256 research outputs found
Natural history of HIV infection : progression in disease; specialty session
No full textMeeting: International Conference on AIDS, 5th, 4-9 June, 1989, Montreal, QC, CAPresenters: Robert J. Biggar, Stanley H. Weiss, Peter A. Selwyn, Aggrey Anzala, James J. Goedert, Randall A. Coate
Working with Risk and Uncertainty in the Context of Vulnerable Children
No full textThis chapter considers the concept of risk in the context of working with vulnerable children. In doing so, it defines the term and explores why it has become such an important concept in children and families social work. It then considers the importance of ‘good’ risk assessment in the context of working with vulnerable children, and indeed what a ‘good risk’ assessment might look like in this sense. It considers the role and predictive value of ‘risk factors’ but also the different ‘protective factors’ which might offer a source of resilience and be an important consideration in the practitioner’s identification, assessment and management of risk. The chapter outlines the importance of hypothesis formation and testing as a means of overcoming bias when working with risk. It discusses the different approaches to risk in the sense of risk-taking/management versus risk minimisation, and explains why the former is often preferable given the ‘unpredictability of people’ and relatedly, the impossibility of eradicating or totally controlling for risk. Finally, the chapter introduces a series of strategies for how social work (and related) practitioners can better work with risk in the sense of developing a shared understanding and language of risk; ensuring defensible over defensive decision-making; and in the context of overcoming resistance and cover stories, whilst ensuring partnership with the child, parents/carers and multi-agency partners
Teenage pregnancy – a social problem or public health issue?
Full text linkTeenage pregnancy is a global problem occurring in low-, middle- and high-income countries. Also known as adolescent pregnancy, teenage pregnancy is defined as a public health as well as social problem. Teenage pregnancy is not a new phenomenon and historically early marriage and having babies at younger age are considered as a social norm in several cultures. Evidence suggests that the UK teenage pregnancy rates are the highest in Western Europe and second only to the US in the developed world. As such, in this chapter, social, cultural, environmental and health dimensions of teenage pregnancy are covered bearing in mind that teenage pregnancy is not concentrated in one section of a society. The chapter demonstrates different dimensions of an individual life affected by her/his social settings and environment at micro and macro levels can have negative effects on teenagers’ sexual health outcomes. Causes and consequences of teenage pregnancy are discussed as well as lack of institutional support to those who are most marginalised and are at the receiving end of multiple axes of power and social exclusion. The chapter argues that in the absence of confronting socially disadvantaged positions of young women and men, leads to intergenerational cycle of poverty
Poverty: The Social Problem of All Time.
No full textThis chapter explores poverty as an enduring social problem, offering some critical understanding of what it means in the UK as both a concept and a lived experience. It begins by putting UK poverty in global context and considers some of its effects on people in British society, going on to explain the emergence of poverty as the focus of academic research and policy in 19th century England. The chapter then presents a range of definitions, measures and theories that have been put forward to elucidate what poverty is and what causes it, which in turn have influenced what has been put in place to address it. Examining some of the responses to poverty advocated by various political administrations and non-governmental organisations since World War 2, the chapter argues that the way poverty is understood alters according to the prevailing political, social and cultural context and in recent years there has been a propensity in the UK to attribute its causes and consequences to the individual flaws and imprudent choices of ‘the poor’ rather than the way in which society is structured and organised. The chapter goes in to explore some of the ways in which poverty has been represented by those with power and considers the relative powerlessness of people who live with poverty to contribute to any debate about how it might be addressed. The chapter considers the implications of this to the way people who live with poverty are perceived in society and how they perceive themselves. Finally, the chapter offers some thoughts on Universal Basic Income as a possible solution, ending with concluding comments intended to challenge the personal deficit discourse of poverty that dominates UK society today
A study of Ezra Pound's Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
No full textAbstractThis paper attempts to examine Mauberley, as it forms an important document of transatlantic modernist poetry and is a scathing satire on the prevalent literary scene in England. We seem to revel in announcing periodically the death of something/someone or the other. Many years ago Barthes declared that the author was dead although writers continued to collect their royalties duly. And now we are speaking of the Death of the Theory itself. In brief, this article attempts to analyze the death of art in Ezra Pound Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
Modernism, antisemitism and Jewish identity in the writing and publishing of John Rodker
Full text linkThis thesis examines the relationship between the English Jewish writer and publisher John Rodker and the modernism of the Pound circle. Previous considerations of the antisemitism of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot have either
ignored or cited in their defence their Jewish friends and acquaintances. This thesis shows that the modernist interest in the figure of `the Jew' took effect not only in
their poetry and social commentary but also in the social grouping which they formed in order to produce and circulate this writing. Rodker was both a necessary
figure to Pound's theory and practice of modernism, but one who had to be kept on the margins. This resulted in his being able to articulate certain aspects of his
experience as an assimilated Jew-loss, disconnection, feeling out of place place-while excluding any other possible aspects, including naming himself as Jewish.
Chapter 1 shows that Pound and Eliot's antisemitic statements and poetry functioned as part of the formation of the `men of 1914', and as a means of shocking their audience through a poetry of ugliness. Chapter 2 considers a printing error in Rodker's Ovid Press edition of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and reads it as a sign of Pound's failure to carry out his social and poetic project, a failure which he blamed on Jews, but, because this failure was inevitable, part of the task for carrying the project out was assigned to Jews. Chapter 3 reads Rodker's volume
of poetry Hymns (1920), and traces how his marginal position within modernism resulted in a poetry which did not directly address Jewish issues, but was affected
by his Jewish social position. Chapter 4 considers Rodker and two other Jewish writers, Carl Rakosi and Louis Zukofsky, who Pound published in The Exile (1927-
28), showing that Pound's interest in these writers was combined with an unease with them that played out in editorial decisions and means of framing their work.
Chapter 5 examines Rodker's Memoirs of Other Fronts (1932). His selfdescriptions of himself as a foreigner are shown to be still influenced by the Pound circle's ideas of Jews, but also reworked through his increasing interest in
psychoanalysis
Interactional Dynamics in Alcohol-Complicated Marital Relationships: A Study From India
No full textThis study seeks to understand differences in the interpersonal dynamics of couples living in alcohol-complicated and alcohol-free marital relationships in India. An ex-post facto cross-sectional design was used to compare 150 wives of alcoholics with an equal number of wives of nonalcoholics, who were administered standardized instruments to assess marital adjustment and family interaction pattern. Analyses show that wives of alcoholics have lower levels of marital adjustment and a poorer family interaction pattern across various domains, in consonance with the Western literature on these issues. Covariates analyzed included four variables such as type of family, type of marriage, consanguinity, and wife's occupational status. Implications for de-addiction programs in India are discussed and the need for couple/family-based therapy is emphasised
Report on Explorations in British Columbia: Chiefly in the Basins of the Blackwater, Salmon, and Nechako Rivers & Francois Lake:
Full text linkby George M. Dawson addressed to Alfred R.C. Selwyn
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