Mechanisms, Individuals and Collective

Last week I joined a webinar:

 

https://www.biokoinos.org/events

BioKoinos Research Seminar

Saúl Pérez González & Elena Rocca - 

Evidence-based and patient-centred clinical practice. The bridging role of evidence of mechanism.

  

I have mapped some of the concepts to Hodges' model. A link to the paper is included below. The session was very helpful, especially with ongoing developments in genomics and personalised medicine.

 

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patient-centred evidence safety of a certain intervention for a particular patient safety efficacy	individual - epidemiology - population patient-centred evidence safety of a certain intervention for a particular patient biology pathophysiological mechanism prediction ... confirming and disconfirming - depending on whether or not it supports that certain epidemiological results apply to the single patient.
evidence safety efficacy	evidence safety efficacy

Pérez-González, S., & Rocca, E. (2022). Evidence of Biological Mechanisms and Health Predictions: An Insight into Clinical Reasoning. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 65(1), 89-105.  

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/20364/1/Postprint%20Evidence%20of%20biological%20mechanisms%20and%20health%20predictions.pdf

 

Re-Inventing Schizophrenia: Updating the Construct

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Schizophrenia Research
	Re-Inventing Schizophrenia: Updating the Construct

Re-Inventing Schizophrenia: Updating the Construct. Edited by Rajiv Tandon, Matcheri Keshavan, Henry Nasrallah. Schizophrenia Research. Volume 242, Pages 1-150 (April 2022).

My source:
https://twitter.com/JeroticStefan/status/1508898715473530888?s=20&t=X61DSrPzEyLvX-FhzY5r-A

Need for bio-psycho-socio-POLITICAL perspectives - spiritual too.

Previously on W2tQ: DSM

 

Peine Perdue, Lost Cause* c/o Anaïs Charras

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Peine Perdue/Lost Cause (2021) Drypoint on copper, chine collé (Bunkoshi paper), 340 x 500 mm. Edition: 12

 

My source: Anaïs Charras [image], Artist's Eye. Printmaking Today, Vol 31, Issue 121, Spring 2022, p.50.

*We - the people - can, must and will prevail.

Related post: https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2020/11/self-care-tree-girl.html

 

Call for Chapters - Book on Digital Literacy

 Dear "HIFAers",

I hope my message finds you well and safe!

A new IFLA book on Digital Literacy will be published by DeGruyter-Saur in the IFLA Publication Series. Some of you might be interested in the following call for chapters (deadline for proposals: March 31):

https://www.ifla.org/news/call-for-chapters-book-on-digital-literacy/

Call for Chapters - Book on Digital Literacy 

Title: Libraries Empowering Society through Digital Literacy 

Editors: Dr Prudence Dalrymple, Ms Heather Todd, Dr Luisa Marquardt, Mr ...

www.ifla.org
Best regards.
Luisa Marquardt
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Dr. Luisa Marquardt
Cattedra di Bibliografia e Biblioteconomia
*Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione (via Principe Amedeo, 182/a)*
*Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici (via Ostiense, 234/236)*
Università degli Studi "Roma Tre"
sito web

HIFA profile (and my source): Luisa Marquardt teaches Library and Information Science. She is interested in literacy of different types (e.g., Media and Information, Health, Visual etc.) and the educational role of libraries in equipping their patrons with the multiple literacies needed in our challenging (and challenged), ever-changing and high-demanding societies. luisa.marquardt AT uniroma3.it

"How Universities Have Betrayed Reason and Humanity—And What's to Be Done About It" c/o Nicholas Maxwell

In order to make progress towards a good, civilized world – one in which there is peace, democracy, justice, individual liberty, and sustainable prosperity, for everyone – we need to learn how to do it. That in turn requires that our institutions of learning, our universities, are rationally designed and devoted to the job. They are not. For a century or so, they have pursued knowledge and technological know-how, and have not engaged in public education about how to solve those problems of living, local and global, that we need to solve to make progress towards a better world. The pursuit of knowledge and technological know-how dissociated from a more fundamental concern to help solve problems of living has actually made possible the genesis of many of our global problems: the climate and ecological crises, the lethal character of modern war, the menace of nuclear weapons, pollution of earth, sea and air, population growth, the degradation of democracy as a result of social media and the internet. In giving priority to the pursuit of knowledge and technology, as at present, universities betray reason and humanity. We urgently need a revolution in our universities so that the basic task becomes to help humanity resolve conflicts and problems of living in increasingly cooperatively rational ways – the pursuit of knowledge being important but secondary. 

See From Knowledge to Wisdom: https://philpapers.org/rec/MAXFKT-3

See also “How Universities Have Betrayed Reason and Humanity—And What's to Be Done About It”, Frontiers, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsus.2021.631631/full

Best wishes

Nicholas Maxwell

Science and Technology Studies, University College London 

Website: www.ucl.ac.uk/from-knowledge-to-wisdom

Publications online: http://philpapers.org/profile/17092http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/view/people/ANMAX22.date.html

My source: 

Philos-L "The Liverpool List" https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/philosophy/philos-l/

"Turning Red"

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Previously: 'menstruation'

My source: Various

Hybrid therapy (Early) c/o Fernández-Navarro, Camarós, and Garate

... Family and Art Therapy?

 

Abstract

"This paper presents rock art as a collective action in which different strata of society took part, including children and subadults. Until recent decades archaeology of childhood has not been in the main focus of the archaeological research, much less the participation of those children in the artistic activity. The present study approaches the palaeodemography of artists in the decorated caves through the paleolithic rock art itself. The approximate age of these individuals has been calculated through the biometric analysis of hand stencils in the caves of Fuente del Salín, Castillo, La Garma, Maltravieso and Fuente del Trucho, using 3D photogrammetric models as reference. The results have been compared with a modern reference population in order to assign the Palaeolithic hands to certain age groups. It has been demonstrated the presence of hand stencil motifs belongs to infants, children and juveniles, revealing this stratum's importance in the artistic activity."

 

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	[Fig. 4. ] Study measurement system and current sample measurement 1. Hand Length; 2. Hand Width; 3. Thumb Length; 4. Thumb Width; 5. Index finger Length; 6. Index finger Width; 7. Middle finger Length; 8. Miggle finger; 9. Ring finger Length; 10. Ring finger Width; 11. Little finger Length; 12. Little finger.
"Children may have had a hand in a quarter of prehistoric art"

Fernández-Navarro, V., Camarós, E., & Garate, D. (2022). Visualizing childhood in Upper Palaeolithic societies: Experimental and archaeological approach to artists’ age estimation through cave art hand stencils. Journal of Archaeological Science, 140, 105574. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2022.105574

My source:

Badcock, James. "Children may have had a hand in a quarter of prehistoric art". The Daily Telegraph. 12 March 2022, p.15.

NANDA International's First Webinar

On Thursday a webinar - NANDA-I's first - provided an update on Nursing Diagnoses:

 

It wasn't just what is new and revised in the diagnoses that was of interest, but the explanation and discussion of the Level of Evidence criteria. Resources, challenges, ways to get involved, and future directions were also described. The levels of evidence criteria for diagnoses submission stood out, reinforcing how 'concepts' remain key to this work and application.

In the Q&A I asked about NANDA-I (and other classification schemes) contributing to the metrics for the Sustainable Development Goals (and not just 'health' SDG-3) and Social Determinants of Health. Since the 1990s nursing informaticians saw terminology systems and technology having a role in making nursing visible. This is crucial at the global* level of SDGs, SDoH and challenges that are not 'on the horizon', but are a present and real danger: climate change, conflict, pandemics, and mass migration. Despite such uncertainties, I found the event very encouraging.

 *local, and glocal too.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Part 1 The NANDA International Terminology: General Information

1 What's New in the NANDA-I 2021-2023 Edition
2 International Considerations on the Use of the NANDA-I Nursing Diagnoses

Part 2 Recommendations for Research to Improve the Terminology
3 Future Improvement of the NANDA-I Terminology
4 Revised Level of Evidence Criteria for Diagnosis Submission

Part 3 The Use of NANDA International Nursing Diagnoses
5 Nursing Diagnosis Basics
6 Nursing Diagnosis: An International Terminology
7 Clinical Reasoning: From Assessment to Diagnosis
8 Clinical Application: Data Analysis to Determine Appropriate Nursing Diagnosis
9 Introduction to the NANDA International Taxonomy of Nursing Diagnoses
10 Specifications and Definitions Within the NANDA International Taxonomy of Nursing Diagnoses
11 Glossary of Terms

Part 4 The NANDA International Nursing Diagnoses
Domain 1. Health promotion
Domain 2. Nutrition
Domain 3. Elimination and exchange
Domain 4. Activity/rest
Domain 5. Perception/cognition
Domain 6. Self-perception
Domain 7. Role relationship
Domain 8. Sexuality
Domain 9. Coping/stress tolerance
Domain 10. Life principles
Domain 11. Safety/protection
Domain 12. Comfort
Domain 13. Growth/development

Spheres of influence and integration

Ack:

International Open Seminar on Semiotics: 

a Tribute to John Deely on the Fifth Anniversary of His Passing

 

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	BIOSPHERE
SEMIOSPHERE

 

My source via Philos-L "The Liverpool List":

⚘A Holistic Approach to Semiotics: Juri Lotman ☀ Marek Tamm

 

Universe of the Mind
A Semiotic Theory of Culture
Yuri M. Lotman
Introduction by Umberto Eco

 

I actually had hold of a copy of this book in Hay-on-Wye last month, but back-on-the-shelf it had to go. Must now buy a copy. The title and the introduction by Eco caught my eye initially. Lotman's thought and its fluidity - individual-collective; whole-part ... has much to offer in studying Hodges' model. 

 

 

[Next visit to Hay-on-Wye as advised, I will email in advance, so if needed books ( just one or two ;-) ] can be brought from the warehouse to Green Ink.]

Book image: Indiana University Press

Raisonnement circulaire ...?

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"Essential oils: Meditation 626, a sculpture by Seo Young-Deok made from bicycle chains, is part of an exhibition of Korean art at London's Opera Gallery until April 18", The Times, March 11, 2022, p.12.

Image source: Seo Young-Deok

PhD Opportunity: An Atlas of Health and Social Inequalities

 

Excited to announce that we have funding for a +3 studentship in the UCL Department of Geography for the project “An Atlas of Health and Social Inequalities”. The research will be carried out in association with the Health Foundation and will comprise the creation of a range of innovative datasets presented through a series of ground-breaking maps and graphics. The project will centre on the Health Foundation’s Social and Economic Value of Health: Place programme, which is designed to generate new knowledge about the ways in which the physical and mental health of a population shapes their social and economic outcomes. The Health Foundation have funded a number of research projects already that focus on understanding the relationship between a given population’s health and the health of individuals within that population.

The PhD will benefit from insights from these projects and focus on the creation of a nationwide atlas to demonstrate the social and economic value of health. It will produce a series of research-led maps created from innovative and granular datasets to demonstrate the new ways that health data can be visualised. These will convey a range of variables including health metrics such as mortality, self-reported health, prevalence of specific health conditions, and social and economic outcomes including employment, pay, structural changes to industrial sector composition and social fragmentation.

The work will be supervised by myself (James.Cheshire AT ucl.ac.uk) and Dr Anwar Musah (a.musah AT ucl.ac.uk), to whom enquiries may be directed. The successful applicant will hold a First or Upper Second Class honours degree in a quantitative social science or computer science discipline and/or similar Masters qualification.

For further details on eligibility etc please see here.

CLICK HERE TO APPLY (Deadline 4th April)

My source: Spirit of 1848

Descartes' asunder c/o Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine

 I THINK therefore I AM       

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Original image: MindBody

© Pain Scale for Chronic Patients ‘MindBody’ by Sal Marx Fall 2021

In Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine
Copyright ©2022  ISSN 2766-628X

Previously: 'Cartesian'

IRMS Conference 2022 - RESILIENCE RECOVERY RENEWAL

  

Information & Records Management Society (IRMS)
RESILIENCE RECOVERY RENEWAL

15th-17th May 2022, Glasgow - Doubletree by Hilton

The annual IRMS Conference is *the* go-to event in the information management calendar, bringing together 400 practitioners, compliance managers, senior executives and others from a range of organisations across all industry sectors in the UK and beyond.

Our theme for 2022 is Resilience, Recovery, Renewal, recognising the phases of individuals' and organisations' response to the effects of the global pandemic, and the critical role of information and records management in enabling and supporting business continuity.

More details ... 

 

n.b. See you on the 17th? PJ

Flee Memory Box Europa

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MEMORY BOX

Einav, D. The human face of war and migration, Life&Arts, FTWeekend, 5-6 February 2022, p.15.

Hubris syndrome: Daedalus Project [Psycho-Political]

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Hubris Syndrome "Democratic politicians as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Churchill, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Pompidou, Mitterrand, Blair, George W. Bush, Chirac, and Sharon all lied about their health. ...

... Between 1906 and 2008 seven Presidents are judged to have been mentally ill while in office: Theodore Roosevelt (bipolar disorder), Taft (breathing-related sleep disorder), Wilson (major depressive disorder), Coolidge (major depressive disorder), Hoover (major depressive disorder), Johnson (bipolar disorder), and Nixon (alcohol abuse). Many despots-such as Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and Robert Mugabe-have been branded by the press and public opinion as suffering mental illnesses. Lord Owen argues neither Hitler nor Stalin were mad in any sense the medical profession recognizes (whereas Mussolini and Mao had depression, possibly bipolar disorder)."

'Faith' in leadership? 'Choice'?

In Sickness and in Power by Owen David

I remember Lord Owen's book being published, over a decade ago and heard radio interviews at the time (BBC Radio 4, Start the Week?). Not sure why I didn't pick this up as the disciplinary bridges are stark and clear (now!): PSYCHO-POLITICAL and GEO-PSYCHIATRIC. The importance of the issues the Daedalus Project addresses, now within Maudsley Philosophy Group is not just suddenly 'self' evident*, but is of importance for the world's population- impacting upon global safety and security.

Even since Lord Owen's book the rise of AI adds complexity (as ever).

 *irony intended.

Text: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3205306-in-sickness-and-in-power

Owen, D. (2009) In Sickness and in Power: Illnesses in Heads of Government during the Last 100 Years, London: Methuen Ltd.  ISBN: 978-0-413-77689-1

Plus via twitter: 

Thanks!

This is great talk from David Owen on Hubris syndrome we organised at @The_BNPA meeting a few years backhttps://t.co/73qGD42oQY

— Tim Nicholson (@Tim_R_Nicholson) March 6, 2022

Danse des petits cygnes - "NO TO WAR"

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BBC Radio 4 PM close, 4th March 2022: Dozhd (TV Rain) 

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/russian-tv-station-mass-walk-out-live-new-law-punishes-fake-news-imprisonment-1497828

"Information Disorder:" c/o Wardle and Derakhshan (2017) The transmission of ritual ...

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	“The transmission view of communication is the commonest in our culture — perhaps in all industrial cultures... It is defined by terms such as ‘imparting,’ ‘sending,’ ‘transmitting,’ or ‘giving information to others.’ ...
... The ‘ritual view of communication’, by contrast, is not about “the act of imparting information but the representation of shared beliefs.” pp.14-15.

 

Wardle, Claire, and Hossein Derakhshan. 2017. “Information Disorder: Toward an Interdisciplinary Framework for Research and Policy Making.” 162317GBR. Council of Europe. https://edoc.coe.int/en/media/7495-information-disorder-toward-an-interdisciplinary-framework-for-research-and-policy-making.html.

Previously:

WHO: Infodemic Management News Flash Thursday 4 November 2021 #25

 

Draft figure: Selected processes and sources that can contribute/influence the content of Hodges' model

This draft figure is intended to ultimately show how the final application of Hodges' model, that is, the selection and placement of concepts in the care (knowledge) domains is not determined by a specific rule, 'law', or theory. The user of the model as a reflective, problem solving agent must justify their 'completed' matrix - addressing the four care domains. This could be a combined effort, with a colleague, fellow student, patient, or carer. 

Being situated the figure should highlight how the final result, output is not only dynamic, changing over time, but it is dependent upon context. Contrast using the model in a seminar, with a nurse and student reflecting on a forthcoming or post a best interests or safeguarding meeting.

The most important point here, across all healthcare, education and other use-cases, is that when applied the user of the model begins with a blank 'sheet' ... template 

Any thoughts welcome. [image updated 18 March 2022].

Draft figure: Selected processes and sources that can contribute/influence the content of Hodges' model