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Eye on Ethics: The Importance of Ethics Consultation
No full textOver the years, ethics consultation—which is especially prominent in healthcare settings—has assumed various forms and tasks that can be usefully incorporated into many social work settings. Ethics consultation is typically available to practitioners who encounter challenging, case-specific dilemmas, for example, related to disclosure of confidential information, conflicts of interest, dual relationships and boundary issues, client consent to treatment, and termination of services to noncompliant clients
Commencement Program 2007
Get PDFThis commencement program is for baccalaureate and advanced degrees.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/commencement_programs/1120/thumbnail.jp
Ideas, Constructivism, and Complentarity in Insititutionalism
Get PDFColin Crouch recently chided the proliferation of institutionalisms (e.g., historical, normative, ideational, discursive, constructivist) as a growing cottage industry more focused on creating intellectual fiefdoms than extending political theory. In this vein, we can assess the recent constructivist institutionalism developed by Colin Hay out of the ideational and discursive institutionalism efforts of himself, Mark Blyth,Vivian Schmidt, J.L. Campbell and Ove Pedersen. This constructivism reproduces all of the weaknesses of the sociology of knowledge without heeding the contributions of critical theory, poststructuralism, interpretivism (e.g., Mark Bevir), polycontexturality (e.g., Gunther Teubner) or recent economic theory. We are challenged to represent a polycontextural sense of complementarity: as a framework within which seemingly incommensurable and colliding discourses can be regulated if not reconciled (e.g., Robert Boyer). Beyond the constructivists focus on policy-makers application of ideas, there is a need to test the warranted assertions and truth claims inherent within the practices of an institutional regime or legacy, along with the institutionalizing trajectory. This is an unfolding of categorical analysis whose immanent predicate logic within a context of situated agency provides the basis for critique. A more critically oriented institutionalism journeys into the interior of institutions beyond interestedness toward commitedness, toward the endogenous emergence of the argumentative logic of a mode of legitimation. There is a need to align institutionalist analysis with a theory of legitimation grounded in actors valuation of what is right
A Unified View of Base Excision Repair
Get PDFBase excision repair (BER) proteins act upon a significantly broad spectrum of DNA lesions that result from endogenous and exogenous sources. Multiple sub-pathways of BER (short-path or longpatch) and newly designated DNA repair pathways (e.g., SSBR and NIR) that utilize BER proteins complicate any comprehensive understanding of BER and its role in genome maintenance, chemotherapeutic response, neurodegeneration, cancer or aging. Herein, we propose a unified model of BER, comprised of three functional processes: Lesion Recognition/Strand Scission, Gap Tailoring and DNA Synthesis/Ligation, each represented by one or more multiprotein complexes and coordinated via the XRCC1/DNA Ligase III and PARP1 scaffold proteins. BER therefore may be represented by a series of repair complexes that assemble at the site of the DNA lesion and mediates repair in a coordinated fashion involving protein-protein interactions that dictate subsequent steps or sub-pathway choice. Complex formation is influenced by post-translational protein modifications that arise from the cellular state or the DNA damage response, providing an increase in specificity and efficiency to the BER pathway. In this review, we have summarized the reported BER protein-protein interactions and protein post-translational modifications and discuss the impact on DNA repair capacity and complex formation
\u27Many Feign As They Are Dead : The Counterfeit Death in Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado about Nothing
Get PDFExamines the function of the trope of the couterfeit death for two Shakespearean heroines, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Hero in Much Ado about Nothing. Using the plays, antecedents, analogues, and cultural materials, argues that the feigned death functions as a strategy for coping with the limitations and strictures of the heroines\u27 cultural environment; it helps them achieve their particular goals, in both cases a desired marriage. Thus, the heroines become active players in the plots, exercising a measure of agency by counterfeiting death, rather than passive victims of the patriarchal culture
Eye on Ethics: Facing up to Social Worker Sexual Misconduct
No full textSexual misconduct between clinical social workers and clients takes various forms. It may include overt and explicit sexual behavior—such as sexual intercourse, oral sex, or fondling—or sexually suggestive behavior, such as using sexual humor and making suggestive remarks or glances
The Top Five Social Justice Issues Facing Social Workers Today: Affordable Housing
No full textIt is essential for social workers to understand the magnitude and nature of this country’s affordable housing crisis and its implications for practice. The principal causes of the contemporary affordable housing crisis are complex. The demand for affordable housing is affected by increases in poverty and growth in the number of U.S. households. In addition to ordinary population increases, growth in the number of people needing housing also results from declining marriage rates and an increase in the average age at which people first marry, which postpone the combining of households
Cap and Gown Convocation Program, Spring 2007
Get PDFIncludes recipients, description and history of award, and Alma Mater sheet music.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/cg_convocation_programs/1027/thumbnail.jp
Ethnographic Field Research Methods
Get PDFPresents ethnographic research methods along with characteristics (evidential and non-evidential identities ) of an anthropologist that may affect his/her access to information and the quality of data collected. Offers several examples from experiences of field researchers. Considers Muslim North Africa as a region demanding attention to its specific cultural realities. Explores ethics and the role of the ethnographer