Health Activism in the 20th Century: A History of Medicine Symposium at Yale University School of Medicine in October 2010 highlighted a variety of issues concerning the social history of medicine, including race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability. A watershed moment in a burgeoning interdisciplinary field, this symposium could pave the way for extensive future discourse.

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Aljazeera is well known as an Arab television and media network that has its headquarters in Qatar. For the U.S. Aljazeera is a ‘terrorist network’. For Islamic communities it is now seen, ironically, as ‘U.S. controlled’. Islamic audiences in Australia use Aljazeera and CNN media but those audiences also use emerging community media in Arab countries as an antidote to both Western and Arab pre...

in the late 1960s, I was warned of this possibility. Criticisms of that section of the medical profession that hurt patients or illtreated them or cheated them inevitably drew censure of my action. While there was never any dispute about the facts laid down by me in my papers, the admonitions I received were against tarnishing the profession. I was upset at this as I have always taken great car...

Cities today face a context in which traditional politics and policies struggle to cope with increasing urbanisation rates growing inequalities. Meanwhile, social movements political activists are rising up inhabiting urban spaces as sites of contestation. However, through their practices, do more than just occupy spaces; they fundamental drivers transformation constantly face—and contest—spati...

The past decades have generated a wealth of literature on digital activism. Even so, the phenomenon has been little historicised. This paper engages in deconstructionist exercise historical references activism towards exploring implicit meaning-making symbolic-interactionist tradition. It identifies four distinct narratives: 1) technology narrative [activism as technology-driven]; 2) communicat...

INTRODUCTION Despite the importance of political institutions in shaping the social environment, the causal impact of politics on health care access and inequalities has been understudied. Even when considered, research tends to focus on the effects of formal macro-political institutions such as the welfare state. We investigate how micro-politics and informal institutions affect access to care...

Abstract The free speech and culture war debates obfuscate stop us examining difficult matters such as religion; we need to create a new form of activism, I have done via the Influencing Corridors Power project (ICOP) ( https://blogs.soas.ac.uk/cop/ ). Ricœur’s activism was in word: he understood full potential language for grappling with human condition. He believed that must exercise our capa...

Wikipedia is one of the largest platforms based on the concept of asynchronous, distributed, collaborative work. A systematic collaborative exploration and assessment of Wikipedia content and coverage is however still largely missing. On the one hand editors routinely perform quality and coverage control of individual articles, while on the other hand academic research on Wikipedia is mostly fo...