Occam's razor (i)

"2. The virus of encyclopedism in definitions should be
recognized and resisted. There is a role and a place for
illustrative detail, but that role and place is not in a
definition. Social science is content to tolerate excep-
tions to its theories—it is satisfied with explanations
covering most cases, not each and every one. In the
definition of strategic concepts, more detail inevitably
promotes less clarity and therefore less understanding.
William of Occam should be regarded as the patron
saint of wordsmithing for strategic conceptualization.

3. Ideas matter: Concepts for theory have practical
consequences. The way in which we behave strategi-
cally is not dictated strictly by the way in which we
conceptualize its challenges and intellectually order
our possible responses, but our concepts educate our
perception and interpretation of events, and they find
expression in the doctrine that shapes our behavior.52
Of course, strategic behavior should be adaptable to
unanticipated events, but frequently it is not. Strategic
and military culture can and does change, but at any
one time it is going to help mold action now in ways
organized doctrinally in the light shed by authorita-
tive strategy concepts." (p.46).

 
Gray, C. S. (2012). CATEGORICAL CONFUSION?: THE STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS OF RECOGNIZING CHALLENGES EITHER AS IRREGULAR OR TRADITIONAL. Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College. http://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep11257

meta - Care

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 ^{^} meta: parity of esteem in care - mental life and well-being

^* © 2021 Meta

Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model = 'meta-care'.

ERCIM News No. 128 Special Theme: "Quantum Computing"

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See also:

DORNELL: A Multimodal, Shapeable Haptic Handle for Mobility Assistance of People with Disabilities, pp.45-46. https://project.inria.fr/dornell/

 

RDf-star: Paving the Way to the Next generation of Linked Data, p.52.

 

Privacy, Data Quality & More in Data Spaces, p.53.

 

Restoring Prehension in People with Tetraplegia - A fruitful Collaboration between Research and Industry, p.55.

 

Raymonda ...

... Care Aesthetics :: Care Architecture :: 

Care Choreography :: Care Design :: Care Journeys ...

"An epic journey of love and courage.

Taking inspiration from the ground-breaking spirit of Florence Nightingale and the women who supported the war effort in Crimea, Tamara Rojo, Artistic Director of English National Ballet, creates a new version of the classic story ballet, Raymonda.

England, 1854. Raymonda runs away from her comfortable life to become a nurse in the Crimean War. There, she becomes engaged to a soldier, John, but soon develops feelings for his friend Abdur, a leader of the Ottoman army. As turmoil grows around and inside her, who will she give her heart to?

Starring a huge cast of dancers and a full orchestra, this lavish adaptation keeps the best of the 19^th-century original – its glorious and sensuous score by Alexander Glazunov and the classical choreography of ballet genius Marius Petipa – and updates it with a dramatic new story.

Introducing a heroine in command of her own destiny, and celebrating the courage of nurses and women who fought for emancipation, this beautiful production is guaranteed to thrill, move and inspire.

The original Raymonda is very rarely performed in the UK, where no dance company performs it in its entirety. This highly-anticipated version marks Tamara Rojo’s debut in directing and choreographing, building on her illustrious career as dancer and artistic director.

..."

https://www.ballet.org.uk/production/raymonda/

The Trailblazing Nurses of the Crimean War

My source: RCN Bulletin 394: Winter 2021, p.26.

 

Event January 2022: How VR and other technologies will impact the future of NHS service delivery

Hi all,

Hope you’re keeping well.

I’m working with the South-West AHSN to put on a Future of Care distinguished address in January featuring Health Futurist Dr. Shafi Ahmed talking about how VR and other technologies will impact the future of NHS service delivery; it should get Universities thinking about how our teaching and learning needs to develop.  I’m hoping it will be a really inspiring event for colleagues as well as our students at the University.

It will be an online as well as on campus event, although given the way Omicron is going could well be just online.

The event is planned for Thursday January 20^th 2022, 7-8pm.

I wondered if it would be possible to promote this within your organisations for colleagues to sign up to if interested.

The flyer is available online here > https://pub.lucidpress.com/future-of-care-event/

Best wishes

Rob

Rob Blagden

Director of Libraries, Technology and Information

University of Gloucestershire

FW103, Fullwood House

The Park, Cheltenham

GL50 2RH

Email: rblagden AT glos.ac.uk

My source: NHS-HE-FORUM list

Oncology nursing in the Global South during COVID-19

A new special issue published in ecancer includes narratives from oncology nurses across the world describing the psychosocial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on their family and work lives.

Oncology nurses and their patients face a double burden in Lower and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), where resources are limited under normal circumstances and now must accommodate pandemic-related challenges.  The special issue includes personal reports and narratives describing the the early psychosocial effects of the pandemic, for example lockdowns and increased staff shortages due to diversion to COVID-19 wards or vulnerable nurses with chronic conditions or pregnancy staying at home while some became infected with COVID-19 and died.

The significance of the oncology nurse’s contribution to the care of people with cancer is more relevant than ever before due to their role as the cornerstone of health services, either on the frontline offering compassionate care or in leadership, research and education.

The special issue is open access and can be read here:

https://ecancer.org/en/journal/special-issue/30-oncology-nursing-in-the-global-south-during-covid-19

Katie Foxall
Head of Publishing

+44(0) 117 942 085213 King Square Avenue, Bristol, BS2 8HU

HIFA profile: Katie Foxall is Head of Publishing at eCancer, Bristol, UK. katie AT ecancer.org

My source: HIFA

Alice ...

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Women's Rights begin..?

 

My source: 

Critics' choice, Life&Arts, FTWeekend, 19-20 December 2015. regarding: https://www.bl.uk/alice-in-wonderland

Image: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/carroll-illustrations-for-alice-undergound

See also:

Butt up against the Boxes...?

 

6th World Congress of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (WACP2022)

ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS 

15 - 17 September 2022 

pre-conference day 14 September 2022

What do we mean by 'culture'?

(draft - ideas...)

 

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As individuals we are socialised into one or more cultures, depending upon our formative years, parenting and guardianship. Individual capacities and opportunities to learn and life experiences all influence a person's self-identity, their relationship to others and the society in which they reside (when not excluded). A key concept here is salience not just for the person, but the people close to them and the community. Reality can be defined individually, and socially; but it is mediated and ultimately negotiated and determined (often legally) elsewhere. This is why education is so important (to all the literacies?), to all in realising their potential. This begins in infancy and early childhood and must be protected.

A scientific perspective, reference and emphasis on evidence at the expense of personal experience. An approach that might be characterised and described as reductionist. It may see the individual in a mechanistic way, as 'broken' with a deficit, often defined in neurobiochemical and increasingly genetic terms that may not be fully understood by the individual concerned. 'Space' here can be interpreted literally; as ability to respire, to live in - shelter, how much space is 'my space' to live in? Personal recognition, status and hence identity, may be accorded and prioritised by papers I possess, the borders proximate to and bounding my current location and the history (evidence) of my being here.

Sociologically speaking, culture and society are discrete concepts. Cultures vary markedly across the globe, and this richness is to be celebrated. It is here we try to 'sense-make' our own context and that of others and the 'world' - if the opportunities are afforded to us (the social determinants of health are realised). Culture is noisy. Its silence can be deafening. Its vibrancy can be joyous, exemplify humanity at its best. Its modes and mediums of communication can also be subverted and weaponised. COVID-19 continues to reveal the value and values of social capital, local community, belonging and relationships, cooperation and our interdependence.

Culture can also refer to the capacity of an individual and society to not only exercise choice, but the range of choices available, access in a cognitive and physical sense. The political culture can profoundly influence freedom, autonomy and self-expression that an individual may represent through several identities and social roles. The combination of these identities and roles contribute to 'make' them the 'person' they are (or should be). Were an individual is vulnerable the culture 'here' also determines the extent of participation socio-economically,  especially when the individual is alone, in poor health and cannot self-advocate. Societies and cultures need security, law and justice to ensure no one is left behind.

 

My source: twitter @wacp06

Register for ‘Vulnerabilised Individuals and Opaque Institutions’ Feb 10 2022

Professor Havi Carel

 

Join us for the Second Annual Joint Center for Knowledge,
Technology and Society Center for Nursing Philosophy lecture,
“Vulnerabilised Individuals and Opaque Institutions”
with University of Bristol Professor Havi Carel.

 

 

About the lecture

“In this talk I develop the concept of vulnerabilisation to pick out a large and diverse group of people who suffer vulnerabilities caused or exacerbated by their situations. I outline how individuals can be made vulnerable by interpersonal encounters and interactions with social structures. I then discuss vulnerabilisation in relation to what I call ‘institutional opacity.’

An opaque institution is especially problematic for individuals and groups already rendered vulnerable during their interactions with that institution, and a prime example are ill persons in the context of healthcare institutions, which I discuss. I articulate the features of an encounter between a vulnerabilised individual and an opaque institution and end by tracing two ameliorative strategies that could help repair this interaction.” — Havi Carel

About Havi Carel

Havi Carel is professor of philosophy at the University of Bristol, England. She recently completed a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award, the Life of Breath. She was awarded the Health Humanities’ Inspiration Award 2018 for this work.

Her third monograph, Phenomenology of Illness, was published by Oxford University Press in 2016. She was selected as a Best of Bristol lecturer in 2016.

Havi is the author of Illness (2008, 2013, 2018), shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, and of Life and Death in Freud and Heidegger (2006). She is the co-editor of Health, Illness and Disease (2012), New Takes in Film-Philosophy (2010), and of What Philosophy Is (2004).

Event details

Date and time: Feb. 10, 2022 | 10 a.m. Pacific; 1 p.m. Eastern; 5 p.m. UK
Event location: Zoom

Registration

You will receive a link to join the event upon registration.

My source: 

University of California, Irvine Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing | 252 Berk Hall, Irvine, CA 92697

Previously on W2tQ:

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search?q=illness

Links in original source rationalised to reduce any algorithmic penalties.

Fragmentation in Nursing ...

Jarrin, Olga F., "An Integral Philosophy and Definition of Nursing: Implications for a Unifying Meta-Theory of Nursing" (2006). School of Nursing Scholarly Works. 46.
https://opencommons.uconn.edu/son_articles/46

 - begins (page 2):

"From the frame of reference of mainstream thinking, a major issue in
nursing is our failure to achieve unity. ... From a feminist perspective,
the real issue involves divisiveness and fragmentation that sustains
oppressive relations in an industrialized, patriarchal medical system.
Remaining divided from one another serves the interests of the
dominant group. Rather than benefiting us, fragmentation in nursing
serves to confuse us, to keep our minds and hearts focused on the
dominant system for solutions that never materialize."

~ Peggy L. Chinn¹

 

"Fragmentation within the profession of nursing is still a pressing concern fueled by differences in educational preparation, specialization, disparities in working conditions, divergent worldviews, and, where I hope this paper will make a difference, a lack of a basic nursing theory that is easily understood. The following pages will lay the philosophical and theoretical foundation for a unifying meta-theory of nursing, which retains all the diversity of nursing while providing common ground for communication, both within our profession, and for better articulation of our work to other professions and the general public. The contemporary philosophical and epistemological grounding of nursing in systems theory is challenged, but not rejected, in this new vision for unification and growth of nursing as a discipline and a profession."

Previously on W2tQ:

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search?q=wilber

Draft paper: Abstract - "Society, Technology and COVID19 in Hodges' model"

"Society, Technology and COVID19 in Hodges' model"

Abstract

 

This descriptive paper explores technology, society and the COVID pandemic, curated through a generic conceptual framework: Hodges' model. Developed in health and education, the model provides an underlying structure and four care, or knowledge domains. Each domain can represent part of what would formally and globally be recognised as curricula. Of four prompts leading to the model's creation, one was to facilitate reflection and critical thinking. The COVID-19 pandemic makes Hodges' model an ideal tool to expatiate its socio-political and individual mental health impacts and technoscientific reponse. This will be demonstrated by using the model to reflect and critique the paper’s themes, exposing conceptual content, dependencies, relationships, stand-points, issues and opportunities. The pandemic has crystalised the irony of the 'information age' and a concurrent gift of an 'infodemic'. In response the paper's focus is the experiential impact of misinformation, fake news, ignorance, and literacies.

To begin, Hodges' model is introduced, then COVID, followed by society and technology in combination, an approach based on previous work that Hodges' model affords. Incorporated in Hodges' model, the political domain invites and facilitates dialectic critique. The model is situated, a product of the combination of structure and potential content. The awareness of various polarities, dualities, and dichotomies inculcates recognition of the 'middle' in whatever context the model is applied. This endows Hodges' model with a substrate inherently suited to deliberation and argumentation, namely, for example, subjective-objective, qualitative-quantitative, person-population, arts-sciences, demand-supply and dependent-independent dualities. The application of the model is explained with several examples, to reveal the convention for committing the model to paper. As will be evident, the author is located in the United Kingdom, but continues to seek - as with this work - a global perspective.


Keywords: COVID; technology; society; conceptual framework; Hodges’ model; ignorance

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The medical model of disability c/o AdsFoundation

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The Psychological model ...
The Social model ...	The Political model ...

 

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Hence the need for a bio-psycho-social-political model - framed with due regard for the spiritual.