scholarly journals Presidential Address Kidney Week 2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 1213-1219
Author(s):  
Mark E. Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Care Delivery ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Policy Science ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
American Society ◽  
Science Innovation ◽  
Kidney Health

The American Society of Nephrology Presidential Address was delivered by Mark Rosenberg at Kidney Week 2019 on November 7, 2019 in Washington, DC. The Address describes a remarkable alignment—a syzygy of policy, science, innovation accelerators, clinical trials, clinical care delivery, and activated patients—that exists today in the kidney space. As a community, we must ensure that the strategies developed to take advantage of this alignment, such as Advancing American Kidney Health, succeed. We must overcome our current challenges to thrive as a meaningful specialty. We have an incredible opportunity to come together as a kidney community to ensure success that realigns the priorities and incentives in kidney medicine to better achieve kidney health for all people throughout the world. The time is now to act.

Health and Health Systems in the United States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Parin Dossa
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Beliefs ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Muslims ◽  
African Slaves ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
American Society ◽  
Health Beliefs And Practices

The long history of Islam in the United States is not well understood. The first Muslims to come to this country were African slaves followed by Muslims from the Ottoman Empire. As time went by, other Muslims from different parts of the world followed suit. Today, Muslims form part of the sociocultural and religious diversity of US society. A unique feature of this community is its diversity, a function of different schools of thought as well as different migration trajectories in terms of ethnicity, gender, age, class, and countries of origin. Its diversity has generated a rich body of knowledge on health care that can enrich the American biomedical model. Yet, this knowledge has been subjugated and remains unrecognized owing to structural exclusion of Muslims exacerbated by 9/11. The aim of this article is to highlight health beliefs and practices of American Muslims with the view to recognizing their contribution to American society, leading to greater acceptance of this community. In sum, beyond addressing systemic exclusion, it is important to recognize that American Muslims have a long history and richness in understanding health in diverse sociocultural milieus in Islam that can and should be recognized in clinical care.

scholarly journals The Power of Hegemonic Classes in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-306
Author(s):  
Hasnul Insani Djohar
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
Control Society ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
American Society

Topik dari tulisan ini adalah untuk membahas kajian budaya dengan berfokus pada hegemoni budaya, memperkenalkan gagasan dari kelompok yang berkuasa untuk mengontrol masyarakat.  Tulisan ini akan mengangkat isu bagaimana kelas-kelas yang menguasai hidup pada tahun 1920an. Tujuan dari tulisan ini adalah untuk menganalisis The Great Gatsby karya Scott Fitgerald untuk menyimpulkan tentang gambaran kelas dan kekuatan aristrokrasi untuk mendominasi kelompok yang tidak berkuasa, dengan menggunakan kajian budaya, dari teori hegemoni Antonio Gramci. Secara khusus, penelitian ini berfokus pada perjuangan Jay Gatsby untuk menghadapi hegemoni kelompok aristokratik, yang kekuasaannya sangat berpengaruh. Dalam cerita tersebut, kelompok kaya baru, yang diwakili oleh Jay Gatsby, hidup di daerah West Egg, sementara kelompok aristokratik, yang diwakili oleh Tom Buchanan, tinggal di East Egg. Tom selalu menjadi pemenang karena dia datang dari kelompok aristokratik, yang keluarganya sangat berpengaruh. Oleh karena itu, Gatsby selalu kalah dalam persaingan melawan Tom walaupun sebesar apapun Gatsby berkuasa. Dengan mempelajari perjuangan Gatsby dalam novel ini, kita mendapatkan sebuah pemahaman yang lebih baik bagaimana kelompok yang lemah, bukan hanya di masyarakat Amerika, tetapi juga masyarakat lain di dunia juga akan berjuang untuk berkompetisi dengan kelompok aristrokratik.---Abstract The topic of this paper is the pursuit of cultural studies focusing on cultural Hegemony, introduces the notion of the dominant groups’ power to control society. It will also raise the issue of how hegemonic classes live in 1920s. The objective is to analyze, using cultural studies, Antonio Gramsci’s Hegemony, Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in order to come to some conclusions about depictions of aristocratic classes and powers in order to dominate powerless groups. Specifically, the research focuses on Jay Gatsby’s struggles to face the hegemony of aristocratic groups, whose affluent supremacy. In the story, the new moneyed group, represented by Jay Gatsby, lives in West Egg while the aristocratic group, represented by Tom Buchanan, lives in East Egg. Tom is always the winner because he comes from the aristocratic groups, whose prestigious family. Therefore, Gatsby always loses compete against Tom no matter how hard Gatsby tries. By learning Gatsby’s struggle in this novel, we gain a better understanding of how other powerless groups, not only in American society, but also other society in the world, who also struggle to compete with the aristocratic groups.

The Nature of Chemical Substances

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaap Van Brakel
Keyword(s):  
Natural Kinds ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Physical Property ◽  
Common View ◽  
Sense Data ◽  
Scientific Image ◽  
The World ◽  
The Difference ◽  
To Come ◽  
Manifest Image

Professor Hare, delivering the presidential address to the Aristotelian Society in Oxford in 1984, said: “It is commonly said that the property of being water supervenes on the chemical (or ultimately on the physical) property of being H2O. As it stands this view seems to me to be obviously false.” In terminology, that will become clearer as we proceed, Hare defended the manifest image—in this case, ordinary liquid water against elimination by the scientific image (which reduces “being water” to “being H2O”). Hare used the verb to supervene instead of to be reducible, but the difference between the two is slight (as we shall see in a later section). A more common view among philosophers and scientists is expressed in the following citation from Kim (1990, p. 14): “Chemical kinds and their microphysical compositions (at least, at one level of description) seem to strongly covary with each other, and yet it is true, presumably, that natural kinds are asymmetrically dependent on microphysical structures.” Kim takes the view that manifest objects are “appearances” of a reality constituted by systems of imperceptible particles. Such a view takes for granted that the macroscopic, manifest world is dependent on the microstructure of the world in such a way that it is underlying things that are more real and determine appearances. In crude jargon: science uncovers the Dinge-an-sich that explain the phenomena we see. I chose the quotations of Hare and Kim because both point to, though fail to address, the philosophical issue I discuss in this chapter, viz. the tension between manifest and scientific image, focusing on chemistry. “Manifest” versus “scientific” imagery talk stems from Sellars. The manifest image refers to things like water, milk-lapping cats, injustice-angry people, as well as sophisticated interpretations of “people in the world.” The scientific image is concerned with things like neurons, DNA, quarks, and the Schrödinger equation, again including sophisticated reflection and a promise of more to come. I use “manifest image” with a different inflection from Sellars, avoiding associations with sense data (which was an important part of his concern), associating it rather with forms of life.

scholarly journals World Patient Safety Day: the Tuscany region at the forefront of quality of care

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-222
Author(s):  
Sara Albolino ◽  
Giulia Dagliana
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Adverse Events ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
World Health ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Echoing the World Health Organization’s (WHO) request, the Patient Safety Declaration, launched by Health First Europe at the European Parliament, calls on policymakers, authorities and health professionals, patients and citizens to come together to build health systems that can help health professionals work better for patient-centred outcomes. The objective is to prevent the occurrence of adverse events arising from clinical care activities to focus resources on reducing the impact of the disease by promoting safer health systems and higher quality standards for patient safety in Europe. The Declaration intends to promote a European patient safety culture, starting with safety practices and exchanging effective practices to reduce adverse events arising from health activities. Tuscany, the fifth largest region of Italy, is strongly committed to make this happen. Its Regional Centre for Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety and WHO Collaborating Centre (GRC Centre—Centro Gestione Rischio Clinico e Sicurezza del Paziente) aims at developing and promoting practices for safety, awareness raising and the analysis of adverse events for the constant improvement of care delivery.

Framing an Ecology of Hope

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-34
Author(s):  
Graeme Wynn
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Alternative Possibilities ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
American Society ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
Better Than

Abstract Responding to the social, political, economic, and ecological challenges that confront contemporary society, this article—the 2019 Presidential Address to the American Society for Environmental History—argues that critique and resistance, married with a quest for alternative possibilities, will serve us better than a doleful narrative of decline. It seeks hope by reengaging with the ideas of scholars who earlier lamented despoliation and envisaged other, better, ways of being in the world. By discovering, interrogating, and drawing insight from the ways in which our precursors sought to emancipate their contemporaries, we can ask what they (or their ideas) can do for us. Although this strategy is unlikely to deliver immediate efficacious solutions to current dilemmas, it can help us to historicize ourselves and the precepts that shape our lives. It can also expand the range of existential possibilities by calling into question the conceited convictions, tired mantras, and blithe assumptions of contemporary economic and political discourse. By reflecting on the lives and contributions of two Canadians—Pierre Dansereau, an ecologist, and C. B. Macpherson, a political theorist—whose ideas cast light on the roots of our present predicament, this article helps to frame hopeful strategies with which to address our circumstances.

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