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Two Spirit and Queer Indigenous Resurgence through Sci-Fi Futurisms, Doubleweaving, and Historical Re-Imaginings: A Review Essay
Get PDFNovel oral anticoagulants in oral and maxillofacial surgery: a comparison with warfarin between 2012-2014
No full textThe records of anticoagulated patients who attended a maxillofacial surgical unit between 2012 and 2014 were reviewed. Data on 319 procedures performed on 249 patients were retrieved. During this period only seven patients (2.8%) were taking novel anticoagulants (NOACs) compared with 242 (97.2%) on warfarin. The seven patients underwent 11 surgical procedures. None of the seven were seen in 2012, three were seen in January 2013, the remaining four in 2014. Twenty-four (7.5%) of the 319 episodes were followed by prolonged bleeding; all occurred in patients taking warfarin. The seven NOAC patients’ hospital notes contained no recorded documentation of renal function, specifically the creatinine clearance or estimated glomerular filtration rate.
Influential Journey’s Through Dental Communities of Practice: A Phenomenological Based Enquiry Approach
Get PDFObjective: To identify meaningful factors influencing the dental professional’s transit within Communities of Practice (CoPs).Methods: A phenomenological methodology approach was taken to conduct interviews with 7 dental elites (plus 1 pilot interview) identified through purposive sampling; all had held central positions of influence within dental CoPs; all had journeyed to those positions from the periphery of the Community of Practice (CoP). A semi-structured phenomenological based interview schedule was utilised for data collection and thematic analysis was employed for data analysis.Results:Coding led to the identification of four progressive and interlinked emergent themes related to the meanings that the individual participants placed on their journeys undertaken from peripheral participation to the centre: Self Awareness; Social Awareness; Cultural Awareness and Transformatory Awareness. Conclusion: The journeys undertaken by individuals navigating their own trajectory within a dental CoP require a significant undertaking of awareness development across anumber of significant areas. Successful negotiation of those sites requires a preparedness for growth, adaption and evolution. The implications for practice and suggestions for other research are included
The Contract of Employment: Judicial vs Parliamentary Reform
Get PDFThe narrow definition of contract of employment developed by the common law tests has given room for employers to avoid protective legislation for the people that work for them. In the current economic climate that we face today, the impact of globalisation and the UK government’s response to the 2008 economic crash has made this problem far worse that it has been at other points in history. This deep, structural problem requires Parliamentary intervention as the courts have failed to reform the definition of the contract of employment effectively. This article will assess the role of Parliament and the judiciary and discuss which institution should take the primary role in reform of the contract of employment
Queering the Terrain: Lesbian Identity and Rights in International Law
Get PDFComments on Dianne Otto's queer scholarship in international law
Gender discrimination and the acquisition of competitive advantage: A neoliberal history of profitable exploitation
Get PDFGlobalisation has been essentially based on free trade theory and comparative advantage which promote liberalization, privatization and deregulation to supposedly achieve gains for every country and its citizens. The World Trade Organisation has played a central role in legitimizing this theory. However, it does so in a gender-blind manner, which has been criticized essentially in the feminist literature for missing out on the ways in which the acquisition of competitive advantage is a gendered process and how gender inequality serves as a tool for such acquisition. This paper will address this problem first, by examining the practical consequences of the WTO agreements in using women as source of competitive advantage in some instances but also in excluding them from trade openness in others. Further, the issue of the unpaid care economy and social reproduction and its inherent gender impact shall be addressed. It will analyze the ways in which some women may benefit from trade liberalization while others will be left worse off. This paper concludes by questioning the accuracy of the theory of comparative advantage and the concept of development. It highlights the crucial role of feminist contributions to challenging the neoliberal discourse.
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