The recognition and management of body temperature disturbances in Royal Navy personnel

2014 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-267
Author(s):  
DJC Angus ◽  
EHN Oakley
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Body Temperature ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Initial Presentation ◽  
Royal Navy ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Chain Of Command ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Return To Duty ◽  
Navy Personnel

AbstractThis article discusses hypothermia and hyperthermia, described together as thermal illness. These conditions are seen within the United Kingdom (UK) Armed Forces population at home and abroad and may endanger life, with significant implications for both the individual and the chain of command. Recognition and management from initial presentation to return to duty is discussed and guidance given on occupational considerations.

scholarly journals Confession as a Form of Knowledge-Power in the Problem of Sexuality

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iiris Kestilä
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Disciplinary Power ◽  
Military Organization ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
European Court ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Military

AbstractThis article addresses two questions related to the discrimination of homosexuals in the British Armed Forces as illuminated in the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in the cases Smith and Grady v. the United Kingdom and Beck, Copp and Bazeley v. the United Kingdom. First, how does the military organization obtain knowledge about its subjects? Two works by Michel Foucault concerning the thematic of confession—The Will to Knowledge and About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Two Lectures at Dartmouth—provide a foundation for answering this question. Second, what happens when this knowledge obtained by the military organization comes into contact with the legal system? In relation to this question, Foucauldian theories of law are discussed, namely the so-called ‘expulsion thesis’ and ‘polyvalence theory’. It is argued that the production of knowledge in the context of these cases is intertwined with the technique of confession. However, the confession does not only operate at the level of the military organization but also as an internal practice of the individual. When this knowledge then encounters the legal system, it appears that the law puts up a certain resistance towards other forms of power, e.g. disciplinary power. It is argued that this resistance is due to the law’s ‘strategic openness’, i.e. the possibility to harness the law to different strategic purposes, due to which law can never be fully subordinated by external powers.

The United Kingdom: Increasingly Fractious Civil–Military Relations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew M. Dorman
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Civil War ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Royal Navy ◽  
Civil Military Relations ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
To Come ◽  
Military Relations ◽  
The Military

Civil–military relations in the United Kingdom have traditionally not been a major issue. This is partly a reflection of its history. The U.K. mainland has not been invaded since 1066. Since the civil war in the 17th century and the union of Scotland with England at the beginning of the 18th century, there has not been a need to maintain significant land forces at home. The Royal Navy has provided the first and main line of defense. The civil war in many ways set the tone for subsequent civil–military relations. Most powers related to the armed forces have been retained under the royal prerogative, effectively in the hands of the prime minister, but Parliament has retained a degree of oversight and controls the purse strings. However, beneath this veneer there are increasing tensions between the military and political authorities as the former have sought an increasing role in policymaking, particularly in terms of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Moreover, the armed forces themselves have struggled to come to terms with adapting to the society from which they are drawn. Since the 1990s they have had to give ground on the issues of gender and sexuality, and they are increasingly criticized for their lack of diversification—an issue that they have sought to mask by recruiting from the Commonwealth.

The Royal Navy Operating Department Practitioner: Perioperative care on land and sea

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 176-182
Author(s):  
Glenn Long ◽  
Gareth Jones ◽  
David Roper ◽  
Yasmin Eaton ◽  
Amy Howells
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Perioperative Care ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Royal Navy ◽  
Work Patterns ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
At Home

Royal Navy Operating Department Practitioners are employed in a number of different roles, during peacetime, humanitarian aid operations and periods of war. In recent times, Royal Navy Operating Department Practitioners have deployed on active operations in addition to working in NHS hospitals at home in the United Kingdom. This article will explore the different avenues and experiences of Operating Department Practitioners who are currently serving in the Royal Navy. The reader will then also gain an insight into the different echelons of care provided by the Defence Medical Services to the United Kingdom Armed Forces and Allied Nations. The article will then consider the unique experiences available to Royal Navy Operating Department Practitioners in this multi-faceted role which offers the opportunity to explore work patterns in different environments.

The Command of the Sea

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Morgan-Owen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Royal Navy ◽  
Naval Warfare ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Late Nineteenth

The Royal Navy thought about war in a particular way in the late nineteenth century. This chapter explains how the contemporary Navy understood strategy as it pertained to protecting the United Kingdom from invasion. By examining the different approaches taken to war against France and Germany between 1885 and 1900 it shows how the Admiralty understood the defence of the British Isles in this period in largely symmetrical terms. The battle fleet remained key to naval warfare and to preventing invasion, but it did not need to be shackled to the British coastline in order to prevent a hostile power from attempting to cross the Channel.

Public Spending and Social Policy: The United Kingdom 1950–1977

1980 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Gould ◽  
Barbara Roweth
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
International Study ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Welfare Spending ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Individual

ABSTRACTThis article, in which we examine developments in public expenditure on social policy in relation to total public spending in the United Kingdom (UK) in the period after the Second World War, is part of a larger international study on developments in social welfare spending on which we are currently engaged.In Section 1 we briefly sketch in the theoretical background to the study of public expenditure growth in general and social welfare spending in particular. We shall not in this article attempt to evaluate the validity of the competing hypotheses – this exercise is in hand as part of the international study, and we shall report the findings at a later date. Section 2 examines the growth of public expenditure in the UK at the aggregate level. In Section 3 we analyse public expenditure at the individual programme level and in Section 4 we summarize the conclusions.

Routine Outcome Monitoring in Child and Adolescent Mental Health in the United Kingdom at the Individual and Systems Levels

2017 ◽  
pp. 145-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miranda Wolpert ◽  
Kate Dalzell ◽  
Jenna Jacob ◽  
Jenny Bloxham ◽  
Matt Barnard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Adolescent Mental Health ◽  
Child And Adolescent ◽  
Routine Outcome Monitoring ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Outcome Monitoring ◽  
The Individual

The diagnosis and management of insomnia in the United Kingdom Armed Forces

2015 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-88
Author(s):  
LD Baker ◽  
RH Coetzee
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Common Condition ◽  
Diagnosis And Management ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Military Populations ◽  
Clinical Considerations

AbstractInsomnia is a common condition among patients presenting to primary care facilities in both civilian and military populations. This article considers the diagnosis, management and clinical considerations of managing this condition, along with the occupational and operational considerations for the United Kingdom Armed Forces.

On the Issues Surrounding Economic Voting

1987 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN R. HIBBING
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Economic Voting ◽  
The United States ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Election Results ◽  
The Individual

This is an analysis of the effects of economic factors on voting behavior in the United Kingdom. Aggregate- and individual-level data are used. When the results are compared to findings generated by the United States case, some intriguing differences appear. To mention just two examples, unemployment and inflation seem to be much more important in the United Kingdom than in the United States, and changes in real per capita income are positively related to election results in the United States and negatively related in the United Kingdom. More generally, while the aggregate results are strong and the individual-level results weak in the United States, in the United Kingdom the situation is practically reversed.

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