Digital technologies and a changing profession

The Profession and Digital Technology

The changing medical profession: an international perspective

But Parke, as medical officer, was fighting a losing battle. Attention to hygiene and the distribution of quinine tablets did nothing to prevent most members of the expedition-including Parke and Stanley-falling ill on several occasions. Stanley was close to death at one stage, while Parke's companion, Major Jameson, died of blackwater fever. Deaths were even more frequent among the African bea...

A Profession Without Limits: The Changing Role of Reference Librarians.

Reference librarians, specifically those working in academic health sciences environments, have expanded their roles and taken on new and unique responsibilities. While librarians at The George Washington University's Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library continue to provide traditional reference services, they have gone beyond their comfort zone in many cases to become involved in activities that...

Changing Conceptions of Teaching as a Profession: Personal Ref lections

This chapter provides me with an opportunity to reflect on the concept that has constituted the leitmotif of my academic writing: the concept of profession. This has been linked throughout with my two other main interests. One is the nature of the school as an organization, and particularly the relationship between teacher autonomy and bureaucratic control. The other is the leadership and manag...

Changing Technologies of HPC

In 1993 for the rst time a list of the top 500 supercomputer sites worldwide has been made available. The Top500 list allows a much more detailed and well founded analysis of the state of high performance computing. Previously data such as the number and geographical distribution of supercomputer installations were di cult to obtain, and only a few analysts undertook the e ort to track the pres...