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William Pulteney Alison : activist philanthropist and pioneer of social medicine
No full textThe thesis looks in detail at three inter-related aspects of
Alison's life. It examines, firstly, his role in the development
of Edinburgh's rudimentary 'health' network, achieved through the
expansion of the existing medical charity structure and the
introduction of a more interventionist and coordinated approach to
the city's health problems. It traces, secondly, the development
of Alison's social thought - in 1820 he believed that medical and
practical relief for the poor could and should be supplied through
the voluntary charities and only when that proved unsatisfactory
through the poor law, whereas by 1840 he argued that public health
should be the responsibility of government and that the excessive
increase in poverty and disease in Scotland, which he believed had
occurred, was proof that the charitable and legal relief provided
was inadequate. Finally, Alison's influence on the passage of
Scottish poor law and public health legislation in the 1840s and
1850s is examined - the latter involving an assessment of how far
he was responsible for the legislative delay. The poor law debate,
1840-1845, which reveals the forces shaping the reform and the
prevailing attitudes to poverty, highlights the challenge which
Alison's opinions represented and the resulting turmoil in Scottish
social thinking, while his reasons for opposing health legislation,
which established London control are of great importance. They
reveal differences in the rationale behind, and way in which, the
concept of public health was developed in Scotland and England.
Unlike Chadwick and his supporters, Alison emphasised poverty
amelioration and sanitary reform. Part of the explanation for the
differing opinions lay in their respective miasmatic and
contagionist theories for fever generation, but it also reflects,
perhaps more significantly, the impact of European medical police
ideas on Scottish medical opinion - Alison's view of public health
closely resembled that of the French hygienists
Repositioning the graphic designer as researcher
No full textIn academic terms, the discipline of graphic design is relatively young. Consequently the position of the discipline within academic territory, and the role of the designer, continue to be debated. In part, these debates have been a product of attempts to define and defend the discipline’s borders from within, in order to establish a sense of the role of graphic design and the graphic designer as commensurate with other disciplines both within and beyond art and design. In recent years graphic designers have variously been defined as ‘authors’, ‘producers’ and ‘readers’, yet none of these definitions seem to have provided any kind of productive or lasting impact within the academy. This paper suggests that rather than continue to seek territorial definitions and positions from within, it could be more productive to look beyond the confines of the discipline. Gaining a broader, interdisciplinary perspective on, and understanding of, qualitative research methods from other disciplines may enable the graphic designer to more fully position his or her practice within the wider academy. Such a perspective could help facilitate the repositioning and redefinition of the graphic designer as ‘researcher’ - a move that would be productive in relation to the future development of postgraduate research within the discipline
Alison Thorne Oral History Interview
No full textOral history interview of Alison Thorne by Marilyn Warenski about status of women in Mormon culture
Detailed summaries of peer-reviewed journal articles with Alison Snow Jones as primary author
No full textAnnotated guide to the scholarly work of Alison Snow Jones, created by Lauren J. Bruce for inclusion in "An Uncommon Woman: Alison Snow Jones Unleashed!
Michael Rodriguez interviews environmentalist, essayist and poet Alison Swan
No full textAward-winning environmentalist and writer Alison Swan talks about teaching English and writing, but needing lots of time to wander in the woods. She also discusses her Michigan and Michigan State University connections, her family, the intriguing nature of the freshwater seas of the Great Lakes, and her intent to write more about the Great Lakes basin in prose and poetry. Swan is interviewed by Michael Rodriguez for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
“Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word”: Sexuality, International Human Rights, and Therapeutic Jurisprudence
No full textOne of the most controversial social policy issues that remains underdiscussed in scholarly
literature is the sexual autonomy of persons with disabilities. This population has faced a double
set of conflicting prejudices: on one hand, people with disabilities are infantilized (as not being capable of having the same range of sexual desires, needs and expectations as persons without disabilities), and on the other hand, this population is demonized (as being hypersexual, unable to control primitive urges). Although attitudes about the capabilities of persons with disabilities are changing for the better, attitudes toward persons with disabilities engaging in sexual behavior have remained firmly in place for centuries. However, the ratification of the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) demands we reconsider these attitudes. This paper will (1) review the history of how legal and social issues regarding sexuality have been
ignored and trivialized by policy makers and the general public; (2) highlight sections of the CRPD that force us to reconsider the scope of this issue; (3) offer
suggestions as to how states must change domestic policy to comport with CRPD mandates; and (4) Michael L Perlin* & Alison J Lynch**consider the implications of therapeutic jurisprudence insights for the resolution of these issues.Peer reviewe
Alison J. LaPlaca
No full textAlison LaPlaca wasted no time after receiving her BFA from Illinois Wesleyan in 1982. After seven leading roles in IWU productions, Alison landed a role in Diner (a pilot series for CBS) and went on to become a television series regular in \u27\u27The Suzanne Pleshette Show\u27\u27. She is currently seen as Linda Phillips in Open House , part of Fox Network\u27s Sunday night programming. Alison has also appeared on television in \u27 ~ Fame , Our House , Brothers , Family Ties , Remington Steele , and Cheers , along with several television movies-of-the-week . She has also appeared in three theatrical films: Madhouse! , When The Rain Begins to Fall , and Fletch. Ms. LaPlaca returned to Wesleyan in 1985 to speak to School of Drama students. We welcome her back again as the 1989 Outstanding Young Alumna.https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/awards_youngalumni/1027/thumbnail.jp
Letter dated 7 October 1973 from Wynne and Alison Thorne to Lorenzo and Zilla Richards
No full textLetter dated 7 October 1973 from Wynne and Alison Thorne to Lorenzo and Zilla Richards, responding to Lorenzo\u27s note of 25 September 1973 regarding not making contact when they were in Logan; Alison typed the response and Wynne added handwritten note; both were faculty at Utah State University%5 E. 3rd North Logan, Utah 8^321 Oct. ?, 1973 Dear Ren and Zilla, Ae were sorry to have missed you when you came. Dave and Allie said you had been here, and there was also a note in the newspaper that you had made a donation of books to the USU library. I was at park City for three days attending a conference on Family Values; a tremendous conference. All the necessary top people of the state were there; it was a Governor\u27s conference, and timed well apparently. Wynne in the attached note will tell where he went. 7e both hope you will be coming up again in that fancy traveling home, so we can visit with you. Jean Sandberg, Wynne\u27s secretary, went with us to Farmington the other day to see the chrysanthemum display and attend the opening of the new visitor center (financed by exp. station funds) and I had rot known till she told me that you are relatives. She is a marvelous person. Our fall colors this year have been out of this world; such vivid reds and oranges and golds, all at once somehow, in Logan Csnyon and over Uellsville Canyon. Were you too early to see them? Come again! -AA&UAALJ •LTTY* \u27Ab-rty yy*y*bc^ >*-t_J 7 [XyAL iyTLf-AKA A^yT^yyyz. J(^AA^yiyy) ^J CYAZAAO- /•TAyX ^Oty j/ ) „ &_ 7uy -^ c^AyyA-y^**^ 77 \u27s Qyfyfyy* jLA^^y^^yT^y^^^y^. ° yyf, 3 &A*^-f ^t \ZyTbAU C*Ayy^Ay^AAb ^"WS cfAAy /W P^A /ttU*rlAiy\ jtgyis^At& y^tyy (AAS^-yY* ^(17777777^ C<~J^ cryYf 7- Yiyis, *y-**A\u27cOAz*^-*^?-%y & ^^27777^,-^^ O^Y/TTyo-A ^^ACyly OUs\ <~*y. ASi^&*Ay yis?^-*-y
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