Meatsplaining

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Environment And Public Health ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Animal Agriculture ◽  
The Public ◽  
Agriculture Industry ◽  
Public Scrutiny ◽  
The Many ◽  
Public Imagination

The animal agriculture industry, like other profit-driven industries, aggressively seeks to shield itself from public scrutiny. To that end, it uses a distinct set of rhetorical strategies to deflect criticism. These tactics are fundamental to modern animal agriculture but have long evaded critical analysis. In this collection, academic and activist contributors investigate the many forms of denialism perpetuated by the animal agriculture industry. What strategies does the industry use to avoid questions about its inhumane treatment of animals and its impact on the environment and public health? What narratives, myths and fantasies does it promote to sustain its image in the public imagination?

scholarly journals Biological Tools to Deal with Pollution : Selected Advances and Novel Perspectives

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Abdelaziz Ghanemi ◽  
Besma Boubertakh
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
The Other ◽  
Environment And Public Health ◽  
The Public ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Metabolic Properties ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
The Impact

Pollution  represents  a  problem  common  to economy and  public  health. Indeed, the public health, because of the  divers’  type of pollutions, is facing divers challenges for which urgent solutions are required.The biology provides approaches not only to deal with the pollution, but also to  obtain  economic  benefits. Some living  organisms  have  particular metabolisms  that allow  them  to  assimilate  and  metabolite  the polluting agents  and thus reduce the  impact  they have on both environment  and public health.  On  the other  hand,  the  metabolic  properties  of  specific organisms make  the  polluting  elements raw materials to  synthesize  other elements that are benefits  for  economy  and  non-toxic  for  the  ecology and  the  biohealth. Yet, other options such as the regulations and laws are  required  to improve the efficiency of these approaches.

The Emergence of Authenticity Talk and the Giving of Accounts: Conversion as Movement of the Soul in South India, ca. 1900

2013 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rupa Viswanath
Keyword(s):  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
South India ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
The Public ◽  
Religious Conversions ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Public Scrutiny ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Public Imagination ◽  
Legal Interventions

AbstractIn 2002, the Indian state of Tamil Nadu passed a law that illustrates the centrality of what may be called “authentic religious selves” to postcolonial Indian statecraft. It banned religious conversions brought about by what it termed “material allurement,” and it especially targeted those who might attempt to convert impoverished Dalits, descendants of unfree laborers who now constitute India's lowest castes. Conversion, thus conceived, is itself founded upon the idea that the self must be autonomous; religion ought to be freely chosen and not brought about by “allurement.” Philosophers like Charles Taylor have provided accounts of how selfhood of this kind became lodged in the Western imaginaire, but how was it able to take hold in very different social configurations, and to what effect? By attending to this more specific history, this essay brings a correlated but widely overlooked question to center stage: under what distinctive circumstances are particular selves called upon to actively demonstrate their autonomy and authenticity by divulging putatively secreted contents? In colonial South India, I will argue, the problem of authentic conversion only captured the public imagination when Dalit conversions to Christianity in colonial Madras threatened the stability of the agrarian labor regimes to which they were subject. And today, as in nineteenth-century Madras, it is Dalit selfhood that remains an object of intense public scrutiny and the target of legal interventions.

scholarly journals Technogenic environmental pollution and the public health: analysis and prognosis

2019 ◽  
Vol 95 (6) ◽  
pp. 507-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugeny D. Savilov ◽  
E. V. Anganova ◽  
S. V. Ilina ◽  
L. A. Stepanenko
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Anthropogenic Pollution ◽  
Progressive Increase ◽  
Adverse Impact ◽  
Environment And Public Health ◽  
The Public

Technogenic risk factors are very aggressive for a human health. Due to the progressive increase in environmental pollution the problem of the adverse impact of these factors on the health of both the human population as a whole, and individual groups every year is becoming increasingly important. At that the influence of anthropogenic pollution on the various manifestations of infectious pathology in the scientific literature is presented very modestly. In this paper there is presented a review of research devoted to the problem of the interrelationship of man-made pollution of the environment and public health.

Exit, Voice, and Denial

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-54
Author(s):  
Robert G. Darst ◽  
Jane I. Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Animal Agriculture ◽  
The Public ◽  
Proper Form ◽  
Albert Hirschman ◽  
Public Expression ◽  
Agriculture Industry ◽  
Or Organization

AbstractDespite opposition from social movements, the animal agriculture industry has largely succeeded in averting serious challenges to its basic business practices. This outcome reflects not only the industry’s political and economic clout, but also divisions among the industry’s opponents and the difficulties that their proposed solutions pose for consumers. Albert Hirschman argues that those dissatisfied with a product or organization have three options: exit, voice, and loyalty. We argue that “voice,” the public expression of protest, has been fractured by disagreement over ultimate goals and the proper form of “exit”: substitution or abstention. Both forms of exit are difficult for the consumer. The default response is therefore “loyalty”: continued consumption. This loyalty is based not on ignorance or acceptance of the industry’s shortcomings, but on socially organized denial of the evidence and its implications. Our methodology is a “qualitative metasynthesis” of previous scholarly analyses of the primary social movements involved.

scholarly journals Critical analysis of the regulations regarding the disposal of medication waste

2012 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 507-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Bellan ◽  
Terezinha de Jesus Andreoli Pinto ◽  
Telma Mary Kaneko ◽  
Lauro Domingos Moretto ◽  
Nelson dos Santos Junior
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health System ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Public Health System ◽  
Quality And Safety ◽  
The Public ◽  
Medication Waste ◽  
Literature Reviews

Expired or unused medication at people's homes is normally disposed of in normal garbage, sewage system or, in certain cases, returned to the public health system. There is still no specific legislation regarding this leftover medication to regulate and orient the handling and correct disposal of medication waste. However, there is defined regulation regarding health services' solid waste. This article has the objective of discussing management models for the disposal of medication waste and the recommendations made by pertinent national and international legislation. By means of literature reviews, the management structure for medication waste of international legislation and the regulations regarding the environment, as well as the national legislation for the solid waste from health services was analyzed. Through the analysis it was possible to present better clarifications as to the possible impacts to the environment, to the public's health and alternatives in order to obtain the efficient disposal of medication, reducing and/or avoiding sanitary risk, guaranteeing the quality and safety of public health.

PEDIATRIC PERCEPTIONS: THE PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE—A NEGLECTED RESOURCE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-208
Author(s):  
James L. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Public Health Nurse ◽  
Academic Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Health Nurse ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Way

I Write to emphasize the very great assistance, particularly the kind of assistance, that I find dedicated nurses especially trained in pediatrics and Public Health can give to pediatricians. My emphasis is not on the number of patients who can be seen but the quality of service that can be given. For many years my academic environment and concentration on teaching and consultation protected me from the pressures present in a busy practitioner's office. During these years, I was often impressed by the great gratitude from parents of patients because, as they would say, "You have answered a lot of our questions." Often they would also say: "We like our own pediatrician very much, but his office is so crowded and he is so busy that we feel guilty in asking him all the questions we have about our children. What we really like about this visit is the way you have so generously given us of your time to answer all those questions that bother us."So, when I recently saw the new offices of a pair of pediatricians starting into practice, I was frankly upset to notice that in the many small examining rooms it was evident that chairs were kept at a minimum. Still more upsetting was the explanation that this arrangement made it easier for the physician to walk out of the room because he would be standing. Not only would there be less awkwardness in interrupting a conversation but the mothers would be less likely to sit down and ask questions if there were not enough chairs for everyone to be seated.

scholarly journals Text mining approaches for dealing with the rapidly expanding literature on COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Lu Wang ◽  
Kyle Lo
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Text Mining ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Scientific Productivity ◽  
Qualitative Description ◽  
Community Members ◽  
The Public ◽  
Unique Data ◽  
Public Health Officials ◽  
The Many

Abstract More than 50 000 papers have been published about COVID-19 since the beginning of 2020 and several hundred new papers continue to be published every day. This incredible rate of scientific productivity leads to information overload, making it difficult for researchers, clinicians and public health officials to keep up with the latest findings. Automated text mining techniques for searching, reading and summarizing papers are helpful for addressing information overload. In this review, we describe the many resources that have been introduced to support text mining applications over the COVID-19 literature; specifically, we discuss the corpora, modeling resources, systems and shared tasks that have been introduced for COVID-19. We compile a list of 39 systems that provide functionality such as search, discovery, visualization and summarization over the COVID-19 literature. For each system, we provide a qualitative description and assessment of the system’s performance, unique data or user interface features and modeling decisions. Many systems focus on search and discovery, though several systems provide novel features, such as the ability to summarize findings over multiple documents or linking between scientific articles and clinical trials. We also describe the public corpora, models and shared tasks that have been introduced to help reduce repeated effort among community members; some of these resources (especially shared tasks) can provide a basis for comparing the performance of different systems. Finally, we summarize promising results and open challenges for text mining the COVID-19 literature.

scholarly journals The National Board of Public Health Examiners: Credentialing Public Health Graduates

2007 ◽  
Vol 122 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristine Gebbie ◽  
Bernard D. Goldstein ◽  
David I. Gregorio ◽  
Walter Tsou ◽  
Patricia Buffler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Health Practice ◽  
Public Health Education ◽  
Public Health Workforce ◽  
Core Knowledge ◽  
Health Practice ◽  
National Board ◽  
The Public ◽  
Voluntary Certification ◽  
The Many

The National Board of Public Health Examiners (NBPHE, the Board) is the result of many years of intense discussion about the importance of credentialing within the public health community. The Board is scheduled to begin credentialing graduates of programs and schools of public health accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) in 2008. Among the many activities currently underway to improve public health practice, the Board views credentialing as one pathway to heighten recognition of public health professionals and increase the overall effectiveness of public health practice. The process underway includes developing, preparing, administering, and evaluating a voluntary certification examination that tests whether graduates of CEPH-accredited schools and programs have mastered the core knowledge and skills relevant to contemporary public health practice. This credentialing initiative is occurring at a time of heightened interest in public health education, and an anticipated rapid turnover in the public health workforce. It is fully anticipated that active discussion about the credentialing process will continue as the Board considers the many aspects of this professional transition. The Board wishes to encourage these discussions and welcomes input on any aspects relating to implementation of the credentialing process.

Promotional metaphors and their popular appeal

1994 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy Nelkin
Keyword(s):  
Human Genetics ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Popular Appeal ◽  
Public Scrutiny

In a climate of increasing competition for funding and under increasing public scrutiny, scientists have recently increased their efforts to communicate their work to the public in an attempt to improve their public image. This paper looks at the rhetorical strategies employed in this context by scientists in the field of human genetics. From an assessment of the language used in articles about human genetics in the poular media, I suggest that scientists often employ strategies which could not only mislead the public, but which could also create problems for the scientists themselves.

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