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Children, sexual abuse and the emotions of the Community Health Practitioner in England and Wales (1970-2000)
Get PDFA survivor of child sexual abuse felt that doctors missed opportunities to notice her distress when, at fourteen, she had an unexplained illness that lasted for a year. The cause, she wrote, was “explained by Doctors as psychological, but nobody questioned further. WHY??? … If adults don't listen[,] then we have no one to turn to.” For decades, community health practitioners have been identified as an important group in protecting children from maltreatment, but survivor testimony and agency statistics demonstrate that they rarely receive verbal disclosures or recognize the physical or behavioural warning signs of sexual abuse. The accounts we have of the 1980s tell of swiftly heightening professional awareness, followed by a visceral backlash in the latter part of the decade that discouraged practitioners from acting on their concerns. This article uses trade and professional journals, training materials, textbooks and new oral histories to consider why community-based doctors and nurses have struggled to notice and respond to the sexually abused child. It will argue that the conceptual model of child sexual abuse community health practitioners encountered in the workplace encouraged a mechanical and procedural response to suspicions of abuse. In a highly gendered and contested workplace, practitioners' feelings about how survivors, non-abusing family members and perpetrators should be understood were rarely debated in training or in practice. The emotional cost to the practitioner of engagement with sexual abuse, and their need for spaces of reflexivity and structures of support, were ignored
Gravitational and Retinal Reference Frames Shape Spatial Memory
Get PDFWhen reproducing the remembered location of dots within a circle, judgments are biased towards the centre of imaginary quadrants formed by imaginary vertical and horizontal axes. This effect may result from the heightened precision in the visual system for these orientations in a retinotopic reference frame, or alternately on the internal representation of gravity. We dissociated references frames defined by the retina and by gravity by having participants locate dots from memory in a circle when their head was upright (aligned with gravity) versus tilted 30° to the left (misaligned with gravity). We mapped the structure of spatial prototypes in a data-driven way using a novel ‘imaging’ procedure. We calculated the rotation of the prototype maps which maximized the similarity between postures, letting us quantify the contribution of each reference frame. Spatial categories are determined by a combination of reference frames, with clear contributions from both gravitational and retinal factors
Study on value symbiosis and niche evolution of the corporate venture capital ecological community for innovation and knowledge
Get PDFWithin the context that global scientific and technological innovation continues to break through discipline constraints and achieve cross-domain group breakthrough development, large enterprises are constantly seeking new ways of opening and enabling. Corporate venture capital (CVC) has become an important way for large enterprises to seize knowledge, achieve symbiotic innovation, and explore external resources. By employing the bionics research method and focusing on the symbiosis mechanism between large enterprises and start-ups, this paper conducts an in-depth analysis on the symbiosis motivation, the composition of the symbiosis system, and the symbiosis environment, and explores the evolutionary simulation after the increase or decrease of resource capacity, the intrusion of the innovation population, or the equipotential integration into the innovation ecosystem when the external environmental factors change to verify the coordinated development within the enterprise population and between the enterprise population and the environment. The results show that: (1) The symbiosis, self-consistency, evolution, spillover, and other effects within the CVC ecological community fully realize the “positive sum game” process of both sides; (2) The large enterprise population and entrepreneurial enterprise population in the CVC ecological community form a two-dimensional symbiotic system; and (3) When the resource capacity of the innovation ecosystem changes, the innovation population invades the system with a strong jump in the queue, and the innovation population participates in the system with a weak allelic fusion. This paper points out the influence, interaction, and evolution development laws between enterprise species, enterprise groups, and the innovation system environment and enriches and expands the theory of the relationship between venture capital and enterprise innovation
Could morality be a social construction?
Get PDFThe aim of this paper is to identify and evaluate some of the most serious objections to the view that morality is a social construction. Among the objections considered are the claims that this view is incoherent; that it over-generates moral truths; that it under-generates moral truths; that it fails to capture the modal status of some moral truths; and that it fails to account for the phenomenology of moral experience. In each case, the objections are found wanting. During the course of the paper, the social constructivist view is critically compared with a range of other metaethical views, including moral realism and other forms of constructivism
Communication about children’s origins among same-gender adoptive parent families in Belgium, France, and Spain
Get PDFObjective: This study explored communication about children’s origins among same-gender parent adoptive families.
Background: Although this topic has been widely researched among different-gender parent adoptive families, communication about origins among those with same-gender parents, as well as sexual minority identity dynamics relevant to this crucial task, remain unexplored.
Method: A sample of same-gender adoptive couples (N = 31) from Belgium, France, and Spain with children aged between 4 and 18 years (Mage = 8.9 years) participated in a semistructured interview and a graphic projective test aimed at explore their feelings and communication process about their adopted child’s birth family.
Results: Inductive thematic analysis yielded a continuum of three main stances conveyed by adoptive parents regarding their child’s origins: (a) critical/minimization, (b) cautious/uncertainty, and (c) open/validation. The first (critical/minimization) was associated with experiences of sexual minority stigma and poorer communication about children’s origins and sexual minority family-related issues, while the second (cautious/uncertainty) was characterized by mixed feelings (i.e., at times open, at times critical) in communicating about origins and parents’ sexual minority experiences. The third (open/validation) was associated with positive feelings toward adoptive and sexual minority family statuses, as well as identity integration as a lesbian or gay parent and low internalized sexual stigma.
Conclusion: Our findings underline the importance of sexual minority identity issues in relation to communication about children’s origins in same-gender parent adoptive families.
Implications: These findings have important implications for both adoption assessment and therapeutic work with same-gender adoptive parent families
Deeper in the pyramid: share of throat
Get PDFBook synopsis: Milk is polymorphic with an inclination for promiscuous collaboration, whether it be with bacteria, with cartoon avatars, with economics, pornography, genetic re-calibration or the politics of race. It is fundamental to all mammalian bodies, whilst also being one of the most technologised fluids on earth. Deeper in the Pyramid engages with the bio-economy and its representations, through the webs of care, exploitation and collective fantasy that interconnect life forms at every scale.
The work comprises animation, sculpture, and a graphic novel with writing by Melanie Jackson and Esther Leslie, taking us on a journey of lactic abstractions, through the webs of bio-invasion and collective fantasy that interconnect various life forms through milk, its technologies and representations. The ontologies of species and gender have always been shaped by our relations with this primal liquid, and ensuring a ready supply has driven research in genetics, fertility and robotics. It is now open for radical transformation as new bio-organisms emerge, and real science merges with the fantastic
Persisting Persistent Identifiers, or how much is actually preserved?
No full textA talk for the Digital Preservation Coalitio
'At the Movies with... Joanna Hogg' (interview)
No full textFilm director Joanna Hogg on literature and cinema influences on her film The Eternal Daughte
Is users rating becoming overpowering? The risks of inappropriate use of digital feedback
Get PDFDigital technologies have made it easy to generate and disseminate feedback on the performance of products and services. This technological advance has contributed significantly to reducing the information asymmetries between producers and consumers, between suppliers of public goods and users, and between politicians and citizens. It would seem that Web 2.0 has enhanced the effectiveness of the "voice" evoked by Albert Hirschman in the 1970s. However, is there a risk that the feedback provided and the connected numerical evaluation, the so-called rating, may become too invasive, so much as to constitute a concrete threat to the confidentiality of individual data? We propose to distinguish between three types of feedback: 1) bottom-up feedback, which occurs when many individuals evaluate and comment on the performance of economic and political organizations; 2) the transversal one, which happens when a series of individuals, in the same hierarchical position, exchange comments, appreciations and reciprocal evaluations; 3) the top-down one, which arises when organizations assign a rating to individuals. Based on our analysis, we also offer some suggestions to moderate the already existing risks
Integration of small-scale farmers into innovation management within contract farming companies in developing countries
Get PDFIn pursuing competitiveness and growth, contract farming companies recognise the imperative of innovation. However, innovating with small-scale farmers, who represent the majority of contractors in developing countries, necessitates a nuanced understanding of their limited resources, capabilities, and complex psychosocial characteristics. This paper focuses on the strategies employed by contracting companies, with a particular emphasis on the African context, to effectively manage innovation while integrating small-scale farmers into their operational practices. Case studies conducted with representatives from selected companies serve as the primary method for gathering evidence, which is subsequently analysed using thematic analysis. The findings indicate that contracting companies regard farmers as a fundamental source of innovation signals. In selecting innovative ideas, commonly employed criteria considering farmers are problem-solving potential, affordability, compatibility, novelty, and origin. Participatory approaches, data-driven decision-making, and tailored strategies of innovation adoption and diffusion mark the implementation stage. Continuous feedback collection from farmers fosters a dynamic, adaptive, and iterative innovation cycle. Significantly, the results offer a fresh perspective on the connection between contracting companies and smallholders in the sphere of innovation, providing valuable practical insights into the contract farming field
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