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Ageing and development
No full textThis chapter argues against demographic approaches for understanding population ageing and development. It will argue for a critical, decolonial, sociology of ageing in order to understand how ageing is differently produced. Through this, we can counter the reproduction of ageism now embedded in Western knowledge production and deepen social solidarity
Sectarianism and queer lives in Northern Ireland since the 1970s.
No full textBook synopsis: Ranging from the mid-19th century to the present, and from Edinburgh to Plymouth, this powerful collection explores the significance of locality in queer space and experiences in modern British history.
The chapters cover a broad range of themes from migration, movement and multiculturalism; the distinctive queer social and political scenes of different cities; and the ways in which places have been reimagined through locally led community history projects. The book challenges traditional LGBTQ histories which have tended to conceive of queer experience in the UK as a comprising a homogeneous, national narrative.
Edited by leading historians, the book foregrounds the voices of LGBTQ-identified people by looking at a range of letters, diaries, TV interviews and oral testimonies. It provides a unique and fascinating account of queer experiences in Britain and how they have been shaped through different localities
Work
Get PDFEntry on the concept of work, in the Springer Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Law and Social Philosophy
Palmyra: city of churches and mosques
Get PDFReview of INTAGLIATA, EMANUELE E. 2018. Palmyra after Zenobia, 273-750: An Archaeological and Historical Reappraisal. Oxford: Oxbow. 168pp, 72 illustrations. ISBN 9781785709425
Swollen detail, or what a vessel might give: Agostino Brunias and the visual and material culture of colonial Dominica
Get PDFThis essay asks how colonial visual imagery might be interrogated alongside material culture in order to recover some knowledge of the quotidian lives of the enslaved. It encourages viewing that focuses on the material traces hitherto neglected by scholars: vessels for carrying fresh water. If archaeologists have focused on the tangible remains of pots, we suggest ways in which artistic representation might also offer insights into everyday living. Detail has become a recurrent theme in Art History precisely because it offers a methodology which allows the humble things of the everyday to become the focus of attention. Here we explore attention to detail as a way of thinking anew about colonial visual culture, focussing on the work of professional artist Agostino Brunias, a long-term resident of Dominica
Balancing prevention and respect: the ethical stakes of a psychiatric genomics lens for mental disorder and intellectual disability
No full textAbstract: Psychiatric genomics research and its potential clinical applications are motivated by an agenda of early intervention and prevention of mental impairments, including mental disorders and intellectual disabilities. Closer examination of the ethical grounding for this agenda reveals assumptions about the putative suffering of individuals living with mental impairment. This chapter critically examines this assumption in the psychiatric genomics agenda, exploring how alternative disability discourses must be integrated within the ethical framing of psychiatric genomics, particularly to draw attention to ways in which mental impairments can bear on individuals’ sense of identity and selfhood. The chapter highlights the conceptual and normative divergence between psychiatric genomics and disability approaches and suggests the need for further integration and dialogue between the two, so as to ensure engagement with and respect for individuals with most at stake with an early intervention and prevention agenda in psychiatric genomics.
Book synopsis: Psychiatric Genomics presents and synthesizes available knowledge in the field of psychiatric genomics, offering methodologies to advance new research and aid clinical translation. After providing an introduction to genomics and psychiatry, international experts discuss the genomic basis of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, personality disorders, anxiety disorders, addictions, eating disorders, and sleep disorders, among other disorders. In addition, recommendations for next steps in clinical implementation and drug discovery are discussed in-depth, with chapters dedicated to pharmacogenomics and antipsychotics, antidepressants and mood stabilizers, adverse drug reactions, implementation of pharmacogenomics in psychiatric clinics, and ethical issues. Finally, methods sections provide a solid grounding in research approaches and computational analytics, from using animal models in psychiatric genomics and accessing biobanks, to employing computational analysis, genome-wide association studies (GWAS), brain pathophysiology, and endophenotypes in psychiatric research
Relative predictive utility of the original and Autism-specific five-minute speech samples for child behaviour problems in autistic preschoolers: a preliminary study
No full textMany autistic children have co-occurring behavioural problems influencing core autism symptomology potentially
relevant for intervention planning. Parental Expressed Emotion – reflecting critical, hostile and overprotective comments
– contributes to understanding and predicting behaviour in autistic school-aged children, adolescents and adults and is typically measured using the Five-Minute Speech Sample. However,
imitations exist for its use with parents of younger autistic children and so the Autism-Specific Five-Minute Speech Sample was adapted with the goal of better measuring parent Expressed Emotion in the context of childhood autism. The Autism-Specific Five-Minute Speech Sample has not yet been used to explore Expressed Emotion in parents of autistic preschoolers, nor has the relative predictive utility of the Autism-Specific Five-Minute Speech Sample and Five-Minute Speech Sample been evaluated in the same sample. We compared the two measures from speech samples provided by 51 Australian parents with newly diagnosed
autistic preschoolers, including investigating their predictive value for concurrent and subsequent child internalising and externalising behaviour problems. While Autism-Specific Five-Minute Speech Sample Expressed Emotion and FiveMinute Speech Sample Expressed Emotion were associated in this sample, only Autism-Specific Five-Minute Speech Sample codes contributed significant predictive value for concurrent and subsequent child problem behaviour. These preliminary data strengthen the position that the Autism-Specific Five-Minute Speech Sample may better capture Expressed Emotion, than the Five-Minute Speech Sample, among parents of autistic preschool-aged children
What is 'useful' knowledge?
Get PDFA summary of the presentation "Useful vs ‘really useful’ knowledge then - and now? given on 24th February to the ‘Useful Knowledge 200’ conference organised by Birkbeck, University of London, as part of its bicentenary celebration
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