video of speech by Dr. Burton Blatt
Thanks to Guy Caruso for sending me notice of this link to the text and video of a speech given by Dr. Burton Blatt in 1984 in Pittsburgh. It is 6 parts, so you have… Read More »video of speech by Dr. Burton Blatt
Overcrowded emergency rooms
Steve Tiffany sent me links to two articles (here and here) in The Gazette which describe recent deaths of patients in Quebec (Canada) emergency rooms, largely due to lack of care related to overcrowding. Most… Read More »Overcrowded emergency rooms
Ethnography and communication: social-role relations
This looks like an interesting article, at least from the abstract. Can a reader access it and then report on it? I do not have access to the full article.
blog by Alex Schadenberg
Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition in Toronto, regularly blogs on topics related to the vulnerability and deathmaking of socially devalued people.
UN report on social integration and NGOs
Recent report on social integration and NGOs. Interesting to compare how the report defines social integration with how it is described in SRV. From the report: Social integration is the process of building the values,… Read More »UN report on social integration and NGOs
Joblessness (loss of the valued social role of worker)
Atlantic magazine in March 2010 ran an article entitled ‘How a new jobless era will transform America.’ It struck me when reading it how much the article was about the loss of (or about the… Read More »Joblessness (loss of the valued social role of worker)