‘Healthy Viewing?’: experiencing life and death through a voyeuristic gaze

2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin David Kendrick ◽  
John Costello
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Delivery Of Health Care ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Health Care Settings ◽  
The Real ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Public ◽  
Professional Care

Recent times have witnessed a groundswell in the number of British television programmes that deal with the ‘real life’ experiences of people in various health care settings. Such programmes tend to focus upon the two interrelated strands of the experience of those who deliver professional care and those who are at the receiving end of it. The usual rationale given for such programmes is that they offer insights about the delivery of health care that are not readily accessible to members of the public. This article will look beneath the rationale and reasons offered by programme makers for the existence of such documentaries. It will explore insidious and questionable elements that go beyond revealing the ‘lived experience’ of professional carers and those for whom they care. Emerging from this is the challenging notion that such programmes deliver the opportunity to experience the vulnerability, suffering and even death of others through a voyeuristic gaze.

value-rich exposures in medical education; synthesizing the concept

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Afshar ◽  
Shahram Yazdani ◽  
Seyed Abbas Foroutan ◽  
hakimeh sabeghi
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Synthesis Method ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Phenomenological Method ◽  
Professional Identities ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
A Value

Abstract Background: Proper transfer of professional values is an essential part of medical education. Real-life experiences in the educational process are one of the most effective methods for achieving values and assisting the student in developing his/her value framework. This study aimed to develop and characterize the concept of value-rich exposures in medical education to bring this concept closer to the practice.Methods: We used Walker and Avant concept synthesis method. In order to perform the synthesis, a combination of hermeneutic phenomenological method and literature review was used.Results: We defined the concept of value-rich exposure in medical education under five themes while implementing the steps of Walker and Avant's concept synthesis: probing self-inner values, value-rich program, value mentor, value-rich interactions, and value-rich environment. The elements and relationships of the themes were depicted in the form of a conceptual matrix.Conclusions:A value-rich exposure is a type of lived experience that occurs during a student’s professional life, a necessity that, with proper planning, can play an important role in shaping medical students' professional identities.

Keeping up with London's Past: Local History in the Metropolis

Urban History ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 48-54
Author(s):  
D. A. Reeder
Keyword(s):  
Urban History ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Local History ◽  
The Real ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
And Control ◽  
Guide Lines

The growing popularity of local history in towns and cities raises some questions for urban historians. What contribution is being made to our knowledge of the urban past by groups of people for whom local history is a leisure-time occupation? Are they poles apart from the interests and approaches of urban history? Can guide-lines be laid down? There is no general agreement on these matters. Opinions range from the view that local history is best left to develop its own canons, to the view that it can supply a source of labour for academics under their direction and control. Another, possibly more sympathetic view, is that the two kinds of work might feed into each other, provided that local historians are willing to move more purposively into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. So they are urged to take on new subjects, to ‘flesh out’ the urban process, and to develop a more ‘vital approach’, making their ‘touchstone the real life experiences of people themselves’, But how responsive are local historians likely to be?

Reflections and Refractions: Arab American Women Writing and Written

Hawwa ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samia Serageldin
Keyword(s):  
Life Experiences ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Arab American ◽  
First Person ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
American Women ◽  
The Real ◽  
Privileged Position ◽  
Non Fiction

AbstractAt a time when the American popular imagination is dominated by fun-house refractions of Arabs and Muslims as the ultimate "other," it is critical that these images be counterbalanced by unmediated, first-person, authentic reflections of the real-life experiences of writers of Middle Eastern heritage. This is where fiction and narrative non-fiction occupy a privileged position, creating an intimate, expansive space for empathy and identification, and serving generality through specificity.

scholarly journals On Martyrdom, Suicide, and Christian Bioethics

2020 ◽  
pp. 002436392092731
Author(s):  
Ethan M. Schimmoeller
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Eternal Life ◽  
Physician Assisted Suicide ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
New Vision ◽  
The Individual

Christ has fashioned a remedy for the human condition out of mortality, making death the paradoxical means of salvation. Thus, the early Church saw martyrdom as the best kind of death, epitomized in the story of St. Ignatius of Antioch. He saw his death in Christ to be a birth into eternal life. Yet martyrdom and suicide can be conflated under crafty definitions and novel terminology, leading inevitably to calls to soften prohibitions against physician-assisted suicide. Whereas martyrdom locates death within the Christian lived experience of the Paschal mystery, suicide transfers the sovereignty of God over life and death to the individual, necessarily denying the goodness of creation in the process. I point to a liturgical foundation for bioethics as a better starting point for understanding martyrdom and suicide. Entering Christ’s sacrifice, Christians receive divine life and new vision to locate suffering, death, and health care within the Christian salvation narrative. Summary: Confusing martyrdom and suicide locates ethics outside the Church by bending language around the 5th commandment. St. Ignatius of Antioch's martyrdom clarifies the role of the Christian bioethicist to situate health care in the Church's life-giving liturgical experience.

Screen Test

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 15-63
Author(s):  
Lucy Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Screen Test ◽  
Star System ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Public ◽  
Real Life Situation ◽  
Colleen Moore

The Hollywood star system developed in the early decades of the twentieth century, and with it came notions of celebrity and tales of how performers rose to fame. In the same period, several American films self-reflexively devised narratives concerning young women venturing to “filmland” to break into the movies—echoing the real-life situation of the epoch's “movie-struck girls.” Taking a gendered approach, this text examines Mabel's Dramatic Career (1913), A Girl's Folly (1917), The Extra Girl (1923), Souls for Sale (1923), Ella Cinders (1926), and Show People (1928), interrogating the films’ portrayal of the female ingenue and focusing on such dichotomies as talent versus luck, career versus marriage, scandal versus propriety, city versus country, beauty versus plainness, and more. It investigates movie magazines and press of the era, highlighting how they presented the actresses in these films—Mabel Normand, Marion Davies, Eleanor Boardman, Colleen Moore, and Doris Kenyon—to the public, making connections to similar issues in the movies.

The possibilities and challenges in providing pediatric spiritual care

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Willyane de Andrade Alvarenga ◽  
Emilia Campos de Carvalho ◽  
Sílvia Caldeira ◽  
Margarida Vieira ◽  
Lucila Castanheira Nascimento
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Holistic Care ◽  
Nursing Interventions ◽  
Pediatric Nurses ◽  
Health Care Settings ◽  
Expected Outcomes

The purpose of this article was to present discussions on how pediatric nurses can perform spiritual care to children and adolescents and discuss the challenges of integrating such care in health-care settings. Based on the literature, the article presents an overview of spiritual care in pediatric settings highlighting the assessment of spirituality, expected outcomes, and the corresponding nursing interventions. Spiritual care provided to children and adolescents should take into account all aspects of the developmental stage, life experiences, and familiar and sociocultural contexts. Different approaches can be used to perform spiritual care. However, lack of knowledge and time are highlighted as the main challenges in integrating spiritual care into the clinical practice. Spiritual care is crucial to the well-being of children and adolescents in times of illness and hospitalization when the goal is to provide holistic care.

scholarly journals Insights into the real-life experiences of people living with epilepsy: A qualitative netnographic study

2021 ◽  
Vol 116 ◽  
pp. 107729
Author(s):  
Barbara Fazekas ◽  
Becky Megaw ◽  
Damian Eade ◽  
Nicholas Kronfeld
Keyword(s):  
Life Experiences ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Real

scholarly journals KALATIDHA KARYA SENO GUMIRA AJIDARMA: SEBUAH POTRET BURAM KEMANUSIAAN

Humanus ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Imas Maryanah
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Real World ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Public ◽  
Running Away ◽  
The World

AbstractThe changing dynamic of human lives makes most of them ignorant to the values of right and wrong. Truth, freedom, and justice have become scarce and beyond real.Cruelty has caused fear, restlessness, and misery. In order to be free from excruciatingpressure, Kalatidha describes a picture of how someone has lived in his dream happily.The dreams and goals he is been longing for are only enjoyed in that surreal world, theworld freed from norms, ideas, and public opinion. “Running away” is the word used todescribe how people lock themselves away from the real world.  For him, the real world he understands is the world that can give him joy,happiness, and cheerfulness. Things that are immoral in the eyes of the public are noshame to him. One thing he is sure of, that life is a journey, and how he live it. Emptinessis no longer misery, but a process that has to be passed through the journey. Kalatidhahas become a picture of how inner unrest becomes a focus of deceitful real life pantings.Deceit and dishonesty are stupid, and craziness is an act of hopelessness.  Key words : Dream, Journey, Deceit AbstrakDinamika gambaran kehidupan manusia yang terus-menerus berubah menyebabkan sebagian manusia tidak mengindahkan lagi, mana yang harus dilakukanmana yang dilarang. Kebenaran, kebebasan, keadilan menjadi barang langka yanghanya menjadi impian belaka. Kekejaman telah memunculkan ketakutan, kegelisahan,kesengsaraan. Agar terbebas dari tekanan yang menyiksa, Kalatidha menyajikan sebuahpotret bagaimana seseorang telah hidup di alam khayalnya dengan bahagia. Impian dancita-cita yang selama ini didambakan, hanya dapat dinikmati di alam “sana”. Alamyang  terbebas dari norma, ide, pendapat masyarakat. “Lari” itulah kata yang tepatuntuk menggambarkan bagaimana seseorang telah memenjarakan dirinya darikehidupan nyata.  Kehidupan nyata yang ia pahami hanyalah dunia yang dapat memberinyakesenangan, kegembiraan dan keceriaan. Hal-hal aneh yang dianggap menyimpang olehmasyarakat pada umumnya bukan merupakan celaan baginya. Satu hal yang ia yakinibahwa hidup ini adalah sebuah perjalanan, dan bagaimana ia menjalankannya. Kekosongan dan kehampaan bukan lagi siksaan, tapi sebuah proses yang harus dilewatidalam menempuh perjalanan. Kalatidha telah menjadi sebuah potret bagaimanapergolakan batin menjadi fokus sebuah lukisan kenyataan semu. Kepalsuan dan kepurapuraanadalahhalbodoh,dankegilaanadalahtindakandarisuatukeputusasaan.Key words : Impian, Perjalanan, Semu

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