Re‐imagining belonging to Brazil: Active immobility in times of crisis

Justice in Times of Crisis

Times of crisis, times of action.

At the recent Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses (ACEN) Annual Meeting in November 2008 in Ottawa, I had the privilege and honour of becoming president of this dynamic organization. Founded more than 30 years ago, ACEN represents the voice of senior academic nursing leadership in Canada, helping to set directions for healthcare policy and contributing to the alignment and advancement of the n...

the crisis of identity in jhumpa lahiris fiction: interpreter of maladies and the namesake

شکل گیری هویت(identity) مقوله مهمی در ادبیات پراکنده مردم(diasporan literature) می باشد. آثار جومپا لاهیری(jhumpa lahiri) ، نویسنده هندی آمریکایی، در سالهای اخیر تحسین منتقدین را به خود معطوف کرده است. وی در این آثار زندگی مهاجران و تلاش آنان برای پیدا کردن جایگاهشان در یک فرهنگ بیگانه را به تصویر کشیده است. این تجربه همواره با احساساتی نظیر دلتنگی برای گذشته، بیگانگی و دوری همراه است. با این ح...

Access to Care for Multiple Sclerosis in Times of Economic Crisis in Greece – the HOPE II Study

Background While there is currently no cure for multiple sclerosis (MS), treatment with biologic diseasemodifying drugs (bDMDs) can reduce the impact of the condition on the lives of patients. In Greece, the regulatory change in the distribution system of bDMDs, limited their administration through the designated pharmacies of the National Organization for Healthcare Services Provision (EOPYY) ...

How to Display Competence in Times of Crisis

Consider, for example, how most people continue to hold Johnson and Johnson (J & J) as the standard for how to effectively manage a crisis situation when cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules caused numerous deaths in Chicago in the early 1980s. To this day, the popular press consistently rates J & J as one of America’s top companies, despite a crisis situation that could have adversely affected consu...