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Contextualizing the Health Promotion of Breastfeeding: An integrative Review of Parent and Provider experiences in Canada
Get PDFImproving the rates of breastfeeding has been a prime interest of Public Health Nurses focusing on health promotional strategies as outlined by the World Health Organization. However, evidence of the perceptions held by perinatal families regarding the encouragement to breastfeed is lacking. With the goal of uncovering existing research, an integrative review was conducted, retrieving nine studies. Themes included: variables of delivery (beliefs and ambiguity), outcomes of receivers (expectations, emotions, empowerment verses pressure), and contextual factors (social, cultural, and political forces). Notable differences between the experiences of women in differing social locations were found. The results demonstrate a need for professionals and policymakers to consider the nuanced ways in which individuals experience breastfeeding health promotional messaging. Unintended impacts of this strategy potentially widen breastfeeding inequities between the groups most and least advantaged in society. The diversity of Canadians was found to be vastly underrepresented in the literature
Dual Threat to Democracy: Neoliberalism and Meritocracy
Get PDFGlobally, there is a rise in populism and a growing threat to democracy, even among western liberal democracies. These are also market-based societies that have idealized the concept of meritocracy, which, coupled with neoliberal free market capitalism, has resulted in a rapid rise in income and wealth inequality. These factors have resulted in social dysfunction in the form of erosion of our social fabric and decreased political trust. In this essay, I showcase how the last four decades of neoliberal capitalism, the myth of meritocracy, and subsequent rising inequality has eroded our faith in democracy, particularly in US and UK, and given rise to populism in western countries
“They Are Not Expendable”: Older Adults in British Columbia News Media During the COVID-19 Pandemic
No full textEver since the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic, public health has featured prominently in news coverage. Older adults, who face disproportionate physical and psychological risks from the virus, have received considerable media attention. The current study thematically analyzed 62 text-based articles from British Columbia news outlets during a two-year period (January 2020 - January 2022). Social theories of ageism were used to examine results. Both indirect ageism and anti-ageist oppositions were observed. Older people were rarely interviewed, and very few racialized individuals were represented in reports. Intergenerational relationships and programs designed to increase social connections appeared regularly in the sample. Media organizations should continue to eliminate ageism from its content and educate the public on its impacts, as well as improve diversity in coverage
Motivational Correlates of Exercise Behavior Among College Students
No full textThe purpose of this research was to explore the relations between basic psychological needs satisfaction (autonomy, relatedness, perceived competence), intrinsic motivation, attraction toward exercise, and exercise behavior among college students. In this study, 128 participants (including 91 women and 36 men, mean age: 24 ± 7 years) responded to a questionnaire assessing basic psychological needs satisfaction (autonomy, competence, relatedness), intrinsic motivation, attraction (vs. antipathy) toward exercise, and exercise behavior. Frequency of aerobic exercise, frequency of resistance exercise, and total aerobic exercise behavior are positively associated with autonomy, competence, relatedness, intrinsic motivation, and attraction toward exercise. Three exploratory mediation analyses suggest that attraction (vs. antipathy) toward exercise mediates the relation between intrinsic motivation and exercise behavior. Taken together, these data support and extend previous research on the importance of motivationally relevant variables, including autonomy, competence, relatedness, intrinsic motivation, and affective exercise experiences
A Willingness for Crisis: Cavell and Kuhn
Get PDFIn one of the excerpts from memory composing his autobiography, Stanley Cavell recalls attending “an informal but extended discussion among professional philosophers” with Thomas Kuhn, then his colleague at Berkeley. It was the first such meeting the two friends had sat through together, and Cavell describes the vivid impression left on the historian of science: “As we left the scene Kuhn pressed his fingers to his forehead as if it ached. ‘I wouldn’t have believed it. You people don’t behave like academics in any other field. You treat each other as if you are all mad.’” The perception, Cavell notes, “seemed right […] but normal enough, and because normal, suddenly revelatory.” Kuhn’s response clearly anticipates topics and arguments that would come to inform The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Articulated within the terms of those arguments, the exasperating scene becomes one of philosophical discussion in the absence of a paradigm, unable to take place upon an assumed common ground. 
Editorial Comment
Get PDFThe publication of Here and There has recently made a first encounter with Stanley Cavell’s intellectual legacy possible. If you did not hear the bells ringing in celebration, it is probably because you are not part of the community of Cavellian or, perhaps, Wittgensteinian scholars and sympathizers. Of course, there is nothing wrong with preferring other communities. But bells should, at least in principle, be rung for everybody, regardless of whether one would like to listen and respond to their chiming
Emersonian Perfectionism and Kantian Ethics
Get PDFPeople have often been surprised when I have told them that I worked with Cavell during my undergraduate and graduate studies at Harvard, from 1965 to 1973 — not just taking Hum 5 with him (and Rogers Albritton), which a couple of thousand Harvard undergraduates would have done in those years, or one or two further courses, but writing both my senior thesis and my doctoral dissertation under his supervision. After all, my work has not looked anything like his — my conventional Kant scholarship, with all the trappings of normal scholarship, has looked nothing like Cavell’s personal, often unconventional philosophizing, using as its texts Shakespearean dramas, classic Hollywood movies, and a small group of philosophers that began with Austin and Wittgenstein and grew to include Thoreau and Emerson, although the last chiefly after my time at Harvard