scholarly journals Somaticization, the making and unmaking of minded persons and the fabrication of dementia

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Hillman ◽  
Joanna Latimer
Keyword(s):  
Science Research ◽  
Clinical Entity ◽  
Scientific Representations ◽  
Early Dementia ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Memory Clinics ◽  
Clinical Detection ◽  
Mental Powers ◽  
Research Domain

This article examines the strategies by which the different and variable signs of failing mental powers become known sufficiently for ‘dementia’ to be made into a stable bio-clinical entity, that can be tested, diagnosed and perhaps one day even treated. Drawing on data from ethnographic observations in memory clinics, together with interviews with associated scientists and clinicians, we document the challenges that clinicians face across the clinical and research domain in making dementia a stable object of their investigation. We illustrate how the pressure for early diagnoses of dementia creates tensions between the scientific representations of early dementia and its diagnosis in the clinic. Our aim is to highlight the extent to which the work of diagnosing dementia involves an intricate process of smoothing out seemingly insurmountable problems, such as the notoriously elusive connections between brain/mind and body/person. Furthermore, we show that a part of this process involves enrolling patients as minded, agentic subjects, the very subjects who are excluded from dementia science research in pursuit of biomarkers for the pre-clinical detection of dementia.

scholarly journals Playing the triangle: Cosmopolitanism, Cultural Capital and Social Capital as intersecting scholarly discourses about social inclusion and marginalisation in Australian public policy debates

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 68-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Jakubowicz
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Real World Problem ◽  
Mind And Body

A constant challenge for scholarly research relates to its impact on and integration into public policy. Where the policy issues are ‘wicked’, as are those concerning intercultural relations and social cohesion, social science research often becomes implicated in real-world problem solving which occurs within everyday political manoeuvring. This paper takes three empirical problems, and three conceptual approaches, and explores what happens when they are pressed together. In particular the paper explores how together they can enhance the social value of the concept of ‘social inclusion’. Cosmopolitanism has a myriad of possible definitions, but is perhaps best addressed in anthropological fashion, by trying to capture the space formed by its presumptive antagonists: nationalism, prejudice, localism, parochialism, and ‘rootedness’ (as in ‘rootless cosmopolitan’). Cultural capital, as developed by Bourdieu, concerns a disposition of mind and body that empowers members of those particular groups that have the resource in socially–approved abundance to operate the cultural apparatus of a society and therefore the power system, to their mutual and individual benefit. Social capital, removed of the vestiges of Marxist class analysis that lurk in Bourdieu’s explorations of education and social power, harks back to another sociological forebear. Emile Durkheim, whose vision of modernity as a constantly incipient catastrophe that could only be held off by a reinvigoration of collective consciousness, has influenced through the Talcott Parsons school of social systemics Robert Putnam (and Australian politician and academic Andrew Leigh’s) focus on ‘bonding’ and ‘bridging’ social capital. Having examined these concepts the paper applies them sequentially to three cases of state/civil society relations, through the February 2011 People of Australia multiculturalism policy, the place of young Muslims in Australian society, and the place of Chinese Australians in the Australian polity. Finally it is argued that the concepts are most useful when they are applied to analyses that reveal rather than conceal hierarchies of social, cultural, economic and political power, through an examination of the possibilities of democratic inclusion.

scholarly journals Climate change/variability and hydrological modelling studies in Zimbabwe: a review of progress and knowledge gaps

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Auther Maviza ◽  
Fethi Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Hydrological Modelling ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Knowledge Gaps ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Modelling Studies ◽  
Tools And Techniques ◽  
Research Domain

AbstractThis paper reviews developments in climate science and hydrological modelling studies in Zimbabwe over the past 29 years in an effort to expose knowledge gaps within this research domain. We initially give a global and regional overview and then follow a systematic thematic approach in reviewing specifically online published, peer-reviewed journal articles on climate change/variability and hydrological modelling in Zimbabwe. The state and progress towards advanced integrated climate and hydrological modelling research are assessed, tracking benchmarks in the research methodologies (tools and techniques) used therein including geographic information systems and remote sensing. We present descriptive summaries of key findings, highlighting the main study themes (categories) and general conclusions arising from these studies while examining their implications for future climate and hydrological modelling research in Zimbabwe. Challenges associated with climate and hydrological modelling research in Zimbabwe are also briefly discussed and the main knowledge gaps in terms of research scope and methodologies employed in the reviewed studies also exposed. We conclude by presenting plausible potential areas of focus in updating and advancing scientific knowledge to better understand the climate-land use-hydrology nexus in Zimbabwe. While this paper is primarily relevant for researchers, the general findings are also important for policy-makers since it exposes potential areas for policy intervention or agenda setting in as far as climate and hydrology science research is concerned so as to effectively address pertinent questions in this domain in Zimbabwe.

The Memory Clinic: A New Approach to the Detection of Dementia

1987 ◽  
Vol 150 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. J. M. Van der Cammen ◽  
J. M. Simpson ◽  
R. M. Fraser ◽  
A. S. Preker ◽  
A. N. Exton-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Memory Impairment ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
Experimental Basis ◽  
Memory Clinic ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Early Dementia ◽  
Memory Clinics ◽  
University College London ◽  
Geriatric Research

Memory impairment is a salient and early feature of developing dementia, but in practice is often not recognised until it has reached an advanced stage. The operation described is of a Memory Clinic opened on an experimental basis at the Geriatric Research Unit, University College London, in 1983, with the aim of identifying the causes of memory impairment in the elderly, with particular reference to the early detection of dementia. It proved possible to identify a group of people with early dementia who had previously been undiagnosed, and also to reveal deficiencies in the utilisation of existing services. Memory clinics would be a valuable addition to geriatric and psychogeriatric services.

Design Science Research

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Matti Rossi ◽  
Ola Henfridsson ◽  
Kalle Lyytinen ◽  
Keng Siau
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Design Science ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Design Science Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Future Design ◽  
Research Domain

In this introductory piece to the special issue on design science research (DSR) in information systems, the authors probe the past research in DSR, introduce the papers in the special issue, discuss their contributions to the field, and conclude the paper by highlighting some potential directions for future research. To provide a good overview of the research domain, the authors review the key research approaches (or processes) that have been proposed and identify the concrete products of DSR that come in the form of artifacts. As the production of artifact is only part of the DSR process, the authors discuss the role of theorizing about these results and propose avenues for future design-oriented research. It is the authors’ strong belief that DSR should be at the heart of information systems discipline because it invites people to research the issues surrounding the development and organizational implementation of new systems.

Mind and Body

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Kirk
Keyword(s):  
Mind And Body

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ASHA Leader ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 62-62
Keyword(s):  
Science Research

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Toward a Speech Sciences Community

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-20
Author(s):  
Donald Finan ◽  
Stephen M. Tasko
Keyword(s):  
Science Research ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Mandated Curriculum ◽  
Professional Discipline ◽  
Common Area ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Speech Science

The history of speech-language pathology as a profession encompasses a tradition of knowledge generation. In recent years, the quantity of speech science research and the presence of speech scientists within the domain of the American Speech-Hearing-Language Association (ASHA) has diminished, even as ASHA membership and the size of the ASHA Convention have grown dramatically. The professional discipline of speech science has become increasingly fragmented, yet speech science coursework is an integral part of the mandated curriculum. Establishing an active, vibrant community structure will serve to aid researchers, educators, and clinicians as they work in the common area of speech science.

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