III. OPENING ADDRESS TO THE INSTITUTE ON PEDIATRIC RESIDENCY TRAINING

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 756-761
Author(s):  
Rustin Mclntosh
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Direct Experience ◽  
Simple Fact ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Pediatric Residency ◽  
College Undergraduate ◽  
Opening Address

MY EXCUSE for being here is the simple fact that Dick Day invited me. Not all acts of a benevolent dictatorship are self-explanatory. My contacts with the Board as an operating agency have in the past been minimal, even though I have known personally most of the Board members quite well. Being already a battlescarred veteran in 1936, I was privileged to be certified under the grandfather clause and never had the honor of being grilled in Board examinations. On one occasion, when oral exams were being held in New York, I served briefly as an invited examiner. This momentary exposure to the inner workings of the Board evidently disclosed that I lacked that little spark of sadism which, when properly compounded with benevolence and encyclopedic knowledge, marks the effective defender of the pediatric citadel; for I was never asked again. In my recurrent efforts to steer former residents along the course that leads to certification, to quell their jitters before they went up for the third degree, and to join them in their celebration after they had been told they had made it, I guess I must have felt much as the average college undergraduate feels when he stands around, watching the big shots being tapped for initiation into the secret Senior societies, and meditating on the fact that something vital is taking place with which he himself will never have direct experience. With this introduction I arrive at the obvious conclusion that my qualifications for telling the Board just what they ought to do remain shrouded in mystery.

scholarly journals Himalayan perceptions: Environmental change and the well-being of mountain peoples

1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack D Ives
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Highland Forests ◽  
Development Paradigm

Preview of Himalayan perceptions: Environmental change and the well-being of mountain peoples by JD Ives Routledge, London and New York To be published in August 2004 Himalayan Perspectives returns to the enormously popular development paradigm that Ives dubbed the ‘Theory of Himalayan Degradation’. According to this seductive construct, poverty and overpopulation in the Himalayas was leading to degradation of highland forests, erosion, and downstream flooding. In the ‘Himalayan Dilemma’, Ives and Messerli exposed this “Theory” as a dangerous collection of assumptions and misrepresentations. While most scholars in the field promptly conceded Ives and Messerli’s points, the Theory has somehow survived as the guiding myth of development planners and many government agencies. In his new book, Ives returns to drive a stake through the heart of this revenant. His book not only reviews the research that, over the past 15 years, has confirmed the arguments of the ‘Himalayan Dilemma’; it also takes a close look at all those destructive factors that were overlooked by the conveniently simplistic ‘Theory of Himalayan Environmental Degradation’: government mismanagement, oppression of mountain minorities, armed conflict, and inappropriate tourism development. Himalayan Journal of Sciences 2(3): 17-19, 2004 The full text is of this article is available at the Himalayan Journal of Sciences website

Research watch: tackling everyday exclusion

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 181-189
Author(s):  
Sue Holttum
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Marginalised Groups ◽  
Experiences Of Women

Purpose This paper aims to examine three recent papers on discrimination and exclusion that happen on a day-to-day basis in social interactions, known as micro-aggressions. Design/methodology/approach The author searched for recent papers on discrimination in the databases Psyc INFO and ASSIA. Three papers were selected addressing a common theme published within the past 24 months. Findings All three papers concern a US context. The first reports experiences of women with physical disabilities in relation to micro-aggressions. Based on focus groups with 30 women, micro-aggressions appear to be common and some cause considerable distress. The second paper reports experiences of 65 mental health peer support workers in a range of mental health services and finds micro-aggressions common for them too. The third paper goes beyond occurrence and type of micro-aggressions. Based on existing research, it proposes how members of marginalised racial groups can tackle micro-aggressions, whether they are the target, an ally or a bystander. Originality/value These papers show clear examples of micro-aggressions, making them easier to see. While the first two papers are each the first to document micro-aggressions for specific marginalised groups, the third paper is the first to bring together practical ways to tackle micro-aggressions in day-to-day life. There is potential for this to help bring about increased social inclusion and equity for a range of marginalised groups, and for a resultant benefit in the mental and physical well-being of many people.

Rodolfo Jacobson (ed.), Codeswitching worldwide II. (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs, 126.) Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001. Pp. ii, 371. Hb DM 178/EUR 91.01.

2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 772-775
Author(s):  
Rudolph C. Troike
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Major Topic ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Present Volume ◽  
The Subject

Widely impugned by an uninformed public – and even by many of those who practice it – with such derogatory terms as “Spanglish” or “Chinglish,” or “Pocho” in Spanish, codeswitching (CS) has emerged from marginal obscurity to become a major topic of interest among linguists of a wide variety of persuasions in the past 30 years. Weinreich (1953) famously denied that a switch between languages within a sentence was possible; the MLA bibliography now lists 900 titles on the subject, half of which have appeared since 1995. The present volume – the third edited by the indefatigable Rodolfo Jacobson, a pioneer in the field since the 1970s – reflects both this growth and the increasing breadth of interest that has occurred along with increasing attention to bilingualism generally in its many aspects and implications.

scholarly journals De Nederlandse arbeidssociologie 1984-2009: vooruitgang in kennis en discussie over uitgangspunten

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudi Wielers ◽  
Tanja van der Lippe
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sociology Of Work ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Main Determinants ◽  
Recurrent Theme

Sociology of work in the Netherlands 1984-2009: cumulation of knowledge and debate about its micro foundation Sociology of work in the Netherlands 1984-2009: cumulation of knowledge and debate about its micro foundation The article describes the development of the sociology of work in the Netherlands during the period 1984-2009 from three different perspectives. The first perspective focuses on the question how sociology of work as field of knowledge and as academic discipline has developed, and what have been the main determinants of that development. The second perspective is that of themes and hypotheses. Focussing on the themes of quality of jobs, flexibilization of the labour market and differences in the work of women and men, it is shown how debates developed and knowledge has grown during the past 25 years. The third perspective concerns the micro foundation of the sociology of work, which is the recurrent theme in debates about the discipline. The article concludes that the new challenges for the sociology of work are in research about the conditions of the contribution of work to human well-being.

scholarly journals Tokyo 1999 and Beyond

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hai Leong Toh
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Film Festivals ◽  
Joan Of Arc ◽  
Japanese Cinema ◽  
The Past ◽  
Opening Address

VIGOROUS JAPAN: TOKYO 1999 AND BEYOND This year, several new films by young and energetic Japanese directors stood out at the Tokyo Festival (30 October - 7 November 1999), an 11-day event attended by almost 120,000 festival-goers. In his opening address (graced by Luc Besson's Joan of Arc) the Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara told the audience that "for the past few years, Japanese cinema has lost its vitality, but I hope this situation will be reversed from this film festival." Ishihara caused a stir when he veered from his prepared speech to suggest a change of festival location from outside the "hectic and crowded" Shibuya commercial district "to somewhere nicer, where there is more greenery and better facilities available." True enough but the reality is that most major film festivals, whether in Hong Kong, Pusan, Singapore, New York, or elsewhere, are held in large urban centres with the necessary...

Street Scenes and other Scenes from Berlin - Legal Issues in the Restitution of Art after the Third Reich

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 819-831
Author(s):  
Anna Blume Huttenlauch
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Art Collectors ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Jewish Art ◽  
Art Scene ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
Street Scene

The news that Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's painting “Berliner Strassenszene“ (Berlin Street Scene) will be up for sale in New York on November 8, 2006 has stirred up the international art scene for the past two months. The sale was announced shortly after the Berlin state senate had returned the painting to the heirs of its original owners, Jewish art collectors Alfred and Tekla Hess. For the past 26 years the piece had been hanging in the Brücke Museum in Berlin and formed a cornerstone of the museum's expressionist collection. Bought, from public funds, in 1980, for a little over $ 1 Million US, the painting is expected to sell this fall for $ 18 Million to $ 25 Million US.

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