Invitation: Health and Health Care Inequities – Book Launch (June 27)

Hi everyone,

You are warmly invited to the Toronto launch of Health and Health Care Inequities, taking place on Friday, June 27, 2025, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM EDT.

This event is free and open to the public, with both in-person and online attendance options.

👉 Please register in advance:

Select tickets – Health and Health Care Inequities - Toronto Book Launch – Friends House

The launch is co-hosted by the Leo Panitch School with the support of Fernwood Publishing.

Featuring the author Arnel Borras and guests:

• Wendy Panagopoulos
• John Clarke
• Carles Muntaner
• Dr. Freida Chavez
• Errol Sharpe

We hope to see you there!

Warm regards,
Arnel

Arnel Borras
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My source: Politics of Health Group Mail List Messages

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Ambulances, Bikes, Cars and Dennis

There are many rites of passage. Some are universal, others culture specific, or a facet of religious identity. Perhaps there are rites of passage that change over time, or are as yet unclear. When should a young person have their own mobile phone, especially when that phone is 'smart'? Perhaps that is a step too far, to see a phone as a rite of passage? Or, perhaps it signifies an erosion of the human experience of growing-up. 

Mastering a bicycle is, if not a rite of passage, an experience I remember so well. An experience revisited and enjoyed even more as an adult with my own children. It really is something when the hand-lets-go, a signifier of more transitions to follow. 

I learned to ride on two-wheels, in the cobbled backs that ran behind and between the rows of terraced houses. When I was aged 9-10, out on my bike I skidded and came off, trying to stop for a car. It was my fault, the driver was pretty upset too and carried me home. An X-Ray revealed I had hairline fractured of my tibia. I can remember being up so late 'The Untouchables' were on B&W TV. Back then a full-length 'pop' and crutches were required. After the pain subsided, a knitting needle was very useful. The plaster was well-scribed too. I had to attend the fracture clinic at Walton Hospital, Liverpool and still recall Dennis the ambulance gent. He was a great laugh.

I was reminded of this on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, 07:24:35 & 08:55:25, 11 March. Two guests recounted the start of their cycling careers, as adult and a child. British Cycling has started a campaign having found:

Apparently, 97% of children from the richest backgrounds can ride a bike.

While only 86% of children from the poorest backgrounds are able.

This equates to 350,000 children, who would like to ride a bike but can not.

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Experiences, skills MENTAL HEALTH Memory - of 'taking flight' Life skill: "It's like riding a bike!" Healthcare role model Ambulance staff 'Dennis'	Sustainability PHYSICAL HEALTH Accessibility 350,000 children would like to ride a bike. Fracture clinic Tibia
Childhood - Friends Adult - Parenthood Cycling clubs Socialisation Social Justice Engagement - Play	Inequality 97% of children richest backgrounds can ride a bike. Only 86% of children from the poorest backgrounds

There is an APPG for Cycling and Walking, which is also seeking to address accessibility:

British Cycling backs social justice inquiry to improve access and appeal of cycling to all

When there is a new link I will add it here. In the meantime, can you get on your bike!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0028swm

Previously: APPG : Cycling : Sport

ii "Nye" | Full Show [now ended] | National Theatre at Home

Watching yesterday on YouTube, I enjoyed NYE and was challenged by it personally and as a grandfather, son, nurse and tax-payer.

It wasn't all sweetness and light regards Aneurin "Nye" Bevin's character. Politically, he clearly pushed boundaries in response to the values he carried on his sleeve. As the family's of many health care professionals may recognise, needs outside the family can be prioritised at the family's cost. The theory-practice gap is expressed in so many ways. 

Whether by intent, or accident, the play points to the timeless challenge of social care and women's role in delivery of this care. This strikes home in the drama not just as care of the elderly, but being confronted (alone) with the slow, painful dying of a loved-one; and the reality of occupational diseases - 'black lung'. Women are exploited as carers, their hearts and feet may as well be bound; in the same way the mine owners exploited the workers. There was a stark reminder for me, of how continuity of care is often lacking today.

Nye becomes personal, as even up to 1970s working class parents would have worried, did worry about the prospect of their (invariably male - with some exceptions?) offspring going down the pit, especially in Lancashire and Yorkshire. Watching and listening to this you can appreciate how education was seen a passport to alternative white-collar work. My paternal grandfather worked in a slate quarry. I recall many invites to punch him in the 'stomach': a slate wall. He walked quite a few miles to work and wasn't that old when he died; although he (soon) followed grandma J.

For quite a while I've been drawn to the theatre. Aged 15 I was Francis Nurse - yes, the irony - in the school play, Arthur Miller's, The Crucible. It was Miss Smith, a drama teacher who first brought my attention to the idea of 'social awareness'. I recall Miss Clayton too who was a student teacher. On visits to London I've been struck by the relevance of Ibsen today. 

If there were to be a play in me, perhaps 'Axes and Crosses' must be-up-there as a working title? For  my father the 11+ exam was the icon to ward off the evil that was work down a mine; or lying under a an excavator / crane at 0400 to get the machine fixed for the shift due to start. The 11+ and need to pass this has provided its own anxiety, burden, and it must be said - motivation not just for me, but many more senior adults. I can see this now. So thank you Tim Price, National Theatre and Nye (2025!) for many further insights into stagecraft. 

See also:
https://www.bohs.org/media-resources/press-releases/detail/deadly-lung-disease-in-uk-kitchen-worktop-workers-is-avoidable/

September 2024: 'The Lightest Element'
https://www.hampsteadtheatre.com/whats-on/2024/the-lightest-element/

Previously:
What wright to care?

drama (theatre), arts

Raymond Williams Foundation - TARGETED GRANTS OFFER

 Dear Friends of RWF,

Can I remind you of our targeted grant scheme. Perhaps you could help us by sharing this with your network.

 

Best wishes 

Bob Foster

 

Applications are now open for five targeted grants of up to £1000 to support self-organised adult learning activities or events. Proposals should aim to enable the development and running of self-organised adult learning events or activities which have a progressive, social justice, environmental, or cultural purpose. Priority will be given to applicants on low incomes/universal credit, younger people (under 25's) and black and brown people.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: Midnight 1 October 2023

Go to https://www.raymondwilliamsfoundation.org.uk/grants for application form

Bob Foster
RWF Treasurer

My source: PIPs

Call for Papers - Basic Needs: Normative Perspectives

Call for papers*

for a special issue on

Basic Needs: Normative Perspectives

(Editors: Lukas Meyer – Daniel Petz – Alessandro Pinzani)

Lessico di Etica Pubblica

http://www.eticapubblica.it/

 

In recent years the debate on basic needs and their place in normative theories of ethics and politics has been rekindled. This controversial concept has finally been openly adopted by authors who adopt different approaches to discuss issues of social justice. There are good reasons for this.

As a currency of justice, needs have several advantages. First, in contrast to preferences, desires, and some other currencies, basic needs are fully objective, i.e., whether a person has a basic need for a certain thing is independent of her own or anybody else’s mental attitudes towards that thing. A second important reason for preferring basic needs as the currency of justice is that they are also universal, although their definition might be culturally influenced. Thirdly, basic needs are intrinsically morally demanding: that P has a basic need for O by itself entails that P ought to be able to have, be, realize, etc. O. Finally, basic needs also have an important advantage in the particular context of sufficientarianism. One of the main objections against sufficientarianism is that it is unable to provide a plausible substantive specification of its threshold of sufficiency. The concept of basic needs, in contrast, essentially entails the idea of a qualitative difference. Being able to fulfill such needs takes precedence over being able to fulfill non-basic needs and desires. Moreover, it distinguishes a life that has a certain minimum quality from a life that lacks this quality.

We invite authors to explore these and other aspects of the concept of basic needs and its use for normative theories of social justice, including intergenerational justice.

Contributions can be in English, Italian, German, and French. The deadline is September 30, 2022

For inquiries please contact: Alessandro Pinzani <alepinzani AT gmail.com>

 

*currently.

Book - "Criminal: How Our Prisons Are Failing Us All"

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LIFE CHANCES LIFE SKILLS (mental) health learning disability acquired brain injury post traumatic disorder ...	Personalised medicine: "If you use substance 'x' or this class of drugs, then there is a 'y' probability that 'z' will happen." ... ... future ...? Traumatic Brain Injury Screening
Collective Life Chances Society ...? Life Skills 'fit' for 21st C. EDUCATION EDUCATION EDUCATION Pre-School! Pre-School!! Pre-School!!! equity Social Justice

I heard Angela Kirwin being interviewed about her book on Times Radio earlier today.

Prisons have changed. Haven't they? Prison reform 'happened'. It is a fact of history after all - Elizabeth Fry et al.? At least according to Social and Economic History GCSE in the 1970s.

Mental asylums changed. They have closed. 

Prisons have (apparently) changed markedly since the 19th - 20th century.

With the 'asylum system' of institutionalised 'care' they share a few things in common..

The 'estate' was Victorian (Winwick Hospital is long gone - leaking, cockroach infested, red carpet at the main entrance - with frequent reference to custodial care and how to change - challenge this.).

Now community care, or care in the community (take your pick) holds sway. 

We are a fifth of the way into the 21st century - can you believe it?

Decades from now will they look at the prison system now and see it as archaic as we see the 'lunatic asylums' pre-20th century (terrible for much of the 20th in fact), and yet we often forget the rationale for their original establishment?

From a mental health perspective what do the social determinants (of health) mean?

Mechanistically speaking, it seems determinism is very much doing its work - too many enter the political system and it's not the one - to represent the community in Parliament.

I've viewed Hodges' model as a resource to highlight parity of esteem at an individual level (physical AND mental health).

Increasing in relevance, I can see its utility in the pursuit of collective parity of esteem.

The most troubling commonality here: care in the community is unfinished. It sort of got started. It fledged, but never took flight.

There were many compassionate, caring, professional staff in the asylums. Exceptional role models. They saw the theory - practice gap. Pointing it out. Aptitude - Attitude. They were the heart in the Victorian shell, even as science struggled (and still does) with the ghost in the machine.

Historically speaking the ‘workhouse’ is closer than we think.

The UK rightly lauds its National Health Service, created in 1948. The Poor Law was also abolished in 1948 (Hillam and Bone, 1999).

Prisons, mental health care, preventive health, health education and community care .. so much still to do.

This sounds an interesting new book too! :-)

Hillam, Christine., and J.M. Bone. THE POOR LAW AND AFTER: workhouse hospitals and public welfare. Liverpool: Liverpool Medical History Society, 1999. ISSN 1364-999x

Join us 6/16 - Virtual tour of The Healing Project's new digital archive

"Join us on Thursday, June 16, 2022 from 12-1p PT / 3-4p ET for a virtual tour of The Healing Project’s brand new digital archive! We’ll discuss what the art, stories, and realities of incarcerated people in the US mean for health professionals’ work to advance health equity in the context of historical and contemporary social justice movements."

 
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(mental) health equity*	(physical) health equity*
arts social justice history social health equity^ healing communities	incarcerated people detention police health workers political health equity^

 

*individual (lived) experience

^collectively experienced (and also 'lived')

Where does violence sit, stand, shout, strike, stun ... in h2cm?

My source: 

Spiritof1848 Listserv WWW.SPIRITOF1848.ORG #Spiritof1848

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

SIMPOL Supporters Q&A - Corporation tax

Dear Peter,

As a supporter of the Simultaneous Policy (SIMPOL) campaign to solve global problems, we’d love you to join us at our next SIMPOL Supporters Q&A zoom meeting. It’ll be on Tuesday 13^th July at 8pm UK time.

We’ll be discussing the recent international agreement on a minimum level of corporation tax signed by over 130 countries. But will it work? To answer that question and others, we’re delighted to have Richard Murphy of the Tax Justice Network with us. He’ll explain the agreement, whether it’ll be effective, and answer your questions. Your hosts will be Rob Cobbold of the Conscious Evolution Podcast and me, John Bunzl, SIMPOL’s founder.

Edited: please ask people to register by sending an email to info@simpol.org and we will then send them the link.

You’ll be very welcome. We look forward to seeing you then!

Best wishes,

John

John Bunzl – Trustee

International Simultaneous Policy Organisation

https://www.simpol.org

Topic: Simpol Supporters Q&A zoom

Time: Jul 13, 2021 08:00 PM London

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	Essential Worker by Carlos Barberena. Linocut on Shopping Bag. 2020

My source:

Pig, C. WARNING: Art Is Dangerous, Profile, Carlos Barberena De La Rocha, PrintMaking Today, Summer 2021, 30: 118. pp.14-16.

https://www.cellopress.co.uk/page/printmaking-today

Image:

https://www.bandoleropress.com/propaganda/category/printmaking

A window on social history ...

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Ask a child to draw a house ..?	Light Air*
A row of coal miners' houses with no windows to the street, Halifax, 1937 by Bill Brandt	HUMAN RIGHTS

 

Source:

A row of coal miners' houses with no windows to the street, Halifax, 1937 by Bill Brandt. Nostalgia is a seductive liar. pic.twitter.com/zrpzQySRjt

— Davenant 📸 (@MarcDavenant) March 29, 2021

 

https://www.billbrandt.com/bill-brandt-archive-print-shop/sp03-coal-miners-houses-with-no-windows-to-the-street-c1937

*and its quality

International Women's Day 2021#ChooseToChallenge

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choose	Bulgaria 1957 Women’s Day
Algeria 2004 International Women's Day	to CHALLENGE

 

Images: https://www.stampsoftheworld.co.uk/wiki/Category:International_Women%27s_Day

Intima - Creativity in a Time of Crisis: Rethinking Vulnerability in Response to Care and Social Justice

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HERO?	HERO?
HERO?	© COVID Hero by Brandon Mogrovejo Fall 2020 Intima

 

Welcome to the Fall 2020

Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine

We invite you to explore the issue.

 

In much the same way narrative medicine practitioners invite their patients to become storytellers, vulnerably disclosing their illnesses, we invited contributors to engage in their own acts of vulnerability to submit their poetry, art, media, fiction, nonfiction, Field Note, and academic pieces to the Fall 2020 issue of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine.

More specifically, we invited submissions around the theme: Creativity in a Time of Crisis: Rethinking Vulnerability in Response to Care and Social Justice. Pen to paper, brushes to canvas, and strokes to the keyboard produced a wealth of submissions, many of which hearkened the specialized theme, to narrate the challenging public health and racial unrest that marred 2020. Whether the invitation arrived with much anticipation or as a surprise, we were heartened at the warm response we received and the quality of work we accepted for publication.

The pieces comprising the Fall 2020 issue are varied yet many evoke the images of 2020 as you read stanzas in a poem, gaze onto art, or pour over lines of narrated personal experience. Go to theintima.org to dip into the Fall journal today.

 

My source: Intima - mail list.

'Desk-topping' i [ c/o BBC Radio 4 today 5 Feb. ]

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'desktop' Definition #1 below is as obvious as it is brief. A desk might be topped with various things, so-called executive toys (still?), personal affects, or company related branding. It may have the proverbial in-tray, out-tray (paper still lingers?). The desk may be clear, or cluttered as a workspace. It will be the home of technology, it's PC - desktop - namesake, that shares the floor nearby, wired the sign of connectedness and energy.

'Desk-topping' To have 'papers' on the desk, might be to denote action of some sort, but how long are those 'papers' held for? The subjects of the issue at hand could be experiencing a protracted delay. The desktop in this case exemplifies not just bureaucracy, but obfuscation.

desk·top (dĕsk′tŏp′)
n.
1. The top of a desk.
2. Computers
a. The area of a display screen where images, windows, icons and other graphical items appear.
b. A computer that is designed to be used at a desk or table and is not easily moved, in contrast to a laptop or other portable device. Also called desktop computer.

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/desktop

My source:
BBC Radio 4 Today 5 February- discussion regarding historical child abuse in the Church.

Desk-topping or desktopping?

Borders & Boundaries 2018: Debating the limits and possibilities of Education

The Department of Educational Research invite international speakers every summer, and this year we are opening the event up to invite critical interdisciplinary scholars to engage in a range of events which bring together our three research centres: Higher Education Research and Evaluation; Technology Enhanced Learning; and Social Justice and Wellbeing in Education.

This year’s theme is Borders and Boundaries, which will be unpacked by our internationally renowned speakers and a programme of conference presentations on 3rd and 4th of July in the historic city of Lancaster.

Borders and Boundaries: Debating the limits and possibilities of Education

Borders and boundaries is an important theme in educational research and practice, having multiple meanings and interpretations. At one level, this notion reflects critical conceptualisations of place, territories and educational (im)mobilities which have come to the surface in recent years as a response to political and policy changes that seek to limit the movement of people and ideas. Alternatively, borders and boundaries may be taken to refer to theoretical demarcations and interactions, and the increasing emphasis on interdisciplinarity within research, and the associated instability of categories such as academic, practitioner, researcher and educator in the context of efficiency and structural changes within schools, universities and other institutions. This theme also has analytical value for framing debates about the perceived fluidity of formal and informal educational space in the digital age, simultaneously democratising knowledge and blurring the boundaries between professional and personal identities for many educators and academics. Finally, we envisage the theme of borders and boundaries as providing a way into discussions about social distinctions and emotional separations, which shape educational experiences, transitions, and outcomes in a broad range of ways.

Read more...

I have placed the conference themes within Hodges' model:

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This theme also has analytical value for framing debates about the perceived fluidity of formal and informal educational space in the digital age, simultaneously democratising knowledge and blurring the boundaries between professional and personal identities for many educators and academics.	... critical conceptualisations of place,  territories ... ... borders and boundaries may be taken to refer to theoretical demarcations and interactions, and the increasing emphasis on interdisciplinarity within research, and -
Borders and boundaries is an important theme in educational research and practice, having multiple meanings and interpretations. Finally, we envisage the theme of borders and boundaries as providing a way into discussions about social distinctions and emotional separations, which shape educational experiences, transitions, and outcomes in a broad range of ways.	- the associated instability of categories such as academic, practitioner, researcher and educator in the context of efficiency and structural changes within schools, universities and other institutions.   factor immobility occupational immobility academic / educational (im)mobilities

My source: Jill Anderson, Lancaster University.

Quadratic Social Erosion..?

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SOCIAL MOBILITY	SOCIAL MOBILITY COMMISSION

Please see (for context):

BBC News

Social mobility board quits over lack of progress

"Mr Milburn, a former health secretary, took up his role at the commission in July 2012, under the coalition government led by David Cameron and Nick Clegg.Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, he said divisions in Britain were becoming wider - pointing to the ongoing squeeze on wages.
The government lacked the "bandwidth" to tackle social division while also dealing with Brexit, he said, describing his task as being like "pushing water uphill". [My emphasis]

As can be seen, in broad terms, above, Hodges' model can help to promote awareness of holistic bandwidth, facilitating reflective practice, critical and transdisciplinary thinking and person-centeredness. Social mobility is clearly sociopolitical.

WHO - Who

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Who?
	WHO!

The Compartmentalisation of Grief and Tragedy: RIP

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a person A LOVED ONE (timeframe: grief) (timeframe: Why) (timeframe: answers) to questions that should not need be asked  (again and again....) 'problem' Fear uncertainty advice flight OR fight values ethics morality PSYCHO-	a house a house . . . a house a house Fire a house fighting Fire a house fighting . . Fire a house fighting Fire a house fighting |||||||||||||||||| strength of towers cladding - facade material science introducing: dead space "probably" 'problem' property: transparency vs opaque (time-frame: risk, evidence) -PHYSICAL
SOCIO- a HOME a group of people family friends social housing a community the most terrible of good-byes Towers of Strength SPIRITUAL (timeframe: social justice) D.ANGER 'problem' introducing: a 'new' home	-POLITICAL property material evidence facade - cladding cost ££ value $$ Health & Safety Law Building regulations (timeframe: Public Inquiry) (timeframe: ACTION) GOV.UK 'problem' 'political correctness'? local-regional-national introducing: another Public Inquiry

Some reflections on the tragic event at Grenfell Tower, London, UK.

Personal note: In posting this, of course, I do not wish to trivialise the enormity of what has happened, the point is that even in disasters - across the world, tools are needed to reflect, think critically, to support learning in order to ultimately assure a safer future for all...

Why we need a generic conceptual framework: "Universal person centered care"?

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PERSON-CENTERED CARE	PERSON-CENTERED CARE
PERSON (FAMILY)-CENTERED CARE	Universal credit...?

My source: The Guardian via Natalie Bennett

Hidden assets: Latitude & Longitude

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?	8.5380° N, 80.7821° W
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Flag image:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama#/media/File:Flag_of_Panama.svg