Metaphors of Health and Disease in Nazi Film Propaganda

Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/1608 on 27.03.2017 by CS (TIS)This study examines how propaganda imagery was used to reveal metaphors of health and disease in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. Specifically, it explores how German medical and political authorities of this period entrenched biological explanations for social ills through medico-political discourses of disease, criminality and deviancy, in their efforts to exterminate particular populations. This propaganda was conversed with the idealised and beautified German Volk who, in turn, were graphically elevated to the realms of a supreme master race. I use a methodology composed of compositional and discourse analysis, and a theoretical framework that develops the work of Erving Goffman. These frameworks were applied to a range of images from a sample of propagandist movies, published within the time-frame, in order to illuminate how the German medical establishment sought to realise the juxtaposition of both promoting life and administering death. Findings suggest that the biological categorising and subjective measuring of individuals was a modernistic philosophy. Extensive use of metaphors resulted in a widening range of stigmas which needed medical intervention to maintain normality and social order whilst purifying and cleansing the body politic. The study advances the understanding of the relationship between the discourses of health and disease with an in-depth sociopolitical study of imagery, asking why it was used to legitimate and nationalise social inequality in the context of Nazi Germany. It further offers a new socio-filmic model for future use when analysing moving imagery in the sociohistorical field. These two advances therefore provide novel contributions to the sociology of public health and social methods

Patient involvement in healthcare projects: A mixed method study on the perspectives of project staff in Western Australian (WA) public hospitals and health services

Background: the benefits of patient involvement in clinical care and research is well described in the literature; but there is little evidence to suggest that involving patients in the planning and delivery of healthcare projects is beneficial to the outcomes of the project. Purpose: this study explores the perspectives of staff who were specifically employed to lead and manage healthcare projects in Western Australian (WA) public hospitals and health services, regarding patient involvement in their projects and the perceived benefits and barriers of this involvement. Study design: the study was designed using a sequential mixed method approach in three phases : Phase 1 was the quantitative phase which comprised a survey ; Phase 2 was the qualitative phase using a semi-structured focus group; and Phase 3 was the data synthesis phase where data from previous phases were reviewed and analysed to check for convergence or divergence. Methods: an internet-based questionnaire was distributed via email to project staff working in five public health services in Western Australia (n=100). Themes were generated which formed the questions for the focus group discussion (n=10). Results: Thirty project staff participated in the questionnaire (n=30) and four project staff attended the focus group (n=4). Project staff perceived that patients do add value to healthcare projects; although, the findings indicate that they were not involving patients in all projects and there is no guiding framework for practice. The level of the project staff in the organisation, based on position title, had an association as to whether they involved patient in their projects or not (n=27; p=0.046) ; and consequently the number of patients that were involved (n=18; p=0.035)

Gravity wave spectra morphology in the Arctic and non-Arctic lower atmosphere

The spectral analysis of data from three VHF radars (one high-Arctic and two mid-latitudes) show support for the universal spectrum theory for gravity waves in the lower atmosphere (altitudes of 2.0-11.0 km), provided that the impact of the off-vertical beam and noise are taken into consideration. This analysis also reveals that local gravity wave generation is of secondary importance, but still significant for determining the spectra. A total of eight spectral methods were considered and scrutinized for the purposes of determining gravity wave spectra from VHF radar data. A definition for the “best” method was given and examined. The method selected as the “best” for the analysis presented was a date-compensated discrete Fourier transform with a Hamming window

A New Alliance for Service Learning and Community Engagement To Cultivate Citizens with an Ecocentric Vision of Justice

As instructors at [University], a core conviction informs the service learning and community engagement (SLCE) courses we have designed: we cannot have thriving human communities, robust democratic citizenship, and authentic community/civic engagement when the ecological systems upon which all life depends, now and in the future, are ignored and ruined. Institutions of higher education need to use sustainability as an organizing tenet for SLCE and to achieve this, intentional collaboration must be made between SLCE and a sister discipline: sustainability in higher education (SHE). This article presents prototypes for SLCE-SHE partnerships. The preliminary qualitative data from these SLCE courses at [University] shows that strategic SLCE-SHE alliances cultivate the attitudes, goals, and learning outcomes sought by both disciplines in creative and perhaps, more adequate ways. When SLCE seriously attends to ecological sustainability -- when it becomes intentionally ecocentric -- place-engaged, ecologically literate, planetary citizens who value eco-social justice can be cultivated

Defining the Role of the Pharmacy Technician and Identifying Their Future Role in Medicines Optimisation

Background: Traditionally, pharmacy technicians have worked alongside pharmacists in community and hospital pharmacy. Changes within pharmacy provide opportunity for role expansion and with no apparent career pathway, there is a need to define the current pharmacy technician role and role in medicines optimisation. Aim: To capture the current roles of pharmacy technicians and identify how their future role will contribute to medicines optimisation. Methods: Following ethical approval and piloting, an online survey to ascertain pharmacy technicians’ views about their roles was undertaken. Recruitment took place in collaboration with the Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK. Data were exported to SPSS, data screened and descriptive statistics produced. Free text responses were analysed and tasks collated into categories reflecting the type of work involved in each task. Results: Responses received were 393 (28%, n = 1380). Results were organised into five groups: i.e., hospital, community, primary care, General Practitioner (GP) practice and other (which included HM Prison Service). Thirty tasks were reported as commonly undertaken in three or more settings and 206 (84.7%, n = 243) pharmacy technicians reported they would like to expand their role. Conclusions: Tasks core to hospital and community pharmacy should be considered for inclusion to initial education standards to reflect current practice. Post qualification, pharmacy technicians indicate a significant desire to expand clinically and managerially allowing pharmacists more time in patient-facing/clinical roles

Prospectus, September 10, 1986

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MRC Population Data Archiving and Access Project

There are several important motivations for preserving research data: scientific, historical, economic, and legal. There is also significant demand for the re-use of population-based data in the medical research area, as usage of medical/health studies at the UK Data Archive (UKDA) show. This project investigated opportunities and barriers for the MRC in developing data archiving and access policy. Through case studies and interviews it sought to gain a better understanding of the range and variation of current MRC-funded data creation activities, the existing data management infrastructure and practice in MRC-funded contexts, and the views and opinions of those likely to be most affected by the establishment of such a policy

Through the Utopian Lens of Opportunity: Using fiction and theatre to reimagine the post-COVID-19 future

First paragraph: Can we imagine a future for older age that is based on desires, not simply practical needs? In Reimagining the Future in Older Age, we aim to draw on Ruth Levitas’ utopia as method theory to critique dominant, exclusionary narratives around ageing and explore the potential to create new ones. A utopian method “facilitates genuinely holistic thinking about possible futures, combined with the principles and practices of those futures. And it requires us to think about our conceptions of human needs and human flourishing in those possible futures. The core of utopia is the desire for being otherwise, individually and collectively, subjectively and objectively. Its expressions explore and bring to debate the potential contents and contexts of human flourishing.” (Levitas, 2013, p. xi)