Eugenics in Colonial Kenya

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chloe Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
African Development ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Eugenics Movement ◽  
Directors Of Education ◽  
Biological Solutions

The application of eugenics to a new environment raises questions about the individuals who served as conduits for these ideas. This article discusses eugenics as a serious preoccupation within the medical profession in Kenya. It is concerned with native development and welfare, issues that were dismissed by more politically extreme settlers for whom African welfare was a waste of resources. It states that eugenics and its application to race and intelligence took root in the Kenyan medical profession because it promised biological solutions to perceived social problems, in particular African backwardness and the shape of future African development. This article also provides an understanding of the demise of the Kenyan eugenics movement and ends with the discussion of the Kenyan eugenics movement supported by successive governors, directors of education and health, the acting chief native commissioner, as well as district commissioners.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF EDUCATION AND HEALTH ON THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE AND ECONOMY OF EAST JAVA

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suyanto Suyanto ◽  
Bambang Purnomo ◽  
Rahmawati Erma StandsyahStandsyah
Keyword(s):  
Direct Effect ◽  
Unemployment Rate ◽  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Insignificant Effect ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Positive Direct

East Java statistics indicate that the total population of East Java Province is increasing every year. The increase in the population is followed by an increase in social problems, including unemployment. The unemployment rate can affect the economy of the society. Efforts must be made to reduce it by improving the quality of society through factors related to education and health. According to data from East Java in 2017, East Java's education has a significant positive direct effect on the East Java economy of 0.343%, while indirectly through unemployment has an insignificant effect increased by 0.0021%. In addition, health has no significant direct and indirect effect on the East Java economy with coefficients of 0.078% and -0.0023%, respectively.

scholarly journals Human Resources Development and Sustainable African Development: A Reconsideration of Some Fundamental Issues

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Nwakpa
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Human Resources Development ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
African Development ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Bad Leadership ◽  
Resources Development

The ambition of this paper was to examine the role of human resources in sustainable African development. It argued that the nexus between human resources development and sustainable development cannot be over-emphasized. It observed that during colonial rule, the policy on human resources development was discriminatory to the disadvantage of Africans. It further argued that the place of intellectuals in the development of human resources could not be ignored as their role is a sacred one and blamed poor human resources development record in Africa on bad leadership. It lamented the inability of government to make good use of recommendations of intellectuals during seminars, workshops and conferences. The paper concluded that a holistic approach should be adopted which would place human beings at the centre of development and recommended among others that poverty should be reduced while people should be made to have access to education and health.

Drugs and the Medicalization of Human Problems

1977 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-322
Author(s):  
Stuart L. Hills
Keyword(s):  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Illegal Drug ◽  
Psychoactive Drugs ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Mass Media

The focus in the mass media on illegal drug abuse among the young has obscured an epidemic increase in the misuse of legal psychoactive drugs in America. The threat to society from the widespread use of mood-altering drugs—encouraged by the pharmaceutical industry and medical profession-is explored. The increasing tendency to define unpleasant human feelings and troublesome behavior as a “disease” to be corrected with drugs may serve to (1) diminish pressures to seek more fundamental approaches to the real sources of the drug user's distress, and (2) individualize and depoliticize complex social problems.

The Diagnosis of Viral Disease by Electron Microscopy

1982 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 270-273
Author(s):  
William B. McCombs ◽  
Cameron E. McCoy
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Hospital Stay ◽  
Viral Infections ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Bacterial Pathogens ◽  
Viral Disease ◽  
Viral Pathogens ◽  
Academic Interest ◽  
The Past

Recent years have brought a reversal in the attitude of the medical profession toward the diagnosis of viral infections. Identification of bacterial pathogens was formerly thought to be faster than identification of viral pathogens. Viral identification was dismissed as being of academic interest or for confirming the presence of an epidemic, because the patient would recover or die before this could be accomplished. In the past 10 years, the goal of virologists has been to present the clinician with a viral identification in a matter of hours. This fast diagnosis has the potential for shortening the patient's hospital stay and preventing the administering of toxic and/or expensive antibiotics of no benefit to the patient.

Amputation in fictional literature: the case of Hippolyte in Madame Bovary

VASA ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement 58) ◽  
pp. 3-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kauss
Keyword(s):  
Surgical Procedure ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Major Amputation ◽  
Madame Bovary

In his famous novel, published in 1856, Flaubert describes the circumstances of a failed surgical procedure ending up in a major amputation. Flaubert, whose father was a physician in Rouen/France, mocks at the medical profession and its victims and proves himself to be compassionate at the same time. About his writing, he explained: "I only measure shit into doses." ("Je ne fais autre chose que de doser de la merde.")

Personality's Correlates of Adult Development and Aging

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gian Vittorio Caprara ◽  
Mariagiovanna Caprara ◽  
Patrizia Steca
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Adult Development ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Development And Aging ◽  
And Gender

Three cross-sectional studies examined stability and change in personality over the course of life by measuring the relations linking age to personality traits, self-efficacy beliefs, values, and well-being in large samples of Italian male and female participants. In each study, relations between personality and age were examined across several age groups ranging from young adulthood to old age. In each study, personality constructs were first examined in terms of mean group differences accrued by age and gender and then in terms of their correlations with age across gender and age groups. Furthermore, personality-age correlations were also calculated, controlling for the demographic effects accrued by marital status, education, and health. Findings strongly indicated that personality functioning does not necessarily decline in the later years of life, and that decline is more pronounced in males than it is in females across several personality dimensions ranging from personality traits, such as emotional stability, to self-efficacy beliefs, such as efficacy in dealing with negative affect. Findings are discussed in terms of their implications for personality theory and social policy.

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