scholarly journals Introductory Chapter: Teams in Healthcare - A Voyage from ‘Nice to Have’ to ‘the Way to Go’

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Taylor ◽  
Israel Zighelboim ◽  
Farhad Sholevar ◽  
Stanislaw P. Stawicki ◽  
Michael S. Firstenberg
Keyword(s):  
The Way

Uncharted Territory

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney Freer
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Political Islam ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Detailed Explanation ◽  
Rentier States ◽  
The Way

This introductory chapter outlines where and how this book contributes original research to the existing scholarship on politics of rentier states in the Arabian Peninsula, as well as the academic work on political Islam through a brief literature review. This book will demonstrate that political Islam serves as a prominent voice critiquing social policies, as well as promoting more strictly political, and often populist or reformist, views supported by a great many Gulf citizens. As laid out in this chapter, this book demonstrates that the way that Islamist organizations operate in the unique environment of the super-rentiers is distinct. It also presents information about the methodology and sources used, as well as a detailed explanation for the use of country cases chosen. The chapter closes by describing the format of the book.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Dmitry Shumsky
Keyword(s):  
State Solution ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
National State ◽  
National Group ◽  
National Movement ◽  
Left Base ◽  
The Way

This introductory chapter discusses the unquestioned identification between “Zionism” as a national movement that sought to realize the Jewish nation's self-determination in Palestine, and “the Jewish nation-state,” which has no room for the national collective existence of any particular national group other than the Jews and which represents the ultimate and teleological realization of the Zionist project. The vast majority of those who support the two-state solution, who are known as the “Zionist left,” base their position on the need to avoid the formation of a binational state in which the Jewish demographic majority would be endangered. They argue that this is the way to rescue what they consider to be the political core of the Zionist idea: a mono-national state for the Jewish political collective.

Biblical Criticism and the Phenomenology of Scripture

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Y. Wells
Keyword(s):  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Phenomenological Method ◽  
Biblical Criticism ◽  
The Way

This introductory chapter has three aims. First, it summarizes the phenomenological method. Second, it explores the way that various assumptions about the epistemic priority of the natural sciences operate in modern biblical criticism. Third, it summarizes the essays included in the volume.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Jodi Rios
Keyword(s):  
Private Property ◽  
Return Time ◽  
Double Bind ◽  
Local Autonomy ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
City Governments ◽  
Black Residents ◽  
The Way

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the racialized policing and governing practices in North St. Louis County, Missouri. In the suburbs of North St. Louis County, city governments discipline and police Black residents as a source of steady revenue. To put it in the way many residents do, municipalities view poor Black residents as “ATM machines,” to which they return time and again through multiple forms of predatory policing, juridical practices, and legalized violence. As part of this system and to hold on to the coveted yet hollow prize of local autonomy, Black leaders invest mightily in the white spatial imaginary of the suburbs by adopting a rhetoric of producing good citizens, promoting safety, protecting private property, and upholding norms of respectability. Narrated through questions of rights and suburban citizenship, the double bind of living as Black in North St. Louis County means that Black residents both suffer from, and pay for, the loss of economic and political viability that occurs when they simply occupy space. The systems that create and profit from this double bind rely on tropes of Black deviance, honed over the course of centuries; the illegibility of Black suffering; and questions concerning Black personhood.

Lokalvalget 2019: Et fremoverskuende valg?

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-25
Author(s):  
Dag Arne Christensen ◽  
Jo Saglie ◽  
Signe Bock Segaard
Keyword(s):  
Local Elections ◽  
Election Study ◽  
Local Election ◽  
History Of ◽  
Election Studies ◽  
The Way

This introductory chapter presents some general features of the Norwegian Local Election Study of 2019. First, we take a close look at the conditions that shaped the 2019 local elections, especially the municipal amalgamation reform. The number of municipalities – 428 at the time of the 2015 local elections – had been reduced to 356 for the 2019 elections, and as a result, many voters cast their votes in a new, merged political unit – yet prior to the actual merger’s implementation. Next, we briefly review the history of the Norwegian Local Election Studies and then present the chapters in the book. The subsequent sections include a more detailed description of the data material on which the book is based and the voter survey in particular. We conclude with some reflections on the way ahead for Norwegian local election research.

Prologue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Wierzbicki
Keyword(s):  
International Politics ◽  
American Music ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
White People ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Way

This introductory chapter explains how music is considered less as a phenomenon unto itself than as a manifestation of the conditions under which it emerged or receded. The music under consideration represents a wide range of styles that attracted the attention of a wide range of audiences, which sounds have little in common. What these types of music do have in common is the fact that all of them sprang up in a particular cultural environment: the postwar Fifties. A great many forces—technology; the economy; domestic and international politics; relationships between black and white people, between men and women, between young and old—animated American society during the Fifties. The lenses through which the whole of American music in the Fifties is examined here represent forces whose interconnected dynamics between 1945 and 1963 are linked to the fact that, for America, the war ended the way it did.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Horne
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Black America ◽  
Pan Africanism ◽  
The Way

This introductory chapter provides a background of Claude Barnett and the Associated Negro Press (ANP). Though not often recognized as such, Claude Barnett was one of the leading Pan-Africanists of the twentieth century, just as the ANP was an exemplar of the often discussed but little implemented doctrine of Pan-Africanism. Yet his very success carried the seeds of its demise; that is, as his anti-Jim Crow and anticolonial campaigns gained traction, it opened both Black America and Africa to incursions by mainstream entities that theretofore either had ignored these sizable communities or winked at their bludgeoning. Meanwhile, what ANP accomplished was to provide an assessment of the balance of global forces that historically had been essential in plotting the way forward for African Americans not least. Yet as the prize of anti-Jim Crow came within reach, ironically the way had been paved for the ultimate liquidation of the ANP.

scholarly journals Healthcare Activism, Marketization, and the Collective Good

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Susi Geiger
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Collective Good ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Private Industry ◽  
Current Volume ◽  
The Common ◽  
Governmental Institutions ◽  
The Way

This introductory chapter charts the book’s trajectory by engaging with three interlinked key dynamics of contemporary healthcare—marketization, digitalization, and individualization. It draws on several theoretical frameworks to conceptualize notions of the common, collective, or public good and to consider how healthcare activism may play into defining and defending the collective good when faced with the outlined societal, economic, and scientific dynamics. Presenting contemporary examples from the Covid-19 pandemic, the chapter argues that the way activists define and defend the collective good can only fully be understood by grasping how this good is shaped by other, often more dominant, stakeholders in healthcare: governmental institutions, professional experts, scientists, and private industry—the latter being a focal point of concern for this current volume.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Martin ◽  
Emily Wingfield
Keyword(s):  
Critical Field ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Robert Henryson ◽  
William Dunbar ◽  
The Way

This introductory chapter prefaces the subsequent collection of essays, dedicated to Professor Sally Mapstone. After an overview of the critical field and outline of the importance of kingship and Advice to Princes in the Older Scots literary tradition, the main body of the chapter first examines the centrality of advisory discourse in the poetry of Robert Henryson and William Dunbar, before analysing key scenes of royal reading and writing in Barbour’s Bruce, James I’s Kingis Quair, Walter Bower’s Scotichronicon, and John Shirley’s fulle lamentable cronicle of þe deþe and fals murdre of James Steward, last Kinge of Scottes. It explores both the signal relationship between themes of reading, writing, and rule, and the way in which such acts are transformed into self-consciously ethical activities. The second half of the chapter summarizes and draws together the essays that follow.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alasdair Cochrane
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
The Third ◽  
Cosmopolitan Democracy ◽  
Broad Outline ◽  
The Way

This introductory chapter prepares the ground for the theory that is sketched and defended in the rest of the book by systematically considering the need for it, its assumptions, and broad outline. The chapter is structured around four sections. The first section offers a brief statement of the kind of ‘sentientist politics’ that the book defends: namely, a ‘sentientist cosmopolitan democracy’. The second then provides an overview of the way in which this book’s theory of ‘sentientist politics’ differs from and contributes to existing literature in the area. The third section addresses the issue of ‘feasibility’, asking whether and to what extent it matters that the theory offered throughout the book is radically ambitious. The final section then offers a brief outline of the chapters to follow.

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