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The Thin Blue Front-Line
Published in Jamie Ferrill, Police, Organization, and Wellbeing, 2023
By interpreting the problem of wellbeing through such presented gaps between how life is and how it ought to be, patterns emerge, which ultimately provide order to the social concept of wellbeing. As such, in this book, the focus is on the existence of multiple wellbeings throughout the organization, emerging from patterns of both individual and group processes and the relationship between those. Discernibly, there are differences between these expressions from front-line officers and how senior managers conceptualize wellbeing, which will be addressed in the following chapter.
Does Personhood Begin at Birth?
Published in Christopher Kaczor, The Ethics of Abortion, 2023
Taking a similar position and offering further reasons to distinguish between killing infants and killing human fetuses, H. Tristram Engelhardt, in his article, “Sanctity of Life and the Concept of a Person,” follows Warren in marking the distinction between persons and mere human beings in such a way that renders newborn human beings nonpersons. Engelhardt speaks of a “social concept of person.” He invokes this social concept of a person in some instances where a human being is not strictly speaking a person but should be accorded the social status of personhood anyway. Why grant such status to newborns? Engelhardt offers several reasons (2000, p. 81): First, the infant is biologically human and so deserves a modicum of respect. Second, newborns are also able to engage in a minimum of social interaction. Third, a human fetus can survive regardless of social recognition; a newborn cannot survive regardless of social recognition. Fourth, forbidding infanticide helps preserve trust in families, nurtures important virtues of care and solicitude toward the weak, and assures the healthy development of children. Fifth, Engelhardt notes that there is value in protecting whatever looks and acts in human fashion (2000, p. 82). Finally, human infants will become persons strictly speaking and actions taken against infants injure the persons they will become (2000, p. 82).
Whence the Drugs?
Published in Mickey C. Smith, E.M. (Mick) Kolassa, Walter Steven Pray, Government, Big Pharma, and the People, 2020
Mickey C. Smith, E.M. (Mick) Kolassa, Walter Steven Pray
I have chosen “the Pill” for my next product candidate. There are, of course, many “pills”, but the oral contraceptive as a social concept required much more than pharmacology and chemistry to reach the marketplace and to stay there. Carl Djerassi, in his very personal survey of the state of contraception published nearly 20 years ago, quoted Aldous Huxley from more than 20 years earlier: “Most of us choose birth control – and immediately find ourselves confronted by a problem that is simultaneously a puzzle in physiology, pharmacology, sociology, psychology and even theology” (467).
“He’s not fat, he just has asthma”: a qualitative study exploring weight management in families living with pediatric asthma
Published in Journal of Asthma, 2022
Rebecca Clarke, Gemma Heath, Prasad Nagakumar, Helen Pattison, Claire Farrow
In this study families also reported environmental challenges that created barriers to weight management, such as the obesogenic food environment, the risk assessment of exercise environments and lack of weight management services (8,9,28). Specific to living with asthma, seasonal asthma triggers and anticipated social outcomes of breathlessness were identified as influences on exercise engagement (29–30) As CYP with asthma and overweight are more likely to have seasonal asthma symptoms, it is also possible that a perpetuating cycle of seasonal asthma symptoms, outdoor physical activity avoidance and weight gain can develop (29). It may be beneficial for HCPs to recommend that families explore indoor activity opportunities during months perceived to carry an increased risk to asthma control (5). Furthermore, HCPs may need to consider CYP’s social-concept when considering their exercise engagement. Hughes and colleagues (31) theorized that young people with asthma would reduce physical exertion if exercise-induced asthma symptoms was perceived as unappealing to peers. Techniques to overcome this barrier may offer an opportunity to increase exercise engagement at this age (23).
Queering Poetics: The Impact of Poetry on LGBT+ Identity in Singaporean Adolescents
Published in Journal of Homosexuality, 2020
This points to a need for further research to examine how literature (poetry or otherwise) contributes to the construction of identity of queer individuals in oppressive societies (Singapore or otherwise). Such research might follow queer individuals from childhood to adulthood, tracking how poetry contributes to the evolution of their queer identities, or further delve into how and why poetry and literary communities provide an ideological or physical third space for oppressed adolescents. Investigating this subject further would greatly contribute to queer theory, literary theory, and broader society by raising awareness of the role of poetry in the formation of the identities of queer people. Such research would also expand the social concept of identity by highlighting the complexities of identity development across literature, queerness, and oppression.
Gerontechnological factors affecting successful aging of elderly
Published in The Aging Male, 2020
The social concept of aging has been tried to be explained by the theory of activity developed by Havighurst in 1960 [13]. It is demonstrated by this theory that continuing activities and social roles are important factors affecting aging. Social inactivity will push people into misery, so that the individual will become isolated from the social point of view and will become obsolete. The biologically aging individual is thus accelerating with the loneliness and unhappiness situations [16]. Studies show that active individuals who integrate with the society feel healthier in spiritual and physical terms than their inactive individuals and that their happiness is higher [17].