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'Discordia concors' - 'Concordia discors' ... plus ... 'Site map'*
"Drawing both on the medieval Mappae mundi and the Ptolemaic tradition revived in the Renaissance, the recurrent cartographic motif in John Donne’s poetry well reflects the preoccupations of a revolutionary period in the history of Western cartography. Yet, for all its cosmic magnitude, Donne’s poems, both holy and secular, are turned, not so much towards an exploration of the world as towards an exploration of the Self as the ultimate object of reflection." [Abstract].
Ladan Niayesh, ““All flat maps, and I am one”: Cartographic References in the Poems of John Donne”, Études Épistémè [Online], 10 | 2006, Online since 01 October 2006, connection on 22 February 2023. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/955; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/episteme.955
"Let us take as a first example one of the last poems written by Donne,
"Hymn to God my God, in my Sickness", composed either during one of the
poet’s serious illnesses in 1623 or alternatively shortly before his
death in 1631 ..." | "... Here the poet compares himself, as he lies on his sick-bed, or possibly
his death bed, to a flat geographical map studied by his physicians who
are compared to cartographers: "my physicians by their love are grown /
Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie / Flat on this bed" (ll. 6-8),
and later "In all flat maps (and I am one)" (ll. 14)." |
| The global Psycho-Social-Geo-Political legacies and future? |
"Yet for all its symbolic Noachid and Christian background, Donne’s
cartographic imagery has room for the latest scientific contributions.
Newly discovered territories are directly named here: "is the Pacific
Sea my home?" (l. 16), "Anyan, and Magellan, and Gibraltar" (l. 18).
And if this metaphorical map is a flat one — "In all flat maps (and I
am one)" — it is solely for the sake of commodity, as this flat shape
actually stands for an acknowledged and accepted spherical reality:
"west and east / In all flat maps (...) are one" (ll. 13-14)." |
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
*personalise | scientify |
socialise | politicise |
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| Sentence: "Nurses wear certified personal protective equipment to care for patients with Coronavirus." in VerbAtlas 1.0 |
For those working at the intersection between #NLP and #COVID19 here is a possibly interesting venue:— Emilio Ferrara (@emilio__ferrara) April 4, 2020
NLP COVID-19 Workshop at ACL 2020 @aclmeeting https://t.co/hLFqljTVJC pic.twitter.com/0bOdcU0qBV
Or, to be more precise -
"Which nations have North Korean embassies? How many countries have bigger economies than California? Who drives on the “wrong” side of the road? And where can you find lions in the wild?
Brilliant Maps - Book
In Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds, you’ll learn all this and much more. One hundred visually arresting maps strike a balance between sobering analysis (number of executions by state) and whimsical insight (the countries of the world where there aren’t any McDonald’s).
Thought-provoking and flat-out fun, this one-of-a-kind atlas—compiled by the editor of the popular Brilliant Maps website—makes surprising connections that illuminate the contours of culture, history, and politics. Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds will change the way you see the world—and your place in it".
"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. |
Dear All,
As we all know that eHealth plays a vital role in promoting universal health coverage in a variety of ways. For example, it helps provide services to remote populations and underserved communities through telehealth or mHealth. It facilitates the training of the health workforce through the use of eLearning, and makes education more widely accessible especially for those who are isolated. It enhances diagnosis and treatment by providing accurate and timely patient information through electronic health records. And through the strategic use of ICT, it improves the operations and financial efficiency of health care systems.
The third global survey on eHealth conducted by the WHO Global Observatory for eHealth (GOe) has a special focus -the use of eHealth in support of universal health coverage.
To read the Global Observatory for eHealth, World Health Organization, 2016
http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/204523/1/9789241565219_eng.pdf
Hope you find it interesting.
Ghassan Shahrour
HIFA profile: Ghassan Shahrour is Chair of the Syrian Medical Informatics Association (Syrmia). His professional interests include Health for All, Health Promotion, and Equity in Health. syrmia AT gmail.com
See Europe as never before!
I've received the proof for the book chapter to appear in:
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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.
Live and work in NW England - seeking a global perspective.
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