Membership matters

Membership Matters

This editorial seeks to answer a few simple questions and scotch some misconceptions about the Ulster Medical Society. It offers an invitation to those who have never joined the Society to consider membership. At the same time occasional attenders are reminded that the vitality of any society is best maintained by the regular interest of all its members. In turn it seeks your comments. What is ...

‘ Membership Matters ’ : Applying Membership Categorisation Analysis ( MCA ) to Qualitative Data using Computer Assisted

This paper introduces and outlines a methodology that may be unfamiliar to some qualitative researchers: Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA). The first section of the paper explains the basic principles of MCA and why it is a valid method for exploring the power of categorisations in texts and talk. Additionally, it explains why MCA differs from other forms of qualitative data analysis. Th...

Membership Matters: Radical Right Party Composition in Comparative Perspective

Membership matters: comparing members and non-members of NIPF owner organizations in southwest Wisconsin, USA

We surveyed members of two nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) owner organizations and non-members in southwest Wisconsin to learn their views and experiences on a range of forest ownership and management issues. The two organizations were the Sustainable Woods Cooperative (SWC) and the Wisconsin Woodland Owners Association (WWOA). Our survey yielded 503 completed questionnaires and a useable r...

Philosophy matters in brain matters

PURPOSE Although most neuroscientists and physicians would argue against Cartesian dualism, Descartes's version of the psyche/soma divide, which has been controversial since he proposed it in the seventeenth century, continues to haunt contemporary neurological diagnoses through terms such as functional, organic, and psychogenic. Drawing on my own experiences as a person with medically unexplai...