From Infanticide to Activism: The Transformation of Emotions and Identity in Self-Help Movements

Taylor and Leitz trace processes of collective identity construction and politicization among women suffering from postpartum psychiatric illness who have been convicted of infanticide. Joining a growing body of research suggesting that self‐help and consumer health movements can be a significant force for change in both the cultural and political arenas, Taylor and Lietz examine one such movement, a pen‐pal network of women incarcerated for committing infanticide. Taylor and Leitz show how a sense of collective identity fostered by the pen‐pal network triggered a profound emotional transformation in participants, allowing them to convert shame and loneliness into pride and solidarity, and encouraging their participation in efforts to change how the medical and legal system treat postpartum psychiatric illness.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/peace_books/1000/thumbnail.jp

Interaction, Emotion, and Collective Identities

[Excerpt] This chapter poses the question: How do emotional aspects of social interaction affect the emergence and salience of collective identities? I assume that social interaction inherently involves an implicit or explicit joint task—namely to accomplish some result that can only be produced with others. The most fundamental “task” of social interaction can be construed as the coordination and alignment of behavior, such that actors successfully conclude the interact ion episode. Essential to this task is a working consensus about definitions of self and other in the social situation, i.e., consensual self-other identities. A central component of my argument is that social interaction has emotional effects that vary with the success of actors at accomplishing this fundamental task. This paper theorizes the conditions under which emotional effects of social interaction promote collective identities that bridge or transcend self-other role identities

Hospital Emergency Facilities in a Disaster: An Analysis of Organizational Adaptation to Stress

Voluntary general hospitals may be viewed as emergency organizations in that the emergency treatment of the sick and injured is a part of their normal operations. The typical emergency patient most often becomes an input into the organization through the emergency facility of the hospital (Stallings, 1970). While under ordinary conditions an emergency case can be handled rather routinely in the emergency facility of the hospital, during crisis or large-scale disaster situations, the ongoing capability of the organization is likely to be inadequate to meet the sudden increase in demands it must now confront. When this situation occurs, the organization can be though of as experiencing stressCenter for Studies of Mental Health and Social Problems, Applied Research Branch, National Institute of Mental Health

EMS Delivery in Disasters

The Disaster Research Center (DRC) at The Ohio State University is conducting a systematic and comparative study of the delivery of emergency medical services (EMS) in large-scale and relatively sudden mass casualty producing situations in the United States. The objective of the research is to establish the nature and parameters of the conditions for, characteristics of, and consequences from the efforts to provide EMS in turbulent social environments such as natural and technological disasters and other catastrophic crisis situations with many victims. The core of the study involved intensive and extensive field work on community health care delivery systems in localities involved in disasters and similar events, as well as on systems likely to have to handle or at least to have to prepare to handle high potential mass casualty events

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Delivery of Emergency Medical Services In Disaster

In 1975, DRC was funded by the Health Resources Administration to undertake the first major, systematic and comparative study on the delivery of EMS in disasters. In the pages that follow, we summarize the resulting 28- month study. In the first chapter, we present background on the historical development of EMS in this country and indicate the current status of disaster EMS as mandated by federal legislation. In Chapter II, we examine prior research on the delivery of EMS in mass emergencies and set forth our three major research objectives, namely to come up with a description and analysis of the characteristics of, conditions for, and consequences of the delivery of EDIS in disasters. Chapter III details the theoretical and conceptual framework that guided our research. In the next chapter, we outline the study design and analysis, indicating our field work and how we went about analyzing the data. Three following chapters are devoted to an exposition of our major findings as to the characteristics of, conditions for and consequences from providing EMS in mass casualty-producing situations. Implications of the empirical findings and the limitations of the study are discussed in Chapter IX. The concluding chapter provides a series of recommendations emanating from our work for disaster EMS policy, planning, practice and research implementation. The appendices include copies of major field instruments used, the data coding scheme employed in some of the quantitative analyses, and lists of other writings and reports resulting from our study.Public Health Service Grant R0101781-01 and 02 from the National Center for Health Service Research, Health Resources Administration, Department of Health, Education and Welfare. December 197

EMS Delivery In Disasters: Preliminary Findings

The Disaster Research Center (DRC), founded in 1963 at the Ohio State University, has been concerned throughout its history with conducting sociological research studies on the response of groups and organizations to commnunity-wide emergencies, especially natural disasters. Well over three hundred field studies have been conducted by DRC personnel in the United States and other countries. In addition to studying organizational behavior during and after disasters, DRC has been interested in learning about organizational planning for community-wide emergencies. The research has also attempted to assess both the short-term consequences of natural disasters for various aspects of community life.Health Resources Administratio