THE PEDIATRICIAN AND THE SPECIES: SOME IMPLICATIONS OF OUR ACHIEVEMENTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-351
Author(s):  
Wolf W. Zuelzer
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The Other ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Prestige ◽  
Shop Talk ◽  
The Voice

I am deeply grateful to Dean Smart, Professor Court, Dr. Walker, and the other members of the Department of Child Health for the honor of this invitation,* but I cannot help wondering whether I would have had the courage to accept it if I had known beforehand what the Jacobson Lecture entails. It is one thing to address a gathering of professional colleagues on some innocuous subject of a strictly technical nature, but an altogether different thing to face members of every faculty of this University with a talk supposed to be of general interest. The physician is rarely called upon to leave the comfortable regions of shop talk for the wide open spaces of public debate, nor, broadly speaking, is he eager to venture into such dangerous territory where he might be blown about by the winds of controversy. PROFESSIONAL INSULARITY The reasons for this reticence are not hard to find. For one thing, we don't like being contradicted, least of all by laymen. Regrettably, the aura of mystery which from time immemorial has served us as a protective cloak has been dispelled by an enlightened public, and our social prestige has suffered somewhat from the levelling forces of the democratic age. Still, the doctor remains the arbiter of life and death and as such speaks with the voice of authority. His experience at the bedside and in his office conditions him to expect acquiescence, and he is prone to transfer this expectation from his patients to the public at large and to be surprised and hurt when it is disappointed.

Determinants of the Recognition of Foreign Certificates in Flanders

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-243
Author(s):  
Karen Stoffelen ◽  
Mohammad Salman
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The Other ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Information Centre ◽  
The Public ◽  
Professional Recognition ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

Abstract This article explores the assessment of foreign academic certificates in Flanders between January 2014 and February 2019. It examines data NARIC (National Academic and Professional Recognition and Information Centre) Flanders gathered on its applicants, their applications, and its subsequent decisions. As professional recognitions, providing access to regularised professions in Flanders, are given by the designated authorities in their field, it would go beyond the scope of this article. In the descriptive result part, graphs illustrate the distribution of several characteristics of the applicants, their applications, and the decisions. In the explanatory result part, logistic regression analyses explore the influence of these characteristics on the decision of NARIC Flanders. The goal of this article is twofold. On the one hand, it aims to contribute to the scarce literature on the procedures for the recognition of foreign certificates in Flanders; on the other hand, it aims to contribute to the public debate on the integration of migrants in the labour market.

Dilemmas of a subculture: An analysis of BDSM blogs about Fifty Shades of Grey

Sexualities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 987-1008
Author(s):  
Lucie Drdová ◽  
Steven Saxonberg
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Public ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Fifty Shades Of Grey

Recently, much has been written in the mass media about the novel and film Fifty Shades of Grey. It was widely portrayed as an example of BDSM (a common abbreviation for the terms bondage, discipline, dominance, submissivity, sadism and masochism) subculture and used as a symbol of sadomasochistic identity. But is this public view based on the self image of BDSM subcultural members or is it a figment of the imagination of writers and journalists? This article presents the voice of BDSM activists, who are silenced and excluded from the public debate. Using a virtual ethnographic method, we analyse the BDSM blogosphere as a platform for subcultural expressions of opinion. We combine this with a documentary analysis. In doing so, we examine how BDSM subculture members perceive themselves in contrast to the mainstream view of them pictured in the book Fifty Shades of Grey. This article investigates to what extent the subcultural conception of BDSM corresponds to the book's depiction and where it differs fundamentally.

Fy, skam dig ikke! Skam som sanktioneret og konstruktiv følelse i den offentlige debat

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (78) ◽  
pp. 75-86
Author(s):  
Lisa Storm Villadsen
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Political Rhetoric ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Rhetoric ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Press ◽  
Public Reaction

This article contributes to scholarship on emotions in political rhetoric by way of complicating commonly held ­views on which types of emotions are appropriate in public debate. The article examines the feeling shame from two perspectives, each rhetorically and critically oriented: one is analytical, the other theoretical. The case material comes from Danish politics where a group of celebrities stated to the press that they felt ashamed on account of Denmark’s policy regarding refugees and immigrants. Based in analysis of the public reaction from the Prime Minister I show how the feeling shame and those who felt it were marked as inappropriate from public debate. In the latter part of the article I theorize on negative emotions and shame in public rhetoric. Drawing on contemporary political philosophy and feminist and queer theory I argue for a more nuanced view on appeals to the emotion ­shame. Closer reflection suggests that it does not necessarily imply the destructive social distancing one would ordinarily expect but that it has potential as a marker of solidarity with the collective and as such can drive ethical reconsideration

scholarly journals Fem spor i dødshjelpsdebatten

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-34
Author(s):  
Morten A. Horn ◽  
Morten Magelssen
Keyword(s):  
Public Debate ◽  
The Other ◽  
Assisted Dying ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square

The assisted dying debate in the public square often involves talking past one another. Participants talk about what is important to themselves, without necessarily considering the other party’s arguments. Why is this so? We believe it is partly because the assisted dying debate actually consists of several more or less distinct “tracks”, all of which are important, but where not all are equally important to all participants. In this chapter, we outline the five main tracks of the assisted dying debate and show what characterises them and how they are expressed in the public debate.

scholarly journals Engaged Anthropology and the Need for Empathy: Anthropological Interventions in the Face of the So-called Refugee Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-97
Author(s):  
Natalia Bloch
Keyword(s):  
Public Debate ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Face ◽  
Engaged Anthropology

This paper is an attempt to consider how engaged anthropology could be practiced in connection with the refugee/migrant crisis. The author presents in detail three anthropological interventions conducted in Poznań, a city in western Poland: (1) the project “We’re All Migrants: (Re)gained Migration Memory”; (2) the campaign “Adopt a Lifejacket”; and (3) the campaign “Gallery without a Home.” At the same time, she criticises the sedentary perspective predominant in the public debate regarding refugees and migrants, and the reduction of the refugee/migrant figure to the category of an Other. She perceives a need to depart from the role of expert and to stimulate empathy by making people aware of the adventitious nature of their lot in life and by emphasizing closeness to the other person rather than constantly focusing on differences. She points to the divergence between engaged and applied anthropology, and the related challenges facing anthropologists in Polish institutions who want to get involved in building social sensibility and interpersonal solidarity. She also calls for the propagation of hope.

scholarly journals Krig som kulturel velsignelse eller forbandelse? - Første verdenskrig i en nationalkonservativ dansk optik

2018 ◽  
pp. 85-110
Author(s):  
Bjarne Søndergaard Bendtsen
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
Heated Debate

Although Denmark managed to stay neutral throughout World War I, it nevertheless generated a heated debate in the country; most people took a clear stand for one side or the other. After the traumatic Danish defeat in the 1864 war with Prussia and Austria, Germany was regarded as the arch enemy and not unexpectedly mostDanes sided against the Central Powers in the public debate. This was not least the case amongst the national-conservative politicians, intellectuals and artists. They form the focus of my article, and the questions I address are: how did the national-conservatives experience the mental watershed of the war? Was it as a blessing or a curse?

PROPOSALS FOR CHILD HEALTH CARE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 312-314
Author(s):  
Alfred Yankauer
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Good Health ◽  
The Other ◽  
Child Health Care ◽  
American Health Care System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Population Analyses ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
American Health Care

In contrast to the prevailing tenor of less than a decade ago, few voices can be heard today reassuring the public or the professional that the American "health care system" is itself in good health. Having dealt with the aged through Medicare, the national spotlight now focuses on children who form the other major segment of our "poverty population." Analyses and complaints, proposals and programs flow forth at an accelerating pace. Two types of programs are discussed in the current issues of Pediatrics-one as a proposal presented to the American Academy of Pediatrics last fall, and the other as a report of work in progress.

The eighty-eighters: the arena of youth politics and the break-up of Yugoslavia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ljubica Spaskovska
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Youth Politics ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
Break Up ◽  
The One ◽  
Shed Light

The last chapter looks at the ways the Youth League initially sought to reform and re-invent its role and mission and was later subsumed in and divided by the wider Yugoslav political debates and developments in the country. The proposed statute changes which came out of the public debate organised by the SSOJ in 1989 reflected both the gap between the Slovenian, on the one hand, and the Serbian, the Montenegrin and the Army youth leagues, on the other, but also shed light on a spectrum of shared visions and values which existed among the other branches. The chapter reflects upon the (lack of) consensus about the dilemma of how to modernise Yugoslav society and the sphere of institutional youth politics and culture and shows how by the end of the decade the consensus on change and reform and the discourse of ‘pluralism of self-managing interests’ was almost entirely replaced by a new discourse of human rights and liberal values which foreshadowed the ‘exit from socialism’.

Nationalism vs. Nationalism: The Challenge of the Sweden Democrats in the Swedish Public Debate

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Hellström ◽  
Tom Nilsson ◽  
Pauline Stoltz
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The Other ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
The Public ◽  
Nationalist Party ◽  
High Profile ◽  
General Elections ◽  
The Media ◽  
Swedish Politics

AbstractIn the 2010 Swedish general elections the nationalist party Sverigedemokraterna (SD) crossed the threshold and entered parliament. The other parties in parliament reacted with strong antagonism; the mainstreaming of the ‘radical right’ had finally come to Sweden. This article analyses the media coverage of the SD following the 2006 elections, when it emerged as a high-profile party in the public arena. The presence of the SD in Swedish politics encourages both SD allies and opponents to emphasize their views on what constitutes social cohesion in Sweden. We see the public debate surrounding the SD as a rhetorical struggle between different nationalist claims.

The Ethics of Life and Death

1985 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 603-611
Author(s):  
John J. Haldane
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Moral Intuitions ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Public ◽  
Moral Problems

Moral Philosophy begins with moral intuitions and then, by arguments, either confirms or refutes them. There was a time, not so very long ago, when it was not thought to be so. For, until recently it was the orthodoxy that philosophers qua philosophers ought not to concern themselves with actual moral problems, but should instead only analyse and produce theories of the language of ethics.2 Those bad days are gone, and a mark of their passing is the frequent involvement of philosophers in the public debate of social and moral issues.

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