Water, Culture, and Society in Global Historical Perspective II

This conference is the second of two, linked international conferences focused on the provision, management, use, and cultural meanings of water and its relationship to patterns of human culture, politics, technology, and socio-economic organization across geographies and chronologies. The conference will focus on two distinct themes: "Cultures of Water" and "The Effluent Society." The first conference will took place in mid-May 2016 and focused on the intersecting topics of Water and Power" and "Controlling Water." Through these four themes our program spans a broad range of vital and interconnected topics posed by "water." The conferences, held at the Mershon Center at the Ohio State University, will be run as workshops with papers distributed in advance to ensure the most productive discussions. Papers will be published either in edited volumes or special issues of environmental history journals."Water" constitutes a multi-faceted topic of overwhelming historical and contemporary significance. Water defines every aspect of life: from the ecological to the cultural, religious, social, economic, and political. Without the molecule H20, life as we understand it would cease to exist. Water remains at the center of human activity: in irrigation and agriculture; waste and sanitation; drinking and disease; floods and droughts; religious beliefs and practices; fishing and aquaculture; travel and discovery; scientific study; water pollution and conservation; multi-purpose dam building; in the setting of boundaries and borders; politics and economic life; and wars and diplomacy. Water also plays an important symbolic role in works of literature, art, music, and architecture, and it serves as a source of human beauty and spiritual tranquility.Mershon Center for International StudiesOhio State University College of Arts and HumanitiesEast Asian Studies Center, The Ohio State UniversityCenter for Slavic and East European Studies, The Ohio State UniversityThe Institute for Korean Studies, The Ohio State UniversityHistory Department, The Ohio State UniversityEnvironmental Studies Network, The Ohio State UniversityThe Sustainable and Resilient Economy Discovery Theme at Ohio StateRussian, East European, and Eurasian History Seminar, The Ohio State UniversityA Northeast Asia Council Japanese Studies Grant (Association for Asian Studies)Academia Sinica (Taipei)Shanghai Jiao Tong Universit

Student-patient communication during physical examination

BACKGROUND: Communication during the physical examination has been understudied. Explicit, evidence-based guidance is not available as to the most effective content or process of communication while performing physical examination, or indeed how to teach this to medical students. The objective of this exploratory study was to explore how medical students communicate with patients when performing a physical examination in the absence of formal teaching on how to communicate in this situation. METHODS: We recorded 15 senior UK medical students as they performed physical examinations with real patients in general practice situations. The transcriptions were analysed for linguistic functions to identify the use of different categories of utterances. RESULTS: Student utterances fell into four categories: minimising language; using positive evaluative language; repeating the patient; and stating intentions or explanations and requesting consent. Students would often preface an explanation or action by phrases showing 'togetherness', by using 'we' rather than 'you'. They also used linguistic 'hedges' to minimise the impact of an utterance. DISCUSSION: Senior medical students speak very little during the physical examination. When they do, they use a taxonomy of utterances that reflects those reported in doctor-patient interactions. Identifying how medical students communicate when carrying out the physical examination is the first step in planning how to best teach specific communication skills. Further work is needed to identify how best to explore communication during physical examination, and how this is taught and learned

Sites choisis : Ludger Gerdes, Cécile Le Prado, Joan Duran, Richard Nonas, Catherine Willis, Formalhaut = Chosen Sites : Ludger Gerdes, Cécile Le Prado, Joan Duran, Richard Nonas, Catherine Willis, Formalhaut

Presenting six outdoor site-specific works, the authors look at the city of Niort as social, historical, and mythical site and examine the relation of art and environment. Includes texts on each project. Biographical notes. 47 bibl. ref