“Romper lo que está resquebrajado”: 1968 in the United States of America

Due to the inability of the United States political structure to resolve deep internal disagreements over the Vietnam War, Americans lost their faith in an effective public order regardless of their political sympathies. 1968 was the year in which faith in the nation’s political institutions cracked. The year began with an organized movement within the Democratic Party to oust Lyndon Johnson from the White House and to place an antiwar leader at the head of the party, a leader who would refocus the political energies of the nation on healing racial division and the “war on poverty.” The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy terminated movement to national reconciliation around a progressive program. Conservatives profited from escalating internal violence by presenting themselves as the only political force capable of bringing order. The New Left did not profit from the national political crisis, but new social movements forced into the public arena new conceptions of how the nation had developed and what “justice for all” entailed. The left failed politically, but its movements transformed the conduct of everyday life. The direction flowing from 1968 in the United States proved over the long term to be cultural regeneration of the nation’s liberal values to fit the realities of a more diverse and divided citizenry.Debido a la incapacidad de la estructura política de los Estados Unidos de resolver los profundos desacuerdos internos sobre la Guerra de Vietnam, los americanos perdieron su fe en un orden público efectivo a pesar de sus simpatías políticas. 1968 fue el año en el que se quebró la fe en las instituciones políticas de la nación. El año comenzó con un movimiento organizado dentro del Partido Democrata que desbancó a Lyndon Johnson de la Casa Blanca y que colocó a un líder antibelicista a la cabeza del partido, un líder que centraría de nuevo las energías políticas de la nación en aliviar la división racial y la “guerra contra la pobreza”. Los asesinatos de Martin Luther King, Jr, y Robert F. Kennedy pusieron término al movimiento de la reconciliación nacional en torno a un programa progresista. Los Conservadores aprovecharon la escalada de la violencia interna presentándose a sí mismos como la única fuerza política capaz de traer el orden. La Nueva Izquierda no sacó provecho de la crisis política interna, pero nuevos movimientos sociales introdujeron en la escena pública nuevas concepciones sobre cómo la nación se había desarrollado y qué “justicia para todos” conllevaba. La izquierda fracasó políticamente, pero sus movimientos transformaron la conducta del día a día. La dirección adoptada desde 1968 en Estados Unidos dio pruebas a largo plazo de ser una regeneración cultural de los valores liberales de la nación para adaptarse a las realidades de una ciudadanía más diversa y dividida

Striking a Chord: Dementia and Song

We have co-written this piece to relay what can be achieved with song and music in familial and non-familial settings when caring for a person with dementia. This article started as a conversation we had in the Wellcome Collection cafe in London to catch up with each other while Prabhjot was en route from Canada to India, to meet her father. We shared how dementia was becoming a part of our parents’ lives. This article is dedicated to the chords Prabhjot Parmar has struck with her father, Major Harbhajan Singh (25 Dec 1925 – 16 April 2018) and Nirmal Puwar has had the pleasure of sharing with her mother, Kartar Kaur. Both of us have been drawn to understanding how our own performance of song with our respective parent enabled them and us to maintain a register of connection. Song became a means of trying to keep striking a parental and musical chord. We aimed to connect by engendering ‘therapeutic atmospheres’ (Sonntag 2016) through song. We use song and music interchangeably, operating with performance as an umbrella term that includes gesture, utterance, dance, singing and playing musical instruments, for example. Two autoethnographic relational contributions provide a substantive basis to our article, each written by a researcher-carer-daughter, seeking to sustain contact with what remains in her parent living with dementia

The role of economic evaluation in the decision-making process of family physicians: design and methods of a qualitative embedded multiple-case study

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>A considerable amount of resource allocation decisions take place daily at the point of the clinical encounter; especially in primary care, where 80 percent of health problems are managed. Ignoring economic evaluation evidence in individual clinical decision-making may have a broad impact on the efficiency of health services. To date, almost all studies on the use of economic evaluation in decision-making used a quantitative approach, and few investigated decision-making at the clinical level. An important question is whether economic evaluations affect clinical practice. The project is an intervention research study designed to understand the role of economic evaluation in the decision-making process of family physicians (FPs). The contributions of the project will be from the perspective of Pierre Bourdieu's sociological theory.</p> <p>Methods/design</p> <p>A qualitative research strategy is proposed. We will conduct an embedded multiple-case study design. Ten case studies will be performed. The FPs will be the unit of analysis. The sampling strategies will be directed towards theoretical generalization. The 10 selected cases will be intended to reflect a diversity of FPs. There will be two embedded units of analysis: FPs (micro-level of analysis) and field of family medicine (macro-level of analysis). The division of the determinants of practice/behaviour into two groups, corresponding to the macro-structural level and the micro-individual level, is the basis for Bourdieu's mode of analysis. The sources of data collection for the micro-level analysis will be 10 life history interviews with FPs, documents and observational evidence. The sources of data collection for the macro-level analysis will be documents and 9 open-ended, focused interviews with key informants from medical associations and academic institutions. The analytic induction approach to data analysis will be used. A list of codes will be generated based on both the original framework and new themes introduced by the participants. We will conduct within-case and cross-case analyses of the data.</p> <p>Discussion</p> <p>The question of the role of economic evaluation in FPs' decision-making is of great interest to scientists, health care practitioners, managers and policy-makers, as well as to consultants, industry, and society. It is believed that the proposed research approach will make an original contribution to the development of knowledge, both empirical and theoretical.</p

Fotografia de boa vizinhança: uma norteamericana no Brasil (1941-1942)

Em 1941 o governo dos EUA encomendou três fotógrafos para morar no Brasil e tirar fotos do país que poderiam ser usadas em revistas e jornais dos EUA em artigos explicando a aliança Brasil-Estados Unidos. Este artigo discute a fotografia brasileira de Genevieve Naylor, colocando sua representação da vida quotidiana brasileira em relação às convenções de documentário social desenvolvidas nos Estados Unidos nas décadas de 1920 e 1930. Enquanto a maioria dos estudos históricos da política da boa vizinhança já olhou os esforços dos EUA para influenciar a opinião pública na América Latina, este artigo centra-se sobre como o governo usou o intercâmbio cultural para combater atitudes isolacionistas difundidas dentro dos Estados Unidos

História intelectual nos Estados Unidos: resenha pessoal, talvez pessoal demais

Este artigo traça o desenvolvimento da história intelectual nos Estados Unidos desde meados do século XX, contrastando a "história das ideias" e "estudos americanos". Os dois exemplos ilustram a prática da história intelectual nos Estados Unidos: a primeira pela trajetória dos próprios trabalhos do autor, enfocado em modernos movimentos de arte nos Estados Unidos; o segundo examinando a longa história de debates entre historiadores sobre a relativa importância das ideologias republicanas e liberais na revolução de 1776 e na formação da uma sociedade nacional.