‘One of the Greatest Human Beings of our time’: Titmuss’s Influence on North American Thinking on Social Welfare

2020 ◽  
pp. 423-438
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
North American ◽  
Human Beings

Numen and Mana

1951 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert Jennings Rose
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Inanimate Object ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Roman Religion ◽  
The North

Some time ago I wrote a little book on Roman religion which was favored with a courteous and thoughtful review by a scholar from whom I have learned much, S. Weinstock. My central contention was that the Romans had an idea corresponding closely to the Melanesian and Polynesian mana, the North American orenda or wakanda, and similar notions elsewhere, and that they denoted it by the word numen; that is to say, that numen signifies a superhuman force, impersonal in itself but regularly belonging to a person (a god of some kind) or occasionally to an exceptionally important body of human beings, as the Roman senate or people. This force, I argued, the Romans supposed could be to some extent directed to serve their own ends; a god could be induced to employ his numen for such things as giving fertility or victory to his worshippers, and on occasion an inanimate object, such as a boundary-mark, could have numen put into it by the appropriate ceremonial. Also, the numen of a god could be and was increased by offering him a sacrifice of the proper kind.

scholarly journals DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ON WOMAN: A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-100
Author(s):  
Vijayalaxmi Biradar
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
Systemic Degradation ◽  
The Way

Violence against women is one of the old paradoxes of Indian Society. Contradictory statements about glorifying and condemning women are found in abundant measure. In Indian society, we talk about equality, dignity and respect for women, and goes to the extent of saying that “Gods reside where women are worshipped” at the practical operational level the society. However, follows practices that are quite contrary to its preaching’s.  In one go the society considers women, as goddesses and in another go as slaves, but never as human beings with dignity and self-respect. The rhetoric apart, dual standards for men and women have paved the way for gradual deterioration of women’s position. Systemic degradation, inferiority and sub ordination is thus, an old theme of ancient vintage (Social Welfare: 2008).

scholarly journals MARMA CHIKITSA – A CLINICO ANATOMICAL APPROACH FOR PROMOTION OF HEALTH

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 1044-1049
Author(s):  
Arvind Kumar Yadav ◽  
Rita Marwaha ◽  
Swatantra Kumar Chourasia ◽  
Shradhha Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Pharmacological Treatment ◽  
Energy Flow ◽  
The Body ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Healthy Body

Marma Chikitsa is an untouched chapter of Indian system. In Vedas and literatures of ayurveda, the concept of marma was limited to war, and were mainly considered as only fatal points. Trauma to them leads to deformity or even death. Different authorities of ayurveda mentioned 107 Marma points based on anatomical positions and different structures around them. Marma are seats of Prana (Vital points), they effect physical, mental, social, spiritual and health conditions of human beings. The flow of Prana or vital energy in the body maintains different physiological, mental and spiritual activities. If the flow of Prana or vital energy gets obstructed or blocked, the physiology is disturbed and pathology start developing. Marma points are stimulated by different techniques or methods, so by stimulations, Marma may be directed to remove blockages and stimulate Prana or energy flow thus resulting in a state of healthy body, mind and spirit. Marma Chikitsa is an instant, permanent, natural and non-invasive way of healing in present scenario. Marma Chikitsa had emerged as new dimensions in non- pharmacological treatment of Ayurveda. The health of the people reflects the social welfare parameters of anycivilized state. So, knowledge of Marma and Marma Chikitsa will be beneficial in maintenance of health and pre- vention from diseases. It is said that there was nectar in the umbilicus of Ravana. Lord Rama fired an arrow into the umbilicus of Ravana causing his death. Lord Krishna was killed by the injury of an arrow, on the sole of his foot, thrown by a bird kill- er. As we know that Bhisma Pitamaha (of Mahabharata) was injured by a number of arrows pierced in his body but he lived with arrows for six months. It was only due to the safety of the vital Marma points. Keywords: Marma, Marma Chikitsa, Prana

scholarly journals We Can Handle It: Advocating in Support of State Legislation of Legal Sports Gambling post-Murphy v. NCAA

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-169
Author(s):  
Daniel Spitz ◽  
Ryan Terry
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
North American ◽  
Regulatory Process ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Federal Legislation ◽  
Welfare Programs ◽  
State Legislation ◽  
Social Welfare Programs ◽  
Sports Gambling ◽  
Sports Leagues

Post-PASPA, more than twenty states have either implemented or successfully passed legislation allowing their citizens to gamble on sports. These legislative efforts have created an opportunity for states to capture some of the over $150 billion that Americans annually wager through illegal means. While Nevada has successfully regulated sports gambling for more than seventy years, the Supreme Court’s Murphy decision has spurred calls for uniform federal legislation. Central to this push for a federal framework are the leaders of the major sports leagues and their claim of concern for contest integrity. Our position is that this argument is tenuous at best. Rather, we believe this to be a convenient avenue for the major sports leagues to become involved in the regulatory process and secure additional revenue via integrity fees for providing data to federally mandated sources. Further, we argue that this framework of requiring states to use certified data sources that originate from the leagues themselves is not only economically damaging for potential sportsbook operators but could actually result in a greater chance of contest corruption rather than increased integrity. This article examines the contrasting views of the major North American professional and amateur sports leagues (NHL, NFL, NBA, MLB, and NCAA) with respect to the new, legalized sports gambling environment. We then look at the argument of maintaining contest integrity which is focal to proposed federal frameworks. Finally, we advocate for a state framework and demonstrate why states are in a better position to regulate sports gambling without federal interference, as state legislation already provides a mechanism by which income from wagers can be redistributed towards improving local infrastructure and funding social welfare programs; under proposed federal legislation, this revenue would divert elsewhere.

Incarnational Anthropology

1991 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 191-211
Author(s):  
John Haldane
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Philosophical Psychology ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Current State ◽  
American Interest ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Continental Thought

The renaissance of philosophy of mind within the analytical tradition owes a great deal to the intellectual midwifery of Ryle and Wittgenstein. It is ironic, therefore, that the current state of the subject should be one in which scientific and Cartesian models of mentality are so widely entertained. Clearly few if any of those who find depth, and truth, in the Wittgensteinian approach are likely to be sympathetic to much of what is most favoured in contemporary analytic philosophical psychology. Finding themselves in a minority, they might well look elsewhere for support, hoping to establish the idea that opposition to scientific and Cartesian ways of thinking is by no means philosophically eccentric. Perhaps this partly explains the increasing British and North American interest in ‘continental’ thought, particularly as it bears (as most of it does) on the nature of human beings. Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre are obvious enough subjects for such attention.

scholarly journals Investigation in forensic nursing: trajectories and possibilities of action

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betise Mery Alencar Sousa Macau Furtado ◽  
Carmela Lília Espósito de Alencar Fernandes ◽  
Juliana de Oliveira Musse Silva ◽  
Felicialle Pereira da Silva ◽  
Rafael Braga Esteves
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
North American ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Forensic Nursing ◽  
International History ◽  
Brazilian Legislation ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Critical Characteristics

ABSTRACT To theorize and reflect on the possibilities of the forensic nurse’s performance, emphasizing the work as a civil and criminal expert, based on the Brazilian legislation, ethical principles, and comprehensive care for human beings. This is a theoretical study of exploratory nature with reflective and critical characteristics. It was based on the history of the national and international development of the forensic nursing specialty. It is organized into four categories, namely: areas of practice of forensic nurses in North American countries; state-of-the-art North American forensic nursing and the Brazilian reality, and nursing action in the face of violence. This way, international history, national panorama, and in-depth theoretical study were concatenated. Evidence of the contribution of forensic nursing to criminal and civil areas points to the emerging need for implementation and recognition of this practice within the scope of forensic investigation in Brazil with the inclusion of the topic in undergraduate courses.

scholarly journals Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions

2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 398-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Lorand Matory
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Black Atlantic ◽  
Effective Model ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Latin Americans ◽  
North Americans ◽  
The North ◽  
Cuban Diaspora ◽  
The World ◽  
Practices Of Freedom

AbstractScholars tend to regard enslavement as a form of disability inflicted upon the enslaved. This paper confronts the irony that not all black Atlantic peoples and religions conceive of slavery as an equally deficient condition or as the opposite of freedom and other rights that are due to respected human beings. Indeed, the religions of enslaved Afro-Latin Americans and their descendants—including Brazilian Candomblé, Cuban and Cuban-diaspora Ocha (or Santería) and Haitian Vodou—are far more ambivalent about slavery than most scholars and most Black North Americans might expect. In these religions, the slave is often understood to be the most effective spiritual actor, either as the most empowering servant of the supplicant's goals or as the most effective model for supplicants' own action upon the world. These ironies are employed to illuminate the unofficial realities of both the Abrahamic faiths and the North American practices of 'freedom'.

scholarly journals Ontologisk urenhed i Gammel Testamente

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans J. Lundager Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
North American ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Basic Difference ◽  
Material World ◽  
Mary Douglas ◽  
Terrestrial Life ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Natural Impurity

The article discusses the rationality behind the category ontological (or natural) impurity in the priestly parts of the Pentateuch in the Hebrew Bible. After a discussion of Mary Douglas' hypothesis from 1966, correctly rejected by Jacob Milgrom, and a semiotic reformulation of Milgrom's definition of holy/common and unclean/clean, the thesis of Milgrom and others, according to which impurity basically signifies "death", is likewise rejected. As an alternative it is proposed that the basic difference between holiness and impurity consists in the difference between durative (transcendent) and periodic (human, terrestrial) life. This hypothesis meets Claude Lévi-Strauss' reflections on rationality of the taboo on menstruation in North American and other cultures; in both cases the rules of good behavious are based on a reluctance on the side of human beings towards the material world (in the Hebrew Bible garanted by Yahweh), the good periodicity of which should be protected against the powers inherent in the human  bodies.

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