Practical measures for keeping health information private

Increasingly large amounts of personal information are being captured and stored within healthcare systems; and these data are being shared increasingly widely, and aggregated into ever larger data warehouses. There are good and proper reasons for doing this and the end result will bring benefits to physicians, patients and the community. However there are also demands for health information, for unethical and illegal purposes, and the evidence indicates that there is a ready supply line for it; on the other hand there may be little need to use that supply line when such vast quantities of personalised health information are regularly being lost or otherwise disclosed by government and private sector organisations. This article takes a careful look at information privacy to determine where and how personal information is being abused and disclosed, and how to prevent this. Some of the disclosures are simply a consequence of laziness and carelessness; others are calculating and deliberate; but they can all be controlled and in some cases eliminated by applying well-established methods and technology. The problem seems to be that institutions either do not understand what is required of them, or do not care enough to implement the appropriate measures. It seems also that systems are not being planned with privacy in mind, and consequently are not readily able to accommodate these demands

The Pull to fusion: an exploration of observed links between autism and hoarding

This study is a contribution to using a psychoanalytic understanding to elucidate hoarding behaviours. My thesis explores whether ideas relevant to autism can be used to explain extreme hoarding. The existing psychoanalytic understandings of the autistic manoeuvres are applied to data from a TV program on hoarding. This thesis has mainly used Tustin’s approach to autism based on Kleinian theories of primary envy, of the infant’s most primitive anxieties and of the symbolisation process. It is here argued that the very early trauma, understood by psychoanalytic writers to be linked to unbearable experiences of separateness, appears to also reside at the core of hoarding behaviours. The extreme hoarding observed would denote the existence of an ‘autistic retreat’ or ‘cyst’ (as described by Key writers such as Sydney Klein and Judith Mitrani), protecting the individual from unbearable fears of pain and disintegration (as described by key writers such as Sydney Klein and Mitrani). Clinical features of autism, were operationalised and used to examine the data from the TV program for these features. This was a single case study, my approach being largely subjective, exploring how a clinical eye could be used to bring insight and meaning to the phenomena observed. Each of the two processes, autism and hoarding shed light on each other. This furthers our understanding of traumatic experiences of loss and of the symbolisation process

Welcome Madam President: effects of a female presidential candidate on the mobilisation of young, female voters in Slovakia

Slovakia did not appear frequently in international media headlines until the election of the first female President to the republic, Zuzana Čaputová, in 2019. Women are underrepresented in Slovak politics, and young women are particularly underrepresented and frequently deemed to be disinterested in politics. This research examines whether having a female presidential candidate effects the mobilisation of young, female voters in Slovakia. Twelve in-depth interviews were undertaken with young women in Slovakia, using questions based on a modified version of gender-strategic mobilisation theory. The theory has three core tactics (1. appealing to young women directly, 2. evoking women’s multiple gendered identities; and 3. promising change that appeals particularly to young women). Interviews were transcribed and analysed using predominantly deductive themes. Čaputová was able to mobilise young, female voters in her campaign largely through her transparency, liberal politics, and anti-corruption stance. She was a symbolic change for Slovakia, as the first elected female president, as an ardent defender of human rights, and through her decorum and respect in politics and political discourse. Nonetheless, other factors during the 2018-2019 period threw Slovak politics into flux, and serendipitous timing aided her campaign. These factors help to contextualise Čaputová’s entrance and success in contemporary Slovak politics.https://www.ester.ee/record=b5380735*es

Sickle-cell trait in the Natal Indian

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Acute transitory erythroblastopenia in kwashiokor

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Structural relationship between link proteins and proteoglycan monomers

AbstractStructural homologies between link proteins and proteoglycan monomers are demonstrated. A possible redundancy in the proteoglycan monomers structure is discussed and the link proteins domains homologous to other proteins are specified

Pain, Gain - Mission

We present a short conceptual framework as an opinion piece for considering learning gain based on Biesta’s three domains of educational purpose: qualification, socialisation and subjectification. We invite readers to reflect on the perspectives given in relation to different institutions mission statements around teaching and learning, and consider if the focus on developing methods for measuring learning gain is premature, given the lack of consensus regarding the nature of the learning to be measured