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E. E. Constance Jones on Existence in a Region of Supposition
Get PDFIn “On the Nature of Logical Judgment” (published 1893) and A New Law of Thought and Its Logical Bearings (published 1911), E. E. Constance Jones developed a view on which we can think and talk about the round-square. On her view, the round-square has a kind of existence; otherwise, sentences about it wouldn’t be meaningful. But it doesn’t exist in space, since it’s both round and square, and nothing in space is both. Although it has a kind of existence in what she calls “a Region of Supposition,” we can truly say that it “doesn’t exist,” if what we mean is that it doesn’t exist in space. It plays a role in reasoning, since we need to be able to reason about it to conclude that it doesn’t exist in space. And, although the round-square is both round and square, the Law of Contradiction needn’t be violated, provided that it’s understood in light of Jones’s distinction between two kinds of negation
Witches In Space: Introduction
No full textThe introduction to this Issues in Review entitled ‘Witches in Space’ sets out the critical history that forms the background work on the literary geographies of early modern witchcraft. The introduction first establishes the need for such work through an illustrative case study and then attends to the foundation of scholarship in the fields of literary and cultural geography as well as witchcraft studies on which this collection of essays builds
Primary Care Transformation During a Pandemic: Rapid Reforms Focused on Outreach Approaches and Intersectoral Collaboration to Better Serve Vulnerable Populations
Get PDFThis article examines how existing primary care services were transformed in Québec during COVID-19 to better serve the most vulnerable individuals for whom inequities and access difficulties increased during the pandemic. In the context of a research project, six particularly promising practices to respond to these challenges were identified within one Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux (CIUSSS). Using van Gestel et al.’s (2018) framework, which focuses on timing, ideas and institutional contexts, these practices are analyzed as rapid reforms, that is, policy responses or innovations that are initiated at an unusual pace in high pressure contexts, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, that provide an unprecedented window of opportunity to transform primary care services. The extreme pressure exerted on politicians and public decision-makers to act quickly created a context, characterized in certain circumstances by a decentralization of decision-making in the health system and greater agency by frontline actors, favouring bottom-up innovations. Despite the emergence of various rapid reforms, certain longer-term questions arise regarding their potential for sustainability, because their implementation has not been based on an in-depth redefinition of institutional structures and logics, which rests on the long-term adoption of new norms and values.
Cet article examine comment les services de première ligne ont été transformés au Québec pendant la COVID-19 afin de mieux desservir les clientèles vulnérables, pour lesquels les inégalités et les difficultés d\u27accès se sont accrues pendant la pandémie. Dans le cadre d\u27un projet de recherche, six pratiques particulièrement prometteuses en réponse à ces enjeux ont été identifiées au sein d\u27un Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux (CIUSSS). En utilisant le cadre de van Gestel et al. (2018), qui s’attarde au timing, aux idées et aux contextes institutionnels, ces pratiques sont analysées comme des réformes rapides, c\u27est-à-dire des politiques ou des innovations initiées à un rythme inhabituel dans un contexte de fortes pressions, tel que la pandémie de la COVID-19, et offrant une fenêtre d\u27opportunité sans précédent pour transformer les services de première ligne. La pression extrême exercée sur les politiciens et les décideurs publics pour qu\u27ils agissent rapidement a créé un contexte, caractérisé dans certaines circonstances par une décentralisation de la prise de décision dans le système de santé et une plus grande capacité d’action des acteurs sur le terrain, favorisant les innovations « du bas vers le haut » (bottom-up). Malgré l\u27émergence de ces réformes rapides, certaines questions à plus long terme se posent quant à leur potentiel de pérennisation, car leur mise en œuvre n\u27a pas été fondée sur une redéfinition en profondeur des structures et logiques institutionnelles, qui repose sur l\u27adoption à plus long terme de nouvelles normes et valeurs
Expanding the Scope of Community Pharmacy Practice in Nova Scotia: Impacts on Provincial COVID-19 Response
Get PDFNova Scotia has expanded the scope of practice for community pharmacists by allowing, among other changes, pharmacist prescribing under specific circumstances (2011) and administration of drugs by injection (2013), thereby alleviating stress on the health system. Due to these progressive expansions in community pharmacy scope of practice, Nova Scotia community pharmacy personnel (about 1,500 pharmacists and 246 technicians working in 315 pharmacies) were rapidly able to play key roles in the province’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Community pharmacies provided medicines, medical devices, personal protective equipment, hand hygiene solutions, thermometers, and pulse oximeters to patients and the public. In addition, they have responded to patients’ COVID-19-related needs by treating symptoms; providing referrals; discussing the benefits and risks of COVID-19 vaccines and administering them; making nirmatrelvir/ritonavir assessments; and addressing vaccine hesitancy and the spread of misinformation about COVID-19. Moreover, as in some other provinces, community pharmacists in Nova Scotia have played a leading role in delivering COVID-19 vaccines from almost the start of the vaccination campaign in December 2020. Their role expanded further in May 2022, when pharmacists were granted prescribing authority for inhaled budesonide in accordance with the provincial protocol to treat mild SARS-CoV-2 respiratory symptoms.
La Nouvelle-Écosse a élargi le champ d’exercice des pharmaciens communautaires en autorisant, entre autres, la prescription par un pharmacien dans des circonstances spécifiques (2011) et l’administration de médicaments par injection (2013), soulageant ainsi le système de santé. Grâce à ces élargissements progressifs du champ d’exercice des pharmacies communautaires, le personnel des pharmacies communautaires de Nouvelle-Écosse (environ 1 500 pharmaciens et 246 techniciens travaillant dans 315 pharmacies) a pu contribuer de manière cruciale et rapide à la réponse de la province à la pandémie de COVID-19. Les pharmacies communautaires ont fourni des médicaments, des dispositifs médicaux, des équipements de protection individuelle, des solutions pour l’hygiène des mains, des thermomètres et des oxymètres de pouls aux patients et au public. En outre, elles ont répondu aux besoins des patients liés à la COVID-19 en traitant les symptômes, en orientant les patients, en discutant des avantages et des risques des vaccins contre la COVID-19 et de leur administration, en évaluant la pertinence de traiter certains patients au nirmatrelvir/ritonavir et en répondant à l’hésitation vaccinale et à la diffusion d’informations erronées sur la COVID-19. De plus, les pharmaciens communautaires de Nouvelle-Écosse, comme ceux d’autres provinces, ont joué un rôle de premier plan dans l’administration des vaccins contre la COVID-19 dès le début de la campagne de vaccination en décembre 2020. Leur rôle s’est encore élargi en mai 2022, lorsque les pharmaciens ont été autorisés à prescrire du budésonide inhalé, conformément au protocole provincial, pour traiter les symptômes respiratoires légers du SRAS-CoV-2
Response to Peter Berman’s Commentary on “Consideration of Trade-offs Regarding COVID-19 Containment Measures in the United States: Implications for Canada,” by Mayvis Rebeira and Eric Nauenberg: A response to a commentary
No full textWe are grateful to Dr. Berman for raising important points when analyzing an economy-wide crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic.
We agree with Dr. Berman that COVID-19 had different behavioural responses from different groups; thus the best that can be done is to estimate average effects. To understand the impact by different groups would necessitate information that in these circumstances was unavailable. Further, these groups could have behaved differently between the pre- and post-vaccine eras. Though average effects do not take into account the possible wide distribution of the effectiveness of the containment strategies in different groups, we think they provide a reasonable source of evidence in a crisis situation where data is often sparse and the situation is dynamic.
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Mutualism, class composition, and the reshaping of worker organisation in platform work and the gig economy
Get PDFThis article contributes an understanding of mutualism as a foundational element in emergent worker collectivism. We challenge mainstream institutionalist accounts in industrial relations, especially from the Global North, that downplay processes of bottom-up regeneration of working-class organisation. We discuss compositional accounts of class formation and examine previous understandings of mutualism, then apply our conceptual framework to evidence from international literature and our own research on platform work in Italy and the UK. Three important themes emerge in understanding worker self-organisation: the demographics of the workforce, including migration backgrounds and social ties beyond the workplace; the existence of social relations in the ethnic/political/local community; and the relevance of free spaces of resource sharing and recomposition in the absence of a fixed place of work. We conclude that an understanding of mutualism can help to grasp emergent solidarities among new groups of workers within and beyond both platform work and trade unions
Review of: Jenny Chan, Mark Selden and Pun Ngai (2020) Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China’s Workers
Get PDFAmateur Theatre at the Early Modern Inns of Court? The Implications of a Performance Copy of Jonson’s 1640 Folio
No full textThis article discusses a recently rediscovered copy of Ben Jonson\u27s 1640 Workes that contains seventeenth-century annotations to Epicene that suggest preparations for performance. We trace the folio copy’s provenance with the Powell family in Nanteos, Wales, and consider the possibility that it may have been annotated when in the possession of Sir Thomas Powell, a lawyer and judge who spent much of his life in London. We argue that the annotated play-text can be connected to four other playbooks by William Shakespeare and James Shirley that have been previously associated with seventeenth-century amateur theatricals, and that the new evidence provided by the Jonson text points plausibly to a practice of amateur performance at and around Gray\u27s Inn in the middle of the century
Tom Bishop, Gina Bloom, and Erika T. Lin, eds. Games and Theatre in Shakespeare’s England. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
No full textReview of Tom Bishop, Gina Bloom, and Erika T. Lin, eds. Games and Theatre in Shakespeare’s England by Mark Kaethle
The York Vintners’ ‘The Marriage at Cana’ and the Puzzle of Pageants Withheld from the Register
No full textOpening with the character of Architriclinus, the York Vintners’ pageant ‘The Marriage at Cana’ likely bolstered their claims over the right to search and sell sweet and other wines in conflicts with the Spicers and Mercers. The Vintners’ failure to submit their pageant for transcription into the York Register possibly signals resentments felt and privileges enjoyed by these specialist merchants – resentments and privileges perhaps shared by the only other guild to withhold their original from the city clerk despite repeated calls for its submission: the Ironmongers