‘A higher form of listening’: a commentary on ‘the human bodies of World War II: beyond the battlefield’

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-158
Author(s):  
Emily Mayhew
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
Patient Treatment ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
World War ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Potential Patient

This issue’s interdisciplinary range parallels the generative multidisciplinary scope in the developing field of medical humanities. A closely detailed and empathic interdisciplinary analysis of physical and mental injury can offer additional historical and cultural resources to medical practitioners, thus broadening potential patient treatment options beyond institutional and disciplinary boundaries.

Stabilizing American Society: Kenneth Boulding and the Integration of the Social Sciences, 1943–1980

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Fontaine
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Main Determinant ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Right

ArgumentFor more than thirty years after World War II, the unconventional economist Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) was a fervent advocate of the integration of the social sciences. Building on common general principles from various fields, notably economics, political science, and sociology, Boulding claimed that an integrated social science in which mental images were recognized as the main determinant of human behavior would allow for a better understanding of society. Boulding's approach culminated in the social triangle, a view of society as comprised of three main social organizers – exchange, threat, and love – combined in varying proportions. According to this view, the problems of American society were caused by an unbalanced combination of these three organizers. The goal of integrated social scientific knowledge was therefore to help policy makers achieve the “right” proportions of exchange, threat, and love that would lead to social stabilization. Though he was hopeful that cross-disciplinary exchanges would overcome the shortcomings of too narrow specialization, Boulding found that rather than being the locus of a peaceful and mutually beneficial exchange, disciplinary boundaries were often the occasion of conflict and miscommunication.

scholarly journals Fort McCoy, Wisconsin Building 550 maintenance plan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
August S. Fuelberth ◽  
◽  
Adam D. Smith ◽  
Sunny E. Adams
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
World War ◽  
Historic Building ◽  
Cultural Resources Management ◽  
Fire Station ◽  
Element Failure ◽  
National Historic Preservation Act ◽  
Maintenance Plan

Building 550 (former World War II fire station) is located on Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, and was recommended eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2018 (Smith and Adams 2018). The building is currently vacant. It is an intact example of an 800 Series World War II fire station with character-defining features of its period of significance from 1939 to 1946 on its exterior and interior. All buildings, especially historic ones, require regular planned maintenance and repair. The most notable cause of historic building element failure and/or decay is not the fact that the historic building is old, but rather it is caused by incorrect or inappropriate repair and/or basic neglect of the historic building fabric. This document is a maintenance manual compiled with as-is conditions of construction materials of Building 550. The Secretary of Interior Guidelines on rehabilitation and repair per material are discussed to provide the cultural resources manager at Fort McCoy a guide to maintain this historic building. This report satisfies Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966 as amended and will help the Fort McCoy Cultural Resources Management office to manage this historic building.

Governing Mentalities: The Deportation of ‘Insane’ and ‘Feebleminded’ Immigrants Out of British Columbia From Confederation To World War II

1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Menzies
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
World War ◽  
Efficient System ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Canadian Citizenship ◽  
Government Records ◽  
Race Betterment

AbstractThis paper chronicles the role of British Columbian provincial authorities and medical practitioners in engineering the deportation of psychiatrically disordered and cognitively disabled immigrants out of the province between Confederation and 1939. Approximately 750 mental patients were removed from BC during the 1920s and 1930s alone, and more than 5000 had been deported from the country as a whole by the outbreak of World War II. With the use of provincial and federal government records and correspondence, institutional documents, print media clippings and patient files, I probe the professional practices and discourses that fuelled this movement to banish asylum inmates. Across these seven decades, medical authorities, in alliance with bureaucrats and various anti-immigration forces, succeeded in assembling a powerful and efficient system for screening out and expelling those new Canadians who ostensibly failed to meet the mental standards for Canadian citizenship. Bolstered by theories of eugenics and race betterment, and drawing on public fears about the unregulated influx of aliens and the associated scourge of madness, officials turned to deportation as an expedient means for ridding hospitals of their least desirable denizens. I argue more generally that the deportation of ‘insane’ and other ‘unfit’ immigrants was nourished by the flood ofnativist, rac(ial)ist, exclusionist, eugenist, and mental hygienist thinking that dominated British Columbian and Canadian political and public culture throughout this ‘golden age’ of deportation.

scholarly journals Coastal Tourism Destinations in West Bengal: Historical Background and Development

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-272
Author(s):  
Anirban Baitalik ◽  
Sankar Majumdar
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
World War ◽  
Coastal Tourism ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
The 1960S

Coastal tourism has become a major facet of modern life. Further, tourism development in the coastal zone has become a constant since the end of World War II. Coastal tourism is a process involving tourists and the people and places they visit, particularly the coastal environment and its natural and cultural resources. Most coastal tourism takes place along the shore and in the water immediately adjacent to the shoreline. In India Goa, Kerala, Karnataka were emerged spontaneously as a coastal tourism destination in the 1960s, its unique selling points being its natural coastal beauty. But the history of coastal tourism is not very old in West Bengal. The coastal stretch of West Bengal with a length of about 350 kilometer comprises the two districts- Purba Medinipur and Dakshin Chabbisparagana. In West Bengal there are many popular coastal tourism destinations, but coastal tourism in West Bengal started in 1980s. Present study focuses on historical background and development of the coastal tourism destinations in West Bengal.Int. J. Soc. Sci. Manage. Vol-2, issue-3: 267-272 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijssm.v2i3.12910 

The Water Island Archaeological Project: archaeology and history in the eastern Caribbean

Antiquity ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 75 (289) ◽  
pp. 513-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Anderson ◽  
R. Steven Kidd ◽  
Emily M. Yates
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
National Park ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Salt Ponds ◽  
World War ◽  
Us Virgin Islands ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Park Service

In 1998 extensive investigations were undertaken on Water Island, US Virgin Islands, by a research team from the Southeast Archeological Center, National Park Service. The US government is relinquishing ownership of the island, an action that would affect cultural resources. Earlier surveys had located a number of sites, including the remains of three 18th- and l9th-century plantations, historic wells, prehistoric shell middens and an extensive World War II fortification complex (Wild & Anderson 1992; Knight 2001; Anderson et al. in preparation).Water Island, located off St Thomas, encompasses about one square mile, and is characterized by steep rocky slopes, a pronounced central ridgeline and a highly indented coastline with numerous bays and beaches (FIGURE 1). Fresh water comes from rainfall, and in small brackish ponds. Vegetation ranges from dry tropical thorn scrub to mangrove/salt ponds.

Collecting affect: emotion and empathy in World War II photographs and drawings of plastic surgery

2021 ◽  
pp. medhum-2020-012108
Author(s):  
Christine Slobogin
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Plastic Surgery ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Operating Theatre ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Empathy ◽  
Compositional Choices

This article compares drawings by Diana ‘Dickie’ Orpen (1914–2008) with photographs by Percy Hennell (1911–1987); both of their oeuvres depict plastic reconstructive surgeries from World War II in Britain. Through visual analysis, personal experience and interviews with archivists who have worked with the collections, this article aims to determine the affective effects of these drawings and photographs. I argue that Hennell’s images are the more affective and subjective objects, even though their original purpose was objective and scientific. This article asks why Hennell’s photographs of plastic surgery produce such a vehement emotive response.Investigating Hennell’s use of colour, his compositional choices and the unexpected visual particulars of the operating theatre that he captures—all of which ‘collect affect’ within the photo-archival object—this analysis uses a phenomenological framework to determine the limitations and strengths of two very different styles and mediums of World War II surgical imagery.Beyond establishing which group of images is more affecting, this article also shows why it is empathy that is the most fitting emotional description of the typical responses to Hennell’s photographs. This type of visual analysis of empathic images can be applied to objects-based medical humanities pedagogy that encourages empathy—historical empathy as well as empathy in the present day—for surgical practitioners and trainees.

scholarly journals Fort McCoy, Wisconsin WWII buildings and landscapes

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunny E. Adams ◽  
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Megan W. Tooker ◽  
Adam D. Smith
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
National Level ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
World War ◽  
Circulation Patterns ◽  
Fire Station ◽  
National Historic Preservation Act ◽  
Design Construction

The U.S. Congress codified the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA) mostly through the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), which requires federal agencies to address their cultural resources. Section 110 of the NHPA requires federal agencies to inventory and evaluate their cultural resources, and Section 106 requires them to determine the effect of federal undertakings on those potentially eligible for the NRHP. This report provides a World War II development history and analysis of 786 buildings, and determinations of eligibility for those buildings, on Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. Evaluation of the WWII buildings and landscape concluded that there are too few buildings with integrity to form a cohesive historic district. While the circulation patterns and roads are still intact, the buildings with integrity are scattered throughout the cantonment affecting the historic character of the landscape. Only Building 100 (post headquarters), Building 656 (dental clinic), and Building 550 (fire station) are ELIGIBLE for listing on the NRHP at the national level under Criterion A for their association with World War II temporary building construction (1942-1946) and under Criterion C for their design, construction, and technological innovation.

scholarly journals Camp Perry historic district contributing buildings : character-defining features

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Smith ◽  
August Fuelberth ◽  
Sunny Adams ◽  
Carey Baxter
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Historic Preservation ◽  
National Guard ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
Historic District ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
World War ◽  
Army National Guard ◽  
Prisoner Of War ◽  
National Historic Preservation Act

The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA) established the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), which requires federal agencies to address their cultural resources, defined as any prehistoric or historic district, site, building, structure, or object. NHPA Section 110 requires federal agencies to inventory and evaluate their cultural resources. Section 106 requires them to determine the effect of federal undertakings on properties deemed eligible or potentially eligible for the NRHP. Camp Perry Joint Training Center (Camp Perry) is located near Port Clinton, Ohio, and serves as an Ohio Army National Guard (OHARNG) training site. It served as an induction center during federal draft periods and as a prisoner of war camp during World War II. Previous work established boundaries for a historic district and recommended the district eligible for the NRHP. This project inventoried and analyzed the character-defining features of the seven contributing buildings and one grouping of objects (brick lamp posts) at Camp Perry. The analysis is to aid future Section 106 processes and/or the development of a programmatic agreement in consultation with the Ohio State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO).

The Formative Decades of the CPSA

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice Newton
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Moral Reform ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Legacy ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Corporate State ◽  
Policy Discussion

AbstractDrawing on the CPSA's archival records, this article explores the origins of CPSA and the patterns of representation in its founding decades. We focus on the pre-World War II years, when disciplinary boundaries were fluid and scholars sought to shift policy discussion from moral reform to reform guided by science and professionalism. The CPSA's founding vision aspired to engage “typical citizens” in discussion of current issues. Despite the ambitious vision, a much narrower range of citizens participated. The CPSA's powerful melding of academic, corporate, state and political elites, in turn, shaped the CPSA's reflections on the development of the Canadian state and public policy. This historical legacy encourages us to reflect on the contemporary challenges of fostering independent scholarship on public issues.

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