scholarly journals Family History: Fact Versus Fiction

Genealogy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Luanna Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Sharp Contrast ◽  
Family Tree ◽  
Current Interest ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
To Come

Current interest in genealogy and family history has soared, but the research journey may be fraught. Original intentions may be inhibited and inevitably altered as the actual historical details are revealed and documented through recorded evidence. While liberties may be taken with memoir and even autobiography, critical family history requires scrutiny of the lived events uncovered—some of which may be in sharp contrast to family myths passed down through generations. I traveled to three states and conducted archival research in local libraries, court houses, historical county archives, and museums in my search for original sources of authentic information about the names listed on a family tree over centuries. This article reports on how and why research on the genealogy of two families joined by marriage shifted from a straightforward recording of chronological facts to the development of a novel. The case can be made that fiction provides an effective and engaging tool for the elaboration of interconnected lives through the addition of historical context, enriching personal details, and imagined dialogue. Key accuracies needed for a critical family history can be preserved but in a genre that enables characters and their stories to come to life.

scholarly journals Is Overtourism Overused? Understanding the Impact of Tourism in a City Context

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ko Koens ◽  
Albert Postma ◽  
Bernadett Papp
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
Tourism Impacts ◽  
European Cities ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Impact

In less than two years, the concept of overtourism has come to prominence as one of the most discussed issues with regards to tourism in popular media and, increasingly, academia. In spite of its popularity, the term is still not clearly delineated and remains open to multiple interpretations. The current paper aims to provide more clarity with regard to what overtourism entails by placing the concept in a historical context and presenting results from a qualitative investigation among 80 stakeholders in 13 European cities. Results highlight that overtourism describes an issue that is multidimensional and complex. Not only are the issues caused by tourism and nontourism stakeholders, but they should also be viewed in the context of wider societal and city developments. The article concludes by arguing that while the debate on overtourism has drawn attention again to the old problem of managing negative tourism impacts, it is not well conceptualized. Seven overtourism myths are identified that may inhibit a well-rounded understanding of the concept. To further a contextualized understanding of overtourism, the paper calls for researchers from other disciplines to engage with the topic to come to new insights.

Postpsychiatry and postmodern psychotherapy: Theoretical and ethical issues in mental health care in a Polish context

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 780-799 ◽  
Author(s):  
Radosław Stupak ◽  
Krzysztof Dyga
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
To Come ◽  
Key Aspects

The article reconstructs postpsychiatry’s core propositions and briefly describes its theoretical background and assumptions. It also presents chosen aspects of postmodern psychotherapy, which seem to be in many ways similar to postpsychiatry’s ideas. Although they are drawn from different inspiration, postpsychiatry and postmodern psychotherapy seem to come to similar conclusions, especially regarding the role of the patient in the therapeutic process, the meaning of psychiatric diagnosis, and the importance of the institutional, cultural, and social contexts in mental health practice and research. The paper also aims to place postpsychiatry and postmodern psychotherapy in a Polish context, focusing on the ethical challenges faced by psychiatry and showing that some of postpsychiatry’s ideas and solutions to contemporary problems were already present in the Polish psychiatric literature of the 20th century. It also contains a brief description of the Polish social and historical context of psychiatry, as well as key aspects of the Polish legal system that relate to mental health and seem to reflect the nature of biomedical explanations of mental distress. It concludes that the model of psychiatric care postulated by “postmodern” approaches seems more ethical and scientifically and philosophically grounded and promises better treatment results than the “traditional” biomedical model.

Epilogue A Game of Theories

2020 ◽  
pp. 265-268
Author(s):  
Jim Baggott
Keyword(s):  
Hilbert Space ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Theories ◽  
To Come

The Quantum Cookbook shows that whilst quantum mechanics is mathematically challenging, some basic knowledge and a bit of effort will carry you a long way. It also explains how quantum mechanics was derived from the physics. The abstract formalism based on state vectors in Hilbert space was introduced only when it was deemed desirable to lend the theory greater mathematical consistency, and to reject some of its historical baggage. The best way to come to terms with this formalism is to understand how and why it came about. Debates about interpretation continue to this day and, by providing some historical context, you should get the impression that any lack of comprehension of its meaning on your part is absolutely not your fault. Quantum mechanics challenges our comprehension of what any (and all) scientific theories are meant to be telling us about the nature of reality. It’s okay to have doubts.

Knowledge Sharing and Pervasive Computing

2011 ◽  
pp. 285-297
Author(s):  
Phillip W.J. Brook
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Pervasive Computing ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
To Come ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
The Impact

This chapter explores the implications of knowledge sharing in an era of pervasive computing, and concludes that, perhaps counter-intuitively, people will need to come together more to establish the trust that is necessary for effective knowledge sharing. Practices such as team-work should result in closer ties between peers, and this relationship can encourage increased sharing of knowledge related to the work at hand. With the advent of pervasive computing, the question can be asked as to what the impact of this technology could/will have on the sharing of knowledge in a team situation. At the same time, the changing attitudes to how knowledge is acquired make it even more important that knowledge is acquired in its historical context, which may be best achieved by person-to-person knowledge transfer. It is argued that these social aspects will be more important in a world of pervasive computing than in conventional businesses.

scholarly journals Accommodating Probability to Durability as Facing the Onset of Biological Phenomena from Within

Philosophies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Koichiro Matsuno
Keyword(s):  
Linear Chain ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Sharp Contrast ◽  
Bayesian Probability ◽  
Reaction Cycle ◽  
Local Phenomenon ◽  
Biological Phenomena ◽  
Spatial Cohesion ◽  
To Come

Life distinguishes itself from non-life in taking advantage of the cohesion of temporal origin which non-life cannot afford. The temporal cohesion letting the local participants adhere to each other in a contemporaneous manner refers to an instance of the precedent product being pulled into the subsequent production. Setting the precedent is equivalent to preparing the conditions for the subsequent to follow. A concrete implementation of the cohesion of temporal origin, compared with the spatial cohesion common in physics, is found in the natural construction of a reaction cycle with use of the temporal affinity exerted from the immediate local environment. That construction is a temporally local phenomenon in the experiential domain, rather than in the theoretical. The cohesion originating in the local environment is due to the local act of measurement by the environment. A major component of the local environment to each reactant in the reaction cycle is the cycle itself. The cohesion specific to the reaction cycle rests upon the fact that every reaction product from the upstream production in the cycle comes to be fed upon by the immediate downstream production. Every production constituting the reaction cycle is temporally adjacent to and contemporaneous with the similar others residing in the whole cycle, in sharp contrast to the case of the open-ended linear chain of reaction. One externalist scheme of appreciating the internalist enterprise of constructing a durable reaction cycle in a contemporaneous manner may become possible as referring to the Bayesian probability. The durable reaction cycle may be made actual with probability unity under the condition that the products from the preceding production come with the protocol for the similar production to come subsequently.

Farewell to a Fallen Warrior

2001 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-109
Author(s):  
Frank J. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Bone Marrow ◽  
Heart Disease ◽  
Family History ◽  
Bone Marrow Transplant ◽  
Blood Test ◽  
Marrow Transplant ◽  
Physical Exam ◽  
Perfect Health ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come

[In the Summer of 1999, Kemp Burleson had what he thought was going to be a rather routine annual physical exam. By his own estimate, at 37-years-old he was in perfect health. There was no warning of what was to come. At his wife's insistence, he asked for a blood test to determine if his cholesterol was elevated, as there was a family history of heart disease. Within days, the results were in. They were not good. It was not a cholesterol problem. He had leukemia and would need a bone marrow transplant to increase his odds for survival. In spite of the attempts to extend his life, he lived only several months following that initial diagnosis. The following is the eulogy that was inspired by our time together in the hospital.]

Leibniz’s Formal Theory of Contingency

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-43
Author(s):  
Jeffrey McDonough ◽  
Zeynep Soysal
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Formal Theory ◽  
The Third ◽  
Analysis Theory ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Way

This essay argues that, with his much-maligned “infinite analysis” theory of contingency, Leibniz is onto something deep and important – a tangle of issues that wouldn’t be sorted out properly for centuries to come, and then only by some of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. The first two sections place Leibniz’s theory in its proper historical context and draw a distinction between Leibniz’s logical and meta-logical discoveries. The third section argues that Leibniz’s logical insights initially make his “infinite analysis” theory of contingency more rather than less perplexing. The last two sections argue that Leibniz’s meta-logical insights, however, point the way towards a better appreciation of (what we should regard as) his formal theory of contingency, and its correlative, his formal theory of necessity.

The Waterford Experiment

2019 ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
Richard Whatmore
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
Radical Reform ◽  
Ancient City ◽  
Old City ◽  
To Come

This chapter describes the historical context which led to the formation of the New Geneva settlement. Attacked as anarchists and democrats by the French during the eighteenth century, the Genevan rebels were invited to come to Britain. Britain offered to help to create a New Geneva, proving that it remained supportive of liberty, whatever the republicans in America might declare. The plan, of course, was not simply to abandon an old city and to found a new one. The move was accompanied by great expectations, for the transformation of Ireland, for the growth of wealth and of virtue and for the reform of the empire of Britain itself. In short, the transfer of republicans from Geneva was expected to inaugurate an era of radical reform and reformation. The result was a remarkable experiment at the ancient city and significant port of Waterford in southern Ireland. New Geneva was established at the site of a village called Passage, located near Waterford. The settlement was to be peopled by rebels.

Homelessness in a Global Historical Context

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael Kiddey
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Late Summer ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Hill ◽  
Short Walk

One afternoon in late summer of 2010 I was walking home from the shops when I bumped into Punk Paul. ‘Hungry?’ He joked in his thick West Yorkshire accent, gesturing to my bags full of bread, salad, sausages, and wine. ‘I’m having a BBQ at my flat with some friends. Do you want to come?’ Paul eagerly took a few bags from me and we began to the short walk up the hill to where I lived in Bristol. By then I had known him for almost two and a half years. We trusted one another. As we entered the flat, we were first greeted by my dogs, Joey and Pea. Both dogs wagged cheerfully before diving nose first into the bags that we were carrying. ‘Get out of there!’ Paul said gently to the dogs. They knew him from fieldwork. As I started to unpack the shopping, Paul sat cross-legged on the floor, stroking the dogs so that they settled down beside him. ‘Are you any good at making burgers?’ I asked Paul, slapping beef mince and onions onto the kitchen worktop. ‘Can I put some music on? I can’t work wi’out music,’ he said. I tossed him my phone. ‘What the fuck am I supposed to do wi’ that?’ ‘It has music on it!’ I laughed, taking back the phone and flicking to the music library. I gave it to Paul so that he could choose what we listened to and we spent the next hour or so chopping vegetables, dressing leaves and making burgers to Nobody’s Heroes by Stiff Little Fingers. Friends arrived, we barbecued, and, as it got later, one friend put her little girl to sleep in my bed. Paul came to the door of the bedroom where I was reading the little girl a story. ‘Marmite!’ I heard him say my name in a loud whisper. ‘Thanks for your hospitality mate but I’ve got to get going now.’ I went to the door. ‘Everything OK, Paul?’

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