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Conceptualising care: critical perspectives on informal care and inequality

comprehending informal care, with a focus on issues of inequality and injustice. These bodies of scholarship—which, respectively, emphasise the political-economic, affective, policy, geographic, and ecological ... Healthy Societies, School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney Informal care occupies a paradoxical place in contemporary societies. It is at once

The Amendments that Mended America

Fourteenth Amendment, however, unleashed a multitude of political, legal, and social conflicts. It was proposed by the Republican Congress to permanently enshrine the contents of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 ... Reconstruction amendments because by analyzing the shortcomings and consequences that they had on the legal, political, and social state of America, these sources illuminate the amendments in a unique and nuanced

A Divided Front: Abolitionist Women's Suffrage Movement Through the Lens of Intersectionality

Reconstruction motivated historians to consider gender inequality in the political sphere. However, there was a lack of recognition of the marginalized voices when examining this feminist movement. Amidst the ... political sphere. Thus began the feminist movement of change and organized activism. She walks through the citizenship of women and the past ideal image of a wife and mother, free from activist culture, and

The Midnight Incendiary: America's Myth of Black Violence

bloodshed. White people were forced to arm themselves in response. Reynolds argues white people were at a disadvantage because whites were only organized in political clubs while Black militias were backed by ... and their lives from Black violence, and beyond this, were provoked to action for political reasons. Black militias, according to Randall, were politically corrupt organizations that supported a

'The Truth Only Dies When True Stories Are Untold': The Story of Reconstruction in New Orleans

1866” from his 1922 book History of New Orleans, Kendall covers the political and social climate of New Orleans surrounding the 1866 riot.2 In his view, the riot embodied a larger truth about ... Reconstruction in New Orleans: it resulted in unnecessary violence rather than progress. He argues that it was a result of manipulative political moves by the Radicals and repeated instances of black violence

Habits and the socioeconomic patterning of health-related behaviour: a pragmatist perspective

how broader social, cultural, and political structures influence and shape everyday behaviour (ibid.). According to pragmatists, changing habits is something that we do on a daily basis, at least to ... our way through the world . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Baert , P. 2005 . Philosophy of the social sciences: Towards pragmatism . Cambridge: Polity. Banwell , C. , J. Dixon , D. Broom , and A

The Colfax Massacre: A Culmination of Political and Racial Disparity

Culmination of Political and Racial Disparity Writing Process I wrote this paper for the interdisciplinary humanities course The D evelopment of Western Culture in a Global Context. My writing process consisted ... Culmination of Political and Racial Disparity Lian F. Mitzian For Radical Republicans, the end of the Civil War gave rise to many questions regarding how to establish an effective government and advance the

What is evidence as evidence is used? A case of dualism?

, integration agendas, evolving organisational landscapes, and demographic and political change, it is increasingly important to recognise the different meanings and uses of evidence. ... key argument, that evidence takes divergent forms, using a case study of health service reconfiguration in Greater Manchester, UK, culminating in a judicial review (JR). The background and political

Exploring the significance of relationality, care and governmentality in families, for understanding women’s classed alcohol drinking practices

practices women engage in. The interpretation extends scholarship on women’s drinking, by adopting a relational approach to identity and linking private care practices and alcohol use to social and political ... relationships, are important for all women, and are shaped by social, economic and political structures. Feminist approaches to care and governmentality Ethics of care ideas are an important area of feminist

Strength- and recovery-based approaches in forensic mental health in late modernity: Increasingly incorporating a human rights angle?

Forensic mental health care is situated across both criminal justice and healthcare systems and is subject to political, cultural, legal and economic shifts in these contexts. The implementation of ... health services. The term ‘late modernity’ captures these broad social, political and economic shifts. Garland (2001) proposed that these have influenced the development of two ways in which social

COVID-19 amongst western democracies: A welfare state analysis

fare any better than their Conservative/Corporatist counterparts once potential confounding economic and political variables were accounted for: countries’ economic status, healthcare spending ... . Starting from a political economy approach, this analysis uses the classic welfare state typology developed by Esping-Andersen (1990) as comparative grounds. A welfare regime, philosophically speaking

How US newspapers view the UK’s NHS: a study in international lesson-drawing

Healthcare on both sides of the Atlantic is a highly charged political and economic subject. This work considers US media coverage of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), an under-researched area ... growing political momentum in the US for a single-payer approach to healthcare (Draper 2019). Even after Joe Biden’s election to the presidency in 2020, the prospects for US healthcare appear to be fraught

Maimonides and Julian: A Guide to Love

questions and, in doing so, reconcile philosophy with faith. Two hundred years later, his ideas were echoed, with difference, incidentally in the writings of a young Christian woman from England. Maimonides ... , therefore, signifies purity and one’s ability to reach God. By studying Jewish philosophy, minds are purified and become prepared to receive divine revelation, so that the flashes of Truth can be perceived

Historical Interpretations of the Formation of Public Education for Freedpeople in Reconstruction South

addresses was that “the teachers from the North, it was alleged, became political emissaries among the negroes, organized them into 'loyal leagues,’ and impressed upon them the duty of voting the Republican

Reconstruction Out West: The State of Postwar Texas

of Reconstruction, with Texas standing out as a unique case of readmission to the Union. The state’s political turmoil during Reconstruction exemplified the disastrous effects of partisan politics ... a modern historian, I aim to understand the motivations behind policies in this era. Such research is necessary to create effective political, social, and cultural progress in the modern world

The Truth Untold: The Compromised Election of 1876

Reaction Sources in this category focus their examinations of the events from 18761877 on traditional political tactics used in response to a Republican claim to victory, with an emphasis on negotiations ... and the legal routes taken. These works center their analysis solely on the political aspects of the events while acknowledging the crucial role of the New York Times in reporting election results. As

Coronavirus, capitalism and a ‘thousand tiny dis/advantages’: a more-than-human analysis

materialism; Political economy - Accepted: 18 March 2022 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2022 Introduction Public health, clinical and behavioural science analyses of the ... , recent work has applied new materialist perspectives to the political economy of health and socio-economic position, replacing essentialist and aggregative models of ‘class’ with an understanding of the

The changing governance of welfare: revisiting Jessop’s framework in the context of healthcare

NHS to present a new political economy of health. ... healthcare The political economy of health and healthcare has an extensive established literature far too broad to present beyond a brief review here. Highlights include Marxist theorising on the formation of

Inequity in palliative care: class and active ageing when dying

“governmentalisation” of human existence (Rose 1990; Walkerdine 2003) , establishes a political logic dominated by a form of “human” profitability (Skeggs 2014). People should, thus, be “subjec ts of value” (Türken ... “equity turn” in palliative care research (2022) and advocates for researchers to take into account “the wider political, institutional, and economic conditions” (p. 10) in which poverty comes to exist and

Psychiatric diagnosis as a political device

, designed to control and contain disturbed behaviour and provide care for dependents. Hence psychiatric diagnosis functions as a political device employed to legitimate activities that might otherwise be ... . Social Theory & Health (2010) 8, 370-382. doi:10.1057/sth.2009.11 psychiatric diagnosis; philosophy of mental illness; psychiatry as social control; social construction of mental illness Introduction