community and healthcare professionals in 2020. 2019-nCoV is a positive stranded RNA virus having an origin from bats targets the host cells via the enzyme Angiotensin Converting enzyme 2(ACE2), which is most abundant in the type II alveolar cells of the lungs. This virus has usual incubation period of approximate 5 days and typically spread from one person to another via respiratory droplets produced during coughing and sneezing. Spread of this virus in the community has been reported through direct transmission route such as cough, droplet transmission, aerosols, salivary route, ocular and through the contact spread. As the dental practice compels dentists to come in face to face contact with the patients and aerosols during certain dental procedures leading to the heightened risk of 2019-nCoV transmission from infected patients. We hereby make an attempt to discuss 2019-nCoV infection spread in the community and among dentist, including precautions and considerations pertaining to the practice of dentistry amidst 2019-nCoV scare.

Afterword: Theatre and Speculation

2019 ◽  
pp. 250-261
Author(s):  
William N. West
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Theatrical Performance ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
To Come ◽  
Dark Glass

The face-to-face encounter is a figure for direct, immediate contact between two entities. It has a long history, from Paul’s assertion that what he sees now in a glass darkly he will some day meet face to face to Emmanuel Levinas’ attempt to refound philosophy as based on its confrontation with another. But in seeking to determine the conditions under which the face to face could take place—absolute transparency to the absolutely other—its writers have risked stripping it of the contingencies and particularities that actually mark face-to-face encounters in the world. They have accidentally rendered it as theory and as theophany. Theatrical performance shows another view of the face to face, restoring to it the confusions and quirks of the world, embracing the dark glass of Paul’s wordly speculation rather than the promise of a more perfect vision always still to come. By executing the clarities that are hoped for in the face-to-face encounter, theater shows its shortcomings and discovers in them unhoped for points of contact.

Legal Interpretation of Face-to-Face Consultation in Telemedicine

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-32
Author(s):  
Yasumitsu Tomioka
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Legal Interpretation ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Government ◽  
To Come

In legal studies on telemedicine, the requirement of face-to-face consultation emerges as a major concern. Although the legal basis of the “face-to-face consultation” requirement is often assumed to come from Medical Practitioners Law Article 20, it is actually from a notice issued on 24/12/1997 in Health Policy Publication No. 1075 by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW). In this article, through analysis of how the court made a judgment in regard to “face-to-face consultation” in previous rulings related to the Medical Practitioners Law Article 20, the authors clarify that judgment is based on these “notices”. In addition, through analysis of what policy on telemedicine the MHLW announces in the government ministries’ response issued on 20/10/2009 to the questionnaire from the members of a task force in the IT Strategic Headquarters, it is ascertained that interpretation of the “face-to-face patient care” in telemedicine becomes broader than the “notices”. This paper accelerates the broader interpretation and establishes a legal system defining telemedicine independently.

scholarly journals Creating Better Space by Virtual Modelling: Using Software Creatively and Intuitively for Exploration and Analysis of Urban Quarters and Estates

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Zahnd
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Urban Settings ◽  
Great Support ◽  
The Future ◽  
To Come ◽  
New Applications ◽  
Urban Data

<p>Creating urban space is mainly done by shaping buildings, streets and places (squares and courtyards). Its products are results of the outcome of ongoing processes that involve many actors in various ways and different purposes. Some shaping space actors produce it for their own use, but most shaping actions are done for other parties or public usage.<br />It is hoped that this new applications and even more applications to come will use this powerful and fast modular [indosity] framework. Using the same frame and IT-language (Java/3DJava, that makes it easy for programmers to integrate and standardize urban data). Together they will offer strong support for creating, evaluating and presenting various urban aspects and impacts towards better usage for developing urban quarters and spaces.<br />Many more case studies within various context and purposes will be needed. Therefore spreading these applications to stakeholders and experts/scholars in the field of urban development will be crucial and partnerships with more institutions for achieving this task are welcomed. It is hoped that these case studies and researches will show, how these applications can be used even more effectively within urban settings and many projects in the future. May it be a great support for its users as they have to deal with complex and interrelated issues of developing urban space for better life for many urban habitants and<br />communities in time to come.</p>

scholarly journals A PRACTICAL STUDY ON LOGISTICS RESPONSE TO PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES IN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF FINE MANAGEMENT—TAKING LOGISTICS SUPPORT OFFICE OF CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES (WUHAN) AS AN EXAMPLE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
LI XU ◽  
LUN LI
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Healthy Development ◽  
Public Health Emergencies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

The healthy development of higher education cannot be separated from the strong support and guarantee of university logistics. In the face of public health emergencies, if we want to further strengthen the function of logistics support and support in colleges and universities, and enhance the awareness and ability of coping, we should first start with delicacy management. After the baptism of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) epidemic, it is necessary for the logistics of universities to sum up their experience carefully, make good plans ahead of time, and make full response and preparation for all kinds of public health emergencies that may occur in the future. And this provides Chinese wisdom and Chinese plan for colleges and universities around the world to deal with public health emergencies.

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