scholarly journals Defending Against Medical Error: Personal Reflections on the Legacy of John Senders

2021 ◽  
pp. 001872082110334
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Cafazzo ◽  
Abigail J. Sellen ◽  
Don Norman
Keyword(s):  
Human Error ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Strong Resonance ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Human Factors And Ergonomics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
Distinguished Member

Objective To honor the legacy of John Senders, a distinguished member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, by a short, personal history of him, but then to honor his legacy by extending it through our own professional opinions, with an emphasis on the study of human error and its implications for healthcare systems—two topics in which he excelled. Background The authors are familiar with the topic and subject matter. One was a friend of Senders for over 50 years. Another was a collaborator and joint author with Senders (as well as his stepdaughter). All three authors have extensive publications in the topic areas. Method, Results, and Conclusion The authors used personal accounts of interactions with Senders at conferences, experiences living and working with him, and a brief review of his most personal, notable publications in healthcare. The reflections indicate a strong resonance on Senders’ contributions to system design that are relevant today in healthcare’s most challenging period in its history.

scholarly journals Dinesh Bhugra: a personal history of Psychiatry

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-08 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dinesh Bhugra
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Care ◽  
International Medical Graduate ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Medical Graduate ◽  
The Past ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Personal Histories ◽  
History Of ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
And Training

AbstractIn the past 40 years, the practice of psychiatry has changed dramatically from asylums to community care to personalized home-based treatments. The personal history of working in various settings and changing NHS indicates that an ability to change one’s clinical practice is a critical skill. Being a migrant and an International Medical Graduate brings with it certain specific challenges. Personal histories provide a very specific account that is inherently incomplete and perhaps biased, but personal accounts also give history a tinge that academic accounts cannot. In this account, changes in the NHS have been discussed with regards to changes in clinical care of patients with psychiatric disorders as well as research and training.

scholarly journals Professional Action Sport Athletes’ Experiences with and Attitudes Toward Concussion: A Phenomenological Study

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Faure ◽  
John Fitzpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Head Injuries ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Extrinsic Factors ◽  
History Of ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
Intrinsic And Extrinsic Factors

This study examined the lived experiences and subsequent attitudes of freestyle BMX and motocross athletes relative to suffering concussions. Eleven professional athletes were interviewed using a semi-structured protocol. All cited a significant personal history with concussion and those personal accounts, along with their observations of others who experienced similar head injuries, shaped the athletes’ attitudes towards concussion. Both intrinsic and extrinsic factors contributed to each athlete’s acceptance of concussion risk inherent in their respective sport. Generally, athletes accepted concussion risk as part of their sport, but were largely unfamiliar with what concussion was and what long-term effects could result from a history of concussion. Additionally, athletes knew of no concussion protocols or guidelines in their sport and cited an overall lack of organized medical care accessible to them on an ongoing basis, as is the case with mainstream sports.

scholarly journals Presidential Address: The Personal and the Historical

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-13
Author(s):  
Judith Fingard
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Contentious Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
Key Points ◽  
History Of ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract In her 1998 Presidential Address to the Canadian Historical Association, Judith Fingard poses a question which has been on our collective minds for some time: “Does the personal history of the historian determine the choice of her or his subject matter, approach, and ongoing professional development?” By delving into the personal reflections of celebrated Canadian historians, Fingard has been able to shed light on this contentious issue. According to Fingard, the personal and professional intersect at several key points (or at least have for her sample of historians working in Canada in the past twenty years). The obvious, it seems, is true. Gender, class and stage of life all influence scholarly pursuits whether it be in terms of subject matter chosen or the amount of time one is able to devote to research and writing. Certainly the past twenty years has seen great change in Canadian academia; particularly, one can argue, in the field of history. It is clear that those sampled in Fingard's survey drew upon their personal backgrounds not only to forge a passion for the past - sometimes against all odds - but a professional identity based on the study of history of the margins. Ultimately, we can conclude that social historians of the past twenty years personify the field they played such a role in developing. To varying degrees, the profession is indeed personal.

scholarly journals After Joseph Needham: The legacy reviewed, the agenda revised – some personal reflections

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-20
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Chinese Science ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
History Of ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
Political Economic

We all owe Joseph Needham an immense debt for discovering Chinese science and technology for Western scholars. But his famous question (Why did the Chinese, who had been so far in advance of Europe until the 17th century, fail to produce modern science independently?) is simplistic. Needham’s discussion relied on categories (‘physics’, ‘engineering’, even ‘mathematics’) that are largely anachronistic. He was preoccupied by questions of priorities (who did what first). We should recognise that the historical record brings to light many breakthroughs in the development of science, in Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, ancient Greece and ancient China, as well as in Europe in the 17th century and beyond; they all call for detailed analysis of the different social, political, economic, institutional and intellectual factors at work. One topic of particular importance and current interest concerns the factors that enable innovation to flourish, where the differing experience of ancient societies can provide lessons that may still be relevant today. The new agenda for the history of science should have a global remit.

The causal analysis of development in the past half century: a personal history

Development ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 116 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Salome G. Waelsch
Keyword(s):  
Causal Analysis ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Analytical Evaluation ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
Past Half

I feel greatly privileged having been asked to talk to you here and I want to begin by thanking the organizers for this invitation. My task of preparing this talk has caused me considerable worry. Obviously, I shall not be able to present here a sound and objective history of embryology over the past 50 years. If nothing else, my great admiration for my close friend Jane Oppenheimer would keep me from being bold enough to step onto her territory, and there have been other serious attempts of an analytical evaluation of embryology during the past half century, e.g. the Nottingham symposium in 1983, published in 1986. What I intend to present here are my personal reflections based on reminiscences over the years during which I had the good fortune of seeing our science develop and of getting to know personally many of the scientists actively involved in the causal analysis of development.

Out of the Whirlwind Reconsidered

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Michael Berkowitz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Holocaust Literature ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mutual Accountability ◽  
Union College

This article argues that Albert Friedlander’s edited book, Out of the Whirlwind (1968), should be recognised as pathbreaking. Among the first to articulate the idea of ‘Holocaust literature’, it established a body of texts and contextualised these as a way to integrate literature – as well as historical writing, music, art and poetry – as critical to an understanding of the Holocaust. This article also situates Out of the Whirlwind through the personal history of Friedlander and his wife Evelyn, who was a co-creator of the book, his colleagues from Hebrew Union College, and the illustrator, Jacob Landau. It explores the work’s connection to the expansive, humanistic development of progressive Judaism in the United States, Britain and continental Europe. It also underscores Friedlander’s study of Leo Baeck as a means to understand the importance of mutual accountability, not only between Jews, but in Jews’ engagement with the wider world.

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