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Through the Looking Glass: Reflections of the Prodigal Daughter
No full textThis contribution examines the submerged prodigal daughter plot within the dominant ‘prodigal son’ drama of Gascoigne’s Glass of Government (1575). Jerry Aline Flieger has suggested that we might reimagine the prodigal daughter not as merely ‘going beyond the fold of restrictive paternal law, only to return’, but as ‘lush, exceptional, extravagant, and affirmative … to be prodigal in this sense is to alter the law, to enlarge its parameters and recast its meaning’. Instead of marginalizing and banishing the prodigal daughter, this article suggests that it may be worth passing through Gascoigne’s looking glass to imagine an alternative space for her to occupy
Rationalisation : by Simone Weil. Translated by William Tilleczek
No full textThe text translated here as “Rationalisation” is, to my knowledge, the first English version of a presentation given by Simone Weil in February 1937 and included in her complete works under the French title “Rationalisation.
Book Review Symposium 2: Webster and Dor - Recasting Workers\u27 Power
No full textProfessor Edward Webster, affectionately known as Eddie, breathed his last on 5 March 2024, twenty-four days before his eighty-second birthday. Eddie was healthy and had just participated in a run. The shocking untimely death has left a profound void. His impactful research work, integrating a consistent focus on work and labour, spanned decades, dating back to the early 1970s. Eddie went beyond just researching and publishing – activities in which he engaged extensively. He was an engaged intellectual, actively involved in the emancipatory working-class movement to change the world he researched. Writing with Lynford Dor, Webster defends the power resources approach which identifies the sources of workers\u27 power and includes a focus on workers\u27 resistance to exploitation in pursuit of their interests. Webster successfully challenges the “end of labour thesis” using evidence-based sectoral case studies from a selection of global South countries. He brought together contributions by other scholars in the edited book. The “end of labour thesis” can also be challenged from the standpoint of the labour theory of value. However, this is not part of the authors’ chosen approach, which suffices on its own merits
Transforming teaching assistant roles into co-creators of instruction
Full text linkThis case study explores the implementation of a collaborative initiative that transformed the traditional role of teaching assistants (TAs) into student-faculty partners in two psychology courses. The objective of the collaboration was to leverage the insights and contributions of undergraduate students as co-creators of instruction for students’ engagement and meaningful learning experience. The case study highlights the processes, impacts, and challenges of these partnerships, revealing opportunities for student partners to develop pedagogical and assessment literacy, enhance communication and leadership skills, and gain insights into student behaviors and preferences. Pedagogical and curricular gains were observed, including the incorporation of student insights into instructional activities and improved teaching materials. However, challenges related to power dynamics and student perceptions of privilege were also identified. The findings emphasize the importance of careful navigation and the creation of meaningful opportunities for student engagement in higher education
In partnership, for partnership: An international conference on humanitarian action (Special section editorial)
Full text linkAfter almost a year of planning an international conference on student partnership for humanitarian action with the UN Refugee Agency, a student-faculty partnership reflect on the learning process they undertook, and how years of working together built a strong foundation for this project. Working in partnership to communicate the importance of partnership to address complex global issues signifies the importance of engaging multi-level stakeholders in new, innovative solutions. This introduction to the special section titled after the conference provides the context for this challenging yet rewarding feat made possible with a community of partnerships
‘A Tragedie Written in Greeke’: How Jocasta was Made ‘Classical’
No full textCritics often take for granted that Dolce’s Italian translation of a Latin version of Euripides’s Phoenician Women provided Gascoigne and Kinwelmersh with a ready example for composing a ‘classical’ drama for an English Renaissance audience. However, the choice of an Italian play with a Greek story for the performance of the first Greek tragedy in England at Gray’s Inn in 1566 remains a sidelined question. This article argues that one reason for their choice of Dolce’s play resides in his treatment of the Euripidean material in ways that attuned it to contemporary dramaturgical as well as cultural and political circumstances while scattering signposts throughout, suggesting belongingness to classical antiquity. One of these features was the female lament shared by the chorus and Antigone in the last act, which, while absent from Euripides, was a model that could be recognized as Euripidean and, more broadly, Greek
Implementing a Medication Switching Policy: Analysis of the Saskatchewan Biosimilars Initiative
Full text linkBiologics are drugs that are uniquely created through advanced biotechnology. Biologics can be classified as either a reference biologic or a biosimilar. Reference biologics are innovator drugs whereas biosimilars are structurally similar, but not identical, to the reference biologic. Biologic drugs, especially reference biologics, are expensive and their use is steadily increasing across Canada. In response to increasing medication costs associated with the use of biologic drugs, the Saskatchewan Ministry of Health implemented the Saskatchewan Biosimilars Initiative on 20 October 2022. The Saskatchewan Biosimilars Initiative is a medication-switching policy that requires patients using a reference biologic to transition to an available biosimilar. This policy is intended to increase the uptake of biosimilars, which cost up to 50% less than the reference biologic. Similar switching policies that have been implemented internationally have produced significant cost savings to public health insurance programs. Currently, no economic data from the Saskatchewan Ministry of Health or the Drug Plan and Extended Benefits Branch is available to assess policy effectiveness.
Les produits biologiques sont des médicaments créés de manière unique grâce à une biotechnologie avancée. Les produits biologiques peuvent être classés en tant que produits biologiques de référence ou biosimilaires. Les produits biologiques de référence sont des médicaments innovants, tandis que les biosimilaires sont structurellement similaires, mais pas identiques, au produit biologique de référence. Les médicaments biologiques, en particulier les médicaments biologiques de référence, sont coûteux et leur utilisation est en constante augmentation au Canada. En réponse à l’augmentation des dépenses associées à l’utilisation des médicaments biologiques, le ministère de la santé de la Saskatchewan a mis en place l’initiative des biosimilaires de la Saskatchewan le 20 octobre 2022. La Saskatchewan Biosimilars Initiative est une politique de substitution non médicale qui exige que les patients utilisant un médicament biologique de référence pour lequel existe un biosimilaire passent à ce biosimilaire. Cette politique vise à accroître l’utilisation des biosimilaires, qui coûtent jusqu’à 50 % de moins que le produit biologique de référence. Des politiques similaires de transition non médicale mises en œuvre à l’échelle internationale ont permis aux programmes publics d\u27assurance maladie de réaliser des économies considérables. À l’heure actuelle, le ministère de la santé de la Saskatchewan ou la Drug Plan and Extended Benefits Branch ne disposent d\u27aucune donnée économique permettant d’évaluer l’efficacité de la politique
