scholarly journals Improving the Korean Medical Association’s organizational strength and partnership for physicians

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 304-306
Author(s):  
Ducksun Ahn
Keyword(s):  
Medical Profession ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Professional Organization ◽  
Trade Association ◽  
Communication Structure ◽  
The Public ◽  
Statutory Body ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Function

The Korean Medical Association (KMA) was established by legal mandate. It is a statutory body for the medical profession. However, the collective dimension of professionalism is a foreign concept for Korean doctors; the KMA is perceived as a fraternity of physicians. Korea’s history of medical professionalization is different from that of Western countries where two different kinds of professional organization have developed: one for the public as a regulator and the other for doctors as a union or trade association. The KMA represents doctors nationally assembled by type of practice, geographic location, and function. Consequently, the KMA became a trade association. However, it is not easy for the KMA to serve two conflicting functions of self-regulation and trading body under one umbrella. It is time for the KMA to build up the organizational strength for the sake of doctors as well as the public. Having a sound trade association is a part of medical professionalism; it can advocate the critical value of medicine against undue influences from employers or governments in the era of industrialization and commercialization of medicine. To achieve this goal, the KMA should revamp its troublesome communication structure regarding its governance. Improving integration among key acting bodies within the KMA can streamline management by better communication. Preventing political feudalism to build consensus within the KMA requires new competencies for the leaders as well as the members of the KMA.

scholarly journals “Liberating the Small Devils”: Red Guard Newspapers and Radical Publics, 1966–1968

2021 ◽  
Vol 246 ◽  
pp. 354-373
Author(s):  
Nicolai Volland
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Early Research ◽  
Test Case ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Press ◽  
History Of ◽  
Red Guard ◽  
And Function ◽  
Chinese Public

AbstractRed Guard newspapers and pamphlets (wenge xiaobao) were a key source for early research on the Cultural Revolution, but they have rarely been analysed in their own right. How did these publications regard their status and function within the larger information ecosystem of the People's Republic, and what is their role in the history of the modern Chinese public sphere? This article focuses on a particular subset of Red Guard papers, namely those published by radical groups within the PRC's press and publication system. These newspapers critiqued the pre-Cultural Revolution press and reflected upon the possible futures of a new, revolutionary Chinese press. Short-lived as these experiments were, they constitute a test case to re-examine the functioning of the public in a decidedly “uncivil” polity. Ultimately, they point to the ambiguous potential of the public for both consensus and conflict, liberation and repression, which characterizes the press in 20th-century China.

scholarly journals Never Lost for Words: Canberra’s Archives

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 81-101
Author(s):  
Nick Brown
Keyword(s):  
Service Provision ◽  
Public History ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Servant ◽  
National Capital ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
And Function

As a modern, designed, self-consciously experimental national capital, Canberra poses distinct questions, and problems, for public history. Famously derided as lacking community – ‘a city without a soul’; ‘a good sheep station spoiled’ – it has also been shaped by a succession of planning practices, phases of immigration, and service provision, which have fostered their own models and experiences of community. On the one hand, as Ruth Atkins observed in 1978, the concept and function of ‘the public’ in Canberra has been defined essentially by those of ‘the public servant’; on the other, a population characterised by relatively high levels of education and affluence has proved remarkably innovative in working with and around the structures of centralised government with which they are so often closely associated. This paper explores these inter-relationships, assessing the ways in which the history of Canberra – in its official, community and experiential dimensions – reflects processes of actively creating such narratives and identities rather than seeing them in opposition to each other.

Nothing Succeeds Like Failure

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Conn
Keyword(s):  
Business Schools ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
American Business ◽  
Ethical Business ◽  
Missed Opportunities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Wharton School ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Function ◽  
Role And Function

Do business schools actually make good on their promises of “innovative,” “outside-the-box” thinking to train business leaders who will put society ahead of money-making? Do they help society by making better business leaders? This book asserts that they do not and they never have. In throwing down a gauntlet on the business of business schools, the book examines the frictions, conflicts, and contradictions at the heart of these enterprises and details the way business schools have failed to resolve them. Beginning with founding of the Wharton School in 1881, the book measures these schools' aspirations against their actual accomplishments and tells the full and disappointing history of missed opportunities, unmet aspirations, and educational mistakes. It then poses a set of crucial questions about the role and function of American business schools. The results are not pretty. Posing a set of crucial questions about the function of American business schools, the book is pugnacious and controversial. It argues that the impressive façades of business school buildings resemble nothing so much as collegiate versions of Oz. It pulls back the curtain to reveal a story of failure to meet the expectations of the public, their missions, their graduates, and their own lofty aspirations of producing moral and ethical business leaders.

Not Modern-Day Body-Snatching: The Response of the Public

2002 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 66-70
Author(s):  
K. Lee ◽  
S. W. McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Medical Profession ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
The West ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Anatomy ◽  
Modern Form

At recent presentations on the history of anatomy in the West of Scotland, our group has been asked whether we would regard the revelations of 1999 – 2001 about organ retention as a modern form of body-snatching. We have compared newspaper reports of the Glasgow Herald from 1823 to 1832, the decade prior to the Anatomy Act of 1832, and the Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times from 1999 to 2001. Clearly body-snatchers appropriated whole corpses while the recent troubles concerned individual organs. Body-snatching was illegal while the crisis over organ retention arose from differing expectations between the medical profession and the public. Both practices caused huge public concern and distress to relatives. There are, however, interesting differences between the two sets of reports. The public had been aware of body-snatching for many years prior to the Anatomy Act, which regulated the supply of cadavers, whereas revelations about organ retention came as a shock. In the organ retention crisis, the parents of the children were more organised in supporting each other and in campaigning for change than were the public in the days of the resurrectionists.

scholarly journals Interpretasi Konsep Interior pada Tiga Ruang Museum House of Sampoerna Surabaya Berdasarkan Visualisasi Ruangan

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-136
Author(s):  
Rania Erin Oktiara ◽  
Lilik Indrawati ◽  
Swastika Dhesti Anggriani
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Educational Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
Historical Objects ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Function ◽  
Collection Methods

Abstract: A museum is an institution that collects and looks after historical objects to showcase and function them as educational media for the public. The realization of those functions depends on the interior concept through visualization in each room. One museum that is particularly attractive to the researcher to analyze is Surabaya House of Sampoerna Museum. This museum is recorded to be one of Surabaya’s cultural heritage buildings. It displays the history of the establishment and the development of Sampoerna company thematically in each room in the building, therefore, there are different themes even in one room. The implementation of the mentioned visualization concept has become the basis of interpretation for the researcher with the focus on room visualization. House of Sampoerna Museum consists of five showcase rooms; however, this research only interprets three rooms that do not undergo significant alteration since 2018. The three rooms are referred to as room 1, room 2, room 3. The data collection methods of this research are observation, interview, and document analysis that involves the researcher’s interpretation. Based on the results of this research, the interior concepts of room 1, room 2, and room 3 have been discovered. Keywords: concept, interior, museum, House of Sampoerna, visualization Abstrak: Museum merupakan lembaga yang mengumpulkan dan merawat benda-benda yang memiliki nilai sejarah untuk dipamerkan dan difungsikan sebagai sarana edukasi kepada masyarakat umum. Penyampaian fungsi tersebut dipengaruhi oleh konsep interior melalui visualisasi pada setiap ruangannya. Salah satu museum yang menarik peneliti untuk menginterpretasi penerapan konsepnya yaitu Museum House of Sampoerna Surabaya. Museum ini tercatat sebagai salah satu bangunan cagar budaya di Kota Surabaya. Museum ini menampilkan sejarah pendirian dan berkembangnya perusahaan Sampoerna yang bersifat tematik pada masing-masing ruangannya, sehingga terdapat tema yang berbeda-beda meskipun masih dalam satu ruangan. Adanya penerapan visualisasi tersebut yang melandasi tujuan penelitian ini untuk menginterpretasi konsep interior yang diterapkan berdasarkan visualisasi ruangannya. Museum House of Sampoerna terdiri atas 5 ruang pamer, akan tetapi pada penelitian ini hanya menginterpretasi 3 ruang pamer yang tidak mengalami perubahan interior secara signifikan sejak tahun 2018, yang disebutkan sebagai ruang 1, ruang 2, ruang 3. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode pengumpulan data observasi, wawancara, serta analisis dokumen yang melibatkan interpretasi peneliti. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian ini dapat diketahui konsep interior yang diterapkan pada ruang 1, ruang 2, dan ruang 3.  Kata kunci: konsep, interior, museum, House of Sampoerna, visualisasi

Psychiatry and Its Checkered Past

2019 ◽  
pp. 87-102
Author(s):  
Judith Puckett ◽  
David Shumway Jones
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
The Other ◽  
Psychiatric Nosology ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Medical Professions ◽  
The Continuum

This chapter examines the history of critiques that have been made of psychiatric practice in specific times and specific places. Though psychiatry is well-established as part of the medical profession and requires completion of a medical education all doctors receive, psychiatrists are often viewed as distinct from other doctors, and psychiatry continues to be viewed negatively in the public eye. Psychiatrists themselves have been partly to blame for this; the profession originally spent decades attempting to differentiate itself from the other medical professions. Since it is not possible to cover every aspect of the history of critiques of psychiatry, the chapter focuses on two major problems that continue to influence how psychiatry is practiced and perceived today: the development of asylums as a form of confinement for those who are mentally ill, and the development of psychiatric nosology and diagnosis. By exploring the continuum of mental illness and the idea of “normal versus abnormal,” the chapter offers psychiatrists a framework for how they can think about their work going forward.

scholarly journals Eurotransplant – new possibility for the Hungarian transplantation

2011 ◽  
Vol 152 (7) ◽  
pp. 243-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Róbert Langer
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Organ Transplantation ◽  
Lung Transplant ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
Transplant Program ◽  
Transplant Center ◽  
History Of ◽  
Donor Numbers

The year 2010 was a milestone in the history of transplantation in Hungary. The State Secretary for Health Issues announced a program in order to solve the serious problems of organ transplantation: 1) to increase waiting lists, 2) to raise donor numbers, 3) to establish a lung transplant program in the country, 4) to promote education and increase the knowledge base regarding transplantation for the public and the medical profession, and finally, 5) to begin negotiations for Hungary to join Eurotransplant. Joining Eurotransplant has been a priority of the transplant community. Finally, this year saw the Budapest Transplant Center perform 20% of their kidney transplants from living donors, up from a 5% frequency historically, an operation which is available in all four centers from this year. Orv. Hetil., 2011, 152, 243–245.

scholarly journals History and Traditional Culture of Altai in Context of the Historical Policy of Soviet State of 1920s-1940s: based on the materials of “Siberian Lights” Magazine

2020 ◽  
pp. 367-383
Author(s):  
E. I. Krasilnikova
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Regional Politics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Gorny Altai ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Past

The dynamics of the memory policy aimed at forming in the historical memory of the readership of the Siberian Lights Magazine of the 1920s-1940s ideas about the historical past and traditional culture of Altai people is traced in the article. The relevance of the study is due to the growing attention to the features of historical knowledge in the public space, its structuring, the means of conceptual interpretation and the use in the processes of political self-regulation of society at various stages of development. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that the history of the state policy of memory in relation to the past of Gorny Altai in its substantive and procedural aspects has not yet become the subject of independent scientific research. The contexts and conditions of creating journal representations of the historical past of Gorny Altai are revealed. The list of the authors covering this topic is characterized, as well as the factors that influenced the creation of journal representations of the history of the Altai people. The stages of this representation are established and characterized. It is shown how the memory policy techniques used by the authors of this journal at different stages changed. It is proved that at the stage of the 1920s, the Siberian Lights served as a platform for polemics of historians and subjects of regional politics, relatively independent in relation to the central government. At the second stage of the 1930s - 1940s, the authors of the journal were included, first of all, in the process of implementing the policy of memory of the central authorities.

The Medical Profession and the State in France

1987 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Steffen
Keyword(s):  
Health System ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
The State ◽  
Individual Liberty ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Set Up

ABSTRACTFrench medicine is organised with dialectical relation between the public and private in health and welfare policy; there is also an ideological impact of public/private confrontation. The article retraces the history of the profession and shows how it was set up both with and against the state, emphasising two ideas at once: the idea of the small independent entrepreneur, guarantor of individual liberty, and the idea of the great state servant, guarantor of the public interest. Public/private confrontation is only rhetorical and bears no relation to the real content of the dualistic health system.

Trans men’s stealth aesthetics: navigating penile prosthetics and ‘gender fraud’

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-271
Author(s):  
Chris Straayer
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Commercial Production ◽  
The Public ◽  
Negative Valence ◽  
Trans Men ◽  
Prosthetic Limbs ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
And Gender ◽  
And Function

This article examines trans commercial production of penile prosthetics, the efficacy of such products in personal and sex-segregated spaces, and their negative valence in the public sphere. Responding to his own experience of gender dysphoria, Transthetics founder Alex designs and produces products for the reparative and enabling embodiment of trans men. Penile prosthetics reflect the longstanding tension between aesthetics and function in the history of prosthetic limbs. The author posits ‘stealth aesthetics’ as a function-injected realism that pushes into reality via utilization of prosthetics in the performance of real life. For some trans men, the phenomenologically incorporated prosthetic is tantamount to a corporeal penis. Cisnormativity, however, outlaws this equivalence. Recent prosecutions of penile prosthetic embodiment as ‘gender fraud’ punitively restrict trans men’s claim on reality, instead exposing their private bodies to public judgment, where genitals produce gender. By contrast, the author advocates the authorization of gender to produce genitals.

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