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'Dentistry is high on the public and political agenda. There have been dozens of headlines about access to NHS dentistry, with some people having to travel huge distances to find a dentist, or being put onto long waiting lists to get an NHS appointment.
In this episode of Inside Health, James Gallagher is joined by chairman of the British Dental Association Eddie Crouch, the Oral Health Foundation's Dr Rachael England, and consultant oral surgeon Tom Thayer. Together, they drill into the issues surrounding NHS dentistry. Along the way, they discuss possible solutions, whether contract reforms will help, and the potential future of dentistry in the UK.
Presenter: James Gallagher
Producers: Alice Lipscombe-Southwell and Thomas Hunt
Production coordinator: Stuart Laws
Content editor: Ilan Goodman'
Source & image: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002r3nn
Latest paper re. Hodges' model:
S. Bettiol, P. Jones, H. A. Onyedikachi, and W. G. Kernohan, (2026) Bridging Gaps in Oral Health Frameworks: Mapping With Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model, Journal of Public Health Dentistry. 1–14, https://doi.org/10.1111/jphd.70034
| Mental Intelligence |  We Are Movement - Unlocking Your Physical Intelligence |
... ever increasing 'artificial' intelligence here . . .? |
"We? |
Wayne McGregor (2026) We are Movement: Unlocking Your Physical Intelligence. London: Bloomsbury. (Book cover) https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/we-are-movement-9781526629531/
My source: Nadia Beard, Our bodies, ourselves. Life&Arts, FTWeekend, 17-18 January, 2026. p.9.
Previously: 'movement' : 'dance' : 'intelligence' : 'art' : 'body' : 'AI'
^. . . help me find (a) the notation?
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'Many of us will have experienced playing with the interaction of our breath on shiny surfaces such as windows and mirrors, allowing us temporary fields of condensation in which to doodle thoughts or messages. In emergency situations a mirror or shiny surface is held in front of the mouth of a subject to confirm whether or not they are breathing. The Breathe series makes use of these dynamics. The breath of a series of individuals was captured on a shiny copper surface and then etched to create a negative of the breath where it sat on the copper plate. The result is a series of evocative landscapes. This work employs and yet subverts traditional printing processes. The inscription of spent breath onto precious metal immortalises a discharge and presents an alternative to portraiture.' Jayne | Reflection - Reflexive Resuscitation  mirror |
Wilton - is a visual artist who explores the breath as a unit of exchange between people and their environments. Her practice uses darkroom processes with drawing, photography, video and sound to capture the usually invisible trace of breath as it moves across a surface. www.jaynewilton.com |
My source and thanks to Jayne Wilton:
Jayne Wilton. Breathe, Artist's Statement. Resurgence & Ecologist, July/August2023: 339: p.47 & (p.49 image).
Previously: 'breathing' : 'reflex' : 'reflection' : 'art'
Over time I have equated the center of Hodges' model with a nexus. Framing the whole model as a chaotic system, comprised of four domains, with two (or more?) Lorenz attractors, how do we make sense of what is going on?
A previous post visited this too: Threshold Concepts: Reflection on chaos, complexity and AI
Reading Order and the Virtual the new vocabulary, provides glimpses. The perspectives I'm adopting are no doubt naive and favour my context. If we freeze the situation from the center - the nexus the variables, parameters are frozen within their respective domains and tracks around the attractors. They tell us little (now), for obvious reasons, but (with AI and) acknowledging the social and political is a huge step forward (in healthcare).
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| Order and the Virtual |
'The word 'appetition' occurs not infrequently in Whitehead's work, though his own coining is 'prehension`. Both words convey essentially the same import. All individuals 'prehend' all others - the entire universe is expressed through the relations pertaining to any given individual therein.36 Prehension belongs cqually to the event as to the conscious decision. The 'nexus' or 'actual occasion' is the outcome of prior appetitive or prehensive enfolding for Whitehead as it is for Leibniz, and the aggregate of past prehensions shapes the future of the individual. The crucial refinement comes with the term 'negative prehension'.
For Whitehead, accepting those same tenets that characterise Leibniz's metaphysics, the interconnection of all things and the tendency of systems to enfold elements from their total situation, negative prehension is a necessary corollary to positive appetition. It belongs to the 'principle of limitation' which Whitehead saw as a necessary supplement to Spinozist metaphysics, and which we shall encounter in some detail in following chapters.'
It helps me, that Spinoza is heard here.
'Instead of how is it that all things are interconnected, the question becomes, "Given that all things are interconnected, how is it that individuation is possible?'
Before recourse to Lorenz's butterflies, I saw 'oscillations', a constant swing from individual to other(s); then back again.
`Every present state of a simple substance is a natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future',37 (all p.47.)While concerning a 'simple substance', is this a prelude to self-care and preventive health care?
I noted in pencil: In Hodges' model 'nexus' is framed as the now - that just was. Ross carries on to discuss 'the multiplicity of components in the nexus can enter explicit feeling as contrasts.' p.48.
Yes. 'The local and global are entwined' p.49; and now with the glocal too. Ross points out how Deleuze draws upon Simondon's treatment of the organic and inorganic within the same framework, p.50.
I've also been reminded about resolving some abbreviations:
https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2025/07/axiomatic-simondon.html
Many thanks to Edinburgh University Press for my review copy.
My partner and I both received a letter today from our respective GPs. An invitation for a 'FREE LUNG HEALTH CHECK'.
Overleaf is an information sheet in landscape about the health check, plus three more sides of A4, similarly formatted - inviting trifold presentation.
After the 'Re. ......' an opening sentence asks: 'Have you ever been a smoker?'
Suddenly, I was dragged backwards through his-tory (some things don't change); not one history, but several:
My personal and life experience and not just since my teens . . . | The letter states: **If you have never smoked, you are not eligible for this service** |
My mother and father smoked when I was a child and my siblings. They got the message early 1980s. 'Society' smoked back then! Once old enough, I refused to go to the corner shop. Into the 1990s, patients, smoking (some chain-smoking) on admission, long-stay and other clinical areas. As a community mental health nurse, I learned diplomatic and health promoting skills when in the car, giving a patient a lift to hospital. And, when visiting their home where I was, of course, usually, a guest. |
I wondered what has happened to the GP's records? To the primary care clinical record ? The custodians of my health record, that they should need to ask that question? Or, does confidentiality tie some bureaucratic knots? Where is 'integrated care' and its driver 'clinical informatics'? The letter included the NHS Number. Don't get me wrong, I/we appreciate the obvious effort here, even if the chronology is confusing, or, speaks of afterthought? The letters are dated 19/06/2025. I must admit I haven't accessed my GP record, checking it for accuracy. If anything, this is a prompt to do so. And seek a general medical. |
Despite decades of national and global strategies, persistent inequities in oral health outcomes, access, and service provision remain. Existing frameworks often fail to integrate clinical and behavioral factors with social, cultural, and political determinants. This study aimed to map and evaluate oral health frameworks using Hodges' Health Career—Care Domains-Model (HCM), a meta-framework that spans clinical, behavioral, sociological, and political domains. The goal was to identify conceptual gaps and opportunities for greater integration.
A structured scoping review was conducted using MEDLINE, CINAHL, EBSCO, and search engine Google Scholar (1995–2025) to identify oral health-related conceptual frameworks. Frameworks were eligible if they addressed oral health determinants, behaviors, policies, or interventions. Two reviewers independently screened records and analyzed full-text articles. Frameworks were categorized by theoretical orientation and mapped against the four HCM domains to identify patterns of emphasis or omission.
HCM proved useful for systematically comparing
frameworks and revealed consistent underrepresentation of political and
structural domains. It offers a practical tool for oral health
professionals, educators, and policymakers developing integrated oral
health models that align with equity, sustainability, and universal
health coverage goals.
S. Bettiol, , , and , “ Bridging Gaps in Oral Health Frameworks: Mapping With Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model,” Journal of Public Health Dentistry (2026): 1–14,
https://doi.org/10.1111/jphd.70034
Ingela Ihrman - First Came the Landscape
Beech wood
'First Came the Landscape is a giant stick skeleton made from the trunk, limbs and branches of a single beech tree that was blown down during Storm Eunice in 2022. . . .'
https://www.edenproject.com/visit/things-to-do/first-came-the-landscape
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My source: Anna Souter & Ingela Ihrman. 'First came the landscape'. Resurgence & Ecologist, May/June 2023. 338: pp.44-46.
See also: https://www.edenproject.com/visit/things-to-do/first-came-the-landscape
Attention constitutes one of the most fundamental yet under-theorized dimensions of human experience. Despite its centrality to perception, cognition, action, and intersubjectivity, the philosophical investigation of attention as a concept in its own right remains surprisingly underdeveloped. This international conference represents the first major initiative of a four-year research program (2025-2029) dedicated to establishing the philosophy of attention as a major field of contemporary philosophical inquiry.
The philosophical engagement with attention has deep historical roots. Already in ancient Greek thought, we find attention implicitly at stake in the Socratic contrast between an 'examined' and an 'unexamined' life and in the dialectical reform of ordinary reason pursued throughout Plato's dialogues. Medieval philosophy anticipates later developments through its emphasis on representation and intentionality (intentio), particularly in the works of Augustin, Aquinas and Duns Scotus. Yet it is only with Descartes's Meditations that attention receives explicit philosophical treatment, emerging as the crucial mediating link between radical doubt and epistemic certainty. This Cartesian innovation opens a rich trajectory of reflection, pursued by thinkers as diverse as Malebranche, Berkeley, Locke, and Wolff.
The scope of philosophical inquiry into attention expands dramatically from the late 18th century onwards. No longer confined to epistemological questions, attention becomes central to investigating the fundamental structures of subjectivity itself. French spiritualism, phenomenology, and philosophies of existence explore how attention relates to apperception, sensation, emotion, and volition—a trajectory that runs from Maine de Biran and Bergson through the phenomenological movement, encompassing figures from Paul Ricoeur to Michel Henry. Meanwhile, William James's psychological and philosophical investigations, along with later thinkers like Merleau-Ponty, Simone Weil, and Iris Murdoch, demonstrate attention's significance across multiple philosophical domains.
Indeed, contemporary philosophy recognizes attention as fundamental to a remarkable range of inquiries. In ethics, attention emerges as an essential vehicle for exercising personal and collective virtues. Aesthetics invokes attention in debates about the nature of beauty and our engagement with works of art—their creation, appreciation, and critique. Social and political philosophy identifies attention as a central component of the modern media landscape, where it functions as a valuable and increasingly contested economic resource. Environmental philosophy calls upon attention to help conceptualize our evolving and often precarious relationship with the natural world. Across these diverse contexts, attention appears as a fundamental human capacity whose nature and quality largely determine the kinds of bonds we can establish with each other and our surrounding world.
This conference seeks to bring these rich historical engagements into systematic dialogue with contemporary philosophy. We welcome contributions from all philosophical traditions and approaches, including but not limited to: the reflexive tradition, hermeneutics, phenomenology, empiricist and analytic philosophy, philosophy of mind, cognitive science, pragmatism, and non-Western philosophical traditions. We aim to explore how different philosophical frameworks have conceptualized attention's structure, dynamics, and normative dimensions, and how these varied perspectives can illuminate both historical debates and current research.
Full details: international conference: the concept of attention
Image: https://www.wikiart.org/en/theo-van-doesburg/heroic-movement-1916
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| Brian E. Hodges - c/o Brian's family. |
Born in Liverpool, UK.
Community Mental Health Nurse NHS, Part-time Lecturer,
Researcher Nursing & Technology Enhanced Learning
Registered Nurse - Mental Health & General
Community Psychiatric Nursing (Cert.) MMU
PG Cert. Ed.
BA(Joint Hons.) Computing and Philosophy - BIHE - Bolton
PG(Dip.) Collaboration on Psychosocial Education [COPE] Univ. Man.
MRES. e-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning, Lancaster Univ.
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