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The Good, Bad and Ugly of Social Media: Should Social Media Apps Be Regulated?
No full textThe service and disservice of social media are described and the issue of whether or not they should be regulated are discussed
Advocating Women’s Rights in the Italian Periodical Press: Lidia Poët (1855–1949) and Teresa Labriola (1871–1941)
No full textLidia Poët (1855–1949) and Teresa Labriola (1871–1941) were two pioneers of the fight for women’s rights in Italy. Despite being among the very first Italian women to graduate from the Faculty of Law at the University of Rome and the University of Torino, respectively, they were inescapably limited in the pursuit of professional careers. Inspired by their own personal experiences, both women started openly questioning the restricting values of patriarchal society and the lack of legal and political rights for women in their essays and conference presentations. Not only did they fight their individual battles by triggering public debate, but they also considered it their crucial task to create more awareness among the broader female population. Given the fact that the late nineteenth to early twentieth century was a particularly flourishing time for the periodical press, it is not surprising that both Poët and Labriola soon discovered the endless possibilities of magazines and newspapers. The aim of this essay is to illustrate how these two women turned to the periodical press and used it as a weapon in their quest for women’s legal rights. In addition, it explores the development of a nationalist feminism that emerged from their wartime writings
Contributions of the Inter-American Jurisprudence to the Protection of Women’s Human Rights
No full textThe Inter-American System of Human Rights (IASHR) has made substantial contributions to the advancement of gender equality and the elimination of gender violence and discrimination. It has positively impacted the lives of many women, girls, and LGBTQI+ persons in the Americas region. This article provides an updated overview of the IASHR’s main jurisprudential advancements, noting key aspects, in particular, with respect to the rights to equality and non-discrimination, to be free from violence, and to sexual and reproductive rights. In addition to highlighting the fundamental importance of the IASHR’s contributions, it reiterates an invitation to the Canadian readership to assess the usefulness of the system in promoting and defending girls’ and women’s rights and to Canada to accept the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and to ratify the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights and the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women
Participation of Racialized Individuals in Healthcare Research: A Scoping Review Protocol
No full textIntroduction: Despite a lack of formal requirements for recruiting racialized populations in Canadian healthcare research, incorporating racial diversity is crucial for improving the generalizability and effectiveness of healthcare interventions. By including diverse participants, healthcare solutions can also benefit historically marginalized racial groups, thereby helping to reduce health inequities within Canada’s healthcare system. To better address this gap, this proposed scoping review aims to map all barriers and facilitators to the participation of racialized groups in healthcare research.
Objective: The objective of this review is to identify existing literature on the barriers and facilitators to the participation of racialized populations in healthcare research.
Methods: Our scoping review will follow guidance from the JBI scoping review methods manual. Five databases will be searched (PubMed, EMBASE, Scopus, CINAHL, PsycINFO). Grey literature will be searched using ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, Google Scholar, and Canadian Agencies for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)’s Grey Matters online tool. The search duration will include all studies from database inception to February 2024. Data extraction will be conducted by two independent reviewers using a data extraction tool developed a priori and pilot-tested by the reviewers. A data chart- ing table was developed using guidance from the JBI manual. The following data will be extracted from each article: study title, author, country of origin, year of publication, study type, participants (including sample size and racial identity if pro- vided), concept, context, outcome(s), and results pertaining to study objectives. Results will be presented through a narrative summary which will map barriers and facilitators within micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of society
South-North Learning in Mapuche Territory- Report back from the 10th Escuela Abierta de Salud Pública in Temuco, Araucania, Chile
No full textThis article summarizes the proceedings of the 10th Escuela Abierta de Salud Pública (Public Health Open School), held in the Mapuche territory, Temuco, Araucania, Chile in the spring of 2024. The free school brought together more than one hundred Indigenous and community leaders and organizers, students, clinicians, academics, educators, workers, and organizers to build collective analysis and action about health under capitalism. The conference focused on the emancipatory praxis of social determination of health and critical interculturality, which put forward transformative, meta-critical agendas for public and collective health research and practice. The article is submitted as a contribution to the growing and necessary movement for genuine South-North learning and collaboration to build a public and collective health praxis that is up to the challenge of intervening in the deepening crises of the global capitalist order
City as Classroom: Then, Now, Next
No full textCity as Classroom arrived in the 1970s and plunged the user into what has
subsequently become known as inquiry-based learning. The technique of asking openended
questions used then was much freer than inquiry nowadays. No answers were
given at the back of the book; this disturbed teachers at the time. Now, a great many
schools and boards are adopting the inquiry-based approach and trying to adapt it to
existing procedures: an awkward fit, a round peg in a square hole. The next phase of
educational development will see the student becoming more actively involved in
testing, gaming, and working as an environmental activist with regard to innovations and
technologies of communication—all as an integral part of the learning process
Autoethnography of a Pancreas: Lessons on Synthetic Humanness and Disrupting Endocrine Disruption
No full textI explore the politics of hormone access and endocrine exposure in a world characterized by irrevocable toxicity and the many environmentally-derived chronic health issues that can come from it. Drawing on my own experience living with type 1 diabetes, I reflect on what it means to depend upon a synthetic, politicized, exogenous hormone—insulin—from the very pharmaceutical and medical industries responsible for widescale, non-consensual exposures to endocrine disruptors (like the estrogen-mimickers in consumer plastics), while simultaneously barring trans, non-binary, and chronically ill people from accessing necessary and/ or desired hormones (like insulin, estrogen, testosterone). What determines whose body—human or nonhuman—is disruptive? Musing on my life as a full-time pancreas whose existence is made possible by laboratory-made insulin and wearable pumps and glucose monitors, I argue that to access humanity is more than being unadulterated, and aspiring towards a non-toxic or pure future is both impossible given the legacy of forever chemicals and missing the point, which is that humanity is more than the hormones that do or do not innately constitute us