PrEP: Establishing a Rural Clinic

Dr. Elam will recount first hand experiences, challenges, and successes with starting a PrEP clinic

Monitoring and the Risk Governance of Repository Development and Staged Closure:Exploratory Engagement Activity in Three European Countries.

This report is the product of research activity within the EC Seventh Framework Programme “Monitoring Developments for Safe Repository Operation and Staged Closure” (MoDeRn) Project. This project aims to further develop understanding of the role of monitoring in staged implementation of geological disposal to a level of description that is closer to the actual implementation of monitoring. It focuses on monitoring conducted to confirm the basis of the long term safety case and on monitoring conducted to inform on options available to manage the stepwise disposal process from construction to closure (including e.g. the option of waste retrieval). This report investigates the potential of citizen stakeholder engagement in the identification of monitoring objectives and the development of monitoring strategies for geological disposal of high level waste (HLW) or spent nuclear fuel (SNF). It builds on an earlier MoDeRn report describing monitoring the safe disposal of radioactive waste as a socio-technical activity (Bergmans, Elam, Simmons and Sundqvist 2012)

The Best Therapist Has Fur and Four Legs

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Introduction: Shakespeare's public spheres

Habermas’ sense of a “cultural Public Sphere” is a notoriously complex term and, when applied to Early Modern cultures, needs careful definition. This essay both introduces the variety of methods by which we might approach playtexts with a view to their public – auditory – impact and contributes to a debate about an audience's understanding of Shakespeare's plays. By selecting two words and their spread of use in one play, Twelfth Night, we might appreciate the potential for meaningful ambiguity latent in how we hear the language of live performance. If we search for how certain terms (in this case, the cluster of semes derived from repetitions of “fancy” and “play”), we might find at times incompatible senses, yet we get near to appreciating the range of Early Modern dramatic language

Potential for non-combustible nicotine products to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in smoking: a systematic review and synthesis of best available evidence

While some experts have emphasised the potential for e-cigarettes to facilitate cessation among smokers with low socioeconomic status (SES), there is limited evidence of their likely equity impact. We assessed the potential for electronic cigarettes and other non-combustible nicotine-containing products (NCNPs) to reduce inequalities in smoking by systematically reviewing evidence on their use by SES in countries at stage IV of the cigarette epidemic

From the birth of the smokers’ clinic to the invention of Nicorette: Problematizing smoking as addiction in Sweden 1955–1971

AIM - To discuss how scientific confirmation of cigarette smoking as a major contemporary drug problem during the 1980s was preceded by a rising tide of clinical and pharmaceutical innovation dedicated to treating smoking as a problem of addiction. BACKGROUND - This current of innovation, commencing already in the 1950s, carried the smokers’ clinic and nicotine replacement therapies (NRTs) into the world, both of which were originally invented and pioneered in Sweden. It is argued that both of these inventions were vital for advancing the problematization of smoking as a matter of nicotine addiction. While the British doctor Lennox Johnston is well-known for his early attempts to demonstrate the reality of smoking as nicotine addiction through auto-experimentation, the historical significance of Börje Ejrup’s founding of the first smokers’ clinics in Stockholm in the late 1950s has not been widely commented upon. Attempting to remedy this situation, the rise and fall of Ejrup’s clinics deploying lobeline substitution therapy as a cure for ‘nicotinism’ is outlined in the main body of the paper. FINDINGS - Although the clinical treatment of smoking as addiction lost momentum during the 1960s, the invention of Nicorette gum in southern Sweden at the end of the decade provided renewed impetus. Commencing in Helsingborg and Lund in 1970, the smokers’ clinic and NRTs entered into the long-term service of each other; a new combination that in just over a decade would succeed in propagating the reality of smoking as nicotine addiction on to a global stage

Trois interprétations du post-fordisme : la technologie, le marché et les institutions

Ce texte tente de démêler l’écheveau que constitue le débat sur le post-fordisme, un débat qui s’inscrit dans un questionnement plus large sur l’avenir du capitalisme et qui resurgit de manière particulièrement virulente dans les périodes de Crise et de transition. Trois perspectives d’analyse du post-fordisme sont identifiées et analysées ici, chacune rattachée à une tradition précise de l’économie politique classique et, de fait, insistant sur différentes forces guides du capitalisme. Ces trois interprétations de la présente phase du capitalisme manifestent le désaccord sur la signification du post-fordisme : s’agit-il d’un dépassement du fordisme ou renvoie-t-il à la formation d’initiatives stratégiques et à un tournant historique?This paper is an attempt to unravel the post-Fordist debate. This recurrent debate about the future of capitalism intensities during periods of crisis and transition. Three different perspectives on post-Fordism are identified and explored, each one evolving out of a particular tradition within classical political economy and stressing different driving forces in the historical development of capitalism. An underlying theme within the paper is the existence of significantly contrasting views about the openness of the new phase of capitalist development: disagreement over whether post-Fordism is primarily about the inevitable diffusion of a new and pervasive disciplining of labour or the formation of strategic initiatives and the making of history.Este texto se propone desentrañar la trama del debate sobre el posfordismo, debate que se inscribe dentro de una polémica más amplia acerca del futuro del capitalismo. Dicha polémica emerge con particular encono durante los períodos de crisis y de transición. Son analizadas tres visiones del posfordismo: cada una de ellas, alimentándose de una determinada tradición de la economía política clásica, enfatiza fuerzas motrices diferentes en el desarrollo histórico del capitalismo. La fase actual del desarrollo capitalista da lugar a interpretaciones muy distintas. En efecto, no existe un acuerdo sobre el significado del posfordismo. ¿Se trata acaso de una superación del fordismo o bien significa la formación de iniciativas estratégicas y de un viraje histórico