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'I beseech you to take interest in these sacred domains so expressively called laboratories. Ask that there be more and that they be adorned for these are the temples of the future, wealth and well-being. It is here that humanity will grow, strengthen and improve. Here, humanity will learn to read progress and individual harmony in the works of nature, while humanity's own works are all too often those of barbarism, fanaticism and destruction.' Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)

Do we need more 'laboratories' in 2017?
Can we produce the researchers and other staff to fill the labs?
What labs should be prioritised?
What progress have we made in integrating knowledge since the time of Pasteur?
Does it matter?
How evidence-based is evidence-based?
Are laboratories more about analysis and hence reduction than synthesis?
Where are the social sciences exactly?

Happy New Year!

The difference that makes...

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So information, while a critical part of learning, is only one among many forces at work.	Information theory portrays information as a change registered  in an otherwise steady state. It's a light flashing out on a dark hillside (to borrow an example from the philosopher Fred Dretske) or the splash of a pebble breaking the calm of a still lake.
In either case, the result, as the anthropologist Gregory Bateson puts it neatly, is ...	"a difference that makes a difference." p.138.

Seely Brown, J., & Duguid, P. (2000). The Social Life of Information. Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Press, 138.

Book: Cure - A journey into the science of mind over body

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CURE: Book cover

Thunderstorm Asthma in Hodges' model

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anxiety - impact on respiration previous individual experience personal health literacy: "What I need to do when X,Y,Z advanced care plan: staying well, preventive measures (see below)	Breathing, Asthma Climate, Thunderstorms Pollen (rupturing?) 8,500 Hospital Treatment 1,900 Emergency calls in 5 hours Intensive Care at least 8 Deaths Protocols - metrics
Family, carer, community support Social media, warnings Provenance of information provided - community trust.	Health Services Emergency response / resources Disaster Management / Review

Melbourne thunderstorm asthma death toll rises to eight, The Guardian, 29 November 2016.

My source:
Davey, M. (2016). Deadly asthma thunderstorm kills four and leaves Melbourne reeling; &
Sample, I. (2016). Analysis, Doctors agree on why, but are less sure how. The Guardian, 25 November. p.3.

 

Update in italics - June 18th 2022, plus:

Bellomo, R., Gigliotti, P., Treloar, A., Holmes, P., Suphioglu, C., Singh, M.B. and Knox, R.B. (1992) Two consecutive thunderstorm associated epidemics of asthma in the city of Melbourne. The possible role of rye-grass pollen. Med. J. Aust. 156, 834-837.

Suphioglu, C., Singh, M.B., Taylor, P., Bellomo, R., Holmes, P., Puy, R. and Knox, R.B. (1992) Mechanism of grass-pollen-induced asthma. Lancet 339, 569-572. 

Knox, R. B. (1993) Grass pollen, thunderstorms and asthma. Clin. Exp. Allergy. 23, 354–359.

Ong, E.K., Singh, M.B. & Knox, R.B. Aeroallergens of plant origin: Molecular basis and aerobiological significance. Aerobiologia 11, 219–229 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02447202

Nasser, S.M., Pulimood, T.B. Allergens and thunderstorm asthma. Curr Allergy Asthma Rep 9, 384 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11882-009-0056-8

E Andrew, Z Nehme, S Bernard, M J Abramson, E Newbigin, B Piper, J Dunlop, P Holman, and K Smith. Stormy weather: a retrospective analysis of demand for emergency medical services during epidemic thunderstorm asthma. BMJ, 359, 2017.

Rabiee, S., Mousavi, H. & Khafaie, M.A. Thunderstorm asthma outbreak, a rare phenomenon in southwest Iran: patients’ perspectives. Environ Sci Pollut Res 25, 36158–36162 (2018).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-018-3478-9

Kevat A. Thunderstorm asthma: looking back and looking forward. J Asthma Allergy. 2020;13:293.

Luschkova, D., Traidl-Hoffmann, C. & Ludwig, A. Climate change and allergies. Allergo J Int 31, 114–120 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40629-022-00212-x

 

https://asthma.org.au/blog/tips-to-prepare-for-a-thunderstorm-asthma-event/


 

Time, Space and the Individual (ego)

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Images source:
How we think and speak

My source:
Gattis, M. (Ed.). (2001). Spatial Schemas and Abstract Thought, MIT Press: Cambridge. p.204.

The Space of Origin - Foucault

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"For us, the human body defines, by natural right, the space of origin and of distribution of disease: a space whose lines, volumes, surfaces, and routes are laid down, in accordance with a now familiar geometry, by the anatomical atlas. But this order of the solid, visible body is only one way—in all likelihood neither the first, nor the most fundamental—in which one spatializes disease. There have been, and will be, other distributions of illness. When will we be able to define the structures that determine, in the secret volume of the body, the course of allergic reactions? Has anyone ever drawn up the specific geometry of a virus diffusion in the thin layer of a segment of tissue? Is the law governing the spatialization of these phenomena to be found in a Euclidean anatomy? After all, one only has to remember that the old theory of sympathies spoke a vocabulary of correspondences, vicinities, and homologies, terms for which the perceived space of anatomy hardly offers a coherent lexicon. Every great thought in the field of pathology lays down a configuration for disease whose spatial requisites are not necessarily those of classical geometry." p.3.

"The exact superposition of the ‘body’ of the disease and the body of the sick man is no more than a historical, temporary datum." p.3.

Foucault, Michel (1973). The Birth of the Clinic. New York: Pantheon Books.

From: Individual To: Group and ...

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Ken Price - Pastel (1995)

My source: Wullschlager J. (2016). Critic's Choice, Life & Arts, FT Weekend. 10-11 December, p.16.

HAUSER & WIRTH Ken Price exhibition

Image source:
http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/artsandculture_museumsandculture/2013/07/19/ken-price-sculpture-a-retrospective/

BBC Radio 4: "We need to talk ... "

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We  (Well, there's an 'i' in humanity..?)	Need
to Talk	Ab-out

Death

BBC Radio 4: We Need to Talk About Death

100 Years: Nursing, History & Poetry

Book: The Great Convergence ( ...within Hodges' model)

"His [Baldwin's] framework posits three "cascading constraints" that hold back the globalisation of markets, namely the cost of moving goods, ideas and people. Initially, all were bundled together: early societies stayed where they were, passed down information to the next generation and ate what they grew. The first wave of globalisation that created the Great Divergence expanded markets via the falling cost of transporting physical goods, thanks to the steamship and the railway. ..." p.10.

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The cost of moving:  IDEAS	GOODS
PEOPLE	Book: The Great Divergence

Richard Baldwin (2016). The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization.  Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.


Beattie, A. (2016). Movement politics. FT Weekend, Life&Arts, Books. November 26-27. p.10.

Book: In Therapy - Intra- Interpersonal

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In Therapy, Susie Orbach

In Therapy, Susie Orbach BBC Radio 4 (My source)

Book review: In Therapy - The Guardian & The Observer

Book cover: Google