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Community Climbing: Toward Functional Collaboration
Get PDFA main purpose of this article is to draw attention to Lonergan’s discovery, functional specialization. Lonergan’s result was first presented in dense summary fashion, in a 20 page 1969 article "Functional Specialization in Theology." This later became the 20 page Chapter 5 of his 1970 book Method in Theology. While Lonergan’s discovery originally was communicated to theologians, it is a result for all disciplines, “a method, ..., for integrating theology with scholarly and scientific studies ... for promoting good and undoing evil both in the church and in human society generally” (Method in Theology). The present article is for a general audience and includes footnotes to follow-up material as well as a copy of Lonergan’s 1965 discovery page
Impact of the Physician Management and Leadership Program (PMLP) on physician leaders and health service delivery in Newfoundland and Labrador (NL)
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A Diagnosis of Schizophrenia: The Role of Service User Stories in Challenging Stigma
No full textI reflect on how lived experiences that are derived from service user expert knowledge have the potential to confront stigmatization, which is encountered widely by people who have a diagnosis of schizophrenia. The implications of the political dimensions of the diagnosis are explored and the impact of stigma on those who have mental ill-health is discussed. The value of narrative research is highlighted, and the growing importance and increasing recognition of the validity of service user expert knowledge is considered. Using two stories to illustrate how professionals responded to me as a parent with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, I highlight the defensive practice I experienced and the assumptions about me as a person with mental ill-health. I reflect on how simultaneous feelings of power and powerlessness, accorded to my personal and professional status, are experienced in this context. This leads to consideration of the potential for service user expert knowledge, specifically in the context of narrative research, and how such knowledge expressed in stories and narratives can influence professional frameworks of practice. Schizophrenia is indeed a diagnosis of discrimination, but the presentation of service user expert knowledge through narrative research has the potential to overcome the experiences of stigmatization
Review of “Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare"
No full textThe following is a review of Peter Gøtzsche's Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare, which focuses on the corruption that exists in the pharmaceutical industries and in the healthcare system. The book recently received first prize in the 2014 British Medical Association (BMA) book awards in the Basis of Medicine category. This review reflects on and critically analyzes the contents and arguments of the book from the perspective of a future social worker.
