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Interview with Philip Gerard
No full textInterview with Philip Gerard, author and professor of creative writing at UNCW. Here, he discusses his background and education, the founding and structure of UNCW's MFA in Creative Writing program, and the concerns of memoir and creative nonfiction
Philip Gerard, 25th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textPhilip Gerard has published fiction and nonfiction in numerous magazines, including New England Review, Bread Loaf Quarterly, Creative Nonfiction, Hawaii Review, Hayden\u27s Ferry Review, and The World & I. He is the author of three novels: Hatteras Light, Cape Fear Rising, Desert Kill; two books of nonfiction, Brilliant Passage...a schooning memoir and Creative Nonfiction - Researching and Crafting Stories of Real Life, and Writing a Book that Makes a Difference. His most recent book is Secret Soldiers, about the first and last battlefield deception outfit ever authorized by the U.S. Army. Gerard has written shows for public television and radio. He teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Using discrete choice experiments in health economics: moving forward
No full textContents:Willingness to Pay for Health Care (C. Donaldson and P. Shackley). Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics: Moving Forward (M. Ryan and K. Gerard). Methods for Eliciting Time Preferences Over Future Health Events (M. van der Pol and J. Cairns). Economic Evaluation for Decision-making (A. Gray and L. Vale). Incentives in Health Care (A. Scott and S. Farrar). The Nursing Labour Market (R. Elliott, et al.). The Economics of the Hospital: Issues of Asymmetry and Uncertainty as they Affect Hospital Reimbursement (A. McGuire and D. Hughes). Measuring Efficiency in Dental Care (D. Parkin and N. Devlin). Ageing, Disability and Long-term Care Expenditures (P. McNamee and S. Stearns). Economic Challenges in Primary Care (A. Maynard and A. Scott). Equity in Health Care: The Need for a New Economics Paradigm? (G. Mooney and E. Russell). Economics of Health and Health Improvement (A. Ludbrook and D. Cohen)
The naked eye: vision and risk in the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins
No full textThis thesis takes as its subject vision and risk in the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844-1889. Because Hopkins's poetry displays so evident a fascination with the particulars of language, it is unsurprising that the critical tradition on his work has thus far been heavily dominated by matters of sound: by the verbal, the rhythmic, the musical, and the aural. However, in this thesis I move from the sounded to the seen, identifying in Hopkins's work a central preoccupation with the visual, with looking and seeing, and the possibilities and dangers inherent in each. Here was a man driven to look for beauty, yet this compulsion to look was matched only by a desperate desire to look away. I shall argue that it is this dichotomy, and the excitement of the many and various possibilities it engenders, that so characterises Hopkins's engagement with the visual world.
Born into a rapidly-changing late Victorian world, Hopkins was fascinated by sight and by the increasingly problematic act of seeing. He frequently characterises himself in explicitly visual terms, and his poetry is littered with numerous references to eyes, eyeballs, eyelashes, eyelids, and eyesight, in addition to many metaphors of sight in its various forms. He demonstrates a recurring notably obsessive anxiety over the health of his eyes and the acuity of his sight, yet repeated medical reassurance does nothing to quell his fears over his perceived loss of vision. Counter to, but inextricably linked with, this fear for the loss of sight is an intense awareness of the danger of sight. This paradox is central to Hopkins's conception of himself and of his roles as both poet and priest.
Chapter One considers Hopkins's engagement with the intensely visual Victorian cultural environment. Hopkins was a keen draughtsman and painter in his youth and for a while considered becoming a professional poet-painter like Dante Gabriel Rossetti, with whose family he was well acquainted. Although he decided to relinquish his artistic ambitions in favour of the priesthood, he remained a keen critic of art and architecture throughout his life. His diaries and journals, littered with sketches and accounts of visits to galleries and exhibitions, are fascinating for what they reveal of this intensely eye/I-driven individual, and the acute anxieties he experienced when confronted by beauty, in whatever form.
Chapter Two continues this concern with beauty and its inherent dangers, but now moves to consider Hopkins's often anxious visual encounters with other people. As a vigilant social observer, his writing ranges from delightedly detailed depictions of other individuals, particularly young men, to deeply uneasy descriptions of massed crowds and formless groups of people. This chapter shows a particular concern, as Hopkins did, with the purpose of mortal beauty, and the dangers and challenges it could pose.
Chapter Three develops the concerns of the previous chapter, by pursuing the additional dimension of people looking. In this chapter I consider a group of Hopkins's strangest and yet most celebratory poems, united by a concern with people looking at others who are themselves looking. With the uneasy concept of the voyeur never far away, this chapter raises questions about the moral, psychological and social dimensions of seeing within Hopkins's work, and thus I assess the meaning of licit and illicit sight, whether on the part of the benevolent or neutral observer, the systematic enquirer, the voyeur or the enlightened seer. This chapter argues that the dynamic nature of this relationship between perceiver and object, the seer and the seen, is central to his endlessly complex dialectic of vision and visuality. It closes by moving to consider the ultimate unseen seer, God. In the figure of Christ we find the ultimate exemplar of mortal beauty, and the chapter returns to the concerns explored in Chapter Two, now from a Christological perspective.
In Chapter Four, the concluding chapter, the concerns elicited in the previous chapters are pulled together in a discussion of Hopkins's longest and greatest symphonic poem, The Wreck of the Deutschland (1875-1876). This poem has at its heart an intense concern with seeing and the seeing of seeing, with the act of witness, and the role of the martyr, while foregrounding the reciprocal qualities of beauty and danger. The thesis concludes with a close reading of this electrifying poem about vision and sight in the many senses explored in the course of the study as a whole
Efficient purchasing in public and private healthcare systems: mission impossible?
No full textContents:International health care reform: what goes round, comes round The pervasive role of ideology in the optimism of the public-private mix in the public healthcare system Efficient purchasing in public and private healthcare systems: mission impossible? The public-private mix in the UK UK health care reform: continuity and change The mix of public and private payers in the American health system Political wolves and economic sheep: the sustainability of public health insurance in Canada Public-private mix for health in France The public-private mix in Scandinavia Public-private mix for health care in Germany The public-private mix in health services: New Zealand The role of the private sector in the Australian health care system Common challenges in health care markets Enduring problems in health care delivery. Contributors:Nancy Devlin, Cam Donaldson, Robert Evans, Karen Gerard, Jane Hall, L. Hartmann, Axel Olaf Kern, Rudolf Klein, Nicholas Mays, Craig Mitton, Martin Pfaff, Kjeld Pedersen, Uwe Reinhardt, Lise Rochaix, Elizabeth Savage, Alan Williams
Falling cholesterol trend at acute coronary syndrome presentation is strongly related to statin use for secondary prevention
No full textAbstract not availableThomas Chan, Bilyana Dabin, Karice Hyun, Isuru Ranasinghe, Lis Neubeck, Bernadette Aliprandi-Costa, Jeffrey Lefkovits, Gerard Devlin, Craig Juergens, Derek P. Chewh, David Brieger, S. Ben Freedma
Kant and Gerard on imagination
No full textAlexander Gerard, a schottish philosopher, is nowadays almost
forgotten, but at the time of Kant’s philosophical development he was a very
popular author and his works were translated to german. Kant mentioned Gerard
sometimes in his lectures on anthropology, particularly about genius and
imagination. A near analysis and comparing of their conception of genius and
imagination shows a significant influence of Gerard on Kant. Purpose of this
paper is to analyse this influence in the particular case of imagination and active
imagination.O filósofo escocês Alexander Gerard foi quase que inteiramente
esquecido pela história da filosofia. Mas na época em que Kant estava
desenvolvendo sua filosofia crítica, particularmente nos anos 1770, Gerard era
um autor bastante popular, tendo seus principais escritos traduzidos inclusive
para o alemão. Kant o menciona algumas vezes nas lições sobre antropologia,
permitindo assim documentar sua leitura. Este artigo procura mostrar a
influência de Gerard sobre Kant na concepção de uma imaginação ativa, peça
central da filosofia transcendental kantiana
Philip Gerard : an individual /
No full textMode of access: Internet."This first and limited edition of 'Philip Gerard, an individual,' printed for the Faculty and students of Drake University, and for the personal friends of the author, consists of five hundred copies. The number of this book is 98." Signed by author
Reconstructing embedded liberalism: John Gerard Ruggie and constructivist approaches to the study of the international trade regime
No full textIn 1982, John Gerard Ruggie published a study of the postwar international trade and monetary regimes in which he introduced the concept of ‘embedded liberalism’. A large and growing number of international trade scholars are finding Ruggie’s concept of embedded liberalism an appealing one, and it now occupies a significant place on our conceptual horizon. In this article, the author returns to Ruggie’s original article to excavate lessons which are peculiarly relevant for current trade law scholarship. He argues that Ruggie’s account of embedded liberalism usefully serves to destabilize common assumptions about the objectives and normative underpinnings of the trade regime and thereby to expand our conceptions of what a liberal trade regime might plausibly look like. On the other hand, he explains why he does not share the enthusiasm of those who see in embedded liberalism an attractive normative vision to guide WTO reform. In addition, and most importantly, the author draws attention to the constructivist theoretical framework of Ruggie’s piece. He suggests that Ruggie’s article provides a useful introduction to the central elements of constructivist thinking about international institutions and shows how attention to constructivist insights has the potential to significantly enrich and expand our understanding of the trade regime and of trade law
Office staff, Co-op
No full textThe photograph is of the co-op staff before or after its banquet at the Bank Hotel in Delta, Utah. Emil Sekerak is in the middle, wearing dark glasses. Next to him with the bow tie is Dwight Uchida, author Yoshiko Uchida\u27s father. Mr. Kanzaki from San Francisco is in the photo but it is not clear which man he is
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