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    The city of evil and the great outdoors: The modern health movement and the urban young, 1918-40

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    Professionals and volunteers in inter-war England and France advanced a 'modern' health movement, placing particular emphasis on children's physical condition. The use of the urban clinic in this process has been considered. However, the mass relocation of young people to the countryside and attempts to generate intra-urban spaces of 'nature' for the young were also integral to this movement. Surprisingly, the pioneers of modern urban healthcare supported a 'return to nature' by mobilizing anti-urban and pro-rural discourse. Comparing Nottingham and Saint-Etienne, this article addresses the politics that produced this paradox.published_or_final_versio

    Establishing New Legal Doctrine in Managed Care: A Model of Judicial Response to Industrial Change

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    Courts are struggling with how to develop legal doctrine in challenges to the new managed care environment. In this Article, we examine how courts have responded in the past to new industries or radical transformations of existing industries. We analyze two historical antecedents, the emergence of railroads in the nineteenth century and mass production in the twentieth century, to explore how courts might react to the current transformation of the health care industry. In doing so, we offer a model of how courts confront issues of developing legal doctrine, especially regarding liability, associated with nascent or dramatically transformed industries. Our model of doctrinal change includes five steps. The first step is the emergence of a nascent or transformed industry. In the second step, courts attempt to apply old doctrine to the nascent industry, resulting in a doctrinal mismatch with the realities of the new industry. When faced with this dilemma, the third step is that courts tend-implicitly or explicitly-to establish new legal doctrine that favors the industry. Then, in the fourth step, a backlash against the industry sets in while courts reassess rules favoring the industry. The last step is the emergence of a new doctrinal method of holding the nascent industry more fully accountable for its operations. After setting forth the model and its limitations, we discuss the implications for how courts have responded to the advent of managed care. Our historical analysis suggests that courts are reluctant to interfere with emerging market arrangements, such as managed care\u27s cost containment practices. Eventually, courts tend to find new ways to achieve greater accountability, largely arising from tort law concepts

    Exploring efficacy in personal constraint negotiation: an ethnography of mountaineering tourists

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    Limited work has explored the relationship between efficacy and personal constraint negotiation for adventure tourists, yet efficacy is pivotal to successful activity participation as it influences people’s perceived ability to cope with constraints, and their decision to use negotiation strategies. This paper explores these themes with participants of a commercially organised mountaineering expedition. Phenomenology-based ethnography was adopted to appreciate the social and cultural mountaineering setting from an emic perspective. Ethnography is already being used to understand adventure participation, yet there is considerable scope to employ it further through researchers immersing themselves into the experience. The findings capture the interaction between the ethnographer and the group members, and provide an embodied account using their lived experiences. Findings reveal that personal mountaineering skills, personal fitness, altitude sickness and fatigue were the four key types of personal constraint. Self-efficacy, negotiation-efficacy and other factors, such as hardiness and motivation, influenced the effectiveness of negotiation strategies. Training, rest days, personal health, and positive self-talk were negotiation strategies. A conceptual model illustrates these results and demonstrates the interplay between efficacy and the personal constraint negotiation journey for led mountaineers

    The Art and Science of Immunosuppression: The Fifth Annual American Society of Transplant Surgeon's State-of-the-Art Winter Symposium

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    Survival Benefit-Based Deceased-Donor Liver Allocation

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    Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/74806/1/j.1600-6143.2009.02571.x.pd
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