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The Reception of Russell’s A History of Western Philosophy
Get PDFRussell’s History of Western Philosophy was a commercial success and generally popular with the overall public. There were many reviews written of the work; most were not favourable. In this paper I examine a selection of the reviews which shed light on how Russell was perceived as a historian of philosophy. Among the many philosophers who reviewed the work and are discussed here are Isaiah Berlin, C. D. Broad, Martial Gueroult, C. E. M. Joad, H. J. Paton, Karl Popper, Joseph Ratner, Yorick Smythies and Paul Weiss
“Read it for restoratives”: Pericles and the Romance of Whiteness
No full textThis essay reads Pericles (1608) through the lens of early modern critical whiteness studies. Tracing how the play reworks the colour-coding of its medieval source text along new racial lines, this essay sees Pericles’s melancholia as an allegory of the always incomplete condition of whiteness. It then shows how Pericles uses the erotic mechanics of romance to pursue his quest for whiteness. Ultimately, the essay underlines the relevance of Pericles’s quest to Shakespeare’s cultural moment before discussing the voices of resistance to the project of whiteness embedded within the play, and the uses of that play for our own times
Analysis of Primary Health Care Teams and Integration Policy in Ontario
Get PDFImproving the integration of health services for patients with complex needs is a priority across Canada. To improve patient experience and reduce costs, provinces and territories have implemented diverse team-based primary health care (PHC) models. In Ontario, a boom in both organizational and funding reforms in the early 2000s resulted in the addition of diverse primary care models. The goals of these reforms were to improve the quality of care, care coordination and the comprehensiveness of services. The reforms were reflected at both the provincial and regional (Local Health Integration Networks) levels through strategic guidance documents and through the establishment of primary care evaluation frameworks by key provincial leaders. This study seeks to examine policies and structures that facilitated the development, implementation, and sustainability of team-based PHC models. Analysis of Ontario provincial and regional-level policies released between 2009-2019 reveals that in the last decade, focus has shifted away from highlighting PHC teams as a strategy for integration, instead focusing on broader systems-level integration. Further, primary care evaluation frameworks were not implemented at the local level. More recently, Ontario Health Teams show great promise to reduce silos and improve integration, but the role of primary care and PHC teams in this reform remains unclear.
Partout au Canada, l\u27amélioration de l\u27intégration des services de santé pour les patients ayant des besoins complexes est une priorité. Pour améliorer l\u27expérience des patients et réduire les coûts, les provinces et les territoires ont mis en place divers modèles de soins de santé primaires (SSP) basés sur le travail d’équipe. En Ontario, au début des années 2000, un florilège de réformes organisationnelles et financières ont fait éclore divers modèles de soins de première ligne. Les objectifs de ces réformes étaient d\u27améliorer la qualité et la coordination des soins, ainsi que d’offrir une gamme complète de services. Ces réformes ont été traduites aux niveaux provinciaux et régionaux (Réseaux Locaux d’Intégration des Services de Santé) dans des documents d’orientation stratégique et des cadres d’évaluation des services de première ligne. Cette étude vise à examiner les politiques et les structures qui ont facilité le développement, la mise en œuvre, et la durabilité des modèles de SSP en équipe. Toutefois, l\u27analyse des politiques provinciales et régionales de l\u27Ontario publiées entre 2009 et 2019 révèle qu\u27au cours de la dernière décennie, l\u27accent n\u27a plus été mis sur les équipes de SSP en tant que stratégie d\u27intégration, mais plutôt sur une intégration plus large au niveau du système de santé. En outre, les cadres d\u27évaluation des SSP n\u27ont pas été mis en œuvre au niveau local. Les équipes interdisciplinaires de première ligne de l\u27Ontario créées plus récemment sont très prometteuses pour réduire les cloisonnements et améliorer l\u27intégration, mais le rôle des soins primaires et des équipes de SSP dans cette réforme n’a pas été clarifié
Implementation of a Pharmacy Clinical Instructor Model to Facilitate Experiential Learning within Saskatchewan’s Entry-to-Practice Doctor of Pharmacy Program
Get PDFIn response to nationally endorsed changes in pharmacy curricula, the University of Saskatchewan College of Pharmacy and Nutrition (CoPN) sought to expand experiential learning for its pharmacy program. In 2010, Canada’s faculties and deans of pharmacy committed to implementing entry-to-practice Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) programs in all schools by 2020. The expansion and change in credentialing of Canada’s pharmacy training from baccalaureate programs was intended to ensure graduates possess the competencies required within the modern scope of pharmacy practice. To further this transition, the Canadian Council for Accreditation of Pharmacy Programs increased the required hours of students’ experiential learning. In Saskatchewan, pre-existing operational and financial pressures on the CoPN, coinciding with the provincial health system’s amalgamation from twelve regional health authorities to a single health authority, prompted a collaborative approach. To address the growing need for practical experience within the Saskatchewan Health Authority, the CoPN implemented clinical instructor positions within tertiary care centres in Saskatoon and Regina. This unique approach among PharmD programs provided financial stability and accountability to student learning, although early student feedback identified several challenges with this model. These findings about the clinical instructor model can guide the ongoing implementation of experiential learning within PharmD and other health care professional programs.
En réponse aux changements approuvés au niveau national dans les programmes d\u27études en pharmacie, le College of Pharmacy and Nutrition (CoPN) de l\u27Université de Saskatchewan a entrepris de multiplier les expériences d\u27apprentissage de son programme d\u27études en pharmacie. En 2010, les facultés et les doyens des facultés de pharmacie du Canada se sont engagés à mettre en place des programmes de doctorat en pharmacie (PharmD) dans toutes les écoles à l\u27horizon 2020. L\u27expansion et la modification de l\u27accréditation de la formation en pharmacie au Canada à partir des programmes de baccalauréat visaient à garantir que les diplômés possèdent les compétences requises au regard du champ d’exercice renouvelé de la pharmacie. Pour faciliter cette transition, le conseil canadien pour l\u27accréditation des programmes de pharmacie a augmenté le nombre d\u27heures requises pour l\u27apprentissage par l\u27expérience des étudiants. Dans la province de Saskatchewan, les tensions opérationnelles et financières préexistantes sur le CoPN, jointes à l’opération de fusion des douze autorités sanitaires régionales du système de santé provincial en une seule autorité sanitaire, ont incité à une approche collaborative. Pour répondre au besoin croissant d\u27expérience pratique au sein de la Saskatchewan Health Authority, le CoPN a mis en place des postes d\u27instructeurs cliniques dans les centres de soins tertiaires de Saskatoon et Regina. Cette approche originale parmi les programmes de doctorat en pharmacie a assuré la stabilité financière de l\u27apprentissage des étudiants et a clairement identifié les responsabilités, même si les premiers retours d’expérience des étudiants ont mis en évidence plusieurs défis liés à ce modèle. Ces résultats concernant le modèle d\u27instructeur clinique peuvent guider la mise en œuvre continue de l\u27apprentissage par l\u27expérience au sein des programmes de doctorat en pharmacie et d\u27autres programmes professionnels de soins de santé
Consideration of Trade-offs Regarding COVID-19 Containment Measures in the United States: Implications for Canada
Get PDFThe economic stimulus package in the United States, which totalled US$2.48 trillion, was designed to soften the economic impact of sweeping containment measures including shelter-in-place orders that were put in place to control the COVID-19 pandemic. In health care, interventions are rarely justified simply in terms of the number of lives saved, but also in terms of a myriad of other trade-off factors including value-for-money or cost-effectiveness. The data suggest the incremental costs per life-year gained related to the lockdown can span a wide range, depending on the baseline number of deaths in the absence of any containment measures. The results show that, in the United States, under no scenario for life-years gained does the stimulus package compare favourably to other health care interventions that have had favourable cost-effectiveness profiles. However, when comparing value-of-statistical-life-year threshold measures used in other sectors, it is plausible that the stimulus package could be viewed more favourably in the United States. In Canada, a similar analysis could have been possible if age-sex mortality and other data used for containment strategy decisions were made available as the pandemic unfolded.
Le plan de relance économique des États-Unis, d’un montant de 2,48 billions de dollars, avait été conçu pour atténuer l’impact économique des mesures d’endiguement radicales, y compris les ordres de confinement, qui ont été mises en place pour contrôler la pandémie du virus COVID-19. Dans le secteur des soins de santé, les interventions sont rarement justifiées par le seul nombre de vies sauvées, mais aussi par une myriade d’autres facteurs de compromis, notamment le rapport qualité-prix ou le rapport coût-efficacité. Les données suggèrent que les coûts supplémentaires par année de vie gagnée liés au confinement peuvent varier considérablement en fonction du nombre de décès de référence en l’absence de toute mesure d’endiguement. Nos résultats montrent qu’aux États-Unis, le plan de relance ne soutient pas la comparaison avec d’autres interventions de soins de santé ayant un profil coût-efficacité favorable, quel que soit le scénario envisagé pour les années de vie gagnées. Toutefois, le plan de relance peut être considéré plus favorablement si l’on utilise les mesures de seuil de la valeur statistique de l’année de vie d’autres secteurs. Au Canada, une analyse similaire aurait pu être réalisée si les données de mortalité par âge et par sexe et d’autres données utilisées pour les décisions relatives à la stratégie d’endiguement avaient été disponibles au fur et à mesure du déroulement de la pandémie
Industrial Action in South Africa (2000-2020): Reading Strike Statistics Qualitatively
Get PDFThis article analyses strike statistics over the last twenty years (2000–2020) in South Africa to have a concrete understanding of the state of labour (organised and unorganised). The article makes a new contribution by showing how one can use Lenin’s quantitative method as a framework which I develop to assist in reading the qualitative aspects of worker mobilisation, an aspect which is markedly absent from contemporary analyses of labour. By utilising the quantitative method, the article shows whether the labour movement as an agent of social change is withering away, and who the leading sections (per industrial sector) of the labour movement are; it also indicates the qualitative shifts over time. The trends over the last twenty years indicate that there have been demonstrable qualitative shifts in strike dynamics in South Africa.
KEYWORDS: South Africa; strike statistics; industrial action; Leni
A Regime Analysis: Evidence from Sri Lankan Migrant Domestic Workers’ Journeys to Saudi Arabia
Get PDFIn this article, I use qualitative methods to examine the concept of a regime for migrant care based on Sri Lankan women’s transnational mobility as migrant domestic workers to Saudi Arabia. My work thus contributes to the growing body of literature on migrant care regimes from a Global South perspective, which to date has still received insufficient scholarly attention. The Sri Lanka–Saudi migrant care regime, shaped by a transnational consciousness of the possibilities for accumulation and production through reproductive labour, is located at a convergence of “translocal” gender, care, employment and migration systems. The regime is (re)produced through the relations and tensions between the family, the state and the market in an interchange of the dynamics of capitalist market forces and structural relations on various levels. The colour “brown” has emerged as a new racial classification in the global domestic sector, where power and subjectivity are constantly evolving. I argue that domestic work, which continues to be constructed as “women’s work”, represents an embodiment both of the subordination of women and of their personal autonomy. This, in turn, has broader implications for the meaning of feminine/masculine, motherhood/fatherhood, home and work.
KEYWORDS: paid domestic labour; migrant domestic workers; care regime; Saudi Arabia; Sri Lank
Locating labour conflict and its organising forms in contemporary times: between class and the reproduction of capitalism
Get PDFThe following article aims to provide a conceptually rooted introduction to the articles in the internationally coordinated themed collection on Labour Conflict, Class and Collective Organization, an initiative which has involved four journals focusing on labour studies from different geographical angles and academic traditions: Economic and Labour Relations Review (ELRR); Global Labour Journal (GLJ); Partecipazione e Conflitto (PACO); and Revista Latino Americana de Estudios del Trabajo (RELET). The contributions across the four journals are diverse, both in terms of geographical focus, disciplinary perspectives and sector of analysis. This diversity is very welcomed and represents a fertile soil for conceptual considerations, because it corresponds to the manifold forms in which labour conflict expresses itself in the reality of capitalism. What’s the abstract unity of these concrete empirical realities, as Marx would have put it? In the following introduction, we focus on two general theoretical issues we consider fundamental and mutually interrelated: a rethinking of workers’ collective forms of organization within and beyond trade unions; and the framing of these forms and of labour conflict in the broader historical dynamics of working classes formation. With this, we hope to provide a lens of analysis for the articles in the international special issue and, more generally, methodological guidance to future studies on labour conflict
Russell’s Corrected Page Proofs of Principia Mathematica
Get PDFWe report here on the set of complete proofs of Volumes I and II of Whitehead and Russell’s Principia Mathematica newly acquired by the Bertrand Russell Archives. These proof sheets, marked with a number of corrections, were likely bound for Russell by Cambridge University Press, though not exactly the same as the first edition. We assess the information to be gained from the texts and the corrections, most significantly around *110 in Vol. II and the lost dot of the empty relation in Vol. I. All are in Russell’s hand and described in an appendix. We also note several revisions in the first edition that were made after these proofs. We discuss the provenance of the volumes, and Russell’s correspondence about proofs of PM with M. H. Dziewicki, but we find that there is insufficient evidence to determine the chain of possession from Russell to their discovery for sale in Australia in recent years
Letters of Bertrand Russell and Wincenty Lutosławski on Immortality, Matter and Plato
Get PDFWincenty Lutosławski (1863–1954) was internationally recognized in the academic world as a prominent Plato scholar. His fragmentary correspondence with Bertrand Russell is presented in this paper. Before World War II he initiated an exchange of letters with Russell on issues such as reincarnation, but the replies he received were laconic and discouraging. This changed, however, after the war when Russell published his History of Western Philosophy. Despite their different philosophical positions, Lutosławski’s opinion on this work as a whole was favourable, in particular the chapters on Plato. Such an assessment was the exception rather than the rule for that book, and knowing Lutosławski’s general recognition in Platonic studies, Russell forwarded the letter to his publisher