On models, gaps, deficits, neglect

This a.m. I responded to an email from -

the SDOH Listserv at https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SDOH&A=1

- about a forthcoming book (news to follow). 

I replied, with thoughts (edited) that link to the post earlier today:

On the 'front' - or behind the line(s)?

As a community mental health nurse, I've always recognised (as best I can) the critical, power relation of psychiatry.

This is why I study - champion Hodges' model, because the -

• medical model
• bio-medical
• bio-psycho-social models 

- are all inadequate (in the 21st C. and supposedly post-Institutional care?).*

Inclusion of the 'Political' domain in Hodges' model, is critical in the negotiation between the person and collective.

This is what opens up the wide, expansive 'front' in Hodges' model, where relations can be explored in abstract and concrete terms.

A point I'm currently working through (post - paper?): is it ironic that that education and health have acknowledged and try to mitigate(?) the 'deficit model', but in the very conceptual frameworks / models that these disciplines & professions deploy (esp. medicine?), there is a deficit* - manifest in were we are and how we Care today and tomorrow. This is further aggrevated as capitalism clearly has its way (counter-lobbying the health and care professions)?

*tantamount to neglect?

Despite the pioneering efforts and work of several leaders e.g. Virchow, and fields of medical sociology and public (mental) health.

See also - Joe Wicks: Licensed to Kill Channel 4 UK. 2000hrs 6th October 2025.

'Cereal'

On the 'front' - or behind the line(s)?

In many sources on socio-economics, politics, health policy ... I still note the challenge to represent the INDIVIDUAL and COLLECTIVE within a figure. Of course the author's subject, purpose, the context all influence the final depiction and the message to be conveyed. 

I wonder if Hodges' model can provide a starting point to explore relationships, oppositions, arguments and synergies?

Hodges' model provides an 

expansive and potentially powerful 'front' 

through its horizontal axis 

[ HUMANISTIC ↔ MECHANISTIC ].

This axis - drawn across and through the model vertically, may make it easier(?) to analyse and synthesize the relations at work and produce a diagram?

Individual

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HUMANISTIC =========================  MECHANISTIC      

 SOCIOLOGY  :    POLITICAL 

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Group

INDIVIDUAL	INDIVIDUAL
GROUP - POPULATION	GROUP - POPULATION

Seeking Alpha?

OK. I admit it. I submit!

Despite many posts tagged economics, references to capitalism, the recent reading of Prof. Borras's 'Health and Health Care Inequities', it looks like the search for 'alpha' has won out.

Health, healthcare, health systems and health services, universal health coverage, universal access, planetary health, social care and more SDG3 are playing catch-up. This is inevitable. That is clear, as and in the lives we live.

We shouldn't be ashamed. 

As curricula (by and large), medicine, and academia keep telling us:

health care is bio-medical, or at best bio-psycho-social.

Business, commerce, neoclassical economics, in short - Capitalism holds sway within the political domain. It influences policy, sustains the existing ill-health care system paradigm. Without which, we must acknowledge of course, COVID, and other threats, the ageing populations in many nations ... society as we know it would be in serious trouble, if not at risk of collapse.

Individual

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 SOCIOLOGY  :    POLITICAL 

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Group

psycho-	bio-medical
-social	"What Is Alpha? Alpha (α) is a term used in investing to describe an investment strategy’s ability to beat the market, or its “edge.” Alpha is thus also often referred to as excess return or the abnormal rate of return in relation to a benchmark, when adjusted for risk."

The literature in the past has identified the risks of free-ranging reflection. Two sources are referenced in the paper published this month:

61. L. Platt, “The ‘Wicked Problem’ of Reflective Practice: A Critical Literature Review,” Innovations in Practice 9, no. 1 (2014): 44–53. 

62. A. de la Croix and M. Veen, “The Reflective Zombie: Problematizing the Conceptual Framework of Reflection in Medical Education,” Perspectives on Medical Education 7 (2018): 394–400.

There is a truth here, however. It looks to me like the economists, politicians, and policymakers are engaged in navel-gazing.

To fully apprehend health, healthcare, and prevention in the 21st century we must reflect upon and think critically biopsychosociopolitically.

Then collectively the disciplines, embedded in the spiritual 

ALPHA CARE 

is presented to us.

Individual

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HUMANISTIC  --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

 SOCIOLOGY  :    POLITICAL 

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Group

What is Alpha? - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/alpha.asp

Image: https://iconscout.com/icons/alpha

South Sudan Medical Journal - November 2023 Gender-Based Violence

Dear reader,

Our November issue on gender-based violence (GBV) is online here. See details below; we thank the many people who contributed to this important topic.
 
Please share this issue with your colleagues and promote it through your social platforms.

For example: “The South Sudan Medical Journal’s November issue tackles gender-based violence @SSMedJournal #SouthSudan #SSOT” or retweet from @SSMedJournal
 

EDITORIAL

• Ending GBV in South Sudan Anne Pita Lomole

RESEARCH ARTICLES

• Maternal socio-economic and neonatal medical characteristics associated with survival of preterm neonates in Torit State Hospital, South Sudan: a descriptive cross-sectional study Beatrice Doki, Pontius Bayo and Ronald Jada
• Factors associated with maternal deaths in Bongor Provincial Hospital, Chad Gabkika Bray Madoué, Allarehene Noudjalbaye, Saleh Abdelsalam, Kainba Passoret, and Diguisna Kadam

FOCUS ON GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

• Gender-Based Violence: How South Sudan is fighting back Nyakomi Adwok
• Clinical management of rape survivors Koma Akim
• One Stop Centre for the survivors of sexual and gender-based violence at Juba Teaching Hospital Busiri Julius Korsuk
• SSMJ talks to Data Gordon about Men4Women Ann Burgess and Data Gordon
• Ask the GBV experts Koma Akim and Nyakomi Adwok
• The reality of GBV: The story of a South Sudanese girl child in Kenya Nyajuok Tongyik
• 16 Days of Activism Against GBV Rita Martin Lopidia  
• Resources on gender-based violence/violence against women and girls related to South Sudan
• GBV Educational/Training Resources

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

• Applications for postgraduate Training Gordon Memorial College Trust Fund (GMCTF)
• Letter to the Editor
• Obituary: Dr Bashir Aggrey Abbas Meseka 
• Obituary: Dr Peter Lado Aggrey Jaden

FRONT AND BACK COVERS IMAGES: From Tales of Lala, No to GBV (Credit: Crown the Woman, South Sudan)
 
Our articles are listed by African Journals Online (AJOL) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) as well as being on our website. SSMJ is included in the EBSCO scientific research collection.

The SSMJ team
Email: southsudanmedicaljournal AT gmail.com
Website: http://www.southsudanmedicaljournal.com
Follow us on Twitter/X @SSMedJournal and our Facebook Group

Books: NHS 75

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Our Stories: 75 Years of the NHS from the People Who Built It, Lived It and Love It
https://www.england.nhs.uk/nhsbirthday/events-and-news/new-book-celebrates-nhs-staff-at-75/

Fighting for Life - The Twelve Battles that Made Our NHS, and the Struggle for Its Future
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/321469/fighting-for-life-by-hardman-isabel/9780241504345

Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly

WHO Note for Media, 26 May 2023

Read online:

https://www.who.int/news/item/26-05-2023-seventy-sixth-world-health-assembly---daily-update--26-may-2023

Text of note follows and a Comment from me below.

Gearing up for a historic UN High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage

Member States expressed alarm that millions of people cannot access life-saving and health-enhancing interventions. Out-of-pocket spending on health catastrophically affects over 1 billion people, pushing hundreds of millions of people into extreme poverty. The situation has worsened due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In response, Member States agreed a resolution supporting preparations for the United Nations High-Level Meeting (HLM) on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in September 2023. UHC means that all people have access to the full range of quality health services they need without financial hardship.

c/o World Health Assembly - media

In a transformative policy shift, Member States across high-, middle- and low-income countries expressed strong commitment to reorient their health systems based on primary health care (PHC) as a foundation for achieving health for all and reaching the furthest left behind first. About 90% of UHC interventions can be delivered using a PHC approach; from health promotion to prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care, potentially saving 60 million lives by 2030.

The Member States emphasized the importance of demonstrating the highest-level political commitment at the HLM in September with the aim of achieving resulting in a concise, action-oriented declaration for UHC.

[...]

COMMENT (NPW): I would add that quality of care is just as important as access and affordability. As we have discussed on HIFA, a 2018 Lancet paper estimated that 5-8 million deaths are caused by poor quality care every year (as we pointed out at the time, the true figure is probably much higher higher because it did not include care in the home or community before reaching a health facility). The Lancet paper did not estimate the number of deaths due to poor-quality primary versus secondary care. Quality of care is fundamentally dependent on the timely application of reliable healthcare information, and most deaths are probably (arguably, as we do not know the numbers) avoidable through the timely application of reliable healthcare information, even with minimal physical resources.

HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil AT hifa.org

HIFA - my source.

'Health' is a Many-Splendoured Thing c/o BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 - Money Box Live: Rental Health Special

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Mental health, Well-being Quality of Life Lived experience Anxiety, Stress, Distress Debt fear Individual vulnerability	Life in Cities Built environment - Urbanisation Human Geographies (Social) Housing Air Pollution, Repair, Damp, Mould, Noise Access to Green S pac es Land-
Social Housing Community - Family, Social cohesion Social inclusion - Social justice Group - Population vulnerability Socio-Economic - Determinants of Health Social poverty 'Living' Wage Good/Bad Tenants/Landlords?	-Lords

Money Box

"Felicity Hannah and Winifred Robinson take questions on the legal rights of renters with experts Jasmine Basran from the housing and homelessness charity Crisis and Tessa Shepperson founder of the The Landlord Law Services she advises landlords of their legal rights and responsibilities.

The number of people renting across England, Wales and Scotland has more than doubled in the last decade.

The picture in Northern Ireland is similar with the numbers of people renting is up by nearly 2 thirds in the last 20 years."

See also: Rental Health

Read in FT Weekend - hopefully the link will work for you:
Lessons from Vienna: a housing success story 100 years in the making

Previous posts: 'Homeless'

Herbert Spencer: The Sociology domain

 INDIVIDUAL

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SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 

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GROUP

"In man we see the highest manifestation of this tendency. By virtue of his complexity of structure, he is furthest removed from the inorganic world in which there is least individuality. Again, his intelligence and adaptability commonly enable him to maintain life to old age - to complete the cycle of his existence; that is, to fill out the limits of his individuality to the full. Again, he is self-conscious; that is, he recognizes his own individuality." p.238.

"Spencer's key concept was 'evolution', by which he meant the process of increasing differentiation (that is to say specialization of functions) and integration (by which he meant mutual interdependence of the structurally differentiated parts and co-ordination of their functions.)" p.8. "Here we see longitudinal and transverse integration going on simultaneously; ..." p.66.

"Having invented the word sociology, Comte is often treated as the founder of the study itself, although his contribution to empirical knowledge is meagre, and cannot be even remotely equated with that of Montesquieu or John Millar. His excellence lies in methodology in which field he laid the foundations for the systematic (or scientific, if you like) study of society." p.15.

"There is no sudden leap from the house-hold type to the factory-type, but a gradual transition. The first step is shown us in the rules of trade-guilds under which, to the members of the family, might be added an apprentice (possibly at first a relation), who, as Brentano says, 'became a member of the family of his master, who instructed him in his trade, and who, like a father, had to watch over his morals, as well as his work'; practically, an adopted son. ... With  development of this modified household-group, the master grew into a seller of goods made, not by his own family only, but by others; and, as his business enlarged, necessarily ceased to be a worker, and became wholly a distributor - a channel through which went out the products, not as a few sons, but of many unrelated artisans." pp.135-136.

Herbert Spencer, Stanislav Andreski, (1971) Herbert Spencer : structure, function, and evolution. London: Nelson.

As you can tell - I'm still sorting through books!

See also (recently):
Medical sociology ... "food for thought" c/o POHG

BBC Reith Lectures 2022 - The Four Freedoms

 

 INDIVIDUAL
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 INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               

HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 

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GROUP

FEAR	WANT
WORSHIP	SPEECH

Are fear and worship interchangeable? 

Can I follow my faith / beliefs?

Many communities and groups live in fear.

Do the freedoms begin (and end!) with speech?

The ability to meet basic needs 'wants' - relies upon socioeconomic means; but basic needs are material in the first instance, through shelter, water, and food. All these depend upon security (locally, nationally, globally) as reflected in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):

BBC Radio 4 The Reith Lectures

See also:
Jones P, Wirnitzer K. Hodges’ model: the Sustainable Development Goals and public health – universal health coverage demands a universal framework. BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health 2022;0:e000254. doi:10.1136/bmjnph-2021-000254

Africa Re-Imagined

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HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

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GROUP

Dipo Faloyin Africa Is Not A Country Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa	Astrid Madimba, Chinny Ukata IT’S A CONTINENT
Socio-Economic and Cultural progress ...	Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò Against Decolonisation Taking African Agency Seriously

Owolade, T. (2022) Africa reimagined, FT Weekend, Books Life&Arts, 23-24 July, p.8.

Image 'IT'S A CONTINENT'

https://www.waterstones.com/book/its-a-continent/astrid-madimba/chinny-ukata/9781529376784

The mechanics of Continental and Policy Drift

INDIVIDUAL

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 INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               

HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 

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GROUP

	continental drift
	Younger folks may not know Gloria Steinem & Dorothy Pitman Hughes. These pioneers fought for racial and gender rights…50 years ago. pic.twitter.com/a72MukErsM — LiLong ☮️ (@MimawMoon) July 21, 2022

... slow movement ...

Thanks to Prof Linda Gask who Retweeted LiLong.

Reflecting on the 'distances' between us

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HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 

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GROUP

Sedated ...

'DISTANCE' a metric ... qualitative and quantitative conceptual - semantic distance

The Social Distance Between Us ...

... How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis ... Drug development $$$  Access to healthcare / therapy 'Evidence' Parity of Esteem  Self-advocacy / Advocacy  Employment, Poverty, Deprivation Policy - Health Policy Land Property, Housing- Homelessness  Mental Health Law  'Public Spaces'  Social Determinants of Health Sustainable Development Goals Life Chances  Health Career  Geo-Politics (Local 'politics') ...   .... How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain

 

See also: 'distance'

My source: FT Weekend and Times, BBC Radio 4 and 

https://twitter.com/Keirwales/status/1541093078102048770

Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Brazil

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Brazil, by Marília Duque.

Download it free: https://bit.ly/3MhgteU

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Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Brazil

By Marília Duque

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With people living longer all over the world, ageing has been framed as a socio-economic problem. In Brazil, older people are expected to remain healthy and autonomous while actively participating in society. Based on ethnographic research in São Paulo, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Brazil shows how older people in a middle-class neighbourhood conciliate these expectations with the freedom and pleasures reserved for the Third Age. Work is what bonds this community together, providing a sense of dignity and citizenship.

Smartphones have become of great importance to the residents as they search for and engage in new forms of work and hobbies. Connected by a digital network, they work as content curators, sharing activities that fill their schedule. Managing multiple WhatsApp groups is a job in itself, as well as a source of solidarity and hope. Friendship groups help each to download new apps, search for medical information and guidance, and navigate the city. Together, they are reinventing themselves as volunteers, entrepreneurs and influencers, or they are finding a new interest that gives their later life a purpose. The smartphone, which enables the residents to share and discuss their busy lives, is also helping them, and us, to rethink the very representation of ageing.

Free download: https://bit.ly/3MhgteU

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uclpress.co.uk | @uclpress

My source: Alison Major 

 

VIRTUAL-METHODS list - www.jiscmail.ac.uk/VIRTUAL-METHODS

 

(It appears there is a series of related texts. PJ)

Nursing politics i(?)

 student - PERSON - qualified nurse
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INTERPERSONAL : techo-SCIENCES

humanistic ------------------------------------- mechanistic  

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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socialisation - group - institutions

"Virtually all techno-scientific decisions from the selection of research problems, to the acceptance of particular theories, to clinical, therapeutic decisions involve important and appropriate socioeconomic and political dimensions. The point here must be strong: not just that politics currently plays a role in science, but that it always has and always will.

The most effective teaching strategy relies on first developing the idea of a new type of topic politics as a humanity in contradistinction to the students' current dominant images of the scientific enterprise. This establishes a broader framework and prepares the way for presentation of a more sophisticated hybrid model of politics, one that allows an appreciation of both the classical humanities and social scientific traditions. Through this process one can create a legitimate and permanent place for politics on the student's intellectual map of reality." p.93.

 

Bristol, T. (1986). Teaching Politics to Nurses. Politics and the Life Sciences, 5 (1), 92-102. Retrieved August 10, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/4235487

Radical Health: Doing Medicine, Health Care, and Anthropology of the Good

Freie Universität Berlin (online), 24-27 June 2021

Convened by:

Medical Anthropology Working Group (German Anthropological Association DGSKA e.V.)

Association for Anthropology and Medicine (AGEM e.V.) 

Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin

In contemporary times of proliferating neoliberalization, augmenting socio-economic disparity, environmental degradation, and political struggles around identities and belonging, health and well-being are becoming increasingly fragile. Not least, COVID-19 illustrates how intimately entangled economic, ecological, social, cultural, and political factors can be, and how they affect people’s living environments, health, and health care provision. Our conference brings together the fields of medical anthropology, medicine, and public/global health to focus attention on how ‘healthy futures’ can be envisioned, theorized, and actually ‘done’ despite multiple constraints. We gather social scientists, medical professionals, health activists, and artists whose contributions will open up avenues toward an understanding of what is conducive to “good” health.

The conference begins on Thursday, 24 June 2021 at 14.30 CEST  (Central European Summer Time, UTC/GMT +2 hours)

Keynote address "Good for what: Radical health in the midst of an epidemic" by Professor Adia Benton (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois) on Thursday, 24 June 2021, 19-20 CEST.

For further information and free registration, please visit https://nomadit.co.uk/radical-health/

-- 
Dr. Dominik Mattes
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter | Research Associate
Freie Universität Berlin | Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie
DFG SFB 1171 "Affective Societies“
Teilprojekt C03 "Regieren religiöser Vielfalt in Berlin. Affektive Dynamiken der In- und Exklusion im urbanen Raum"

Habelschwerdter Allee 45 | 14195 Berlin | Raum JK30/203

Two Triangles: Fire and Bubbles

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group

	O2 Fuel Heat
	Marketability of Assets Expansionary money and credit Intense speculation

My source:

Plender, J. (2020) Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble, Life & Arts, FT Weekend, 7-8 November. p.7.

Review of -

Levenson, T. (2020) Money for Nothing: The South Sea Bubble and the Invention of Modern Capitalism, London: Head of Zeus.

Quinn, W. Turner, J.D. (2020) Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (This post draws upon a triangle in this book explained by Plender).

ERCIM News No. 121 Special theme "The Climate Action: Mathematics, Informatics and Socio-Economics Accelerating the Sustainability"

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Includes:

Close-The-Loop Model: Social Acceptance of Technology for Sustainability, pp.26-27.

ALerT – Learning about Privacy at the Time of data Sharing Everywhere, p.33.

Worried about data Privacy in Big data? don’t Be!, pp. 38-39.

SDGs also.

Books: Technology, Capital and Ideology - captured in h2cm...

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group - population

	The Technology Trap
	Capital and Ideology

My sources:
The Times and FT Weekend.

Book: "Good Economics for Hard Times"

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	Good Economics for Hard Times Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems Abhijit V. Banerjee Esther Duflo

Hodges' model provides interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary bridges across often disparate fields of knowledge and specialties (epistemologies). In this instance consider SOCIO-economics, the consumerism of supply and demand. The influence of this in the economics of health care and the environment. The impact of relentless growth when values are knotted with value and commodified.

Even the book's cover points to the preoccupation of economics with mechanics (process!?). The view of economies as machines, which this book and the work of the authors and others now seeks to challenge and change.


Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo (2019) Good Economics for Hard Times, Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems, Allen Lane, ISBN: 9780241306895

My source:
Ed Conway. Fighting the fake news with hard evidence, The Times, Saturday Review. December 14, 2019, p.16.

Book: Narrative Economics - "Happy Care-day to me!"

"Stories matter. It's a truism for journalists, but not much for economists. Robert Shiller, the Yale professor and Nobel laureate who predicted the housing crisis and also put behavioural economics on the map, aims to change that in a book dedicated to the thriving field of narrative economics."

Narrative Economics:
How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events

narrative medicine

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(My) mental health (My) narrative	(My) physical health "While many economists are still busy creating mathematical formulas to decode and contextualise our supposedly "rational" behaviour -
... people's actions are more often based on human interest stories than hard data." narrative behavioural	(Who owns your story?) economics economics

"Novelty often catches on - Shiller explains how the "Happy birthday" song, which used the same tune as an earlier piece of music, was much more successful because it allows us to place our own name in the lyrics."

Just imagine if there was a tool in health care, social care, education - formative, professional and lifelong learning, that was generic and suited to personalisation whatever the context - whatever the name and story?

My life chances - my health career ...

Rana Foroohar, Stories of value, FT Weekend. Life&Arts, 2-3 November 2019, p.10.