Beyond Tourismphobia: Conceptualizing a New Framework to Analyze Attitudes Towards Tourism

This chapter discusses the factors that have led to the emergence of expressions of criticism toward tourism. This review serves to frame the original contribution of this text: a theoretical model that clarifies the defining features of the main attitudes towards tourism. Merton's model is here adjusted for the analysis of a new relationship between social ends and economic means. In this case, the end is economic progress. The way is the tourism, conceived as a massive social phenomenon. The relation between goals and means generates tensions. Its management derives in strategies of adaptation that include different ways of identification or discussion. The five types of adaptation of the new model are useful for addressing subject positions, political discourses, or attitudinal dispositions towards tourism. To illustrate this typology a purposive sampling of news on the tourismphobia has been selected, with no statistical generalization reflecting the constituent elements of each of the types: legitimization, innovative criticism, resignation, radical criticism, and subversive utopia

Central core disease (CCD): Improving the screening for mutations in RYR1 gene

Univ São Paulo, Biosci Inst, Human Genome Res Ctr, Lab Muscle Prot & Comparat Histopathol, São Paulo, BrazilFed Univ São Paulo Unifesp, Dept Anestesiol, Div Malignant Hyperthermia, São Paulo, BrazilUniv Fed Minas Gerais, Dept Pediat, Pediat Neurol Serv, Belo Horizonte, MG, BrazilFed Univ São Paulo Unifesp, Dept Neurol & Neurosurg, Div Neuromuscular Disorders, São Paulo, BrazilFed Univ São Paulo Unifesp, Dept Anestesiol, Div Malignant Hyperthermia, São Paulo, BrazilFed Univ São Paulo Unifesp, Dept Neurol & Neurosurg, Div Neuromuscular Disorders, São Paulo, BrazilWeb of Scienc

Healthcare providers in the English National Health Service: public, private or hybrids?

In recent years it has been noted that boundaries between public and private providers of many types of welfare have become blurred. This paper uses three dimensions of publicness to analyse this blurring of boundaries in relation to providers of healthcare in England. The authors find that, although most care is still funded and provided by the state, there are significant additional factors in respect of ownership and social control which indicate that many English healthcare providers are better understood as hybrids. Furthermore, the authors raise concerns about the possible deleterious effects of diminishing aspects of publicness on English healthcare. The most important of these is a decrease in accountabilit

Management of tacit knowledge and the issue of empowerment of patients and stakeholders in the health care sector

There is a growing literature on health and health care dedicated to empowerment of patients; but there is still a gap in the literature to conceptualize knowledge, to extend the discussion of the empowerment of the patients to the stakeholders. The discussion is at the level of managerial processes of empowerment and knowledge management related to health care. The present chapter starts with a review on empowerment, especially focused on the health sector. The following sections will develop a critical analysis of empowerment, mainly around the concept of tacit knowledge (Polanyi) and knowledge management. One key variable is the proximity of the actors involved in the empowerment process. This key variable is very much related to the tacitness issue of knowledge production and flows. The chapter extends the discussion of the empowerment of the patients to that of the stakeholders and the general debate about health literacy. A model is briefly described for the purpose of illustrating the learning process in a knowledge management implemented in health care.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio