Det er Hellas og Israel som Evropa skylder sin kultur - Georg Brandes og hans Athen kontra Jerusalem-fortolkninger

The Danish-Jewish fin-de-siecle intellectual Georg Brandes (1842-1927) and his writings represent a distinctive archive in the intellectual history of the Athens vs. Jerusalem dichotomy. Thus, in his later writings, Brandes engaged in re-shaping the dichotomy so that Jerusalem denoted an indispensable part of Western civilization. At the same time, while Brandes accentuated the Jewish contributions to European civilization, he also emphasized that the relation between Athens and Jerusalem was juxtaposed. As he writes in Jobs Bog (The Book of Job) (1893), “It is Hellas and Israel to which Europe owes its culture.” By juxtaposing Athens and Jerusalem, Brandes goes against the typical representations of how the ancient Jewish civilization and the ancient Greek culture have influenced Western civilization and Christianity. Hence, since the Enlightenment period, central European thinkers and writers such as Immanuel Kant, G.W.F. Hegel and later Friedrich Nietzsche had in their depictions of the dichotomy portrayed the role of ancient Jewish civilization and religion as a “false start” for European civilization. In this article, I suggest that Brandes’ re-interpretations of the dichotomy particularly must be viewed as part of his reactions to the rise of modern anti-Semitism and nationalism since, during his later writings, Brandes experienced how the Athens vs. Jerusalem dichotomy was re-vitalized in the merging with racially focused anti-Semitism, also in a Danish cultural context

Open your city:best practices in Nederland en het Verenigd Koninkrijk

Rapport, tot stand gekomen naar aanleiding van een projectopdracht tijdens de specialisatie ‘Information and Innovation’. De specialisatie richt zich op het onderwerp open data.Het onderzoek is gedaan in opdracht van de Gemeente Groningen, met als hoofdvraag: hoe kan de gemeente Groningen leren van de beste praktijkvoorbeelden, met betrekking tot open date, van andere gemeenten? This (research) activity is a pilot of Opening Up and has been co-funded by the Interreg IVB North Sea Region Programme

Lykke Per som Velfærdsroman: Jakobe Salomons Asyl som Forventningshorisont for den Nordiske Velfærdsstat

AbstractThis article examines how Lykke-Per discusses the major social changes of this period in a Danish national context through the concepts of “welfare morality,” “welfare” and the synonymous term of happiness (lykke). The book’s two main characters, Per and Jakobe, are seen as exponents of two different understandings of welfare/happiness. Per’s introverted, ascetic preoccupation with finding his own identity and individual happiness, which is in many ways similar to the pietism from which he has been raised, is contrasted with Jakobe’s modern Jewish secular-oriented social engagement. The romance between the two main characters of the novel is seen in the light of Reading for Democracy scholarly research of recent years by which 19th century and early 20th century realist novels are viewed as “democratic imaginations” and horizons of expectation upon which the later Western democratic welfare societies have been built. Søren Blak Hjortshøj interprets the ideas behind Jakobe’s utopian asylum/orphanage for poor children that Jakobe sets up at the end of the novel as an early manifestation of welfare Pontoppidaniana nr. 1/2023 Søren Blak Hjortshøj · Lykke Per som Velfærdsroman ideas that only became reality much later in a Scandinavian context. Also, the article will argues that Jakobe’s microcosmos of the later Nordic welfare state is born out of contemporary debates on Velfærdsmorale which particularly were sparked and initiated by the founder of the Modern Breakthrough Movement, the Danish-Jewish intellectual Georg Brandes

Uptake of childhood influenza vaccine from 2012–2013 to 2014–2015 in the UK and the implications for high-risk children:a retrospective observational cohort study

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate changes in influenza vaccination rates in healthy and at-risk children following the implementation of the UK's childhood influenza immunisation programme. DESIGN: Observational cohort study before and after initiation of the UK's childhood influenza immunisation programme over three influenza seasons (2012–2013, 2013–2014 and 2014–2015) using data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD). SETTING: More than 500 primary care practices in the UK. POPULATION: All individuals aged 2–17 years on 1 September, with at least 12 months of medical history documented in CPRD were retained in the analysis. INTERVENTION: Starting in 2013–2014, all children aged 2 and 3 years were offered influenza vaccination through general practice, and primary school-aged children were offered influenza vaccination in selected counties in England (described as pilot regions). The vaccination programme was extended to all children aged 4 years in England in 2014–2015. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Cumulative vaccination rate from 1 September to 28 February of the next calendar year as assessed by a time-to-event statistical model (vaccination uptake). Age group, sex, region and type of high-risk medical condition were assessed as predictors. RESULTS: Vaccination uptake increased considerably from 2012–2013 to 2013–2014 in targeted children aged 2–3 years, both in children with a high-risk medical condition (from 40.7% to 61.1%) and those without (from 1.0% to 43.0%). Vaccination rates increased also, though less markedly, in older children. In 2014–2015, vaccination rates remained higher than 40% in healthy children aged 2–3 years, although they decreased slightly from 2013–2014 (from 43.0% to 41.8%). Vaccination rates in older healthy children continued to increase, driven primarily by an increase in children aged 4 years to 31.3% in 2014–2015. CONCLUSIONS: The introduction of a universal childhood vaccination policy in the UK increased vaccination rates for targeted children, including those with high-risk conditions

Corneal epithelial ingrowth after perforating corneal injury: a case report

Background Epithelial ingrowth is a rare complication after ocular perforation and can become manifest many years after the primary trauma. Case presentation A 49-year-old patient presented with a positive Seidel test of unclear origin at her left eye, as well as a sharply defned anterior-stromal corneal scar at both eyes. Prior operations included a bilateral laser-assisted blepharoplasty 3 months earlier. The patient indicated to have been on holiday to France 5 months earlier, during an ongoing oak processionary moth caterpillars infestation. The examination using confocal microscopy confrmed a corneal perforation at the left eye and revealed corneal epithelial ingrowth capped with scarred stroma in both eyes. We performed a penetrating keratoplasty at the left eye. The scarred and perforated host cornea was divided into 4 pieces for further investigation: microbiology (negative), virology (negative), histology and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Histology revealed diferently structured epithelium, centrally inverted into the stroma through defects in Bowman’s layer. TEM revealed full thickness corneal perforation with an epithelial plug extending to the lower third of the cornea, but without evidence of epithelial cell migration into the anterior chamber. Our diferential diagnosis of the unclear positive Seidel test with epithelial ingrowth was as follows: (1) corneal perfo‑ ration by hairs of the oak processionary moth caterpillar, although no hairs could be found histologically; (2) corneal perforation during laser-assisted blepharoplasty, which may be supported by the presence of pigmented cells on the posterior surface of Descemet´s membrane, pointing to a possible iris injury. Conclusion Consequently, we highlighted that contact lenses can be useful, safe and inexpensive protective devices in upper eyelid procedures to protect the cornea against mechanical iatrogenic trauma

Optimal SBP targets in routine clinical care

Objective: Compare outcomes of intensive treatment of SBP to less than 120 mmHg versus standard treatment to less than 140 mmHg in the US clinical Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) with similar hypertensive patients managed in routine primary care in the United Kingdom. Methods: Hypertensive patients aged 50–90 without diabetes or chronic kidney disease (CKD) were selected in SPRINT and The Health Improvement Network (THIN) database. Patients were enrolled in 2010–2013 and followed-up to 2015 (SPRINT N = 4112; THIN N = 8631). Cox's proportional hazards regressions were fitted to estimate the hazard of all-cause mortality or CKD (main adverse effect) associated with intensive treatment, adjusted for sex, age, ethnicity, smoking, blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, aspirin, statin, number of antihypertensive drugs at baseline, change in number of antihypertensive drugs at trial entry, and clinical site. Results: Almost half of the patients had intensive treatment (43–45%). In SPRINT, intensive treatment was associated with a decreased hazard of mortality of 0.63 (0.43–0.92), while in THIN with an increased hazard of 1.66 (1.28–2.15). In THIN, this effect was time-dependent. Intensive treatment was associated with an increased hazard of CKD of 2.67 (1.74–4.11) in SPRINT and 1.35 (1.08–1.70) in THIN. In THIN, this effect differed by the number of antihypertensive drugs prescribed at baseline. Conclusion: It appears that intensive treatment of SBP may be harmful in the general population where all have access to routine healthcare as with the UK National Health Services, but could be beneficial in high-risk patients who are closely monitored

En sekulær munk

Den vækst Greta Thunberg bekender sig til er en moralsk vækst og målet er jordens velfærd. Det er derfor ikke tilfældigt, at hendes aktivisme er tæt knyttet til en skandinavisk tradition for progressiv politik med dybe rødder i protestantisk etik