hippocrates galen and the politics of medical knowledge

... discussion of the rise of the concept of fetal rights and fetal protectionism can be found in Daniels, 1993.) After a brief discussion of the social construction of maternity and paternity, I analyse the ... diVerence generated by the politics of fetal risks, and the problematic nature of the idea of individual causality in discussions of fetal harm Social constructions of maternity and paternity In Western ... Studies of male reproductive health and toxicity have Between fathers and fetuses concentrated primarily on the eVects of occupational and environmental exposures of men and less on the eVects of...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... collection of a broad array of current and retrospective socio-economic and health information among individuals, households, and communities2 The selection of households is representative of 83% of the ... constraints The reduced-form is obtained by substituting the determinants of the chosen health behaviors into equation (1) for the xht To derive the determinants of the xht, we make the standard assumption ... constrained by available time and resources, by the health production function, and the price and quality of all available medical services Therefore, the health behavior demands in period t are: xt...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... outside of and beyond the institutional and aesthetic orbit of dominant cultural centers of power and authority like the Lincoln Center, PBS, and the New York Times The concept of the jazz left then ... are the erosion of moral standards; the loss of the work ethic (e.g., the 1996 Welfare Bill); law and order (e.g., the 1995 Crime Bill); the decay of Western civilization (the culture wars of the ... of the innate ability of early jazz musicians Because of these writers’ lack of understanding of the mechanics of music, they thought there weren’t any mechanics It is the ‘they all can sing, they...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 00:33

... struggles and learning about the lives of women in different parts of the world Their commitment to social change and their insights into the effects of socialist collapse on the lives of everyday ... The concept of the transition economy justifies the disintegration of society and the social costs accompanying market reforms, including the worsening of the situation of women and other vulnerable ... are reworked, and the rights and needs of various categories of citizens redefined These women’s social justice struggles and their uneven success highlight some of the social costs of economic...

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 17:40

... another For, when they gathered together libels and anti-courtly love poems, they likewise forced these two kinds of politics together One could say that the authors of libels did as much on their ... marriage with an exchange of obvious riddles on genitals, one in the hand of the initial compiler and the voice of a man named Robin, and the next in the second hand and a female persona named ... her Wnal couplet with the obscene word that Davies omitted from his poem on the courtier and the ‘cuntry swadd.’ Then, on the verso of the same leaf and in the hand of the primary compiler, Davies...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 21:43

... The same kind of problem may arise in the context of debates over prayer in public schools, the rights of homosexuals, traditional sex 24 Religion and the Politics of Tolerance roles, and other ... explained within the body of the analysis 36 Religion and the Politics of Tolerance The Data for the Analysis The data for this chapter comes from a random sample phone survey of 601 individuals ... America, the work of John Stuart Mill and John Locke has led to the argument that what tolerance best exemplifies is the freedom to enter and exit the marketplace The Politics of Tolerance 21 of ideas...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:53

... set of postmodern theories, and at the same time, theories are further developed through Samburu experiencing food Overall, I like the book, but there is a certain amount of redundancy in the ... as bad and as a decline of Samburu culture All Samburu also link these foods and new ways of eating to the drastic reduction in livestock holdings in the last decades Another example of change ... Samburu and is the ideal food for murran, and eating it most often takes place away from women Likewise, particular cuts of meat belong to specific age and gender groups Milk on the other hand is...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 02:20

... from private and commercial sources was closed In July 1991, 47 tonnes of gold from the reserve assets of the Reserve Bank of India was shipped to the vaults of the Bank of England in a dramatic ... Petition was then filed with the Supreme Court of India on the limited question of whether the Court could dismiss the petition on ground that it was purely "academic" and there was no "cause of action." ... and collective level efforts not exist There are many such efforts ongoing in different parts of the country and many of them operate without any funding whatsoever, and without the context of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... studies of the crisis rhetoric of the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Ireland and the European Commission and the European Central Bank The crisis hit hard and fast in the United Kingdom and ... focus of the bulk of existing research on emergencies and crises) In formal terms, the ultimate explanandum of the study of the rhetoric of crisis exploitation is twofold: the nature and depth of ... 2004).1 The sense of threat and uncertainty they induce can profoundly impact people’s understanding of the world around them The occurrence of a large-scale emergency or the widespread use of the...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 16:03

... Liquidity Scheme, and the cost of nationalizing Northern Rock and Bradford and Bingley But if we add all the other Bank of England and HM Treasury loans and guarantees to the banking system, the IMF calculates ... model of the spread of SARS and HIV, or the collapse of fish stocks There is an isomorphism about ‘seizures in the electrical grid, degradation of eco-systems, the spread of epidemics and the disintegration ... some of the new concepts and apparatus which we bring to analysing and understanding the operations of the finance sector and the difficulties of political reform Bernanke’s story, illustrated in the...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 17:02

... part of the SNCC skin.62 It was a defining attribute of who they were, how they believed the activist body should appear, and the political and aesthetic value they placed on their style The same ... 646 THE JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY had begun to understand and question the class politics of the black community, Baker noted that they would have to “break through the pseudo-sophistication of ... in the national office and in the field.”63 The women came in as individuals, carrying the markers of their class backgrounds, and emerged as SNCC people, who wore their hair natural and made themselves...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2015, 01:23

... Gomez cites the issue of the ethnic factor in the creation of two loose coalitions, that of the APU and the Gagasan in the late 1980s and early 1990s.39 Khong Kim Hoong’s analysis of the 1990 Malaysian ... alliances of the main opposition parties.43 Antipathy towards Mahathir as an individual and to UMNO and the BN as the government grew over the years The handling of the then recent events such as the ... on the publicity of the PAS, was not a determinant in the DAP’s termination of its membership in the BA The concluding chapter sums up the findings of the entire research and the implications of...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2015, 10:26

... of the soft -the world of intangibles, of media, of software, and of services-will soon command the world of the hard -the world of reality, of atoms, of objects, of steel and oil." While Kelly ... scrolls and Greeks establishing schools and the study of mathematics The ride skips forward to the invention of the printing press and the subsequent flourishing of culture during the Renaissance, then ... This quality recalls another aspect of standardization: the degree to which it favors the politics and practices of a specific group of actors to the exclusion of another In other words, a technology...

Ngày tải lên: 15/10/2015, 09:32

... distribution of information is triggered by the view on the relevance of the information, the 122 Knowledge and Process Management power of the recipient, the level of workload and resources ... chain of hotels or supermarkets, a software vendor or a consulting company, regardless of the nature of knowledge The method of analysis is generalization to theory, and given the level of abstraction ... to the differences between the plants in terms of transfer success or failure Plants and failed to take on the knowledge transfer, whereas the other four succeeded Transfer of Knowledge and the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 00:20

... secular, medical ethics and forging the intellectual and moral concept of medicine as a fiduciary profession and thereby inventing professional medical ethics and, therefore, the profession of medicine ... of Physicians of Edinburgh; the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh; the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow; the National Library of Scotland; the Wellcome Institute for the ... History of Medicine, the University of Michigan, the University of Pittsburgh, the Cleveland Clinic, the New York Consortium for the History of Medicine at the New York Academy of Medicine, and the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 04:20

... and likeness; and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that creepeth upon the earth.” And ... life of the child in order to increase the mother’s chances of living And the day may arrive when, by the law of the land, the act will be considered criminal and punished as such In support of ... right and praiseworthy, and others wrong and worthy of condemnation; even there Doctors and patients and their relatives would have certain rights and duties In such a land, the lecturer on Medical...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 13:20

... step of the way, between choices of interest and values, on the one hand, and the desire for process on the other This study brings together concern for the administrative process and the role of ... the varieties of institutional form and the nature of the policy area, but the unique features of the American system compound the problem and beg the question of the significance of the data reported ... studies of law in action; the sociology of law; the anthropology of law; cultural studies of law, including the role of legal discourses in social formations; law and economics; law and politics; and...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:20

... merge the list of newly generated features with the list of bigrams20 and select the top 5000 features from the merged list according to their WLLR We then repeat procedure P for the trigrams and ... number of test documents and find that the feature vectors corresponding to some of these documents (particularly the short ones) have all zeroes in them In other words, none of the bigrams from the ... examination of the feature lists sorted by WLLR confirms our hypothesis that each of the two classes has its own set of distinguishing features Experiments with the book domain To understand whether these...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 04:20

... Institutional Inequality and the Mobilization of the Family and Medical Leave Act How the rights created by the Family and Medical Leave Act operate in practice in the courts and in the workplace? This ... disability, and the appropriate roles of men and women in the family This study examines how these institutions shape the way courts, employers, and workers understand the meaning of family and medical ... in their roles as workers, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title I of the ADA, and most recently the FMLA Although these statutes explicitly recognize the status of women and...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 09:20

... technology in the prevention of stroke and the corresponding rates of utilization in the US and Canada They show that utilization rates increased dramatically between 1989 and 1995 following the publication ... that explains the evolution in the value of life and its relation with health spending They calculate the marginal cost of saving a life at di¤erent ages and over time in the US, and …nd that ... report the dynamic …xed e¤ects estimator of the long-run coe¢ cients and of the error correction term (Pesaran, Shin, and Smith, 1999) Results con…rm the signi…cant e¤ect of health spending on the...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 00:20