King Fellow Address 2019

2019 King Fellow Address given by Robert Kugelmann titled Past and Future at the University of Dallas The Roadrunner, the Snake and the Treasure. Speech given on January 22, 2019.https://digitalcommons.udallas.edu/king_haggar_haggerty_docs/1005/thumbnail.jp

[Salud a la luz de una psicología de la salud crítica] Artículo en inglés

A critical health psychology requires theoretical reflection on its basic object, health. In this article, 1first of all consider health as understood by the phenomenological tradition. Health from this perspective is not an objective quality, but a way of living, of being-in-the-world. Contrasted with being-healthy is standardized health, that is, health defined medically and economically. Standardized health is an objectifiable quality. However, it is also the contemporary way of being healthy, so it is more than simply an objectification. Examined critically, standardized health has two major limitations, counterproductivity and a sacrifice of fantasies of wholeness. The paper concludes with recommendations for a critical health psychology: not to promote standardized health, and to concentrate on the ends or purposes of the pursuit of health.Una psicología crítica de la salud necesita una reflexión teórica acerca de su objeto básico, la salud. En este artículo, primero que todo se considera la salud como es entendida por la tradición fenomenológica. Desde esta perspectiva, la salud no es una cualidad objetiva, sino una forma de vivir, de ser en el mundo. En contraste, el estar saludable es una salud estandarizada, es decir, la salud definida económica y médicamente. La salud estandarizada es una cualidad objetificable. Sin embargo, también es la forma contemporánea de estar saludable, de modo que es más que una simple objetivización. Examinada críticamente, la salud estandarizada tiene dos limitaciones principales, la contraproductividad y un sacrificio de fantasías de totalidad. El artículo concluye con recomendaciones para una psicología crítica de la salud: no promocionar la salud estandarizada y concentrarse en los fines o propósitos de la búsqueda de la salud

Giving an Account of One’s Pain in the Anthropological Interview

In this paper, I analyze the illness stories narrated by a mother and her 13-year-old son as part of an ethnographic study of child chronic pain sufferers and their families. In examining some of the moral, relational and communicative challenges of giving an account of one’s pain, I focus on what is left out of some accounts of illness and suffering and explore some possible reasons for these elisions. Drawing on recent work by Judith Butler (Giving an Account of Oneself, 2005), I investigate how the pragmatic context of interviews can introduce a form of symbolic violence to narrative accounts. Specifically, I use the term “genre of complaint” to highlight how anthropological research interviews in biomedical settings invoke certain typified forms of suffering that call for the rectification of perceived injustices. Interview narratives articulated in the genre of complaint privilege specific types of pain and suffering and cast others into the background. Giving an account of one’s pain is thus a strategic and selective process, creating interruptions and silences as much as moments of clarity. Therefore, I argue that medical anthropologists ought to attend more closely to the institutional structures and relations that shape the production of illness narratives in interview encounters

Health in the light of a critical health psychology

A critical health psychology requires theoretical reflection on its basic object, health. In this article, I first of all consider health as understood by the phenomenological tradition. Health from this perspective is not an objective quality, but a way of living, of being-in-the-world. Contrasted with being-healthy is standardized health, that is, health defined medically and economically. Standardized health is an objectifiable quality. However, it is also the contemporary way of being healthy, so it is more than simply an objectification. Examined critically, standardized health has two major limitations, counterproductivity and a sacrifice of fantasies of wholeness. The paper concludes with recommendations for a critical health psychology: not to promote standardized health, and to concentrate on the ends or purposes of the pursuit of health

Health In The Light Of A Critical Health Psychology

Abstract A critical health psychology requires theoretical reflection on its basic object, health. In this article, 1first of all consider health as understood by the phenomenological tradition. Health from this perspective is not an objective quality, but a way of living, of being-in-the-world. Contrasted with being-healthy is standardized health, that is, health defined medically and economically. Standardized health is an objectifiable quality. However, it is also the contemporary way of being healthy, so it is more than simply an objectification. Examined critically, standardized health has two major limitations, counterproductivity and a sacrifice of fantasies of wholeness. The paper concludes with recommendations for a critical health psychology: not to promote standardized health, and to concentrate on the ends or purposes of the pursuit of health. Resumen Una psicología crítica de la salud necesita una reflexión teórica acerca de su objeto básico, la salud. En este artículo, primero que todo se considera la salud como es entendida por la tradición fenomenológica. Desde esta perspectiva, la salud no es una cualidad objetiva, sino una forma de vivir, de ser en el mundo. En contraste, el estar saludable es una salud estandarizada, es decir, la salud definida económica y médicamente. La salud estandarizada es una cualidad objetificable. Sin embargo, también es la forma contemporánea de estar saludable, de modo que es más que una simple objetivización. Examinada críticamente, la salud estandarizada tiene dos limitaciones principales, la contraproductividad y un sacrificio de fantasías de totalidad. El artículo concluye con recomendaciones para una psicología crítica de la salud: no promocionar la salud estandarizada y concentrarse en los fines o propósitos de la búsqueda de la salu

A Cost-Effectiveness Study Of The Two-Year Dental Hygiene Program At Fayetteville Technical Institute.

The purpose of this Major Applied Research Project was to determine the cost-effectiveness of the two-year Dental Hygiene Program at Fayetteville Technical Institute and to assess the employment opportunities for graduates of this program. Pressures have been mounting at the national, state, and institutional levels for administrators to justify their budget requests, particularly requests for health profession educational programs. This study of the cost - effectiveness of the Dental Hygiene Program addressed questions about program operations in quantitative terms using cost analysis. A cost-effectiveness study was conducted using data compiled on the operation of the Dental Hygiene Program for the years 1982 to 1986. The study conducted specifically on the flow and patterns of resource consumption and the services required by the program. This entailed a review of the costs of the program, and an investigation of possible alternatives to providing these services at Fayetteville Technical Institute. The methodology employed four major steps: Step one was the compilation of dollar inputs depicting them in a flow diagram (cost construction model). Step two consisted of the needs assessment which utilized the surveys of dentists in the local area, graduates of the Dental Hygiene Program, and students who are currently enrolled in the program. Step three utilized the cost-effectiveness analysis that considered all co piled data to draw conclusions and make recommendations to the administration about the costs and effects of the program. Step four detailed the conclusions about the dollar inputs, results of the program, and the requirements for the continuation of the program. From 1982 to 1986, a total of one hundred seventy two students, or an average of thirty-four students per year, have been enrolled in the Dental Hygiene Program. A total of seventy-eight students graduated during this period. The average number of faculty was 4.4. The results of this study will assist administrators in their decision making process by allowing them to examine and manipulate the relationship between the program elements of student enrollment, faculty involvement, class size, and basic program structure to obtain optimal educational experiences from available resources. Employment opportunities for graduates of the program were studied by surveying all sixty-two prospective employers in Cumberland County, the primary area serve by Fayetteville Technical Institute, and seventy-eight students who graduated during the past five years. Eighteen students who are currently enrolled in the Dental Hygiene Program were also surveyed to determine what factors influenced their enrollment decisions. The in-depth approach of this study, involving both the actual costs and outcome of the program, provided the information necessary for assessing program performance and management. Additionally, this study developed a model for administrators of the institution, as well as others, to use in future program and budget planning. The results of the study indicated that the Dental Hygiene Department meets, or exceeds, the requirements of the American Dental Association and the North Carolina Community College System. The revenues generated by the Dental Hygiene Department have never covered the costs of the program. The cost of the Dental Hygiene Program has risen over the past five years while enrollment has declined. The major portion of the program cost is faculty salaries. Rising costs for the department and the decline in the FTEs generated have created a situation that concerns the department chairman and the school administration. Although employment opportunities for dental hygienists in general are good, seventy percent of the graduates of Fayetteville Technical Institute are employed outside of the local service area. This situation, and the American Dental Association\u27s guidelines for student/teacher ratio of seven to one, makes it difficult to justify extensive recruiting efforts to increase student enrollment as a means to improve the financial picture for the department. In an effort to improve the coat-effectiveness of the Dental Hygiene Program, it recommended that the administration place the Dental Hygiene Department on a ten month program, eliminating the Summer Quarter. It was further recommended that the administration consider the feasibility of replacing, through attrition, part of the faculty with adjunct faculty. The Dental Hygiene Department should continue recruiting efforts at its current level. There should be further studies conducted in the following areas: Appropriateness of the American Dental Association student/teacher ratio, reasons for declining enrollments in this institute\u27s Dental Hygiene Program while other institutes in this state have had an increasing share of the total enrollment, and investigating the possibility of offsetting the coat of the program by crediting the Dental Hygiene Department with funds received for services rendered

The Sound of a Small Whisper: Ordinary Religious Experience

An ordinary religious experience does not entail an overwhelming sense of the Divine; it is not a “numinous” experience. It is instead easily ignored. In a phenomenological psychological inquiry into such a religious experience, both the noema, the “what” experienced, and the noesis, the mode of givenness of the experience, manifested themselves in distinctive ways. The paper examines a simple experience of having been guided in making a decision. The guidance was recognized only at the moment of realization. The realization revealed the decision to have been part of a larger drama that transcended the immediate experience. The “world” of this moment of realization included sensing that the sky above-as an “elemental”-was a dome, with allusions to the Noah story. Even at the time, this perception was not experienced as literal, but as symbolic. The social, historical, and theological contexts for the possibility of this experience receive attention. Theological as well as psychological reflection indicate such an experience continues to happen, in memory and thought, and even in action, long after the initial moment. Essential to the meaning of the experience is an admonition to transcend egocentricity