Quality of life returns from basic research

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Assessing the consequences of research is an increasingly important task in research and innovation policy. This paper takes a broader view of those consequences than the conventional economic approach, placing researchers and their activities in the centre of the assessment process and examining results for professional practice and general education as well as contributions to knowledge.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>The paper uses historical and documentary analysis to illustrate the approach, focusing on U.S. biomedicine over the past century. At aggregate level, the analysis attributes portions of the change in aggregate health indicators to research and research-based institutions, through several available types of logic: either through correlations between timing of institutional changes and changes in the indicators or through direct or indirect causal connections.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The analysis shows that while biomedical research has certainly contributed to improved health in the United States, other factors have also contributed. In some ways the institutional structure of science-based medicine has worked against creating benefits for some groups in U.S. society.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>The paper concludes with a call for more strategic attention to dimensions of impact other than knowledge outcomes and for participatory planning for research.</p

Reflections on the 'History and Historians' of the black woman's role in the community of slaves: enslaved women and intimate partner sexual violence

Taking as points of inspiration Peter Parish’s 1989 book, Slavery: History and Historians, and Angela Davis’s seminal 1971 article, “Reflections on the black woman’s role in the community of slaves,” this probes both historiographically and methodologically some of the challenges faced by historians writing about the lives of enslaved women through a case study of intimate partner violence among enslaved people in the antebellum South. Because rape and sexual assault have been defined in the past as non-consensual sexual acts supported by surviving legal evidence (generally testimony from court trials), it is hard for historians to research rape and sexual violence under slavery (especially marital rape) as there was no legal standing for the rape of enslaved women or the rape of any woman within marriage. This article suggests enslaved women recognized that black men could both be perpetrators of sexual violence and simultaneously be victims of the system of slavery. It also argues women stoically tolerated being forced into intimate relationships, sometimes even staying with “husbands” imposed upon them after emancipation

I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS

105 page;13 x 20 c

Sterling Houston Papers

Letter from Maya Angelou to Sterling Houston, a prominent Texan playwright. She sends her praise for the Modernization of Sainthood, a stage play by Houston, and wishes him the best in his professional career

The New American Gazette: Maya Angelou receives the Ford Hall Forum\u27s First Amendment Award, audio recording

Charismatic writer, poet and lecturer Maya Angelou addresses the value of the First Amendment with story, song and spirit. The best-selling author of I Know why the Caged Bird Sings reflects on the responsibility to speak for freedom\u27s sake, in this rebroadcast from the Ford Hall Forum archives.https://dc.suffolk.edu/fhf-av/1010/thumbnail.jp

Sterling Houston Papers

Card from Maya Angelou to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. The hand-written message is written fondly towards Houston, his talent, and his family

Sterling Houston Papers

Letter from Maya Angelou to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. She writes from her teaching position at Wake Forest University to send her thanks and well wishes to Houston's work. Personal matters are also briefly discussed

I Know why the caged bird sings/ Angelou

281 hal.; 20 cm

Autographed Copy of "A Brave and Startling Truth"

A copy of American poet and author Maya Angelou's poem 000 - A Brave and Startling Truth,;" which was originally written and delivered in honor of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations in 1999. Angelou read and signed the poem during the 2007 Rollins Curriculum Colloquy on Monday, March 26. Autograph reads: Rollins students, Friends, Faculty & Parents, Joy! 3/2007, Maya Angelou